Sunburnification

[Matt Attallah]

Sunburn? What is this sunburn that you speak of?

Can't quite say that I've gotten a sun burn - I've gotten browner - but I think thanks to my dad's heritage (being Arabic n' all) - I have quite a high tolerance to being sunburned!

[Katie Reynolds]

I'm mostly Irish, and some German.

I have *white* skin. I go out in the sun for 10 minutes and I start to get pink!! Luckily, after my second burn of the year I usually tan pretty well.

[Bill_Hancoc]

Last year my friend got badly sunburnified from the high octane "sunage" we recieved. We both went to school the next day and it hurt so bad! My friend brought a bottle of the green aloe vera gel and that was our best friend for the next few days (especially since everybody was touching our backs)

[Jessica Boucher]

Don't forget to sunscreen your feet - my first Nationals I forgot to sunscreen them, and I was wearing Birkenstocks...needless to say, foot sunburns are my least favorite.

[Bharat Nain]

Hey I'm brown. I don't even know what getting sun burned feels like.

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

Hey I'm brown. I don't even know what getting sun burned feels like.

Not true B-rat. I get sun burn at the beach if I am there for half an hour... and it HURTS!!

[wilshire]

I think it just depends on your skin type. i know I can stay out forever and not burn at all. I also keep my tan all year long even though 99 percent of the time I am inside my dark dreary room.

[rocknthehawk]

i burn too...but then after the blisters and peeling go away i have a nice tan. i've had a few usnburns...at the beach bulding a sandcastle for 3 hours..no shirt...no sunblock...yeah...blisters on my back...ouch.

i've got a picture of one of my bad ones. i went to a big outdoor concert last september, and had my hat on the whole day (i usually wear it backwards....more comfortable for me). i guess i didn't even think about it until after...whoops like they say, a picture says a thousand words:

[Rohith Surampudi]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

Hey I'm brown. I don't even know what getting sun burned feels like.

ahaaha at last someone who agrees with me, same here no sunburn,

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher

Don't forget to sunscreen your feet - my first Nationals I forgot to sunscreen them, and I was wearing Birkenstocks...needless to say, foot sunburns are my least favorite.

Aargh! Foot sunburns!! Aargh!!3!

(Did I mention that I spent my first 21 years in Huntington Beach?)

[Rick TYler]

At the risk of sounding like -- you know -- a parent or something, wear a hat and smear sunscreen on your exposed skin. Skin cancer is nothing to joke about, and a teenage sunburn can lead to a melanoma at 40. If skin cancer doesn't actually kill you, you might be like my father-in-law who has had to have skin cancers carved out of his face and ears several times over the last 50 years -- and every divot leaves a scar. I grew up sailing and bodysurfing in Huntington Beach, and I have already had to have a painful treatment for pre-cancerous skin lesions. I'd rather you all have pale skin (for you northern European types) than start growing skin cancers.

There. I know I sounded like a parent, but I feel better now.

[Greg Marra]

I don't get sunburn.

SPF 40, baby!

[EricH]

If I don't put on sunscreen (or even if I do) I will burn. Back-to-back burns on the upper back hurts. A few true stories:

Summer camp on houseboats on the Sacramento Delta (03): I put sunscreen on myself in the morning, sat on top of the boat for a couple hours, and after that, found out I had very red legs. If I hadn't been wearing water shoes, my feet would have been red too. Moral: One application is not enough. Reapply later.

Early one summer (04), on a camping trip: Went for a swim in a river without sunscreen. My upper back got it.

Later that summer: at a Scout camp, took badge classes at the pool for three hours a day. Got very red upper back in the first day. Forgot sunscreen the second day. Third day: [Lifesaving badge counselor]: Please don't tell me you forgot to put sunscreen on again. [Me]: I remembered this time!

I got burned about a week ago on my arms just doing the lawn (a two hour job, approximately.)

[Donut]

I'm excruciatingly white, with thin light blonde hair as well, and am light enough to have been dubbed "Albino Jesus" before in my days with longer hair. I burn extremely quickly, faster than just about anyone else in my family or that I know.

To make matters worse, I live in Arizona. I can start burning here in March usually, and will continue to be able to all the way through September (I already got a slight burn about mid-march of this year walking 3 miles one morning). On particularly bad days in the summer I've burned simply from walking to a friend's house who lives only 4 blocks away.

Band camp in August is great too. About a gallon of water per person, hats, as much outside time in the evening as possible, and SPF 40 for everyone (that 5 and 10 tanning is stuff is like shielding something from bullets with a piece of paper).

[Li Jianliang]

So far, the only parts of my body that has managed to suffer sunburnification are my shoulders. ...It was kinda neat to peel skin off a week later.
I hypothesize that the rest of my skin has developed sun-resistance, since I never bothered to put any sunscreen on in my life. I do tan during the summer, though, if I get out of the house enough. It doesn't look good on me. I'm already kind of blah-dark for an Asian girl.