contest entry

[misstia]

i wish celebs would get some natural looking tans instead of that unnatural orange....seriously, who naturally turns ORANGE in the sun?? i mean, besides real oranges....

Comments

[real-bethy.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that the caption says "Brown is beautiful" but they used a Caucasian model?

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought, yeah...

[misstia]

they are referring to a brown tan....i know in the 80s i always wanted to get as brown as possible during the summer.....

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

So did my sister…and she's paying for it now!

[paintmeamovie.livejournal.com]

same here.
Although I guess they though it would be harder to notice the "tan"

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

No, because it's a tanning product. But it's ludicrously ironic for sure. It's like white people can join the ethnic revolution too! Very dumb.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Yanno, when I used to try (or allow myself), I would get a lovely nut-brown tan. I must have Mediterranean skin because I'm also super-pale in the winter.

What I love about ads like this is that it really shows us how much mores have changed.

Yes

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Whoops - I forgot to say "yes."

[misstia]

i have mediterranean olive skin, but i get pretty pale in the winter...i am greek on my father's side....i tan pretty easy....

mores have changed....now peoples wanna look ORANGE rather than a natural tan look!

[thethicket.livejournal.com]

I am a total sun worshiper myself, but I'll admit that I think she's gone a wee bit too far.

[foulmouthangel.livejournal.com]

I was wondering how she gets that shade. I've got some wicked awesome bikini tan lines, but if you look at me with them covered, I don't even look tan. I'm THAT pale naturally.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Me too. But my dad, who is Irish, used to tan just about that dark. On his back anyway.

[foulmouthangel.livejournal.com]

My husband is Irish and can achieve that dark of a shade too. I wish I could even get half that.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

It's weird, I have aunts and uncles who blister in the sun. Clearly Dad got any lurking Spanish genetics. Me, I just weather.

[foulmouthangel.livejournal.com]

They need to make a self-tanner that comes out looking real and that dark for us pasty people, instead of oompa loompa orange.

[fridgedicebunny.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish

:)

[fridgedicebunny.livejournal.com]

(The Armada!)

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

He's Irish-Irish. From Ireland.

[scribblingfemme.livejournal.com]

Sorry, all I can think of is skin cancer!

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

Don't forget premature aging. Some of my friends who tanned in the 70s now look like a side of leather. I'm glad I stayed pasty.

IRONY

[owl-eyes-4ever.livejournal.com]

Brown is Beautiful so Long as You're White.

[glass-houses.livejournal.com]

All I can think of are when older women lean over and you can see their sun-damaged, wrinkly cleavage.. ugh

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Or golfers, with their arms creased in diagonal lines—actually, I'm well on my way to that one.

[glass-houses.livejournal.com]

icon love

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

"Ohhh...that's very different. Never mind."

[glass-houses.livejournal.com]

"...bitch!"

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

No actual content, just had to jump on the Gilda bandwagon.

[glass-houses.livejournal.com]

The more the merrier!

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

*makes egg-salad sandwiches and Tang*

[tabaqui]

I wish celebs would get over their weirdo attraction to always being tan and avoid the sun like any normal, not-wanting-skin-cancer-and-leather-hide human.

Blech, sun.
*hides*

[meleth.livejournal.com]

"Brown is beautiful, unless you're born that way."

[thebazu.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see that model now, leather skin, cancer lesions, liver spots and all.

[xayeidemon.livejournal.com]

No words for how awful this is.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

I remember in Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau lampooned the idea of celebrity tanning with competitions like the "George Hamilton Cocoa Butter Open." (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,961211,00.html)

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

Seriously, how is George Hamilton not dead of melanoma?

[misstia]

i remember that!