The joys of being a pasty white chick.... - Page 1

OK so summer has finally arrived.  What do the rest of you alabaster people do keep from being fried in the sun?  I am so white I have been known to take down airplanes with the shimmer of my skin, poor pilots!!!  Anyhow It does not seem to matter how much sun block i apply I am always cooked.  I realize that most people would just stay out of the sun.  I can't I'm an out doors girl....

Greetings fellow pasty, white chicks.

I'm allergic to regular sunscreen- my skin immediately blisters and peels off. This is the only one I can use http://www.saffronrouge.com/soleo-organics/soleo-organics-sunscreen-spf-30 . It's expensive but it works. If I forget to wear sunscreen then my husband refers to me as "ruddy buddy" since I instantly sear an attractive lobster red. Wearing a stupid straw hat is also a must.

One of the best things to have is a big floppy hat!  Bigger the better! LOL




...laura, just read your last line of your response... great minds think alike, LOL 

he calls you his ( snort giggle, roll on floor) ruddy buddy????  OMG I can not stop laughing!  My hubby was blessed with gorgeous dark olive skin ( he looks middle eastern) but is British so he  wanders around without hats, sunscreen etc baking to a beautiful brown without the slightest hint of red.   He just can't figure out why I march out of the house lathered in the newest pastes, long sleeved shirts and huge hats.  Maybe I should just invest in a bee keepers outfit, that might do the trick :) ruddy buddy.....eh he he he he ....

Yes, he refers to me as Ruddy Buddy all summer long - he hasn't called me Laura since May when I got sunburned at the GSD show in Thorndale, ON. It's pretty funny so I have to laugh. I try to wear long sleeves and giant hats too but SW Ontario is just so bloody hot and humid. I miss living in Edmonton soooo much!

Well they are making more and more clothes with built in UV ray blockers. Invest in a button up long sleeve and wear it over your tanktop or T when working or walking in the sun. I hate sunblock myself, not allergic to it, but the smell and feeling on it irritates the crap out of me, stings my eyes and I just refuse to use it. Your suppossed to use it to prevent skin cancer, yet it is full of metals and chemicals that cause cancer...hmmmmmmmm.

I'm capable of a beautiful tan, but have been stuck inside for the past few summers, be it work or avoiding the heat due to pregnancy and I am whiter than I was at birth I think. I don't even call my legs white, I call them see through.

There is always mornings and evenings to enjoy.
White skin is quite attractive in Moonlite as well.......:)
High 4pack.

WELLLLLLLLLL,  Have I got news for you!!   I am NOT a "pasty white chick"-- I am a medium brown-skinned black American and....I NEVER GO OUT WITHOUT SUNSCREEN.  NEVER, EVER!   Why?  Because my black ass BURNS big-time, that's why.  I slather on the sunscreen every summer.  Everyone who trains with me knows that I am always the one at the field with the sunscreen in the car. In fact, I regularly have three types in the car: 40+ spf spray on,  50 + spf cream, and 75+ baby sunscreen (I figure the manufacturers know folks will become sue-happy, if  the kid gets burned!).


I attended a seminar a couple of years ago with Uschi Fuchs, who went to her knees lhowling with laughter, when she learned I was wearing sunscreen.     She asked me what happens if I didn't.  What happens is that the unprotected areas turn really, honest-to-goodness black, crispy  and HURT!!

I am convinced that there is a Swede or two in my woodpile!

Crispy critters! LOL
I get a golden tan color, so I think there is a good chance of Ghengis Khan in my dna....LOL

I'm very sorry that the sun is an equal opportunity offender.