from where I live there is a tanning salon, a shop where you can get a suntan. Whilst walking past said shop this morning out stepped a completely orange woman. I tried not to look but my eyes were drawn to her like a magnet. She noticed, I smiled sheepishly, she returned my smile which was friendly given I was so blatantly staring. I really wanted to mention that the particular hue she had chosen was one not normally found in nature but that would have been insulting so I said nothing. Then I thought, well, she must think she looks fantastic which is fair enough, though personally I would avoid any machine that might turn me into such an odd shade of orange, or indeed any shade of orange.
Oh yeah, the shop was called Tanfastic, now how vomit inducing is that?
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Is it fluorescent week on your blog or something?
Must have been the alter ego of the famous superhero(ine) "Lobster Girl"!
As you are surely aware Portugal is usually a Sunny country. We have a nice weather during most of the year. I could go as far as to say any normal human being can get a sun tan here, a real sun tan, by sun bathing.
However we also have those solaria where people who can afford it can become orange instead of tan-colored.
Now, some years ago if you were to tell me this story, back when there was not a solarium in sight here, I would simply pitty that poor woman and think "oh well, living in the UK, without much sunshine, no wonder they have to come up with that artificial tan".
But today, and when some people spend lots of money to become orange HERE, I am just as puzzled as you are.
Annie,
Hmm, I never thought of the link between the last two blogs but spookily you are right, flourescent pigs and flourescent people, very very strange indeed.
ros h, Lobster Girl! Maybe, but I suspect her colouring was tan orange, either that or a particularly serious mix of high blood pressure and too much carotine.
D, apparently too much of those sun beds age the skin, so it appears a swings and roundabout thing, what you gain in dayglo you lose in skin flexibility. Ah, fashion make strange things of us all.
I don't understand us wimmen. Dark ones want pale skin so they bleach. White ones want to be dark so they turn orange.
Soon you'll see wimmen turning green with envy.
can i ask: do men find tanned women attractive? i'm always reading in magazines that they do, although they may be just trying to support the fake-tanning industry. i do wonder whether men really can find obviously-fake orange tans attractive...
i also agree with Guyana-Gyal's comment entirely. lots of women seem to think they'll only be attractive if they turn another colour. strange things some of us ladyfolk do...
hel fire,
I think the fashion industry has a lot to answer for when it comes to what women look like. In the 19th Century and before World War II a tan meant you were working class and worked outdoors, the rich a powerful avoided tans because the thought it made them look common. It was only with the post war holiday boom abroad that tans came to signify not poverty but a wealth of sorts, ie that you could afford a holiday. Tanning became fashionable, tanning therefore is a fashion. With the thinning ozone layer I can foresee a time when a tan will once again be something that's frowned upon.
However, to answer your question do men find tanned women attractive? It depends on the woman. Do men find untanned women attractive, it depends on the woman. Well that's my answer for what it's worth.
hel fire darling, went to look at your blog and was given a selection of four. Considered leaving a post on you Christmas Eve one (which was top of the list) then found two others before a pink one adorned with a photo of your student digs. Hmmm. So mate, which one's the one for writing on?
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