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misstia ([personal profile] misstia) wrote in [community profile] vintageads2010-08-01 04:58 pm

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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....


[identity profile] real-bethy.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that the caption says "Brown is beautiful" but they used a Caucasian model?

[identity profile] woodburner.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That was my first thought, yeah...

[identity profile] franklanguage.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
So did my sister…and she's paying for it now!

[identity profile] paintmeamovie.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
same here.
Although I guess they though it would be harder to notice the "tan"

[identity profile] suzycat.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] weelisa.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] weelisa.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoops - I forgot to say "yes."

[identity profile] thethicket.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I am a total sun worshiper myself, but I'll admit that I think she's gone a wee bit too far.

[identity profile] foulmouthangel.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] suzycat.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too. But my dad, who is Irish, used to tan just about that dark. On his back anyway.

[identity profile] foulmouthangel.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
My husband is Irish and can achieve that dark of a shade too. I wish I could even get half that.

[identity profile] suzycat.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
It's weird, I have aunts and uncles who blister in the sun. Clearly Dad got any lurking Spanish genetics. Me, I just weather.

[identity profile] foulmouthangel.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
They need to make a self-tanner that comes out looking real and that dark for us pasty people, instead of oompa loompa orange.

[identity profile] fridgedicebunny.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish

:)

[identity profile] fridgedicebunny.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
(The Armada!)

[identity profile] suzycat.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
He's Irish-Irish. From Ireland.

[identity profile] scribblingfemme.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, all I can think of is skin cancer!
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[identity profile] tudorlady.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] owl-eyes-4ever.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Brown is Beautiful so Long as You're White.

[identity profile] glass-houses.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
All I can think of are when older women lean over and you can see their sun-damaged, wrinkly cleavage.. ugh

[identity profile] franklanguage.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Or golfers, with their arms creased in diagonal lines—actually, I'm well on my way to that one.

[identity profile] franklanguage.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ohhh...that's very different. Never mind."

[identity profile] chicklet-girl.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
No actual content, just had to jump on the Gilda bandwagon.

[identity profile] chicklet-girl.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
*makes egg-salad sandwiches and Tang*
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[personal profile] tabaqui 2010-08-01 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
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*

[identity profile] meleth.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Brown is beautiful, unless you're born that way."

[identity profile] thebazu.livejournal.com 2010-08-01 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd love to see that model now, leather skin, cancer lesions, liver spots and all.

[identity profile] xayeidemon.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
No words for how awful this is.

[identity profile] franklanguage.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
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)
Edited 2010-08-02 13:56 (UTC)

[identity profile] chicklet-girl.livejournal.com 2010-08-02 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously, how is George Hamilton not dead of melanoma?