is a tan trendy where you live? Options

[winsome]

i live in florida so a tan is a must-- the beach is just yards away! i lay out on tha beach or by the pool and use that new jergens natural glow lotion.
do you tan? use the tanning bed? spray-on booth? from a bottle? lay out?

[*CrackedRearView*]

I have what some people like to call the 'year-round' tan.

Italian people rule.

[*mzkandi*]

Italian people rule.

I love italian men....!

but thats besides the point

I stay in Florida too and there is a lot of people with tans here.

[*Azarel*]

I love italian men....!

!! He's mine!

I suppose tans are trendy around here. I'm somewhat pale though.

[*jooleeah*]

People around here are crazy for tans. It's unbelievable.

[Nicolatofu]

I have what some people like to call the 'year-round' tan.

haha me too! high five!

EVERYONE goes tanning. Instead of friends going to the mall together, you hear about how they went tanning. Crap. crap crap. I'm glad I don't have to worry about that!

[surfhottieoffcoa...]

tans are a MUST where i live. but i dont use oil or anything. i can tan easely without it. oil is the worst thing you can do to your skin. some people say, "Oh i'll stop worshiping the sun when i'm around 25." well most skin damage is done at age 18 and under. my dad had really bad skin cancer, and thats not going to happen to me.

[ItzOnlySydney]

haha i live and florida and everyone has a tan EXCEPT me. i am so white lol.

[sunissed14127]

I have a year-round tan too! Thats because I'm mexican, though. People around here are crazy about tanning.

[clarissa]

I don't really hear about people tanning at my school.. I guess people tan year-round? Well, I don't know. I love in southern cali so yeah.

[slipper]

a majority of the people here in hawaii are naturally brown, because of race obviously.

trendy where i live? - well, we can't get away from it, unless you dont go outside.

[jnukes]

haha -- actually yeah, it is .. everyone's getting them lately ..

[WhiteLotus*]

I live in Southern California. It's a big thing here for adults and some teenagers.

[sammi rules you]

i live in indiana and a tan is a must. these days, it doesn't matter where you are. being tan is good.

course, i've been tanning 5 times and i'm still close to being as white as an albino person. meh..

[lilliannnn]

im white as snow and i dont tan by laying out but yeah tanning is popular here.

i've gotten a spray tan or i use lotion stuff.. that's the only thing that will work for me!

[ANG33ZY]

< - :)

and um iyea, it probably is here.

[miss barnes]

i dont really see a lot of people tanning. all i know/see are black people so i guess i wouldnt know....wait! i yea some girls do tan but, its not a big thing here that i know of

[*mona lisa*]

I live in Canada, so no. It's not a trend.

[b0st0ngrl]

A tan is nice where I live but it's not a must. I know lots of people who go to tanning booths but I don't do that because my mom almost got skin cancer from that..
I don't have a tan but I'm not the palest of my friends

[*wind&fire*]

were i livw not as much but he sun is soo string anyways... but no i would never tan myself ...i dont want melanoma thanks...

[zbrittanyz]

I don't fake-bake; that's disgusting. During the summer I go to the beach. From there I just let it wear out until next summer.

[__xxfrappachino...]

yea, i live in florida too so if you don't have a tan people kinda go but its not that big of a deal for me cuz i have one of those 'year round' tans going on..so hooray for me!

[Gypsy Eyes]

course, i've been tanning 5 times and i'm still close to being as white as an albino person. meh..

amen to that.

and tanning oil is not bad. really, i asked my dermatologist and he said it was fine as long as it was used sparingly and it was the kind with a bit of spf 15.

[yupimchuck]

I don't know about "trendy" but people like to have them :/

But, Im unnaturally pale

[*stephinika*]

i suppose it is, considering a number of people fake and bake here...i don't though. no fake anything for me, mine is all natural.

[HappyHeart]

tan is trendy where i live but they get it from the sun without sunscreen. they better enjoy their tan now because they are gonna be all wrinkly later

[Jus2s1mp13]

Yeah taning over here is a must espeically in the winter.

[*x____duckii*]

Well, it isn't really a "trend" here, but there are some people that have tans here.


Darn, if only I wasn't so pale.

[teeners4]

well where i live you can tell who's who.

all the people who play sports a lot and go out a lot. a tan is a must

quiet and reserve people usually dont have tans xP

im tanned like there's no tomorrow. im chinese but i look malaysian now xP

[wounded]

Yeah, but I refuse to tan.

