Sun Tannning

Allright well i decided to work on my sun tanning today randomly. Some advice or techniques as to how to not get burnt?

In short how long on each side do i let the sun toast me so iam not burnt to a crisp?

Iam pretty burnt right now, came home with a blade of grass that rode me. Surprised the hell outta me. Iam feeling it, my back is turning red and its causing this weird feeling whenever i sit back. LOL

Experts on this please enlighten me.

 

Wear clothes, sunscreen or otherwise avoid direct and prolonged exposure.

 

Yeah i wore my Jeans first then i couldnt stand how hot my legs were so i just went down to boxers. Wasnt the smartest idea but it worked for ahwile. Awesome day for that kind of a stuff.

Which kind of spray sun screen is the best? I cant stand the lotion.

 

you might as well put toxic chemicals on your body if you use sunscreen.

 

suntanning is like anal sex

go very slowly in the beginning

 

Well, I personally love sun bathing when its nice out... it makes me feel great! especially high! omg try it ;o

anyway, i'm a fair skinned redhead, and i still get mad tans. (people notice, so its not just me ) lol so i'm going to share my techniques with you:

you need to build up your tan. going outside with no rays to begin with and staying out for over half an hour is just brutal, and the days at the beaches are brutal. if you can lay outside in your backyard and catch the first few times about 20 minutes. then expand your time.
i usually turn over when i start to feel super hot, and i let that feeling go for 5 minutes then i turn over.

ROFL. i'm giving a guy tanning tips. god. im stoned.

 

i usually wait for the 'hot flesh' feeling too, not that i usually lay out and tan, i just wear less clothes and work in the yard.
drink lots of water, and have some aloe/ lidocaine gel on hand if you do get a burn. that shits amazing.

 

Damn,I hate to throw this in here, but my kids grand parents came from Ireland and consequently two of my kids have light complexions and have to watch their exposure to the sun. My ex (my kids mom)had a melanoma removed--her sister had a melanoma removed and now my daughter is having one removed thursday. Please be careful about over exposure and use sun screen if you are light skinned.

 

Ive got a right Irish tan going on at the moment...so basically Im just sun burned

After a week or so it turns brown though so wont look like such a lobster then :reddevil:

Been passing out at the beach too much, nearly got sun stroke last year after a particularly mad party

 

LOL thats a great one mr.writer, use it more often. And thank you Noela, first timer the other day, kinda burnt, didnt know what the hell i was doing. Just layed and tunred every so often. Next time up iam probably gonna be smarter. On average how long in the sun?

 

And which suntan spary works the best and how powerful?

 

personally I think maybe you should just get outside more.. the sun is always out.. therefor.. being outside and active will result in a tan.. duh

 

Good luck with cancer.

 

don't use any spray

please dude

homo sapiens have been getting tanned for millions of years with nothing but the sun and your body doing the work. You don't need some pharmaceutical crap, you just need to take care. Lie on one side for 20 minutes, then another side for 20 minutes, then go inside. Wait a few hours, see how you feel, if you are warm and a little sensitive then it was ok, stay in that time frame. if you feel like you could have been out way longer, try 30 mins/30 mins. just work up slowly, and don't be afraid to go out in the sun for a bit, then go inside to assess and go back out if you feel like it. you have to get a feel for how your own body tans, theres no magic formula, see what works for you

feel it out!

 

how is it that just now within the last 60 or so years.. that people die of skin cancer due to too much sun? there are 10,000s of farmers.. how many of them end up with skin cancer? landscapers.. anyone who works outside daily.. and just now within our and the last generation skin cancer due to too much sun is a problem.. BS! Sun = Vitamin D.. lack of sufficient Vit D leads to depression.. which in turn leads to pharmaceutical companies shoving anti-depressants down your throat... hmm... what a surprise.. oh noez.. "if you don't use sun protection you'll die".. sounds like another great line to sell a bullshit product.. i'll never feed into it

 

Dont be such a spacker

 

here comes the sunnnn

 

i'd say start with 30 minutes on each side. check the UV index at weather.com and plan accordingly. if it's a 9-10 i'd lessen, 6 or below you can stay out longer

 

That sound alot more naturel. Iam gonna go for the hour split in half thing. I just love the escape, girls these days though. They are like impossible to talk to, i dont know if they dont like being talked to randomly or me being twenty years of age is like time to stop that. Its been pissing me off. Its like i can only ask them for the time and then the conversation that could have been sparked it automatically finished.

I feel like such a asshole too, i only realized today of how crazy it must have seemed to other people to see me in boxers sun tanning. I dont know if i should care or not.

Thanks for the secrets.

 

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