To think some people are too brown!

[Lifegoeson]

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!

cleopatra I was joking........yes?

When we were in Portugal there was a woman on the beach that we nicknamed Leather Tits due to her overly tanned and overly wrinkly and saggy spaniels ears breasts.

Not a good look.

Don't speak too soon on the racist undertones fluff.

Actually, I'm starting to feel a bit offended now you've mentioned it...

Lol funnys only joking

Perhaps a nod and a wink wouldn't have gone astray?

Thanks to all who contributed who KNEW what I meant! For godsake, who uses 'brown' these days...! I have to nag and nag my mother, and others, that it's mixed race! - I do know that - and assumed most people did too...

B?!

A lovely golden tan suits most people, and people look well with it - Coco Chanel has a lot to answer for! - But to some it just seems to be a competion as to who can be the most 'tanned'! I was a wedding reception recently and when the bride returned she was almost radioactive, turned out she'd beeen using baby oil for the duration!

don't generally need to enunciate in such terms Cleopatra!

Find emotcions rather obvious........

at least its not as bad as what my mother said to dd1 she was born with an olive skin and when she came back from download and T in the park last year turned around and said she looked like a n**r we pulled her up but she still uses the word.

of course she meant tanned
nutters

Oooohhhh, you were being subtle.

OP, I am mixed race and therefore have naturally tanned/brown/insert choice of shade skin.
I am not in the slightest bit offended by the title of this thread, nor did I instantly think ooh, racist.
What does concern me is that so many 'white' women I see are already darker than I am and are trying to get darker still, despite the obvious skin damage and risk to their health. I guess it's like smoking in that respect

I hate hearing the words 'healthy tan'- such an oxymoron.

Baby oil for tanning - tsk...

When I were a lass I used olive oil and lay on tin foil.

For about ten minutes.

My GBF used to spend all day in the garden with the sun beating down on him. When he got a bit red his mum used to send him back out to "brown off" in the afternoon and evening sun

cleopatra aye, not known for my subtlety, but twas trying......

One can be too tanned

well - as one who remains blue white i am at people who tan easily. id like to be too brown. aint never gonna happen tho

Sidge -that honestly looks exactly like Leather Tits from the Portuguese beach

eugh, my sister showed me that pic a few weeks ago. vom.

Norbert I bet she's only 28

omg!! thats scary an advert for staying indoors

Im very tanned for my blue white skin but compared to others i'm not that brown!!

Wear spf 30 and its just arms, face etc from hours spent outside while ds plays. He however is still milk bottle!!!

Still rofl laughing at BNP being mentioned in this thread!

Fluff - I can relate, my legs are like corned beef! Sorry to any cows I may offend!

Boo - TQ!

Cleo - I know!

5 - That's scary, and yes you can denfintely tell the diffrenece...

Norbert - Yes; Something About Mary... springs to mind!

And TQ to everyone else who understood, really can't believe some people...

Pick - That's all I meant! But some do wear it better than others... I too am quite 'tan' as our American cousins say, like others have mentioned, pottering about garden, parks, picnics etc, but this lady, as I said, her skin just looked so taut...

My grandma used to baste herself in oil - I think vegetable rather than olive, and rotate on a spit chair in the back garden. She looked not dissimilar to the photo linked to above.

My family do tan without trying too hard - my mum always gets people asking her where she has been on holiday - they are surprised when she says "Whitby".

I used to think that I'd "won" if I was the brownest person in the comparing tan stakes.

Now, I stick on factor whatever-we-have - usually 30 or 50 and forget about it. I am actually quite brown for someone with English / Irish heritage, but it is not about "being brown" now, for me. However, I do love being outside, in the fresh air and in the sun.

That phot is gross. I may love the sun - but not that much.

There's more!!

Now I like to have a bit of colour, I am very blonde and in the winter I look like I've just been dug up. But if these pictures aren't a reminder to slap on the Factor 30 and stay away from the UV I don't know what is.