Fake Tan- What's The Deal?

Orando Broom

bonerm wrote: »

Now many women are already reading this and thinking "yeah but it looks good on me tho."

But they smell waxy like old candles. Fake tan on women is yock, especially the bits where it congeals around joints and looks poo coloured.

Fake tan on men is just plain weird.

stupidusername

Poor Craythur wrote: »

I'm dark-haired - but not pale. Dammit!

i'm pale but not dark haired >_<

well it's brown but light brown...

LETHAL LADY

This is one of me holiday snaps from courtown. What do you think.

fonecrusher1

I don't understand the obsession with women wanting to make their skin look darker? Seriously. They spray on toxic stuff or lay for hours in these solarium tanning yokes...to make their skin look more brown.

Whats wrong with normal pale skin? When i see a good looking woman with a fake tan i think...hey shes kind of hot. Pity about the fake tan. I think women always look better without it.

For me the biggest turn offs regarding a womans appearance...

Plastered in make up
Fake tan
Bit of hair above the lip
Too skinny
Short haircut like a man

stupidusername

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

This is one of me holiday snaps from courtown. What do you think.

well it's seamless anyway...i'll give you that

grenache

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Yes, but within each of those urban areas you WILL find women dressed to your liking. Dublin - Camden Street area.

Sounds like a proposal for a date

Yes i've frequented Flannery's many times on Camden St, and there are many well dressed ladies there. But as a total percentage of all the girls who go out in Dublin on a given night - they're still in the minority.

Lirange

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

This is one of me holiday snaps from courtown. What do you think.

Tangerine spoilt. Throw it out.

Poor Craythur

grenache wrote: »

Sounds like a proposal for a date

Yes i've frequented Flannery's many times on Camden St, and there are many well dressed ladies there. But as a total percentage of all the girls who go out in Dublin on a given night - they're still in the minority.

Flannery's - that culchie magnet!!! (I'm an culchie by the way) Cross over the road to find even better dressed women!

PS Sorry, my hoop is too big for leggings at the mo!

Lirange

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

I don't understand the obsession with women wanting to make their skin look darker?

I guess they want to be the girl from Ipanema. *shrugs*

grenache

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Flannery's - that culchie magnet!!! (I'm an culchie by the way) Cross over the road to find even better dressed women!

PS Sorry, my hoop is too big for leggings at the mo!

I'm a culchie too - although my sister who has been living in Dublin for ten years and would never call herself a culchie, loves the place. I go there for the older ladies

p.s. Your hoop is never too big for leggings, you only think it is!

Lumen

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Some of us don't care about being tanned, real or fake.

Sun-cream FTW.

Good for you.

Still, my point stands. If people don't like looking pale for whatever reason I'd rather they painted themselves orange than ended up with skin cancer.

Lirange

Lumen wrote: »

I'd rather they painted themselves orange than ended up with skin cancer.

Better blue than orange really. The Na'vi and the Smurfs look better than the Carrot people.

Poor Craythur

Lumen wrote: »

Good for you.

Still, my point stands. If people don't like looking pale for whatever reason I'd rather they painted themselves orange than ended up with skin cancer.

Fair enough. Plus too much sun ages skin terribly. Yock.

BraziliaNZ

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Hate the stuff, hate the stuff, hate the stuff!!!

I have seen manys the pretty Irish girl completely wreck herself with fake tan.

But then again, I'm an olive-skinned Irish woman so maybe I just don't get it.

Olives are black or green. What colour is your skin exactly??

coylemj

deathrider wrote: »

... But they do realise they look like aliens, right?

As far as an individual woman is concerned it's better to be in with the crowd than out on your own and risk being ridiculed, it's the herd mentality. It's the brave person who tries to be different, in the case of a woman going to an event she needs bucketloads of self-confidence - a smashing figure and a good pair usually does it.

Poor Craythur

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Olives are black or green. What colour is your skin exactly??

Have you never heard of skin being described as 'olive'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_skin

Poor Craythur

coylemj wrote: »

As far as an individual woman is concerned it's better to be in with the crowd than out on your own and risk being ridiculed, it's the herd mentality.

What? I know MANY Irish women who don't touch the stuff, even for big events. In an earlier post you said pretty much every women between 14-39 wears the stuff. Again, what? Where on Earth do you hang out?

BraziliaNZ

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Have you never heard of skin being described as 'olive'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_skin

yes but why olive? They're black or green! The oil is like a petrol colour! You don't say the grass was a guinness green! Makes no sense!

Poor Craythur

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

yes but why olive? They're black or green! The oil is like a petrol colour! You don't say the grass was a guinness green! Makes no sense!

Well, from my art class days, when I was painting people, you wouldn't believe the different colours that went into convincingly and correctly colouring skin. The base colour for olive skin probably would be greenish.

