Fake tan.

[Jonny69]

Come on girls, you must be able to see in the mirror you look ridiculously orange and patchy. Why do you do it to yourselves?

Even your make-up doesn't match it afterwards :D

Maybe now you should go and get your hair completely bleached out because it'll make it all better :p

[/amusement]

[Tak]

*pale and proud (most of the time)*

[Jonny69]

Some comedy posts running parallel on the one I posted on OcUK. A bit of immaturity never hurt anyone :D

[LeperousDust]

I think the thing is; its obvious when its done to excess. You wont notice the girls who just use a little. Its the same with any makeup really, if its too noticeable/a distraction then you're doing it all wrong, unless you're a drag queen or hooker... Either way most girls seem to love the confidence boost it gives them, Debs loves a little sesh with her orange bottle, but she also knows i'll take the piss massively if she comes out close to the colour of sunny delight...;

[Matblack]

I blame Jordan, and I don't mean the country although some of the same letters are the same and in the same order.

MB

[Will]

I suppose it's safer than sitting for hours in the sun. But I agree it does look ridiculous - but then I love the sun and like to cook in it. :D

[Kitten]

Come on girls, you must be able to see in the mirror you look ridiculously orange and patchy. Why do you do it to yourselves?

Even your make-up doesn't match it afterwards :D

Maybe now you should go and get your hair completely bleached out because it'll make it all better :p

[/amusement]

Obviously you're aiming this at amateurs. As Alex says, if it's done well, you won't even know.

[Desmo]

You guys ever seen Snog, Marry, Avoid on TV? It's great and there are plenty of tango queens on there ;D

[Jonny69]

And that one I'm Hotter Than My Daughter or whatever it is.

Don't be silly Kitten, you can always tell :D

[Kitten]

Nah, you just think you can. Proves my point really ;)

[Princess Griff]

I think you can always tell if people have faked it....however these moisturisers with tan in them are more subtle! Plus theres always that tell tale digestive biscuit smell....

[Kitten]

I don't see how you can always know if it's not something that you can measure with a control group. It's like me saying "I always recognise blue people" but only recognizing the ones I know and missing hundreds of others walking around because they don't look like I'd expect blue people to look. Doesn't make sense to me but there you go!

I'd bet if you looked at photos of people back from recent holidays they'd often look lke they've fake tanned, and people who haven't, will have a nice, natural even tan when they have faked it because they've done it properly. Bad fake tan is obvious. Good fake tan is what you will assume is a 'natural' tan.

My boss currently looks like he's San Tropezed, because he's got 'goggle marks' when in fact, he's back from Egypt with suntanned brown skin and sunglass marks and looks totally out of place, wheras another girl in my section has a beautiful, natural looking tan that came straight out of a bottle!