[heyyfrankie]

i don't tan on purpose...i just go outside and swim and i end up getting a tan from being out there.
i live in texas and being tan isn't a MUST but most of the people...especially girls...always want to be dark because most of use don't like being transparent...like ghosts! lol

[not_for_anything]

Yea im pale! I live in Florida too, but most of my friends dont tan much, we do just from being at the beach but we dont lay out and fry ourselves

[eli5e]

yea... and alot of people go to tanning salons as well... including *I* lol

[KoKo Moe Joe]

yea...

sometimes i get freaked out cause it looks like

the attack of the orange ppl...kinda scary

[sw33t_rouge]

in are community un-tanned is good ^^"

[DisneyPrincessKa...]

they're very trendy here.

i lack one however. skin cancer is for dwebes. (ok, so i'm already screwed in that department...)

anyway, i burn, so i like to cover up and use my spf 45 sunblock.

[hunnigurl01]

no fake tans in hawaii. well i havent seen any.
.. haha. the tourists in waikiki are hillarious. they're walking around and they seriously look orange. it's hillarious. and the japanese people look like crabs. ahaahah.
... but locals have a natural brown gold looking tan :) especially during the summer.

[mocassinsx29]

The beach is too far away so only like 2 or 3 kids in my school get tans. But it looks "maddd" nasty because you see all the tan lines. Okay, not nasty just too obvious its fake skin color.

[Abercrombie77]

I have a tanning bed in my bastment, and I don't use it... all my friends come over and use it. Everyone has a tan... But, I dont care... I go to our condo in the summer and lay out like 3 weeks a year lol...

[elmogurly]

you can't not be tan here. that's just scary

[synthase]

I dont tan because i live up in the north (Boston) and i dont want to =)

[AnnahhbeL]

people in NYC tan a lot!!
but i dont...its just that when i go to the beach, i dont wanna get a tan, but i get one anyways because of the stupid sun in my way.

[maryissa]

I guess tans are trendy here. I live in San Diego, Cali. So most people have tans.
But i dont know anyone with unreal tans. Thats just ew.
I have a tan, but its becuz of PE. bleh.
Most people are pale here also. I dont get how people can stay pale in this kind of weather.

[subway]

i live in nyc and i get a tan sometimes but i hate when people get fake tans in new york you can tell..
the people are like orange when its raining and people are wearing winter coats

[hollywoodpink]

i still haven't found a place where being tan ISN'T trendy.
unfortunately it's kinda hard for me to tan.
I use the jergen's stuff, it's pretty good and giving you that sun-kissed glow, it just takes a long time.
but older women do the whole spray-ten thing where i live.
so ya...
i wish i tanned easier. i feel like paper next to some of the girls at my school (to cassie: *cough*tori w.*cough*leah*cough*)

[voguelove]

haha, i think tanning is a trend for anybody, everywhere.

personally, it makes you look fake. i love it when girls use the tanning bed and literally look mexican when their natural color is white. they look so ugly.

im chinese, but my skin isnt the traidtion pretty/pale asian skin. they all use umbrellas in china to cover themselves but once i moved out here when i was 3, that kinda stopped for me. so my "natural" color is a lot darker than what it would be if i still lived back there. so, my skin tans really easily and it doesnt burn. actually, ive never had a sunburn..ever. i dont try to tan, but when im swimming, my skin somehow tans from the rays hitting the water in the pool or something..so i tan even when im trying not to.

[hollywoodpink]

haha, i think tanning is a trend for anybody, everywhere.

personally, it makes you look fake. i love it when girls use the tanning bed and literally look mexican when their natural color is white. they look so ugly.

im chinese, but my skin isnt the traidtion pretty/pale asian skin. they all use umbrellas in china to cover themselves but once i moved out here when i was 3, that kinda stopped for me. so my "natural" color is a lot darker than what it would be if i still lived back there. so, my skin tans really easily and it doesnt burn. actually, ive never had a sunburn..ever. i dont try to tan, but when im swimming, my skin somehow tans from the rays hitting the water in the pool or something..so i tan even when im trying not to.

aw, maggie, that's not fair!
lol. you should appreciate your easily-tanned skin!
=D

[*lolita kitty*]

I got a spray tan for my dads wedding. I looked REALLY different.
It was kind of a hate it or love it thing. people either said "WOW YOU LOOK SO PRETTY!" or "ew.. I liked you better pale"
Either way, just thought I'd share that.

[lilith]

fake tans are ew..

