Get a pre-playa suntan

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:22 pm

This is a good time to do it. Keeps you from burning too badly in the desert.

mikesieben · Post by **mikesieben** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:46 pm

Always wear sunscreen regardless of your base tan.

Skin Cancer isn't fun.

Ninth Path · Post by **Ninth Path** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:48 pm

Seriously...just had some skin cancer on my neck removed...I'm 27. It sucked. All tanning is bad tanning...cover yourself on the playa.

flatlander13 · Post by **flatlander13** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:55 pm

I wear a mummy suit when I'm in the sun.....so, I'm OK

Thecatman · Post by **Thecatman** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:15 pm

Nine Path wrote:cover yourself on the playa.

I thought the reason to go was to run around naked!
Seriously..I'm 50 and had some removed surgicaly and burned from my left shoulder a few years back. I usually wear a white T-shirt. If I don't have a shirt or some coverage on I put the sunscreen on and even when I do wear one, I have the sunscreen on and keep reapplying it several times daily so I smell like a craked coconut.

Post by **AntiM** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:00 pm

A white tee shirt has a very low SPF .. about spf 6. really.

http://www.besunsensible.org/onSunScreen.htm

Thecatman · Post by **Thecatman** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:23 pm

Excelent information. Thank you. Right now I'm sportin a farmers tan.
Since I work outdoors, my skin doc informed me that I should apply sunscreen even in winter when I might be wearing a heavy coat, over a sweatshirt, over a longsleeve T-shirt, over a regular T-shirt.
Even in summer I've worn a longsleeve T-shirt at times.
I heard recently that it's not so much the spf rating as much as how often sunsceern is applied.

Generic Anonymity · Post by **Generic Anonymity** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:07 pm

I will be wearing sunscreen all week, as part of my costumes. I believe it to be an important accessory, not to be done without.

Oldguy · Post by **Oldguy** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:12 pm

You can still run around naked at night, with the proper illumination, of course.

I wear a huge lifeguard strawhat, and long sleeved t-shirt, pajama pants during the afternoons.

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:01 am

Guys are so lucky. All they need is a t-shirt, some socks and sandals, and they're good to go!

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:05 am

wonder what the SPF of bacon grease is?

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:12 am

goathead wrote:wonder what the SPF of bacon grease is?

0. In fact, it would increase your burniness. Just be sure to drop dead by my camp sometime around breakfast.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:48 am

C.f.M. wrote:Guys are so lucky. All they need is a t-shirt, some socks and sandals, and they're good to go!

And you never tried that yourself?

Plus the usual zinc oxide face treatment.

C.f.M. · Post by **C.f.M.** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:57 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:
C.f.M. wrote:Guys are so lucky. All they need is a t-shirt, some socks and sandals, and they're good to go!

And you never tried that yourself?

No. I am ashamed of my tiny peenis.

Sail Man · Post by **Sail Man** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:21 pm

C.f.M. wrote:
Ugly Dougly wrote:
C.f.M. wrote:Guys are so lucky. All they need is a t-shirt, some socks and sandals, and they're good to go!
And you never tried that yourself?

No. I am ashamed of my tiny peenis.

Yeah right, I'm sure you are

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:41 pm

C.f.M. wrote:
Ugly Dougly wrote:
C.f.M. wrote:Guys are so lucky. All they need is a t-shirt, some socks and sandals, and they're good to go!
And you never tried that yourself?

No. I am ashamed of my tiny peenis.

said the man in the boat..........

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pizzamancer · Post by **pizzamancer** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:13 pm

I will be tanning on the beach in Oahu tomorrow!