To think that some people need to stop being competitive about getting a tan?

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It's embarassing seriously. All I've ever known from friends and family as I grew up was the whole 'I'm browner than you!' 'I tan better than you!' etc etc

I just find it really funny. Said family and friends now look worse for all that sun. I'm white (light olive toned skin) and am frankly tired of people always making 'pale and pasty' comments to me especially in the winter. White people are this colour for a reason, i.e, we live in europe where it is colder than the rest of the world. I've also noticed how people go on holiday and are so desperate to get a tan they spend most of the holiday roasting themselves in the sun.

rant over. Anyone else not too impressed with people's desperation to get a tan?

YANBU. I give no figs about other people's tan. The lobster look does amuse me mightily though, and the leather cleavage.

My MIL said she was sad when DDs jaundice passed as she likes to see a baby with a bit of colour, and was looking forward to her getting a bit of sun to get it back.

She is aware she is a loon though so it's ok. I am pasty and proud personally.

I'm all about a subtle addition of fake bake + factor 30. It avoids both the milk-bottle look and also (eventually) the wizened, leather tanning veteran one

I kind of have the opposite problem. I tan very easily even though I cover myself in factor 30. People always comment on how tanned I am like I spend my whole life trying to get a tan. I always want to say that I can't help it but people seem to think it's something I should be proud of. It's weird.

I have the same 'problem' as dexter. All I've heard this week at work is 'OMG you're so brown, how lucky are you?'... It's getting boring.

i'm a browner - and i was under the impression whiteys were fashionalbe - browners are so 1990s

do i give a shit tho?

Pasty and proud too! Though I do tan a bit but quite unintentionally.

The ex mil also used to go on about how the kids needed a bit of colour but, as I have skin cancer on my side of the family, I'd much rather they were pasty than burnt.

Living in Newcastle, I see all manner of strange orange people - often streaky orange people.

Manatee !!

Haha!

YANBU - The only brown I have is the freckles on top of my pale skin!

I'm paler than the pale one in girls aloud.. I used to care. But I cba now.

at school the boys would only ever go for the tanned girls with the naturally perfectly straight browny blonde hair. I stuck out like a sore thumb. I just detest the obsession with tanning!!!!!

LST - that porcelain skin is amazing though. what color's your hair/eyes?

I have a lovely friend who is very olive skinned and who tans at the drop of a hat, loves spending time in the sun lying for hours by the pool getting her must have tan. She used to constantly give me 'tips' on getting a good tan.

The thing is I dont give a fig about tans... my legs are lilly white so repel all sun rays, and I just done like the whole sunbathing thing. I am also not very good at tanning

I have had the piss taken out of me all my life for being so white and staying out of the sun as I go red and then white again. Someone once asked me was I wearing white tights - cheeky fecker. I am now 43 and have very few wrinkles compared to my leathery skined compadres - they aren't taking the piss now.

If all my freckles joined up I'd probably look gloriously tanned, but they never do, so I shall forever be translucent white and speckled. I did have a few disastrous attempts at fake tan when I was younger but it doesn't bother me at all now - I just slap on the Factor 50 and try not to laugh at all the streaky mahogany people.

I go out of my way to not get a tan. Who wants to look like a chavvy TOWIE wannabee?

bastard manatee... just choked and snorted coffee...

pasty white with minimal skin damage here, at least since i have been in charge and not school.

Just because I tan easily doesn't make me a chavvy TOWIE wannabee. How fucking rude!

dexter chill

the towie comment was tongue in cheek I suspect