Not wearing sunscreen and getting a sunburn is a psyop to get men to buy more aloe vera.
I get a little pink from being outside for like ~20 minutes. That's not really hubris lol.
I would wear suncream more often, but:
- I'm allergic to something in most brands of suncream so if I run out I'm having to deal with rashes all over where I used it.
- I hate how it makes me feel slimy after using it
There's this Loreal suncream spray I like that I can't seem to find that feels like water and when it's dry, it doesn't feel like you have suncream on. It's perfect for me! I'm not allergic to it either so I can actually go in the sun without turning red and blotchy!
Yeah, and it’s also def NOT cheap.
that feels like water and when it's dry,
What does water feel like when it's dry?
only one way to find out
Pour one out for the back of my calves. Every summer I forget.
Incredibly, my legs somehow never get burnt
Same until I got a bicycle
I put on sun screen every morning to ward off basal cell skin cancer. It sucks but it's cheaper than going to the dermatologist to have basal cell skin cancer removed. The worst part is getting it in my eyes. On the plus side, the splotchy age spots on my temples have disappeared
i get burnt with multiple layers of sun lotion
And then theres me who does not go outside that often, never uses suncream and doesnt get a sunburn when I decide to go outside for longer times.
My wife can spend all day in the sun and turn a nice shade of brown.
Not me. There is no "tan" for me. It's either pasty white or lobster with no middle ground whatsoever.
I turn a lovely tan. It just happens after two weeks of bright red and screamy and a few days of pale and peeling.
Clearly you've never met someone like my wife.
If the cream wasn't such a goddamn sensory nightmare...
UPF clothes FTWmate it's £5-10 for a 200ml bottle I'd hardly call that cheap
In the city of Utrecht NL they have free sunblock stations spread around the city. It shows the temp and UV rating. But buying it in store is crazy expensive and often the quality is poor. Some fancy tiny spray bottles go up to 12 euros, only good for 3 to 4 uses. wtf. Imagine being ginger, there's a ginger tax called sunblock.
As a ginger- the petrol money to go shop in Germany at DM or Rossmann is cheaper than the ginger tax here.
I buy the store brand from the local supermarket. €2,99 for a 250 ml bottle of SPF 30 and it works great. I never get sunburn, even during multi hour bike rides in the blazing sun.
WTF are those prices. I'd start looking into importing from abroad ...
Here in the Netherlands it’s expensive as well. Like a small bottle of name-brand sunscreen is €30.
I'm just stayin inside
Ok Bo Burnham
but they're specifically avoiding burning their hams
Went out to look for a reason to hide again
Cheap is not the case everywhere. In Germany it's cheap, in the Netherlands it's much more expensive and in Croatia a bottle is like 25 Euro
In the US it's cheap but unregulated and full of shit that's terrible for you. Or you can pay an arm and a leg for stuff that's better but still not up to the standards of most other countries. I learned this by getting a chemical burn in my eye from sunscreen... meant for my face.
In the US it's cheap but unregulated
It’s the exact opposite actually.
US sunscreen is way worse than sunscreen in other parts of the world like the EU. It doesn’t block the harmful radiation as well. The reason is that it’s more strictly regulated in the US. IIRC it’s not considered a cosmetic product but instead it’s a medical product.
As such it’s subject to much stricter regulation and requires much more (expensive) testing before being allowed on the market. Due to this it’s considered too expensive to introduce the newer, more advanced sunscreen products in the US so you’re stuck with the older, crappier sunscreen.
The USA is the Wild West when it comes to safety standards of any product.
Oh, that's bad. Made me think of this sunscreen and in Robocop 2.
My excuse is that the weather was predicted as "cloudy" when we left in the morning. When we were on the trip, though, the sun was burning down to extinct humanity instead.
You should be putting sunscreen on regardless, and reapplying every 3 hours.
Every English tourist in Australia.
Australia is a different beast though. I went out for like 10 minutes without a hat or sunscreen on a particularly hot december noon and my nose damn near fell off the day after 😅 Not because I thought I'm too tough to get sunburnt but if you live your entire life in Europe you just can't imagine the sunshine being this potent. Never happened again after that incident 😄
...and Florida, and Jamaica, and Mexico, and (I presume) Spain. There is no corner of the earth in which the English will not challenge the mighty Helios until they are as red as the cross of St. George.
*Me in Vitoria, Spain: "You guys get sun?"
Large parts of the north of Spain are basically UK in terms of weather.
In New Zealand the sun feels like it's stabbing you after 10min in summer. I can feel my skin prickling like tiny fire ants.It doesn't take long to burn here. serious respect for the sun and upper atmosphere
there's a hole in my ozone dear lyza, dear lyza..
Its not the ozon hole (well its a little bit the fault of the ozon hole) but its because due to the eleptical orbit of the earth around the sun the southern hemisphere is closer to the sun in summer than the north hemisphere.
Baking in the sun risks skin cancer. But people like to be tanned, so cancer is worth it for a good look.
If you hate the feel of sunscreen like I do, check out UPF clothing 👍
I don't remember it being cheap
Mate. I'm a ginger living in New Zealand. Sunburn is an inevitability.
Me too. Get burnt from a sunny day at the movies
You choose new Zeeland over Australia due to the lack of venomous animals, but forgot to check for unprotected astronomical nuclear reactor in the sky
Melanoma is the New Zealand flavor of poison damage
One day I'll win, you all will see!
Fallen London vibes
