Sunbed use... The new Smoking?

[arknor]

are sunbeds really becoming fashionable again when everyone knows the damage they do?

does it really only take 1-2 generations before people commit a slow suicide again?

The vanity of younger people these days is quite something to behold. A number of men are like women of my time (I'm 55), with creams and lotions, sunbed use and whiffy, expensive fragrances. It seems metrosexual is often the norm and I get quite staggered by the effort my partner's son, makes to "beautify" himself. If I didn't know better, I would think he was a bit girly.

It seems that fake looks are all the rage, what with those duck bills loads of younger girls have and poison injected into their faces. The only part of 28 years later I thought was good was the kid taking the micky out of the soldier's girlfriend's duck face look.

I remember my stepson playing silent hill, resident evil or something on xbox 360 and I heard a line from the game "are you wearing make up or something? probably around 2008-20012

and I burst out laughing, now they are all doing it.
it's all companies manipulating people into thinking they are ugly imo... it's crazy pressure now with social media, cameras thaty basically auto edit influencer faces making them more white, changes the shape of their jaws, chins, cheeks, etc, removes all lines from their face etc.

Some of the most attractive people I've ever known in my life thought they were ugly or average.


Everyone is catfishing these days it's crazy, how would you even know if you were actually like 8/10? when everyone faces huge pressures to be attractive and manipulated into thinking they don't look good enough?


you just look at articles in the daily mail etc from people getting arrested, their social media photos and police or court photos will look like entirely separate people.

if your a cop and your trying to ID someone in the real world based on their social media pictures it must be incredibly difficult

 

[413x]

are sunbeds really becoming fashionable again when everyone knows the damage they do?

does it really only take 1-2 generations before people commit a slow suicide again?

I think back when smoking kicked off there wasn't much (any?) knowledge about how bad it was.

Skin cancer? Info on that everywhere. There's no way you can plead ignorance on that when you get it later.

It is mind boggling to me.

 

[arknor]

I think back when smoking kicked off there wasn't much (any?) knowledge about how bad it was.

I noticed a new suntan shop had opened near me the other day, bizarrely it's down a side street and in an area where most he people living their are immigrants with naturally dark skin tones and people who probably don't tan anyway...

I suspect there is going to be a rampant rise in sun tan shops as a decline of American candy stores and Turkish barbers happen

 

[Hagar]

There are going to be some ugly ******* tattoos when everything heads south in the next fifty years.

 

[joey1211]

Combined average age of thread poster going up per post

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I think back when smoking kicked off there wasn't much (any?) knowledge about how bad it was.

Skin cancer? Info on that everywhere. There's no way you can plead ignorance on that when you get it later.

It is mind boggling to me.

Not back in the 70s, virtually nobody put sunscreen on.
When I lived in Nigeria from 1974 I tried my best to stay out of the sun and I've always done it.
My sister on the other hand was 4 and just went out playing all the time - she now suffers from skin cancers because of what happened in the 70s according to Clinicians.
My Mum always looked black because she was never out of it, by the time she was 50 all her skin looked awful and on her deathbed her skin was peeling off because of sunbathing.

 

[krooton]

The vanity of younger people these days is quite something to behold. A number of men are like women of my time (I'm 55), with creams and lotions, sunbed use and whiffy, expensive fragrances. It seems metrosexual is often the norm and I get quite staggered by the effort my partner's son, makes to "beautify" himself. If I didn't know better, I would think he was a bit girly.

It seems that fake looks are all the rage, what with those duck bills loads of younger girls have and poison injected into their faces. The only part of 28 years later I thought was good was the kid taking the micky out of the soldier's girlfriend's duck face look.

Nothing wrong with using moisturizer as a dude, I've been doing so since my early 30s, and people are generally surprised to find out I am mid 40s.

 

[ivrytwr3]

I don't get the sun worshipping thing at all. We recently went abroad and at the hotel pool all you could see was lots of Brits in various states of crispyness. White - pink - ER red - tan - brown etc. Doing absolutely FA but rotisserie themselves in the sun. There was more fat gammon on show than the local butchers. I just don't get it.

I knew a lass who hired a sunbed regularly. It really aged her as at 38 she looked more like 58, California raisin style.

Gen Z? Young girls have been over-using sun beds for decades.

An ex i was with for a years bought one for home use. Body double of Jo Guest with long blonde hair. At 18 - 22, she looked fit as ****.

That was 30yrs ago, she probably looks like Madge from Benidorm now.

