This question probably more for white people, but do ya easily get sun burned?

[Msputiton]

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Follow up.
Can y'all still burn even if you put sunblock on?

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Ok so. Fr, this really became far more educational than i expected.
So according to y'all.
If you are white but with Italian ancestors you tan easy and don't burn.
But if you are white but Irish heritage y'all burn easy and don't really tan.
I really didn't think that something like that made a difference.

[CALIGVLA]

In my case, yes.

I like going to the beach and I have some funny stories with sunburn tan lines. The worst sunburn I got was when I was playing "shirts vs skin" soccer with my friends at the beach... My luck I was on the "shirts" team and it saved my torso from melting down like my face, neck, arms and legs. 😆

But I have some horrifying stories as well, despite being young I recently got precancerous scaly spots on my face. I've treated it, but I'm from now on forbidden from taking sunlight without a powerful sunscreen.

[Alex8736]

Even without sunscreen or tanning lotion I just get dark which is from my italian background and just recently after beating cancer last fall I did a genetics study regarding family history of illnesses and when my DNA came back I found out I was also part African American

[Msputiton]

Funny thing is most people will find out they are a tiny bit of African.
Because at 1 point the land on the earth was only 1 piece.
People slow spread out on that one piece changes in the earth broke the land apart creating the world as we see it now. And depending where you lived you were stuck at that part of the world now, and slowly over time generations we all developed to look different based on the environment

[humanearth]

That's funny, that just makes people racist against themselves

[Msputiton]

@humanearth lmao 🤣 i saw a talk show that a kkk member took a dna test and had.01% African dna and he lost his mind saying it was fake🤣

[humanearth]

Now that's funny. I have a very racist uncle and he don't like the fact that black folks are in the family tree.

But he is okay with my sisters ex husband and he is not white. Go figure

[Msputiton]

@humanearth the racists who hate us really have a big misconception of us, so they have a lot of hate and fear of us.

[TrueConfection]

Yep. I burn or reflect the sun. I never know which it will be. Sometimes I burn worse with sunscreen. A natural tan for me just moves me from corpse color to pale. I had a melanoma scare once and I'm more careful now.

[melanieeeB]

Yeah kinda I do and I have a talent to not use suncreme.. so yeah that's that

[Msputiton]

Does it hurt?

[melanieeeB]

Yeah but mostly it's not a bad sunburn, cause it doesn't get so hot in germany and the pain is over in like 2 days.

Once we were in croatia, super hot and I forgot suncreme and I had a really bad sunburn and even burn blisters.. that shit hurt as hell and the pain stayed for good nearly two weeks. That wasn't fun

[melanieeeB]

Update: with protection creme on, I don't get burns but still get tained

[Msputiton]

So why don't all go out with it on?

[melanieeeB]

Here most people do, they even put the creme on for just daily shopping trips lol

I personally don't like the creme and only use it when I know I'm laying in the sun for more than 2 hrs

[melanieeeB]

Update: correct

[DizzyDesii]

Im not white but i get sunburnt very easily. Its part of why im like a vamp and prefer to only go out at night. The sun burns me very badly in a short amount of time, and this is just simply during car rides out in the day. I hate how painful it is

[DizzyDesii]

Im probably in the sun only once or twice a week. I try to dodge it all costs

[Msputiton]

Dang, that's rough

[DizzyDesii]

Yea i used to just tan nicely and that was it. But nah at least 2 years ago, it started to burn and peel

[OfMiceandMen]

I am sometimes outside all day long when I am doing surveys, so I wear clothes to cover me up as best as possible.

I have to apply a high level sunscreen to keep from burning too much and I still burn/tan-up, regardless.

Bc I take precautions, I don't get severely burnt. In addition, I have a tanned colored skin already from my native background which somewhat helps.

[Lliam]

I have mostly Irish heritage, so my skin is white. But I am fortunate to tan easily. I can get really dark.
If I haven't been in the sun for a while, I have to be careful because, yeah, I can burn. But the browner I get, the more I can handle the sun without burning.

For example, I used to be a surfer and could spend all day in the sun without burning. And I didn't use sun screen.