BraziliaNZ

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Well, from my art class days, when I was painting people, you wouldn't believe the different colours that went into convincingly and correctly colouring skin. The base colour for olive skin probably would be greenish.

or maybe because olives grow in the med where people have darker skin than pasty islanders like most irish

Poor Craythur

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

or maybe because olives grow in the med where people have darker skin than pasty islanders like most irish

Maybe.

Kasabian

Lia_lia wrote: »

Yeah, looks awful. Very very rarely looks good.

I know loads of girls that won't go outside the door without fake-tan and orange make up. I guess it's just because so many Irish girls wear fake tan others follow suit and think that's how you're supposed to look.

The poor girls have to work hard when you are in their company. Natural beauty is hard to beat and you have it by the bucketload.

Credit where credit is due

:cool:

oompaloompa

Despite my name, I never touch the stuff.... I'm pale and very interesting

wolfpawnat

I cannot get why girls put on a fake tan to go to the beach, they put it on when it is sunny, and as a result, they don't get a real tan!?!

It looks hilarious when it it is starting to wash off and they look like orange zebras with the streaks.

deathrider

I still don't see the point all in all with the whole tanning fiasco. Why wold you want to darken your skin to begin with, nevermind overdoing it.

Azureus

'thats tinted moisturiser you plank!!'

All the gals in my group plaster themselves with the stuff and while they always look amazing (they dot go overboard) it takes em forever to get ready and its just not natural looking this time of the year however well applied! Im just not that bothered tbh, I tan easily in summer and stay pale in winter, nothing that cant look good with a touch of pinky blush! Sorted.

Plus had a mate stay over in my bed a few weeks back... Sheets destroyed!!!!

guyanesemafia

it looks disgusting when you see it plastered onto a girls face and then their neck is a completely different colour,

aww looks like shes been messing with the cow ****e again....

UglyBolloxFace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLrYN8CgVPY

Mr. Manager

I see someone found Ctrl C + Ctrl V

Jake Rugby Walrus666

But if all the children stopped watching TV then they would all become more focused and intelligent and none of them would have gained a competitive advantage against any other one. So what's the point.

Dangerous Man

There is something to be said for the 'you've been tangoed' look. It's makes it extremely easy to spot and avoid people who are most likely annoying and scummy.
Also, it means that the apes with the shaved heads, tracksuits and budweiser bottles can find someone that suits them. They can then go off to a house party they're not invited to and start a fight or he can slap her in the face outside of abrakebabra and call her a geebag.

JerryHandbag

There was a girl in my class in college and she was plastered with the ****ing stuff and the smell off it was unreal. I picked up her car keys once and it was all over them, I had to go wash my hands.

Irish people are supposed to be pale and freckled, not tangerine. Maybe its just jealousy of the darker skinned girls from the US and Continental Europe, but theres no need for it....pale is cute

stupidusername

JerryHandbag wrote: »

pale is cute

\o/

mfceiling

billlumbergh wrote: »

Man each to their own ya know, i personally don't dig the ronsealed look myself, i hate tan! i love being pale!

I am constantly being advised on the magic and joy that is fake tan; it makes you look slimmer.... apparently.

And there my friends is why so many women wear fake tan..........i thank you

Dangerous Man

JerryHandbag wrote: »

There was a girl in my class in college and she was plastered with the ****ing stuff and the smell off it was unreal. I picked up her car keys once and it was all over them, I had to go wash my hands.

Irish people are supposed to be pale and freckled, not tangerine. Maybe its just jealousy of the darker skinned girls from the US and Continental Europe, but theres no need for it....pale is cute

It works the other way too though. Many years ago I dated a Filipino girl. She used to use skin products to actually lighten her skin. Many Filipinos do. They really like the look of pale, white skin.

Orla K

I called someone an oompa loompa once because of it, she was being a bítch about me being pale and I snapped(after months of her getting in little snide remarks) thank god I did because she hasn't spoken to me since and I'm alot happier.

But seriously it looked awful and she was going out like that!

lawhec

I was on a recent flight to Liverpool and I happened to bump into a woman I knew from back home that I hadn't seen for a while. The one thing I noticed was that she had no make up on, or if she did it was discreet. No fake tan and she looked all the better for it. She didn't need it.

It's only within the last decade or so that tan in a bottle has come to the point of women thinking they need it for everyday use. Before that it might have been for special events (e.g. weddings) only unless you were a porn star. In fact, I'd say Katie Price and Jodie Marsh's liberal application of the stuff on themselves is one of the main driving factors behind so many women getting Tango'd up.

