On the other hand, what bullshit is it that my stupid human body can’t survive being outdoors without medicinal cream. My ancestors would be ashamed.
Your ancestors didn’t shave
I don’t either, but my nose isn’t hairy and it would burn to a crisp outdoors.
The worst is when is a cloudy Sumner day and you’re like there’s no sun mf, no need to sunscreen! But you still get burned the fuck out.
>be me
>white as everliving fuck
>put on 60 spf sun screen, as you should, and set a timer for an hour and a half to reapply, earlier than the recommended 2 hours
>alarm goes off, reapply
>STILL GET SUNBURNEDmfw
Get 100 spf, I’ve never even tanned on that shit.
The difference between SPF 60 and 100 is like 1.1% better UV blocking, anything over SPF 50 is in a practical sense nearly useless.
For instance SPF 30 blocks 97% of UVB rays, is it worth paying more and slathering more potentially harmful (to the environment) compounds on your skin for 98% blocking? I think I not.
This is my exact situation right now.
Not wearing sunscreen and getting a sunburn is a psyop to get men to buy more aloe vera.
Which, btw, might feel kind of nice, but you’ll still get skin cancer.
You got to give props to the people who convinced idiots that sunscreen causes cancer.
I hadn’t heard that one. Somehow I’m not surprised though.
Yeah… The number of times I’ve heard something along the lines of “the sunscreen is worse for you than the sunburn” is too many.
I would wear suncream more often, but:
- I’m allergic to something in most brands of suncream so if I run out I’m having to deal with rashes all over where I used it.
- I hate how it makes me feel slimy after using it
There’s this Loreal suncream spray I like that I can’t seem to find that feels like water and when it’s dry, it doesn’t feel like you have suncream on. It’s perfect for me! I’m not allergic to it either so I can actually go in the sun without turning red and blotchy!
Yeah, and it’s also def NOT cheap.
that feels like water and when it’s dry,
What does water feel like when it’s dry?
Key word being “and”.
New question for the “water isn’t wet” fools unlocked.
only one way to find out
I get a little pink from being outside for like ~20 minutes. That’s not really hubris lol.
i get burnt with multiple layers of sun lotion
Pour one out for the back of my calves. Every summer I forget.
Incredibly, my legs somehow never get burnt
Same until I got a bicycle
I put on sun screen every morning to ward off basal cell skin cancer. It sucks but it’s cheaper than going to the dermatologist to have basal cell skin cancer removed. The worst part is getting it in my eyes. On the plus side, the splotchy age spots on my temples have disappeared
Clearly you’ve never met someone like my wife.
mate it’s £5-10 for a 200ml bottle I’d hardly call that cheap
In the city of Utrecht NL they have free sunblock stations spread around the city. It shows the temp and UV rating. But buying it in store is crazy expensive and often the quality is poor. Some fancy tiny spray bottles go up to 12 euros, only good for 3 to 4 uses. wtf. Imagine being ginger, there’s a ginger tax called sunblock.
Then don’t buy the fancy spray bottles, but the big one that lasts for a year or three?
I’m not buying the fancy expensive shit. But the cheap stuff fills pores and creates pimples. Also, don’t use the one from last year, it has an expiration date. The protection goes down significantly.
Good point with the expiration date, but the one I have has >1 year, possibly longer since I cannot remember when I bought it
As a ginger- the petrol money to go shop in Germany at DM or Rossmann is cheaper than the ginger tax here.
I buy the store brand from the local supermarket. €2,99 for a 250 ml bottle of SPF 30 and it works great. I never get sunburn, even during multi hour bike rides in the blazing sun.
WTF are those prices. I’d start looking into importing from abroad …
Cost of living in the UK is up 25% since Brexit happened in 2021.
“We’ve become the first country in the history of the world to have placed economic sanctions upon itself” -James O’Brien
We’re a population of morons who will still blame anything but ourselves for the position we’re in.
The British are the Americans of Europe, so that makes sense.
Like father, like son.
Here in the Netherlands it’s expensive as well. Like a small bottle of name-brand sunscreen is €30.
My wife can spend all day in the sun and turn a nice shade of brown.
Not me. There is no “tan” for me. It’s either pasty white or lobster with no middle ground whatsoever.
I turn a lovely tan. It just happens after two weeks of bright red and screamy and a few days of pale and peeling.
If the cream wasn’t such a goddamn sensory nightmare…
UPF clothes FTWAnd then theres me who does not go outside that often, never uses suncream and doesnt get a sunburn when I decide to go outside for longer times.
