Sunburnification

[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.

[114Klutz]

The sun? Whats that? The big lightbulb in the sky?

Wow - it's probaly a waste of energy. Hmm, that certainly doesn't look like a filament in the center. I wonder who gets to change it? The great janitor in the sky? Poor guy, he must have a big ladder.

Oh, you mean its not a indecasent lightbulb? Is it flourescent? Can't be, no, it's too yellow, too much heat. Looks like halogen to me.

Wait, you say it's fusion powered? Oh what? The French got ITER working and now own the big lightbulb? How much did they pay for that?

Wait, what do you mean it's not a lightbulb...