70's -80's children how many remember getting sunburn.

[Sunflowerkeep]

I barely remember them putting suncream on me always dark, sometimes burnt i certain areas and parents are like ahh you got a nice tan even when I was clearly burnt and must have had sun stroke as remember feeling bit chilly in 35c yeah really. Loads of my friends remember the same from that generation. Weird hey. I've got olive skin but my brother I remember burnt to a crisp one year. Poor thing

70s child, every caravan holiday red raw with huge water blisters on my back. Then the dreaded prickly heat.
I think the sun cream was pretty shit in those days.

Needless to say I avoid the sun like the plague.
It was factor 50 all the way for my DC.

Yes, born 1981 and I don't remember ever once having sun cream put on me even though very freckle and pale skinned.

I remember doing a March through the town with the girl guides on the hottest day of the year one summer and being burnt to a crisp. I still remember the horrible thirst I felt that couldn't seem to be quenched and the migraine - obviously sunstroke - but don't remember my dm doing anything about it other than telling me to go sit in the shady living room when I got home.

Yes. I was born in 1972. We didn't have the variety of sunscreen and it was very expensive. I've been careful since I turned 18 and never sunbathe now, I don't go out in less than a 50. My children have never been burnt and they are 19 and 17 now. It saddens me to see friends my age still burning.
I've just had a harmless growth removed and waiting for pathology results was a nerve wracking experience I can tell you.

Child of the 80s here. On holidays my mother always avoided the sun and stayed in the shade. From being a baby I was covered in sun cream and had a sun hat on. Sun cream was reapplied after getting out of the pool/the sea. I only remember getting sunburn once. It was in the South of France, it was incredibly hot and I burnt through sun cream.

Child of the 70s, I have never ever been sunburnt, unlike my brother and sister, I have olive skin whereas they are both pale skinned. I don't remember my parents using suncream on me.

Child of the 70s.
Fair skin, blue eyes.
Burnt once.
No sun tan cream.
Did spend a fair amount of time outside but didn't like heat much so although I'd sunbathe moderately I wouldn't usually be out on it for more than an hour or so.
No overseas holidays.

Yes, every year. Mum would lock us in the garden all summer, only allowed in to use the bathroom. She was a sun worshipper and so was disgusted at the thought of anyone being indoors if it was sunny. I hated it, I just wanted to be in the shade or indoors reading.

Suncream was never really a thing, the only time we used it was in 1994 when we went to majorca.

I use factor 50 on us all now and actively hide from the sun.

I was a child in the 70s, didn't ever have sunscreen on or a hat or sit in the shade, only holidayed in Clacton but was still hot and was outside all the time, never burnt or was kept in the shade but I have dark hair/olive skin, but my siblings who some are fairer didn't burn either, guess the ozone layer was more in tact then, had a great even tan though, wish I could get one like that now😆

Peeling skin from sunburn was a feature in our house in the 80’s. I used to love peeling it off. Disgusting!

I do recall my mum using factor 4 or 6 suncream iccassionally (as a token gesture 😂)

I always had a hat and sometimes had sunscreen but still remember getting burnt. I had sunstroke once or twice. My mum never burnt. Her skin type was completely different from mine.

I remember doing indoor high jump and leaving all of the skin on my back on the mat. I was badly sunburned, ginger and freckled, went to Wells next the Sea with a halter top on! Mid week PE and all the flakes of skin dropped out of my Airtex shirt when I stood up!

Yep, child in the 80s, I remember being sunburnt regularly. There’s a photo in an album of my sunburnt back with my swimming costume strap marks as though it was a badge of honour. I also remember being put on a sun bed, to ‘toughen my skin up’. (Parents hired one for a month or so and then went on to buy one). I remember the first abroad holiday we went on and it was factor 15 or factor 8 or factor 4. Can you even buy those low factors anymore?

the last day of holiday my dad would make a big thing about going for the ‘big burn’, which would then turn to tan and last longer.

