To think some people are too brown!

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I was in the park with DS yesterday and there was a lady who was soo brown she reminded me of a sausage! - The colour and the taut skin, it wasn't very flattering I didn't think, and I love being tanned, but I also know my limits!

Err... are you sure you want to do this?

It's going to end in tears.

I'd contact MNHQ now, ask them to delete this thread, start a new one and put 'tanned' instead of brown.

Some people are too orange like Katie Price and Michelle Heaton through too much sunbed usage

what?? seriously? ?

I sat opposite a woman on a bus once, whose very sum tanned skin was the same colour and texture of the leather bag she was holding. Too much sun can be a very bad thing.

are we talking tanning? or burning.

i was at the lakes recently near my house. saw anabundance of orange and red people. the fake tanners had put too much on, and some woman, at 10.30am, was stripping off to tan. but she was already bright bright RED from being burnt

hahahaha

I assume you mean tanned rather than Asian or black. oh dear

You know what? My arms are very brown, the colour of my skin is... brown. I spend a lot of time outdoors and that tans my skin, turning it from white to brown in colour. Tanned and brown are not interchangeable terms. The world has gone mad and I want to jump off.
(Only my arms are too brown, sadly much of me is white, especially my legs. )

the BNP may very well think some people are too brown........

I personally think tanned within an inch of a leather handbag is not a good look.

Well said fluffyone
op is fine IMO
people too quick to do a ed face

Lol at leather handbag look
it's my mil down to a tee
then she wonders why people suggest her funny coloured moles need checking out

Fluffyone. You should put some sunlotion on your arms.

The BNP?? Just because the OP used the word brown, you've twisted it into something racist?

It's in your head funnys.

I'm "White British" but my skin isn't white.

It goes from a kind of blue tint (Irish ancestry) in winter to orange when slightly tanned. Can't win

I knew what OP meant before I clicked on the thread.

There are a few parents at DS1+2 school who use those tanning injections (illegal as far as I know) and are a horrible browny orange. They look like they've been varnished. You can definitely tell the difference between them and a real tan.

This week 1 colleague has returned from holiday in Greece and looks a very unnatural/unhealthy deep mahogany I think she must have fried herself for the whole holiday.

Then my beautician had just returned from the Med and also has a very deep tan.

Why do they still do it?

A school mum died last year from skin cancer

Just wait till they are all 45 and look 80.

They will regret it when they are older. Of my mums friends (in their 50's/60's now) you can tell the ones who spent too much time in the sun. They look bloody awful but they are still brown.

I am pale and interesting myself. Nothing wrong with getting a bit of sun IMO - as you are in the garden doing stuff or out and about - but lying there baking yourself is madness to me.

For those who are interested, I always put lotion on myself. However, constant exposure to the elements means I can't help getting a tan eventually. I often cover up with long sleeves, but we all end up having to strip off a bit in this weather don't we?
One benefit of using plenty of lotion in the sun is that it keeps your skin moisturised, so although I'm (ahem!) of mature years, I don't have the handbag look yet. And when I do I think I'll safely be able to attribute it to old age.

i noticed on my mum's chest today that she has got some really dodgy looking bits of skin, dodgy in that they are too taned and not normal for her skin, i worry about what she is doing to herself, why cant people believe that a suntan is skin damage. scared for my mum

i also knew what OP meant by 'brown' before i clicked on thread.

Wow some people love being offended. I knew what you meant OP I have seen a in Scotland and we normally sport a lovely shade of off-white mixed with blue!

I looked really freaky just before it got hot, I'd been pushing a pram around and my hands were really brown, but my arms were blue white. Looked like I had gloves on

Blue white is the colour of my legs, and most of my body Cleopatra. (I'm pleased that nobody thinks blue white has racist undertones).