The Tanning Solution or Is It"

I am sure someone is working on a pill or injection to modify our pigment color.... How far would you go how dark is enough. really dark could actually be fun....Maybe a movie about this starring you ? You become as dark as mj was before he bleached.....Come on J...lets play

Well I really prefer bathing in the Sun than this pretend stuff. But the skin police say no so I am trying this other stuff.

Today one half of one lower leg is tan. It does not look to fake so I guess I will do the rest of that one leg and the other one too.

So, it works!

Yes and it looks pretty good L'k. It must take about 6 to 8 hours to completly develop and I do not know how long it lasts. But at least I won't feel strange in my shorts for awhile.

People here in Tejas go to those tanning salons all the time and by the end of summer they are real tan. But I cannot stand the thought of that plus I have read that it is as bad for skin as the Sun.

After years of sun tanning you might wake up one morning and look at yourself and scream " Oh my god, it's like I,ve become the keeper of the crypt.! Male or female. Georgia Okeefe looked pretty good and Sean connery use to pray he would age gracefully.

:::standing nekkid in front the mirror & singing lowly:::

I've got a natural tan...natural...


to anyone listening: i'm only jesting...

Well now onyxelle we all cannot be so lucky.

Algis, in my youth I hoped to be a craggy old desert rat type woman. Looks like I will get my wish.

I have two words for all y'all: George Hamilton. Please don't let that be your epitaph.

My skin is light and smooth and I prefer it that way.

I don't know that I prefer it that way, but my skin is light and smooth, too, Cinn. I'll use some bronzer on my legs when shorts weather gets here.

I went without sunbathing for a couple of years and didn't mind my tanless skin. What gets me is when I go out and garden now and get a farmer's tan - I just HAVE to even out the tan lines..... bad habit.

I love to be out in the sun - that feeling just before your bones melt is wonderful. It's the only time I feel truly warm. I don't laze about in the sun like I used to, but I wish I could.

Yes indeed the feeling of those rays is serene.

{wistful nodding}

One thing good about this stuff is that it covered up the Howlie Rot on my arms and legs. That is a plus for sure.

DON'T.

Sunburn, for example, is not great for anyone, no matter the melanin, but certainly dumb for irish fair folk like me.

Watch, as you age, all your exposed limbs and face get all craggy. No one guesses that many so called elders have relatively sexy bodies below the neck. Lotions won't make a difference.

Putting chemical on your skin to darken it? What are you thinking? My skin has never been as pretty to me as that of some of my pals who have more melanin, but that is just the way it is.

I went to the beach with friends in my teens and baked like some halibut, but I now look back on it as a colossal waste of time, not to mention dangerous. Not that I don't love beaches, but now I just walk on them at the shoreline, usually in cooler months and fairly well protected uv wise.

We are who we are and should all stand tall within that. I don't care if you look, as my grandmother said, peaked. That's two syllables, peak' ed.

sunburns aren't good, but the latest studies suggest that sun exposure is good. but how the heck are we supposed to know how much is good and how much isn't? it's tough - and I neeeeeeed that special sun heat.

I agree sun exposure is good, vitamin D and whatever else they are saying now, and certainly sense of well being.
But burning and/or adding chemicals to your skin to change its color????