I now have pre cancerous cells on my face. I’d rather never have a tan again than the scabby patches the treatment has given me.

Got a bit red on the shoulders in1976, when I was 10, and mum put calamine lotion on. Had been out all day playing in the fields by the river, no sunscreen, it wasn’t thought about.
That was the only time. My first proper sunburn was my first trip abroad to Greece, where I had such bad sunburn I had weeping sores and blisters. Total underestimation of the strength of the sun, wearing only factor 2 😕.Not been burnt since.

We never wore sunscreen.

I remember Dsis as a child had large water blisters all over her back from sunburn.

I had peeling skin but never blisters.

Yes to most of these experiences! I was born in 1972.

Yes, SPF 8 was considered ultra high protection. My mother didn’t believe in it. I got burned badly on first foreign holiday aged 9. Very badly burned on second foreign holiday aged 10, requiring medical treatment. After that my dad insisted that she bought suncream and put it on me, although she complained that I’d ‘never get a tan’ through SPF6!

It was very important to my mother that we came home (to Manchester) with tans, so that people knew that we’d been away. After the second holiday I stayed out of the sun as much as I could and my mother would carp that nobody would believe that we’d been to Spain because I wouldn’t be tanned enough. She herself used SPF2 then some sort of carrot oil (sold in Spain), to get the deepest tan possible. She’d be peeling by the fourth day but nothing put her off! She’d point at mahogany coloured people and sigh, “oh, hasn’t she got a marvellous colour!”.

How times have changed…for the better. I remember coming home from a holiday in 1995 and sitting next to a woman on the plane to Manchester who was, and I do not exaggerate, beetroot coloured. She kept taking off her watch to show me the white skin below the strap. Said that she was in pain but ‘didn’t want to waste the Sun’. Christ.

I’m very careful now but still get mole checks every couple of years.

Ginger 70s child. Always burnt and ended up at hospital twice with extensive blistering. Ah...the good old days!

I was born in the late 70s and don’t recall getting sunburnt as a child. We didn’t holiday in hot countries very often, but when we did, we used to have those double sun cream bottles from Boots. Anyone else remember them? So you’d have the main bottle with say factor 6 in it, and then a smaller bottle attached with factor 8. The idea being you could use the higher factor for the first few days of your holiday and then start using the lower factor once you’d got a bit of base colour.

Despite the ludicrously low factor of the sun creams, I don’t remember getting burnt at all. I think my skin has changed a lot since I was a child as I burn very easily now.

I was a kid in the 70s and very fair. I was liberally coated in a product called Maws Sun and Wind cream that came in a white tube.

Probably neat zinc oxide, I remember it getting mixed up with sand, felt like being rubbed down with sandpaper but I never burned!

Born in 1986 - always had to wear a T-shirt in the pool on holiday and remember resenting it as friends came back with tans and I didn’t! Parents always very responsible with hats and shade and cream.

I was a child in the 90's but used to get sunburn every year. To be fair we did use cream, but not religiously, and it was factor 8! We were outdoors all day every day in the summer holidays. Never used sunhat either. I don't remember ever feeling ill from heat exposure but I remember the pain of the burns, and not sleeping well because of them. I have a tonne of freckles and moles now, which I'm pretty sure are genetic but reckon the sun encourages them to come out!

60s child.
Never went abroad until I was 19.
I don't ever remember getting sunburn as a child, nor do I remember ever using sun cream.
I certainly got burnt in my 20s on Greek islands in the 80s.

Ouch!! You poor thing!

Every year (early 80's).

I remember one year, on holiday, both me and my parents clearly had too much sun, and we all spent the following day lying in bed in the dark, with everything spinning and weird.

We did use sun cream quite extensively, and it was always factor 25-30, which was the highest you could get, but burnt anyway.

I remember calamine lotion being a staple in our bathroom cabinet during summer and using it a lot so I probably did get sunburn.