Super tanned people everywhere!

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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

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??

I'm an older millennial and definitely knew about sunscreen. Maybe a prenatal thing?

Sunbed land round here. Drop kids off at school/ go the gym/ get your dodgy mj jab/ go the sunbeds.

I take months to tan. And even then, it's not what others would class as a tan. I currently look dip-dyed because my back and shoulders are out from about March, with running/allotment.

I'm not convinced about tanning and wrinkling. I was given to believe that the sunbed Queens of my youth would look older than me now. They do not. My gran didn't do sun. She was way more wrinkled than my outdoor nan. She was thinner though.

Well we have had quite a lot of sunny weather lately. Where I am anyway (West London).

I think ban on sunbeds is a no brainer (combined with lots of education about suncream etc). I did use them occasionally early 20’s (totally regret it, we used to go in our lunchbreak) and wouldn’t go near one now.

@Flaskfan Maybe the sunbed Queens of your youth (and mine!) are now getting Botox and fillers and other tweakments and therefore keeping the wrinkles at bay!

East coast of Scotland. It has been absolutely glorious, best I can remember. A few hot stuffy days, like yesterday when it was 27 and airless. Today is a breezy 24. But mostly it's been a steady 20/21 sunny with occasional cloud since spring, Instead of our usual 95% cloud covering and rain! I don't think I'd like being any further south this summer if it's that bad.

I think tans might be back. Dd15 and her friends are always checking the UV for optimum tanning opportunities 🙈. They don’t lie out in it really but plan their clothes accordingly. As DD is half Cypriot and friends all Scottish she doesn’t have to put much effort in thankfully

Why are teens so obsessed about the UV levels? It’s bizarre. My two teen boys did seem slightly more interested in tanning this year on holiday. At least they used sunscreen though.

I don't think tans ever went away. And if you're baring your midriff, it looks better with the vampire taken off. It just does. Annoyingly.

Dh tans just by looking at the sun. We are both welsh/ Irish heritage. It's very frustrating. Proper northern Europeans seem to tan easily too. It's those of us whose ancestors huddled under a damp rock for too long that seem impervious to it. I don't burn though, so that's something. I just wish I had an alternative gift- like glowing in fog, or seeing in the dark or something.

Gotta love it when people tell others not to forget the bloody obvious 😄