Superficial Question :-)

Was that the one where his teeth glowed too or was that a different one? 

LOL!!!  Different one!  Poor Ross!

I'm with you Carolyn b!!!! I embrace my pale color, unless on vacation, then I am a sunworshipper (but I still rarely get tan or too burned). I just don't see how it's so important. Fake tanners take too much time and are too messy and expensive. I will just go a la natural! Then again, I don't really wear much make up if any, ever, so that might be part of it.

Believe me...I hear y'all to a large degree.  It's rare I do it much during the winter months unless I have a wedding to be in or going on a vacation to the beach or something.  I started going to the booth when I took up belly dancing and then started performing.  The pale skin just doesn't translate well with middle eastern dancing in regards to performing and how it looks in costume...and our teacher/troupe leader (who was half Turkish) pretty much ordered us pale girls to get some "spray help"  

Plus, I don't get the "super" amount, just the regular, which, honestly, doesn't make me tan as much as just gives me a bit of a "glow" to take the edge off the pale.  "Tan" for me really just means "Off White".  

Much more understandable if you're taking up such a hobby Plus, at least you're going the healthy spray tan route rather than risking skin cancer.

My brit bf admitted to sun tanning a bit. I laughed my butt off at him! He has RED hair - what is the point?  He said he felt so pale and wanted some color. I was like, you're English - you're supposed to be pale!

Much more understandable if you're taking up such a hobby Plus, at least you're going the healthy spray tan route rather than risking skin cancer.

My brit bf admitted to sun tanning a bit. I laughed my butt off at him! He has RED hair - what is the point?  He said he felt so pale and wanted some color. I was like, you're English - you're supposed to be pale!

Hahaha.  Yeah, unfortunately, even with a sprayed on tan, I still look quite pale next to my Brit boyfriend.  He's half Chilean (half Finnish, but grew up in the UK - go figure!) so he's got that Latin look (which I, frankly, drool over - especially combined with his Brit accent which he will spontaneously change to speaking Spanish mid-sentence if he can't find the right word in English.  Hubba, hubba.  ) which makes me all the more pale by comparison.  But the contrast of fair blonde and dark/dark hair eyes makes us an interesting looking couple due to said contrast, I suppose.    Plus with my very SOUTHERN accent - it's just an ecclectic "We Are the World" joining of forces all around. 

We have a sunbed in our attic room. I used to use it all the time when I first moved here because I was used to having some sort of color to my skin but now Im pretty much the color of milk and dont mind.
My neice had the San Tropez spray thing done and she looked like a tall, skinny, tangerine! 

I've never tried tanning -- other than laying on the beach in the sun! But here's some pricing from my local spa's brochure for the spray-on St Tropez tanning:

Full Body Tan (30 mins)  £20
Full Body Tan and Top-Up (30 mins)  £35
Legs only (20 mins)  £15
Face, Chest & Arms (30 mins)  £15


Wouldn't you look pretty odd with JUST your legs tanned?? Go figure.

(The other thing I notice over here a lot -- I'm sure it's in America too but never noticed it as much...UGLY overprocessed weirdly coloured dye jobs in hair.  I've never seen so many obviously bottle blondes plus purple, orange, blue, etc etc)

What are you trying to say?  Frosting is for cupcakes??

and there is a DIFFERENCE between highlights and fry lights..  Maybe they sat under the red lamp in the fry bin  at McD's!!

No, the teeth glowing was a different one where he left some teeth whitening bleach on himself too long.

  What are you trying to say?  Frosting is for cupcakes??
and there is a DIFFERENCE between highlights and fry lights..  Maybe they sat under the red lamp in the fry bin  at McD's!!

Hee hee...yes, I just don't think fried purple or unnatural red colour hair is attractive -- but it's probably just me.  Ages ago...like between ages 15-25 or so, I overprocessed my hair with perms -- think poodle hair...then I finally had a hairdresser who helped me to 'see the light' -- that is, to work with my hair as it naturally is (straight) and get it back to a shiny, healthy state.  Fortunately & so far -- I am blessed with light natural blonde (with naturally occurring highlights) hair so the idea of going purple or any other interesting rainbow colour simply doesn't do anything for me.  Now if I ever start getting mousey -- that may call for more drastic measures.

Oh & I will admit to using a 'bottle tan' on my wedding day -- hee hee...I had a whole team of people in disposable gloves slathering my upper back, arms & decolletage with some kind of Boots No7 self-tanner.  The problem was that I had a strapless dress and at the time of the wedding -- I had this nifty little 'farmer's tan' going on...my face, my neck and my arms from about the elbows down.  The line between pale pale white and where my tan line began was very pronounced & looked pretty strange as I was wearing my wedding dress.  I wouldn't have minded being all pale -- but looking half & half was just too weird for my wedding day.

see people Ross' escapades in the pursuit of beauty were all in vain that was the point. 

tanning blargh they are everywhere ...quite a few in the high roads now between totteridge and north finchley...and most people come on fabulously toxic orange.

Sometimes I feel like the "mole" scene in Austin powers  I can't have a conversation I keep blerting out "orange" , "skin" , "Hamilton" if I talk to a glowgirl at the clinic