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Super tanned people everywhere!

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LostInClothes · 14/08/2025 13:01

So, everyone seems to have a deep tan here right now, young, old, whatever.
Wherever I go people are looking more tanned than I have ever noticed before.

A lot of it looks very even so I presume not fake?
If so, is tanning increasing again or did it never go away?
I am talking quite deep tans here, all over, so if they are fake then they're pretty good quality - if I use st tropez it comes off in patches within days Angry

I even wondered if sun bed use had started to increase again.

AIBU to think most of these tans are real and here I am stuck inside or slathered in sunblock trying to be mindful of skin cancer??

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minipie · 14/08/2025 13:14

I see a lot of uniformly golden young women around - no bikini marks etc. I reckon they are getting spray tans.

DeirdreChambersWhatACoincidence · 14/08/2025 13:13

I go dark very quickly and I've been in my allotment for hours nearly every day this spring and summer. My middle parts are still pale though!

Cherrysoup · 14/08/2025 13:12

Just popped into work, one colleague looks totally different, a week in the Middle East has given her a heck of a tan!

ForWarmPeachBird · 14/08/2025 13:12

I’ve just returned from Greece, I smothered myself in factor 50 numerous times a day, wore beach shirts a lot of the time and sat under an umbrella and I’ve still come back with a tan.

Delatron · 14/08/2025 13:10

It’s been a much better Spring/summer here. I’ve had some sort of light tan since April! Then you go away on holiday and you already have more of a base tan than usual - so get even more tanned.

I top my base tan up with fake tan.

CopperWhite · 14/08/2025 13:09

It’s just summer, and lots of people have been abroad recently.

ThejoyofNC · 14/08/2025 13:09

We've had several weeks of sun. The sun gives people a tan.

chiefscoutsgoldaward · 14/08/2025 13:08

I'm normally as pasty as they come, but even I've managed to pick up a tan this year, and that is avoiding the sun between 11 and 3 as I burn really easily.

I picked up a base tan earlier in the summer at the Lido, and now after a week in Wales at the beach every afternoon I've gone really brown.

Netcurtainnelly · 14/08/2025 13:04

I see alot of white arms and legs when I'm out so its not everyone

Whether they are healthier or not I don't know but people look.much better with abit of colour.
Don't forget the weather's hot easy to get a tan atm.

tripleginandtonic · 14/08/2025 13:02

We've had some great weather, add in a couple of weeks abroad in the sun and you have a deep tan unless you're really pale.

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