A few years ago I was part of a management team of a ladies Gaelic Football team (I won't say which one) and at a team meeting session before (for the time) the biggest game of the year, it turned quite informal and somehow I was asked about the question of fake tan. Let's just say that after a few sentences of giving my opinion of it, I had about two dozen women ready to lay into me. And not in a good way either. :pac:

Aishae

hey - we're not all flaming pale n freckled!
im like poor craythur - olive skinned - tends to be creamy in the winter but a wink of sunshine and i look tanned. that and my looks seem to suggest to most people i'm from russia or sweden or that region. they usually start with 'so, which country are you from?' when i meet people. my response 'dublin - i'm as Oirish as you' usually ends that although some of them die with envy instead :pac: just messin.

tangoed... so many go to the beach like that - as mentioned - and its no substitute for sun lotion, theyre doing even more harm to their skin than just clogging up their pores. this is one reason i never took to makeup much or fake tans - in the long run it will only damage what you have so whats the point...

Duggy747

At the end of the night you ladies look like you smeared dogshìt on your face with all the blotches and you destroy everything you touch with your brown handprints.

The less shìte a woman wears, the hotter she is. Anyways, we're all horrible, wretched looking things on the inside...........no point putting lipstick on a pig :pac:

jimthemental

Duggy747 wrote: »

The less shìte a woman wears, the hotter she is.

Not a fan of scat porn Duggy?

Poor Craythur

Orla K wrote: »

I called someone an oompa loompa once because of it, she was being a bítch about me being pale and I snapped(after months of her getting in little snide remarks) thank god I did because she hasn't spoken to me since and I'm alot happier.

Good for you, she sounds like a knobette.

pickarooney

Poor Craythur wrote: »

Have you never heard of skin being described as 'olive'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_skin

This has always confused me. Even that article links directly to a picture of a green olive, as if that's supposed to explain the use of the term for Cristiano Ronaldo's greasy skin. There are about five recognisable shades of olive, from green to purple to black but none look remotely like a human skin tone.

Duggy747

jimthemental wrote: »

Not a fan of scat porn Duggy?

Well, when's it ingested in large quantities. Not a fan of the ol' smearing videos, very tame. :pac:

Poor Craythur

pickarooney wrote: »

This has always confused me. Even that article links directly to a picture of a green olive, as if that's supposed to explain the use of the term for Cristiano Ronaldo's greasy skin. There are about five recognisable shades of olive, from green to purple to black but none look remotely like a human skin tone.

As I explained earlier, if I were to try and paint olive skin colour, I'd probably start with a base of olive green, building on it with other colours. All kinds of colours go into recreating human skin tones.

pickarooney

Poor Craythur wrote: »

As I explained earlier, if I were to try and paint olive skin colour, I'd probably start with a base of olive green, building on it with other colours. All kinds of colours go into recreating human skin tones.

You did mention it earlier but it didn't go any way towards explaining the connection between a green thing and a brown thing, sorry.

If you want to paint something purple you start with red or blue but you don't call an aubergine red (or blue).

Poor Craythur

pickarooney wrote: »

You did mention it earlier but it didn't go any way towards explaining the connection between a green thing and a brown thing, sorry.

If you want to paint something purple you start with red or blue but you don't call an aubergine red (or blue).

Well, I tried! Makes sense to me.

Aishae

olive skin tone
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The term olive skin tone refers to a darker pigment of Caucasian skin. It is also known as a warm or tan complexion. Inhabitants of numerous countries are known to have this warm skin tone. Olive skin tone is produced when a somewhat average amount of melanin exists within the skin. This lighter brown complexion exists between pale skin and dark skin.
Olive coloring is technically a yellow pigment. Green olives appear to be murky green in color, but they are still a shadowy shade of yellow. Additionally, many Mediterranean olives are brown and black in color. Akin to its namesake fruit, olive skin tone comes in a variety of yellow shades from light to dark.

from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-olive-skin-tone.htm

Stench Blossoms

I feel transparent if I don't wear tan.

fakearms123

Girls like fake tan because it makes them look more exotic but when you have a dirty looking beast with dark stained lines running over their chin and on their wrists its not a great look. But when a guys had a few drinks those lines are invisible and especially in a darkly lit club

pickarooney

Aishae wrote: »

olive skin tone
___________
The term olive skin tone refers to a darker pigment of Caucasian skin. It is also known as a warm or tan complexion. Inhabitants of numerous countries are known to have this warm skin tone. Olive skin tone is produced when a somewhat average amount of melanin exists within the skin. This lighter brown complexion exists between pale skin and dark skin.
Olive coloring is technically a yellow pigment. Green olives appear to be murky green in color, but they are still a shadowy shade of yellow. Additionally, many Mediterranean olives are brown and black in color. Akin to its namesake fruit, olive skin tone comes in a variety of yellow shades from light to dark.

from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-olive-skin-tone.htm

That's really just waffle. After-the-fact pseudoscience to try and draw some tenuous link between the presence of some yellow in two completely different colours and then completely fudges its own tenuous link by throwing brown (show me a brown olive) and black(!) into the mix.