I guess you can so over the years I would have a farmers tan. This year it is more fem. I've been wearing womans swim bottoms and yesterday wore a womans tank top and laid out by the pool. This is the first time above my knees have gotten a tan. It sure is easier without the hair on the legs anymore. The top got a nice tan down between the breasts. I just wish the straps were thinner but they were only a half of an inch.
I used to like a nice girley tan, but then spent so much time hiding it in boy mode, then I learned being of a very pale nature that the sun is really bad of me, skin cancer is common in my family, so I stopped trying to get a tan in the summer, and the best way I have found to do that is just move where the sun seldom shines strong enough to get a tan. Now I can wear what ever I want what ever time of year it is, and I don't have to worry about tan lines showing or any of that stuff, of course the one down side is a lack of sun on very pale skin has left me with a little bit of fish belly blueish white skin tone on my legs, but a nice pair of suntan panty hose fixes that up just fine.
Tina B
Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.
I only really come alive when the sun shines, when it is warm and the sky is blue with white cotton wool clouds. Real Tanning for me is of the thong variety, kept alive with the sun bed - about once a month - during the winter. Then the legs brown and the line moves up as knickers (cycling, below the knee), get discarded. Then the line moves up the thigh as the shorts get shorter. Summer cycling ones exist with a five inch inseam, that tends to move up my leg. Lycra, courtesy de Marchi.
~Samm
Last edited by Sam-antha; 07-28-2011 at 09:31 AM.
I try to avoid be out in the sun for too long a period of time in male mode but when I do yardwork or ride my motorcycle I wear a sleeveless shirt or tank top. By the way, Walmart makes some solid colored tank tops for women that are suitable for us to wear outside in male mode. Also if you examine Clogs closely, there are some styles that have a solid part covering the toes, if you have your toenails polished and don't want to show them off. When male my socks are alway short and my shorts are generally running shorts because I definitely don't want a tan line on my legs when I wear a mini. Additionally, during those long periods I never wear my Timex. I do sun in my two piece and therefore I am never outside with my shirt off. The only thing I have to worry about is the tan line around my neck where I tie the top of bikini.
I like having a bit of a tan. I'm really pale and have thin skin, so tanning helps me a lot.
"I am the beginning and the end. I bring order into chaos. "
"I never tell the truth, because I do not believe such a thing exists. Truth, is in the eye of the beholder."
"Since my customary farewell would appear oddly self serving, I shall simply say, good luck."
"We give no crap, and we take very little."
I wear a small swim suit when I tan so there are no lines to be seen when en femme.
I don't wear women's clothes, I wear MY clothes !
Aaah! So that's why a CDer might not want to wear a watch. I never thought of that.Originally Posted by Annie D
Reine
Reine is so right on this one....beach babes become dried up leatherbacks over time if they skipped the protection..Skin cancer isn't pretty.
It SURE is my hair ! I have the receipt and the box it came in !
The trouble is, Rogina, that when we're young we think we are invincible.
The sun made my face become blotchy (rosacea), and to tell you the truth, this is why I began to wear sunblock. And now I do look younger than most women my age.
Reine
I've been tanning in remote areas of parks in a string bikini bottom. I started with the top too but really didn't like the look and it took the apartment pool off my list of things to do, which is not good. It took me 3 weeks to get rid of the white boobs. But, I LOVE the bikini tan on my butt now.
I'm not entirely sure what constitutes a 'Farmer's tan', but the lower part of my arms are brown whilst my upper arms, shoulders and torso (the bits covered by a t-shirt) are quite a bit paler. I guess this is a Farmer's tan. It looks terrible with sleeveless tops. I've only noticed this about myself in the last couple of months, because before my daytime public appearances I never cared too much how I looked. I started going out in the daytime in public in January, but of course only recently has there been enough sun to cause problematic tan lines. Trying to find nice tops with sleeves in the British summer is proving very difficult - I obviously need to take on board Reine's sun-block tip and be more careful in future. I thought about wearing sleeveless tops in guy mode but my arms aren't very muscular and aren't likely to become so in the near future; I would look faintly ridiculous.
I personally don't like getting sun, besides, I like the pale look, im so white I don't tan at all lol. I get bright red and turn white.
I had a skin cancer removed this year so, belatedly, I'm a devotee of sunblock. Even when I don't plan on anything more that a trip to the store I wear a moisturizer with an SPF rating of 15. Now I wish I would have started this many years ago.
Joanie,
I use a foundation that adjusts in the bottle - you can just flip the dial around and it gets darker or lighter as you need it. It's Custom Creations by Revlon, and it has spf 15 in it. It's certainly made adjusting to my inevitable little bit of a tan much easier!
Also, I have to admit that the most common tan for GGs my age is from a spray. It's definitely not good to end up with lizardy cancer skin.
Thank you for The Information Babs. I'll have to give The Revlon a try. I'm not trying to tan anymore, but I live in Florida. Even with Sunblock, even being careful, just going to and from The Car, working out in The Yard, or just attending A Party, it's almost impossible to avoid some skin tanning in The Florida Sun.
I went back to my Daughter's Graduation in April in St. Louis a few years back. That's when I realized how much Sun we actually absorb down here. All of The Missourian's are Dead Fish-Belly White in April. They thought Nicole's Father was a Mexican! I was actually surprised and almost didn't recognize myself in The Pictures, "Whose is that Dark Cuban Guy?"
So I guess we are already somewhat "ruddy," just about all year round....it just gets worse in The Summertime.
Peace and Love, Joanie
Last edited by sterling12; 07-25-2011 at 09:01 PM.
Your responses have helped me figure out how to even my tan! My head, neck and hands were getting more tanned than the rest of me. So, I laid out in the sun in our yard which is pretty private, without clothes on, but a towel over my head and neck and gloves on my hands. I shifted the edge of the towel and gloves around, and in about 20 minutes per side, I'd evened out my tan pretty well. Here's a picture that shows the results - my face neck and chest are tanned pretty even now!
I don't get much sun anymore these days, got enough to last several lifetimes when I lived/worked in Fla for 12 years and ran around in a pair of cut off jean shorts...( oh I guess that would be Daisy Dukes) and flip flops.
When I was getting overexposure to the sun, there was no internet and not much of any other info telling you to wear sunblock.
Just slather on the oil, and bake. ( I used to hang out with the hawaiian tropic girls when I worked in Daytona as a lifeguard, I bet they have similar probs)
My skin is not really leathery as a result, but the skin tone is uneven from melanin.
I really don't tan evenly anymore.
Sort of like large uneven freckles.
I will probably be lucky if I don't end up with a melanoma somewhere.
I would like to be able to have sexy tan lines, and have no current SO to object, but I still like to run around without a shirt and that might not go over well with
my narrow minded neighbors.
Maybe one of those spray on tans would satisfy that desire (for a minute).
Use sunblock!!
I'm not exactly sure if sun tan would work for us since our bodies convert the sun light into vitamin D which increases testosterone levels, and how many
are interested in elevated T levels, probably not too many if any at all.
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