To be utterly stunned by this woman's tan?

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It's unbelievable enough that anyone would put a child in a tanning booth but that issue aside, what on earth would make someone want to tan to this extreme?

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4294838/Tanning-mad-mum-arrested-over-claims-she-allowed-daughter-to-suffer-burns-at-salon.html

"where did you get that tan" is a perfectly reasonable question to ask. 99.99% of people with a tan won't have a medical condition that causes it, will they. It's just conversation and it's awful to try and make people feel bad for asking a normal question and trying to take an interest, it is completely unfair of you.

The thing that got me about this story is if you look at the 3rd photo down what the fuck has happened to her lip!

Methe, i totally agree - but when my mum, who gets very embarrased, says "in my back garden" people just wont leave it alone and push and push. Which is why i don't jump in straight away and say its not a tan its a medical condition. But when peoplle think its ok to keep asking when my mother clearly wants to move on, i get a bit cross. Also my mum does not look tanned, she looks black to me and i woudlnt dream of going up to a black person and say "nice tan luv"

Ahh I see. You are well within your rights to get cross with people who are obviously pushing a conversation your mum doesn't want to have... I had visions of you verbally whipping everyone who mentioned it!

You realise that you are just jealous, fat and ugly don't you?

That picture of Patricia Krentcil is now doing the rounds on FB with her face on a packet of Sun Maid raisins.

Jealous, fat and ugly
I do know that if I was facing ten years in jail I wouldn't be rushing off to the hair salon.

I always comment on people who have a tan Methe.
I usually say what a lovely colour you are, have you been away type thing.
And when I come home from a holiday I would be a bit upset that nobody commented.
I'm sorry about your mum though.
And I'm wondering photoshop on these pictures too, they're all entirely different.
Changing the subject slightly, there was one of these false tan 'sells' in my local shopping centre yesterday.
A couple of orange girls trying to get us to buy, but the most hilarious thing they said was it's the one Peter Andre uses.

*sorry, that was to lucyellen.

Why do they go with orange, I don't get the orange thing, you don't look like you have a tan, you look orange.

Is the orange itself now the desired look?

Re. the colour change in the photos, I read one article from her side where her husband/partner said that she used make up to enhance the colour - one of them looks like she has actually used brown shoe polish, but she maybe just gets make up for the darker skin and uses that?

I have also seen her condition described as "tanorexia", which I object to as it has nothing to do with appetite (orexia) - but if it is a mental health condition then perhaps she cannot see how badly discoloured her skin is, a little like anorexics seem unable to see how thin they are.

But her dd was badly burned, does it matter if it was sun or sunlamps? They both are avoidable and can lead to pain and cancer

What the actual fuck???

That's just crazy :/

She looks like she's fallen into a bucket of wood stain!

Ronseal woman!

Ds says she looks like a toffee

Does no-one else want to know about the lip?!

Bad lipstick? i think this look was popular in the 80s

I think she has a very thin top lip and has used a lip liner pencil to highlight her lips in a darker shade than her lipstick. Making her bottom lip look huge and her top lip non-existant.
Do you think it will catch on?

"Paul, is that you??????"

fnar

I suppose if you decided to copy her look you would only need one pencil in your makeup bag.. black eyeliner.

black eyeliner and some cuprinol wood stain

I remember people like her decades ago in California, have run into them in other places, too (like southern Spain). Easily on view in certain areas. I called them leather-people when I was an obnoxious teen younger. They quickly convinced me to never view being obviously "tan" as something admirable. A California friend once gushed over the beautiful skin of one of my English colleagues -- precisely because she hadn't had the sun damage we all took for granted.

This lady is no more nutty than many.

Her daughter is gorgeous I want her!