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Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 01:36 am | 1st Post |
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I'm sitting here tanning............. who else is?
After that last disaster with self tanning, I've bought the lotions that takes a week to show anything..... By gosh, I think I'm starting to see some colour today, and it's only day 3.
Sure beats lying on those questionable beds that some questionable young "exotic dancer" just used.
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Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 01:53 am | 2nd Post |
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seawitches wrote: I'm sitting here tanning............. who else is?
After that last disaster with self tanning, I've bought the lotions that takes a week to show anything..... By gosh, I think I'm starting to see some colour today, and it's only day 3.
Sure beats lying on those questionable beds that some questionable young "exotic dancer" just used.
I've pretty much lost the tan I got last month on the cruise. Just thinking about all the questionables makes me go eeeewwwwwwwwwww!
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Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 02:27 am | 3rd Post |
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My tanning days are a thing of the past, unfortunately.  All of my 8-hr days in the sun with baby oil on is catching up with me. Never used any kind of sunscreen until I was in my 30's, I think.
After the surgical removal of one basal cell skin cancer on my forehead, I am wearing the 30 sunscreen with a sun visor on every time I'm at the beach or pool now.
The dermatologist found another "suspicious" area above my right eyebrow a few weeks ago that he has scheduled for a biopsy next week.
Great.......just in time for the X-Mas photo's..........
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Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 02:58 am | 4th Post |
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ya I hear ya... I have two that need to be looked at, but waiting til next appt. I think they're ok, but one is annoying as heck.
I don't spend much time in the sun anymore either. Esp after that fiasco in the Bahamas with Pearl 
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Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 10:55 am | 5th Post |
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seawitches wrote:
I don't spend much time in the sun anymore either. Esp after that fiasco in the Bahamas with Pearl
Do I remember hearing about this fiasco? Do tell!
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Posted: Wed Nov 28th, 2007 09:34 pm | 6th Post |
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the hugely swollen legs........ the pain...OMG the pain... the visit to the nurse, sharing the bed with Pearl with elevated legs........... OMG the pain!!
The top of my left leg still has no feeling in it., all due to a really bad sun burn.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29th, 2007 12:53 pm | 7th Post |
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YIKES!!!! That sounds terrible!
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Posted: Thu Nov 29th, 2007 04:37 pm | 8th Post |
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seawitches wrote: the hugely swollen legs........ the pain...OMG the pain... the visit to the nurse, sharing the bed with Pearl with elevated legs........... OMG the pain!!
The top of my left leg still has no feeling in it., all due to a really bad sun burn.
Sounds like when I was in college (a number of years ago) and went to Florida for springbreak. Way too much sun on my chest. Huge blisters and pain. Then, did something really stupid, went back to the beach with a T-shirt on which was good, but here's the stupid part, I went in the ocean. One wave hit me, popped the blisters, started bleeding and ohhhhh the pain of the salt water hitting those open blisters. Never again! Learned my lesson.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29th, 2007 04:40 pm | 9th Post |
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cruisingfromMN wrote:
Sounds like when I was in college (a number of years ago) and went to Florida for springbreak. Way too much sun on my chest. Huge blisters and pain. Then, did something really stupid, went back to the beach with a T-shirt on which was good, but here's the stupid part, I went in the ocean. One wave hit me, popped the blisters, started bleeding and ohhhhh the pain of the salt water hitting those open blisters. Never again! Learned my lesson.
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Posted: Thu Nov 29th, 2007 07:40 pm | 10th Post |
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seawitches wrote: the hugely swollen legs........ the pain...OMG the pain... the visit to the nurse, sharing the bed with Pearl with elevated legs........... OMG the pain!!
The top of my left leg still has no feeling in it., all due to a really bad sun burn.
I had that kind of sunburn once. I went to the beach ALL day with a friend. He got BADLY burned. He's Italian. I'm Irish. I don't know what you call what I got.
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Posted: Fri Nov 30th, 2007 02:26 am | 11th Post |
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Yowsa, those are some stories. Catnip, good luck with the biopsy next week. Keep us posted. I have been trying to stay away since getting shingles from a bad sunburn a few years ago. As time goes by, it is so easy to forget.
Seawitches, what self-tanner are you using this time?
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Posted: Fri Nov 30th, 2007 02:25 pm | 12th Post |
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Coka wrote: Catnip, good luck with the biopsy next week. Keep us posted. I have been trying to stay away since getting shingles from a bad sunburn a few years ago.
Thanks, Coka. After already had one skin cancer removed from my forehead, I am praying that this won't be a cancer. It's right at the edge of my right eyebrow, so I'm hoping they won't have to shave it for the biopsy!!!
My aunt used to get shingles and she said how painful it was.
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 08:40 pm | 13th Post |
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hstrybuf wrote: ...Iv'e pretty much lost the tan I got last month on the cruise....
Ha! Advantage Repsol! I'm African American (pronounced Black) and even in the dead of winter I have a nice cinnamon-brown coat. Even so, I do get darker in the summer and am just as prone to burn as anyone else. I've made several visits to the community pool and have gotten a pretty decent base that should carry me through the Caribb unscathed.
Catnip, I trust everything worked out for you? I just had a suspicious mole removed from my upper back. Turned out to be nothing but it did give me a bit of a start.
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 01:14 am | 14th Post |
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No more sun for me either.
A friend wanted to look good in her daughter's wedding photos and got one of those airbrush tans and it looked nice. Just enough, not a weird color.
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 01:19 am | 15th Post |
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Repsol Rod wrote: hstrybuf wrote: ...Iv'e pretty much lost the tan I got last month on the cruise....
