Ahhh, summer is here. The kids are home from school, the clothes are getting scantier, and now I get to deal with the least favorite thing about me. If you ask most people what part of their body they hate the most, they might say their gut. Or their nose. Or their legs. But not me. (okay, not exactly nuts about the legs either.)
I'd love to change skin with somone else. Just peel it off and slither into some nice, bronze-colored stuff. Skin that has a little melatonin in it. Skin that doesn't turn a glaring shade of red then flake off like a reptile. Oh, but I do have have melatonin. I have it in little bunches all over. It's called freckles. I'm spotted. How nice. And the sun makes me red and freckled at the same time. Thanks.
Denise, you say,
all you have to do is wear sunscreen. Sure, I can do that (and I usually do). Then I get to remain pasty all summer, unable to wear white for fear people won't know where my skin ends and my clothes begin.
Ha. Ha. Denise, that's so silly, you say
. Don't you know they make tanners for people like you? Of course I know it. I used to use them. But then Colleen got after me about how the color changes my skin to a tone that doesn't go to with my hair color and all my brightly colored clothes. When I use tanner now, I have nightmares of Colleen running at me with her her finger waggling, screaming, "That color is ALL wrong for you, D!" So I stopped using tanners.
Now, before you comment, I know I'm tan in the photo above. I used days of tanner to achieve that look, but it went with my hair when it was blond. Now I'm closer to brunette which looks much better with my natural (pasty) skintone. (Right Colleen??)
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i have light hair and light skin. and i go red. white or red. fortunately i then tan after i go red.
but my face is often quite red... unless i wear makeup. but then the makeup tends to make it MORE red. i'm never gonna win.
I tan everywhere but my face. My body will be brown and my face will be white. LOL I guess I need to try a tanner.
My sister used to freckle only on one side of her forehead--yeah, she wore bangs for a long time. Somewhere in her thirties she started freckling more "evenly", at least as far as her forehead goes. Ithink it is an age thing in our family. The older I get, the more I freckle and burn. My girls tan but I'm wondering if they found that salon Kristin was writing about since they all look so wonderful--or maybe it's just youth.
Abundant blessings,
Jenny Cary
My girls and I tan, but hubby and son? Not so much. Actually, they just pink. And freckle. We should own stock in Coppertone.
Whine, whine. You are BEAUTIFUL, D! It's society that says we should tan. Smarter societies used to prize beautiful white skin. Winters look good with contrast (i.e. white skin, dark hair and eyes). So revel in your natural beauty!
I'm whiter than you are - I dare you to a skin comparison contest! LOL I've yet to meet someone who doesn't look majorly tanned when compared to my complexion! =)
I spend way too much time driving. The only part of me that's tanned is my left leg. Even my husband was laughing.
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