Do you wear suncream?

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: meltdown75
Yeah, I try to remember to put some on if I'm going to be outside for a while, but especially when golfing or fishing. SPF 30

I also have some lip balm because my lips burn and get really tight without it.

you are such a white boy.

don't forget your hat. don't wanna burn your scalp!

Hey, I'm not bald yet!

Gotta have the hat though! :sun:

just teasing. i am part canuck too. i share the skin tone and i'd share some SPF 30 with ya.

Share some skin with me.

KINKY! :evil:

 

[CraigRT]

Only when I am at the beach actually like tanning on purpose. Then I'll put on a low grade SPF sunscreen.

I'm pretty dark skinned, so I don't have to wear it as much as some people.

 

[Tommouse]

I forgot to put some on, played the horribly stacked odds against me and ended up with a burn. Gotta find that freaking sunscreen/buy some more before this weekend... No need to turn into a french fry again.

 

[marvdmartian]

I never wore much growing up, or even in my twenties. When I was ~30, I met my buddy who was ~37, and a sun worshipper for most of his life. When he turned 40, he told me the one thing he regretted more than anything was (as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed person of european descent) not wearing sunblock. When I asked him why, he pointed out that the crows feet around his eyes were more from being such a sun freak in his twenties, more than from age. And looking at him, I realized that he had the facial wrinkles of a man 10+ years older than he was.

I now wear spf50 most of the time, especially as I work outside quite a bit. If I'm not going to be out all day, I might downgrade to spf35 for the shorter term. The other reason why I do this is because my sister (who, like me, is a redhead with freckles and lighter colored eyes [hers are hazel, mine are blue]) has been fighting melanoma cancer for the past year or so. Hers is also related to a depressed immune system (from battling rheumatoid cancer), but I'm seeing what she's going through right now, and really don't wish to go through that myself.

Oh, and anyone who believes that sunblock causes skin cancer seriously needs to go visit Snopes website every so often, to get their BS level knocked down!! :roll:

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: dullard
As a Public Service Announcement, clothing doesn't have infinite SPF.

A white cotton T-shirt has an SPF of only 5-10. And that gets cut roughly in 1/2 to 1/3 when wet.

Somehow, based on spending hours upon hours in the sun wearing a white cotton t-shirt, my arms are really tanned, but there's no tan where the shirt was.

Generally, I tan right up; I might burn a little at first, but nothing beyond very mild discomfort; then it turns to quite tanned skin. (Gotta love those Italian genes) However, my body's self-defenses seem to be breaking down over the years. While kayaking on Saturday, I rolled my shorts up a bit to smooth out the tan lines that I had... my upper thighs that hadn't seen sun in years ended up burned to a crisp. I'll have to be more careful this summer and get the rest of my body back used to the sun.

 

[nageov3t]

if I'm going to be outside for awhile, I do.

I don't really like the outdoors, though. lol. at least not during the summer time. too hot, too many bugs, and I've spent too much time as a city boy.

 

[Geomagick]

Great response. Yes its a cream here in the UK which screens the sun.

I think its really encouraging that so many use a high factor suncream.

As for wearing clothes, I have always found that they always block the sun, whether wet or dry.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: dullard
As a Public Service Announcement, clothing doesn't have infinite SPF.

A white cotton T-shirt has an SPF of only 5-10. And that gets cut roughly in 1/2 to 1/3 when wet.

Somehow, based on spending hours upon hours in the sun wearing a white cotton t-shirt, my arms are really tanned, but there's no tan where the shirt was.

368,000 links backing me up. Clothing has holes. UV light gets through holes. You can still burn/do damage under the T-shirt. You must have mistakenly compared the T-shirt protection to no protection or improperly applied sunscreen protection.