Why is white bad?

[Dis]

I think I got sunburned today. I didn't want to. I wasn't tanning (I had long pants on because it was cool), but my arms got a little burned. I get burned easily up in higher elevations. And I was up in the mountains today.

But I do need a tan. And even though I think it's a stupid cultural thing, I have to agree they do look better. Why do white people look so disgusting? But as I said in the other thread, they really only look disgusting outside in the bright sunlight, or in a brightly lit room. In a dimly lit bedroom when you are about to do it, it makes little difference how good a tan they have. That's the last thing I'm thinking of at that moment.

In some ways white looks unhealthy. I'm not sure why that is.

So I'll go ahead and make a poll about tans. I'm not sure what to make the poll options, but I'll figure something out. So don't complain to me about poll options.

[SlowwHand]

medium tan- regular outdoor look, but not overdone

[Apocalypse]

While makes people look rounder too, just like white clothes.

[Aeson]

The "healthy look" would partly have to do with how blemishes stand out. With a tan, various darker blemeshes, any moles or freckles, blend in much better. Another aspect is that those who are active, at least in less urban environments, tend to have tans more often than those who are inactive.

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I get rather dark when I tan without sunscreen, which I can do at lower elevations without getting burned. I use sunscreen all the time now though, and it limits how dark I get quite a lot. I still get a "go to the beach everyday look", since I do go to the beach everyday for about half the year, but it has more to do with the sunbleaching of my hair than how dark I get.

Most of my family burns easily.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
While makes people look rounder too, just like white clothes.

Could you rephrase this somehow? As in, what?

[Apocalypse]

White shows curves more. A heavier tan person does not look as round as a heavier pale person.

I mentioned clothes, because I would like Dis has noticed that girls in white clothes show off curves more.

[SlowwHand]

Vertical lines. That's the way to slimville. Dis needs to dump all those hotizonally striped shirts. Makes him look like a soccer ball.

[Alexander I]

White didn't used to be bad. Just go back to Tudor times. Your girlfriend will smear on some nice lead makeup for you.

[Adagio]

I can't get a tan

[Lazerus]

Chicken white, my skins basically got a vampires reaction to the sun

[b etor]

medium tan. i'm getting paler by the day tho.

[Ecthy]

Medium tan. Spanish spring

[Spec]

Getting a tan hides skin imperfections....but creates so many over the years....

Spec.

[Wernazuma III]

Miexed: light tan on my legs (must be my hairy legs, I guess), medium tan on my torso, dark tan on my arms below the T-shirt sleeve line.

[Ecthy]

T-shirt sleeve line

Putting up the sleeves so as to tan the upper arm