[subway]

i tan like a piece of toast. srsly i look like a dark hispanic girl and once my teacher asked me if i was half hispanic and im korean

[Lil Dr69on]

some tan girls are hot. But some of them aint, they got me freaked 0out

[ecargnmyst]

in nyc? hm..iono..not really..but when i went to upstate ny..Albany university..ew the girls there were fake plastic looking barbie dolls with fake plastic orange looking tans..its was gross

[aubbob]

oh yes. hawai'i it's a must have.
kinda bummed because i'm losing it.
it's been raining for a month & hardly any sunshine

[Chii]

Of course, in New York City, everything is trendy. I'm not into the whole tanning thing, I don't want to be dark and/or ruin my skin.

[slipper]

darker skin dominant white skin in hawaii, unless you count the tourist. so no, it aint a "trend".

[demolished]

Yeah. Tan is pretty trendy in Southern California. It's funny that i'm one of these people who are very white and pale. xDDD

[lilnatcat]

We just get tanned here in Australia........ sunny every freakin day........... when its autumn, its still 25 or more degrees celcius......

but today was freezing..... so I guess the proper weather's finally starting to kick in!

its natural here in australia, majority of ppl here don't need to go for a fake one.

[nopattern]

yeah, pretty much all the girls around here tan. you really don't have to go tanning, just lay outside for awhile but yeah. i am insanely white though.

[aznxdreamer]

i really dont like it when people have really fake tans and they look orange. and i also dont like it when really blond girls have tans, if your skin is darker than your skin then somethings wrong. i think the only people who look good with tans are people who are naturally dark.

[twin__cinema]

I actually really like my really really light skin. It's one of my best characteristics, and I wouldn't ruin it with an ugly orange tan. Ever.

Yeah, it's pretty trendy. Tans are way, way overrated. They can have their skin cancer, I don't want it.

[RCKstarh]

not 2 much we're im at

[xblueradiance]

I don't tan... my skin is already a light brown. If I had paler skin I might; I don't know.

[loopylandscapes4...]

I always have tan, but the people who go tanning look so unnatural around here in the north

[birdman]

I'm from Borneo, we have a variety of tan degrees and weird enough people here want to look as pale as possible. I'm well tan I guess but I think I'm dark but some people say I'm the fairest ;) hahahah~ It's usually common to be labelled (East Malaysians) "fair" by the West Malaysians. It's just a general view of course there are fair people in West Malaysians. What's even better since more foreigners are pouring in each day, the variety of skin colour is just amazing. You guys should really come here (East or West Malaysia) :)

Well of course if you go to the Eastern part of Malaysia you get to booze with me (freely).

Just how you make "fake tans" anyway?...

[Yvonne't me]

I live in Hawaii so of course you gotta be tan!

[starlette]

i know so many girl who cook themselves all the time is sad. I live in texas so its hot enough, but peple voluntarily put themselves in a microwave. And i think it looks rediculous when white girls walk around darker than me. And yeah sure im not that dark, but there are some who look like black people. I'm like come on. U got blue eyes..you look like an alien. And theyre EVERYWHERE

[Sparkle09]

I'm half italian so I have a year round tan too =]
I live in Illinois and a tan is very important. For those that don't have a year round tan here, they go to tanning salons. I admit I have been to one before, just once. Although my friends go on a weekly basis.

[iDecay]

Yeah, it's southern cali. Ah doi.

[Sparkle09]

i really dont like it when people have really fake tans and they look orange. and i also dont like it when really blond girls have tans, if your skin is darker than your skin then somethings wrong. i think the only people who look good with tans are people who are naturally dark.

I have blond hair and I am naturally tan.

[gelionie]

In Hong Kong, light and radiant skin is much more treasured than tanned skin for girls. So, I don't think it's trendy here.

[*islandgirl4eva*]

At my school it is. Idk what it is, but the older you get (late teens, early-mid 20's) the more urgent need these women feel to have a tan.

I'm from a tropical island. I'm supposed to be naturally tan like my father and brother, but I'm actually very fair, like my mother. Eh. In some ways I wish I was darker, but I guess that this just means I'm more "unique". Hehe.

[Crich323]

I think it's more "demanded" in high school to fit in more ya know?
I don't go tanning but I get darker from hours outside thanks to track.
I don't tan well though, my skin get pink/red not tan & it's not burnt either.

[*januaryrain*]

In MA tans aren't really a big issue. Unless you're completely white. I'm actually naturally tan, so it doesn't concern me :)