Poll: How tanned are you?

[Zack Alklazaris]

I have "Jew Blood" so I'm sort of light olive skin tone. Despite I never see the light of day I still manage to have a tan.

 

[EeveeElectro]

**sigh** Where was this thread last year, when I could have voted the naked sun-bathing option?

This year? Pregnancy makes getting sun difficult. Having a newborn, moreso.

I've been getting some sun lately, I guess, so maybe faint, faint tan-lines? Kinda? I guess?

Congrats on your pregnancy! Or if you've had the baby already, then even more congratulations XD

OT: I'm a white as a sheet. I have two skin colours - pale as hell or red. I wish I could tan, I probably should be a red head, my skin is so sensitive. (I wish I were, their hair colour is GORGEOUS!)
I don't want to use fake tan because it can look trashy. One time I did used some tinted moisturiser which looked nice because it wasn't OTP so I might try that again.

 

[Ken Sapp]

I have a fairly permanent tan thanks to the right genetic heritage. Even when I was in the Navy and would spend weeks belowdecks without a hint of sunshine I never faded below a light tan.

OTOH, I am overweight and rarely go out without a shirt on so my arms are slightly darker than the rest of me but not noticeably so, ie no tan lines per se.

 

[Frostbyte666]

I don't tan I burn horribly. So the sun and I have an agreement, I don't go out in it for long and it won't burn me. Also I am a winter person I hate summer so woohoo the heat is coming to an end.

 

[karcentric]

I'm mildly tanned and I'm in Australia, but I'm a gardener so I'm outside a lot.

People still have gardeners outside of soap operas?

Or is this one of those things where two similar words have different connotations in American English.

I travel around and look after old peoples places for them since they can no longer do it themselves.

 

[Megacherv]

I don't seem to be able to tan that much. My arms do a bit (although due to being completely broke and living in the arsehole of nowhere I can't go out to the town centre much). I started wearing shorts a few months back non-stop, yet my legs have not tanned in the slightest even though my arms have.

 

[Quazimofo]

funny thing, i didn't even notice i got a bit tan until the tan marks appeared on my arms and neck/shoulders area. this is primarily because im ALWAYS wearing a t-shirt, and to top it off, im half black, half white, so my arms are kinda just that color all year round.

 

[II2]

I'm Scottish by ancestry... That's the whitest kind of person.

I hear your ante and raise my own Blonde Swedish and Ginger English genetic mix. Not even an ironic trace of melanin.

I don't tan, I lobster.

My mums are big on genealogy and ancestry as academic hobbyists... Can trace our roots almost back to Pict and Viking era clans by approximate geography.

 

[bluepilot]

I have seen too much sun, but since I have ginger genes (I got the skin, but now the hair) I can stand the sun for about, hmm, 5 minutes.

Except I live in Osaka which was not designed for people with ginger genes, so I am all red with freckles. I just hope that I do not turn into one huge freckle like some ginger people.

 

[The Last Nomad]

I am quite tanned for a Irish person, especially seen as we've got a total of 2 days of sunshine this summer.

But I don't get tan marks. At no point on my body does my tan suddenly stop. Maybe its because I don't sunbathe, and the tan I get is from moving around in the sun, but my arms gradually go from light brown around the wrists to basically white at my shoulders.

 

[Dags90]

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I think it's slight just a difference of terminology. Where I'm from, if you're part of a group that travels around a lot, you're a landscaper. Gardeners generally work solo for a much more limited number of people.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Congrats on your pregnancy! Or if you've had the baby already, then even more congratulations XD

My newborn is nearing two months of age. And thank you.

 

[The White Hunter]

I don't tan.

I can't, I only burn.
I often blame this on being related to ginger people.

Plus I hate summer (mostly cause of the burning!) and tend to stay inside.
So yeah, I'm either pale as a ghost in winter or red and blotchy in summer if I venture outside.

I have this experience and thus avoid the sun like the plague, I'm very pale frankly and I don't care too much.

 

[karcentric]

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I think it's slight just a difference of terminology. Where I'm from, if you're part of a group that travels around a lot, you're a landscaper. Gardeners generally work solo for a much more limited number of people.

Ah, its pretty much interchangable here. Landscaper has just become the "trendier" name so pretty much everyone uses it even if it is a full time employee who does nothing but "gardening" for you.

I ain't bothered one way or another. Both title sound good in my head.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I tan easily and I've just come back (today) from a month in Ecuador. So yeah, pretty tanned. I'm caucasian but I compared with my Iranian friend and we had pretty much the same skin tone.

 

[Olas]

The summer is when I hide from the sun. Sol is my enemy.

 

[Judgment90]

I'm pretty much white as bread.

I live in Florida so the summer heat gets excruciating, so most of the time, unless I'm doing yard work or going on a walk, I just stay inside.

 

[Tentaquil]

Natural tan

Like an olive skinned god

I thank my Italian heritage

 

[Soxafloppin]

Quite pale

Spoiler

I'm on the left, my friend beside me is ginger pale so I'm not too bad.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I think I could give vampires a run for their money... I'm suffering from anemia apparently so yeah...pretty damn pale.