I've just bothered to look at this item in WN (sorry 'bout that) and I have to say that Eddie looks absolutely gorgeous, Dave looks like a proud Dad, Rob looks like a proud godfather, and PSD, for Heavens Sake, man! Get a tan! Or go to a chemist and get some fake tan or something! Jeepers. Your skin is whiter than your clothing. It's quite frightening.

Well, at least when he's old PSD won't look like those wrinkled crocodiles that you Aussies try to pass off as men!

That reminds me, I meant to post a picture of myself in my profile, like I promised TMH.



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To be fair, Kaz, and much as I hate to spoil your enjoyment of your favourite sport of PSD-baiting, I haven't got a tan either. I am very fair-skinned and burn at the slightest provocation.

What I have got, however, is a fleet (is that the word?) of very elegant sun hats. :-)



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I can live with the taunting - I fail to tan despite using no sun cream and going outside all year round. I don't burn either, fortunately....



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I don't care if everyone else is lily white. If PSD is that white I'm gonna have a go at him!

And crocodiles can be very attractive, Twila.

I'm not a great fan of getting a tan, but my arms have turned a light golden colour this year. Some of the colour is actual tan, the rest is all those tiny, light-coloured freckles that are in hibernation most of the time, and only come out when it's really hot. I have an anti-freckle on my left forearm which is showing up well now. It's a tiny patch of absolutely white skin. I don't think it's an ancient scar, I think it's just a bit that's lacking any pigment.

I have one of those on my back, about the size of a twenty cent piece. I was told once they can be dangerous regards skin cancer. ther's somethng to look forward to....

My white patch is barely the size of a grain of rice. And at least if yours is on your back, it should be fairly easy to keep covered.

Skiffle, get into the chat room . whaT are you doing girl?

Reading the other threads on the fforum !

kaz: You're pretty much spot on, on all accounts.

My aim is to get all my freckles to join up, thereby giving myself a tan. *g*

That's always been my sister's aim inlife too. She still hasn't succeeded.

I did once when I went skiiing in Carrbridge - never since (and I was 11 then!)



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Thankfully, I've stopped getting freckles for the most part. I had a LOT as a kid. The thing is that now it seems I have no sun protection built into my skin. Even with SPF-50 I can be outside for about 15 minutes before I start to burn.

Let me put it this way...on our car ride of 8 hours from South Carolina back to Virginia, I wore SPF-50 AND had makeup on AND rode inside of a van with tinted and UV protected windows and I still burned the side of my face!

My husband's company is having their summer picnic at an amusement park called King's Dominion. Other than the walking around, which would be difficult for me, there is 1 HUGE reason not to go...I'll get massively sunburned! Even with hats and long clothes (which are really too warm to wear this time of year!) I still tend to burn. I get it from the reflected light too. And it's worse on humid days of course! UGH. SO my hubby is going to take his brother instead of me. They'll have fun at least!

How I ever played semi-pro beach volleyball is beyond me! Of course I wore hats and long sleeve t-shirts and reapplied sunscreen between every game (not match, but game!). But I do think I had more natural pigment protection then. I wonder if there's a dietary supplement that would help!

Oh the joys of being a quasi-ginger girl!

I tended to burn rather than tan when I was younger, but the situation seems to have improved somewhat in recent years although I still don't tend to get very tanned... My hair was a lot fairer back then that it is now (having gone from white-blond when I was an infant, through a more normal blond in my later childhood & adolescence, to light brown in my 20s & medium brown in my 30s before the addition of grey hairs started effectively lightening it again...) and I suspect that my skin's ability to produce extra melanin when stimulated by prolonged exposure to sunlight has increased along with the increased melanin levels in my hair.
Mind you, when I last tried to grow a beard some of the bristles that developed were distinctly reddish in hue...

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