Super tanned people everywhere!

I do my level best to avoid tanning, but i still have a bit of one so it must just be the weather we've had.

I don't use sunscreen but I probably should 😬

I go really brown despite hating the sun and the heat, but I don't drive so I am often outside walking to places. I actively avoid the sun as much as possible but still go a deep, deep brown colour.

This year it is very nice to see more people in summer clothes rather than sweating and looking scruffy in whatever they own already.
How do we convince men to get new socks for summer? YKWIM!.

I've started to use fake tan again after about 20 odd years. They are so much better than before and a bit more convincing now. The one I use I only put it on half hour, was off then it continues to develop, so it is much more convenient. Plus I have a base tan from decent summer.

My colouring is mixed race but on the paler side

I don't sit out in the sun, but just from normal every day life - I have a deep tan! That's just how it is in England this year.

(I think) I'm pretty sensible with the sun. I have protection on my face neck and ears everyday and on the rest of me if I'm out for very long.

I've been using Palmers gradual tanner on my legs, which does, IMO, give a very natural looking even tan and my arms have picked up quite a colour just from being out and about.

Without my clothes, I clearly don't have a deep all over tan, but with them, I look like I might!

People who do like tanning themselves deliberately have had a very good year for it.

Yes we do all need supplements from Oct-March then if you don’t get the 10-20 mins recommended then we need to carry on with the supplements. Vitamin D is so important.

It’s weighing up what is important to you. Yes a tan is sun damage and ageing. However, there are other benefits to getting some sun on large parts of the body. It’s been shown to reduce blood pressure for example. It improves mood..

Personally, I aim for around 20 minutes and never burn. I accept the skin on my body may age a bit faster. I wear a hat and factor 50 on my face though!

My DH and I and our two DD are all white, but tan very well with no burning.

My children are as dark as I have ever seen them.

We have had sun since June so their faces, arms and legs are really tanned from being outside at school. We have had a 2 week holiday so they went even browner and they have 4 weeks of summer holidays with next to no rain and have been outside for hours a day.

My DH has had the summer holidays off work as unpaid leave and has been topless 80% of the time. He is unbelievably dark.

If it wasn't for our blue eyes, you would put us as Mediterranean as we all have dark brown hair.

I think more people are doing those nasal tans or oral drops. The women at my gym are doing.

It's the heatwaves. I am more tanned than I get on holiday, because I have been consistently walking the dog, or gardening (if too hot for dog!)

This is the summer you can't tell if someone has been abroad or not when it's usually pretty obvious here in the UK. It's hard not to tan at all when it sunny for months on end. I try not to and always wear sunscreen but I still have a tan as I'm outside a lot. Haven't been abroad this year.
My ds golfs and currently looks like he was born in the southern Mediterranean despite also wearing sunscreen.

Deep tan here at home as I work and do sport outside. Not by any means 'even' due to eczema/scratching and odd sleeve/shorts lines

Fake tan has improved hugely especially those people who actually moisturise/exfoliate routinely

I did have a vitamin D deficiency picked up last year.

A supplement got my levels back up to ideal within three months.

The grandma that defied aging used to tell me that any tan at all was skin damage and to avoid it at all costs. Ironically she drank like a fish but still ended up far less aged than my sun loving granny!

You're supposed to get about 10 minutes of unfiltered sun directly on to your skin a day to get Vitamin D

I'm maintaining a fairly even tan by spending not much longer than that in the sun in the late afternoon (after getting fairly dark from a couple of hours gardening)

I hope sun beds are not coming back in to fashion!

It is a fine line - we do need a bit of sun for vitamin D. So never having the sun on your skin can also be unhealthy (though you would age beautifully).

Fake fans are so good these days.

It’s the summer holidays so people will have been abroad plus warm weather here, in some areas I see a lot of sun bed stores popping up.
slathering on spf, covering up, in the shade is the way to go though, had skin cancer, do not recommend going down that path!

I’m ginger so usually painfully white like a corpse but I’ve been out at the horses and the park so much this summer even I have a tan!

I was just complimented on my tan yesterday… it’s fake. I use one of those tinted moisturisers, have done every day for about a month now. My knees give it away in my opinion but at a glance it looks real enough!

It’s summer and holiday season, I’m not sure what else there is to say lol

I think you may be right OP - I read an article saying tanning including 'extreme tanning' using both machines and/or sun are apparently on the increase and doctors in the skin area are concerned.

Some people are apparently checking the UV level specifically, not to avoid as in the past but to burn!

People have been on holiday. Its the summer

I saw the difference between my grandmas growing up.

One always wore long sleeves and large hats in the heat, and spf every single day once it was available. The other had naturally darker skin, but still loved getting an even darker tan and never covered up in the sun.

Covered up grandma had maybe four major wrinkles in her late 70's. Sun loving grandma looked like a prune by her late 60's.

On top of this I lost a best friend in her 20's to skin cancer.

I've always covered up and made sure the dc do too.