 

[Rilot]

It seems to be a specific demographic that is using the sunbeds these days. Those of a somewhat lower socioeconomic standing. The same group that do duck lips in every picture, have eyelash extensions that are the size of bat wings, and have a tattoo of a small rose, or robin or something on their ankles.

 

[Freefaller]

My mother is suffering with stage 3 melanoma (well she's had surgery for it and is going through immunotherapy).

Although I'm very olive skinned and go very dark and have quite good natural protection, I now am very cautious in the sun. Today for example we didn't go to the beach until 330pm and we're all wearing factor 50 (the kids wear long sleeved and legged swimming costumes).

Probably being over cautious but we're all nicely sun kissed already despite that and being very cautious.

It's not worth it. It's like gen z's taking steroids at 18-19 even in their early 20s. It's just ridiculous for quickness rather than long term perspectives. They're very impatient it seems.

 

[adam cool dude]

WE don't even have to pay to get burnt here.

Drive a truck or get an outdoor labourers job and you get paid to get a tan!

 

[Uther]

Drive a truck or get an outdoor labourers job and you get paid to get a tan!

Well that's the thing, for a lot of history not having a tan was seen as the best way to look, it was only the lower/ outside working classes that had them.
I'm sure it will catch up with some of them, but then again I'm sure we have the great vape scandal to get through yet.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Well that's the thing, for a lot of history not having a tan was seen as the best way to look, it was only the lower/ outside working classes that had them.
I'm sure it will catch up with some of them, but then again I'm sure we have the great vape scandal to get through yet.

In South/East Asia there is an unspoken class divide on those who do outdoor labourer work and those who do not because of this. If you are educated then you typically sit inside at a desk so having a tan is seen as something undesirable. Even the cosmetic industry reflects that, all the make up and more in the shades of making you whiter, rather than add colour to the skin.

 

[adam cool dude]

Well that's the thing, for a lot of history not having a tan was seen as the best way to look, it was only the lower/ outside working classes that had them.
I'm sure it will catch up with some of them, but then again I'm sure we have the great vape scandal to get through yet.

Surely being outside is a massive thing considering everything on this planet has life because of the sun. Thousands of years of evolution didn't have humans sitting in an office all day so surely that is just as detrimental.

Being a leather face is obviously bad but being pasty faced isn't good either. After all Vitamin D is the most important one of them all.

 

[BUDFORCE]

I must admit I do go out in the sun quite a lot over the last 5-6 years or so, I don't use a sunbed though.

Mostly whilst "working" in my "garden office ", looking at the weather this week time permitting I'll probably be out for a couple hours a day.

I'm not as brown this year though, I dunno why stuff has got in the way I guess, also although it's been a dry and hot summer last 3-4 weeks not quite as much sunshine maybe.

I'm literally lying on my garden mat in the sun right now, waiting for my chicken to be done in the BBQ, probably another 10 minutes or so.

 

[Brazo]

Walking along the beach today (UK) and looking at people it was difficult to tell whether the effects of sun damage or obesity would get them first.

 

[Uther]

Surely being outside is a massive thing considering everything on this planet has life because of the sun. Thousands of years of evolution didn't have humans sitting in an office all day so surely that is just as detrimental.

Being a leather face is obviously bad but being pasty faced isn't good either. After all Vitamin D is the most important one of them all.

I'm outside a lot and often forget to put the spf 50 on and as a ginger it's not a good look...
Regardless, people showed they were better than other people by not having to work outside and staying pasty white. A lot of people now seem to see a tan as 'healthy' when really it's just skin damage.
Was it Hollywood that started it? Dunno.

 

[adam cool dude]

I'm outside a lot and often forget to put the spf 50 on and as a ginger it's not a good look...
Regardless, people showed they were better than other people by not having to work outside and staying pasty white. A lot of people now seem to see a tan as 'healthy' when really it's just skin damage.
Was it Hollywood that started it? Dunno.

Package holidays. Being tanned was seen as a show of wealth when you came back from holiday you had a tan in the middle of January. It was a big deal when I was a kid at school at least.

 

[Werewolf]

Package holidays. Being tanned was seen as a show of wealth when you came back from holiday you had a tan in the middle of January. It was a big deal when I was a kid at school at least.

And if you got burned it was slapsies.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Can we argue about SPF numbers now because that is the best* argument to have.

Unrelated, I am correct and my wife is wrong

* it is not.