Ha! Advantage Repsol! I'm African American (pronounced Black) and even in the dead of winter I have a nice cinnamon-brown coat. Even so, I do get darker in the summer and am just as prone to burn as anyone else. I've made several visits to the community pool and have gotten a pretty decent base that should carry me through the Caribb unscathed.
Catnip, I trust everything worked out for you? I just had a suspicious mole removed from my upper back. Turned out to be nothing but it did give me a bit of a start.
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 01:24 am | 16th Post |
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Repsol Rod wrote: I'm African American (pronounced Black) and even in the dead of winter I have a nice cinnamon-brown coat. Even so, I do get darker in the summer and am just as prone to burn as anyone else.
Catnip, I trust everything worked out for you?
Actually, it did turn out to be another basal-cell skin cancer (my 2nd) . But I had the surgery to have it removed and the surgeon got all the cancer cells out. Whew!
A friend of mine that I worked with years ago was a light-skinned black guy. We were very good friends and I talked him into taking a scuba diving course with me at the local YMCA. He only lasted for 3 classes before he decided that scuba diving wasn't for him.......but, during the course, he told me that he had to be very careful when he was at the beach because he would get sunburned. I really had never thought of it before that.....but he had freckles on his face and green eyes. I thought it was because he was pretty light-skinned. But he said that most all blacks could get sunburned if they were not careful.
See....I LOVE it here at CTT! I learn something almost every day!!!!!! 
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 01:50 pm | 17th Post |
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Catnip wrote: ...But he said that most all blacks could get sunburned if they were not careful...
Been there done that.
I figured since I was already dark and had never burned before I had some kind of special power over UV rays. On the Glory cruise, I did one of your numbers and basted myself in baby oil - then spent 5 hours on the sun deck. Tell you what, this brutha got toasted! The entire next day it hurt to be awake.
Yeah, we burn too.
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 01:57 pm | 18th Post |
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Repsol Rod wrote: On the Glory cruise, I did one of your numbers and basted myself in baby oil - then spent 5 hours on the sun deck. Tell you what, this brutha got toasted! The entire next day it hurt to be awake.
OUCH!!!!! 
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 12:37 am | 19th Post |
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Repsol Rod wrote: Catnip wrote: ...But he said that most all blacks could get sunburned if they were not careful...
Been there done that.
I figured since I was already dark and had never burned before I had some kind of special power over UV rays. On the Glory cruise, I did one of your numbers and basted myself in baby oil - then spent 5 hours on the sun deck. Tell you what, this brutha got toasted! The entire next day it hurt to be awake.
Yeah, we burn too.
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I remember the days of using baby oil and iodine to tan. What were we thinking?
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 01:46 am | 20th Post |
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hstrybuf wrote: Repsol Rod wrote: Catnip wrote: ...But he said that most all blacks could get sunburned if they were not careful...
Been there done that.
I figured since I was already dark and had never burned before I had some kind of special power over UV rays. On the Glory cruise, I did one of your numbers and basted myself in baby oil - then spent 5 hours on the sun deck. Tell you what, this brutha got toasted! The entire next day it hurt to be awake.
Yeah, we burn too.
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I remember the days of using baby oil and iodine to tan. What were we thinking?
My mom used baby oil with iodine and one of those reflective face thingies. It had 3 sides and you pointed it at your face and chest.
I held her hand more times as she was sliced and diced on her face and chest. She was blond and had pale blue eyes...what was she thinking?
But they all did it then. And her cousins didn't have the same problems because they were dark haired and brown eyed.
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 01:50 am | 21st Post |
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Srutko1226 wrote: hstrybuf wrote:
I remember the days of using baby oil and iodine to tan. What were we thinking?
My mom used baby oil with iodine and one of those reflective face thingies. It had 3 sides and you pointed it at your face and chest.
She was blond and had pale blue eyes...what was she thinking?
I was blonde with green eyes and we were thinking how HOT we looked with that nice sunburned face!!!!!
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 01:53 am | 22nd Post |
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Catnip wrote: Srutko1226 wrote: hstrybuf wrote:
I remember the days of using baby oil and iodine to tan. What were we thinking?
My mom used baby oil with iodine and one of those reflective face thingies. It had 3 sides and you pointed it at your face and chest.
She was blond and had pale blue eyes...what was she thinking?
I was blonde with green eyes and we were thinking how HOT we looked with that nice sunburned face!!!!!
Ya know she did look absolutely beautiful with her tan. But she looked beautiful without it too.
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 01:55 am | 23rd Post |
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Srutko1226 wrote:
Ya know she did look absolutely beautiful with her tan. But she looked beautiful without it too.
Thank goodness my DH doesn't care about tan's. I am so lily white now, it looks like I've never been out in the sun in my entire life!!!!!
Thank goodness he tells me he loves me, white legs and all!!!!!
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 02:00 am | 24th Post |
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Catnip wrote: Srutko1226 wrote:
Ya know she did look absolutely beautiful with her tan. But she looked beautiful without it too.
Thank goodness my DH doesn't care about tan's. I am so lily white now, it looks like I've never been out in the sun in my entire life!!!!!
Thank goodness he tells me he loves me, white legs and all!!!!!
It's the way you were made to be!
My son is marrying a redheaded green eyed beauty that has never liked the sun. She says it makes her sick. I think of her skin as fine porceleyne. Why mess it up?
So he goes sits by the pool when they vacation and she sleeps in.
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 02:03 am | 25th Post |
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My best friend in high school had dark red hair and freckles. She would burn so bad, but she'd stay out on the beach for 4-5 hours on the weekends, just like me.
Nowdays, she says even 1-hr in the sun makes her break out in a red rash......sun poisening, maybe?
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