Super tanned people everywhere!

That whaty what now?

A lot of it looks very even so I presume not fake?

It mostly will be fake. People get professional spray tans which if done well, are very even.

Also some people use tanning drops mixed into moisturiser / body lotion etc and it builds up over time pretty evenly, especially on top of a natural tan.

I am very, very pale and look weird with a tan, so I don't do it, but most of my friends do some sort of fake tanning and mostly it looks really even and natural. None of them use sunbeds or actively try to sunbathe, ever.

Working farm here - Husband is very brown from working outside, always wears sun cream and a hat, but we have had the best summer here in a long time, not super warm but little rain. I help out and also out walking dogs even i have got a bit of a colour even though i work inside at my desk, i do like teh sun as it helps my aches and pains but dont get time to sit out. I do however wear fake tan all year round, fake tan is huge, nearly everyone i know uses it in some way, be it gradual tan tan drops or full on glow

“No such thing as a healthy tan”.

I refuse to tan. I want skin health, and also to avoid aging.

I wear a mineral block daily, even in winter, top it up regularly, and fake tan once a week with a very expensive and good quality one. I have a ‘deep tan’ year round.

I'm pale, pasty and lazy.

This year, I have a tanned face and arms just from dropping the kids off at school and holiday club, and generally walking around a bit, because I cba to put sunscreen on for 10 minutes or so out in the sun. Kids are slathered in all day factor 50, of course, but by the time I've done the two of them all over, I can't be bothered to do me too.

I don't sunbathe and wear long sleeves and cream everything visible if I'm going to be out for a while (e.g. sports day/picnic/day out), so the tan is really just from running errands and dropping off/collecting kids.

I have the sort of fair skin that never ever tans - I could live in a hot country and spend every day outside for a year and I still wouldn't have any colour. I really envy those who have the most perfect golden tans with no white bits.

I had to look up nasal tanning sprays but apparently they contain Melanotan II which is banned in medical products in the UK so will stick to the St Tropez fake tan!

From listening to my eldest, still lots of fake tanning - sprays and diy - and those oral or nasal or whatever drops. Weirdly, in France this summer and Italy last summer, I noticed lots of pale skin and not just from recently arrived tourists.

I think the use of sunbeds by younger people is increasing.

I look like casper all year round.
If i go out in the sun i cover up use sun screen etc.
Because ive seen the effects of sun damage on some people even family members and i dont want to look like that.

Being tanned is back in fashion, so more people are tanned. Lots of fake tans are better and we have had good weather earlier in the summer so it’s not just the one or two weeks away tans.

Fake tans are much better than they used to be. But also, we're coming towards the end of a lovely hot summer. Tans expected. Unless a redhead like me, in which case freckly and a bit pink is more like it.
Nothing wrong with a bit of a tan in the summer alongside sensible precautions. Life is about balance. You seem unnecessarily cross about it.

This is your opinion.
That does not make it fact.

I have done nothing whatsoever to tan - never have, never will, and even as a caramel- colour black woman I have caught some colour.

It has been glorious lately and all I have done is commute from work to home and back, walk home from the station and read a book in the garden until the mosquitos start being annoying.

Of course I have caught some colour - it’s summer.

And yes I wear sunscreen and care about skin cancer risks.

I don’t think that’s fair. Lots of people just build up a tan when it is sunny day after day. I’ve got quite brown this year just from walking to work and back every day, despite spending all the hours in between stuck indoors at a desk. It’s accumulated gradually - I have olive skin and it does that, I’m not lying in the sun slathered in cooking oil.

If I was a stay at home mum, or a teacher on school break, I’d have got even browner due to being able to be outdoors for more hours.

I am as pale as I am in December! I dont enjoy sitting in it so I dont.

For sure. I tan relatively easily, DH and DC don't. DC has their father's colouring. Whereas I am sitting here, a nice caramel colour 😊

I think some of it is genetic. I am pasty and even when I lived abroad in a hot country for a year I didn’t really tan. I stay pasty white or go red. Of my 4 nieces and nephews and 2 children- they all go different colour in the summer. All parents are sun safe, go for rash vests etc. Two are incredibly fair- burn to a crisp at the sight of sun, three will pick up some colour and one goes mahogany.

If their tan is real, they will regret it in 10-15 years time 😆

Because we’ve actually had a summer this year? Hot sunny weather = people looking less pale than usual.

I also don't think most people's fake tans go patchy. I properly exfoliate beforehand, and exfoliate to remove it. I've been quite surprised by how natural my fake tan looks when I have one.

The weather has been great and summer holidays so lots of people will have picked up a tan.

It’s nasal tanners round where I am.