[Lliam]

Per your update. I'm Irish, with a bit of English and northwestern European. I don't have any Italian or Mediterranean ancestry.
I tan easily!
But it's generally true that people with browner skin tan more easily. Germans and Scandinavians, for instance, have a tougher time.

[Wish4UrB00ty]

I usually burn once at the beginning g of the year and then unless I forget the sunscreen on a big outing or something where I am outside all day usually I am good for the rest of the year and I just get darker.

[Wish4UrB00ty]

Lol! I mean it comes with the genes within those blood lines. For instance my dad and his two siblings are half Italian and look like Irishman. They burn so badly and have hazel eyes and red-ish blond hair. So it isn’t quite that easy of science but most people with those blond lines are often effected in the ways suggested.

[Msputiton]

Interesting

[Wish4UrB00ty]

I love it when you get in to these brilliant questions!!

[DJB72]

I rarely use sunblock. I'm fair skinned but I don't really burn. My dad had melanoma and used sunblock as well as never taking his shirt off.

At 50 I'm not bothered these days. It's not like I go to the beach a lot anyway. Dadbod plus amputee and I get some odd looks but I don't care.

[mstbooblover]

Yes, although I love being in the sun, I need most of the time to cover myself in order to avoid sunburns. By the way, a dermatologue told me that black pleople living mainly in less sunny countries, get sunburns as quickly as white people, although they probably would adapt themselves more easyly to the sun because of the melanine in their skin.

[mstbooblover]

PS: don't trust too much suncremes. Sure they help depending on their quality, but be careful not to stay too long in the sun.

[mandyfire98]

I actually tan really well. I just give credit to the Italian side of my genetics.

[Msputiton]

Lmao. My ex she was italian, and she said the samething🤣

[mandyfire98]

It's gotta be the Italian side because the other half is Irish and dutch hahaha. Damn sure ain't that side. The Italian won out I think genetically

[Msputiton]

Lmao. Irish don't tan well?

[mandyfire98]

I can't imagine they do. Fair skin and features.

[Msputiton]

Oh gotcha. That makes sense.

[Jaximus-Lion]

As a middle eastern white ! No. Our summers are over 50 Celsius degree (120 f) and i was put a lot... A LOOOOOOR

[Msputiton]

Yeah that is a situation where ya skin better adapt or you in trouble

[Jay3344]

If I don’t go east the first few days outside, yea. It’s an adaptation to a climate that has less uv light. Basically the first few days of intense sun I wear a lot of sunscreen and stay hydrated. After a week or two I’m much less worried about it and probably don’t get a burn. It’s more a tan

[Jay3344]

Easy not east

[Ms_Facesitter]

RIP to the lobsters.

It sucks, you can smear the strongest one on them, and a lot and they still end up red.

[Msputiton]

In hs i went to the beach wit a white friend. She was glowing red🤣
I had sunglasses on all day, and pulled them out and she saw the tan lines, and was like you guys can tan too.
But you should've seen her walking all tender🤣

[Ms_Facesitter]

We're so lucky. One poke and they flinch. And we get home with just a tan. I don't travel often or stay inside until the evening, I'm taking it for granted.

[Msputiton]

Lmao

[Jennz6]

Yes, I do get sunburned but usually my first time in the sun at the beginning of summer and then I am able to go out in the sun all day after I get a good tan

[Msputiton]

Does it hurt?

[Jennz6]

@msputiton it hurts really bad, but there’s a mild sunburn and a really bad sunburn too, depends on how long I stay in the sun on my first day at the beach

[Msputiton]

Not good

[welcomemen]

Black people can get sunburnt too. Sunburns are just easier to see on people with lighter skin.

[Msputiton]

Duh. That wasn't the question

But thanks for answering the question not asked🤣

[welcomemen]

Well to answer your question it depends how strong the sun is on the day and the UV ray lights at the location a person may be.

[exitseven]

After I start to get tanned I am good but the beginning of the summer I have to use plenty of sunscreen.

[Msputiton]

So ok. A friend told me, that if you use sunscreen a couple times it builds a base enough that you can stop using it and not get burned, is that true?

[exitseven]

The sunscreen keeps you from getting burned but you still get a tan and that is where the base is

[Msputiton]

Okie

[exitseven]

@msputiton yes, I m of Italian decent and I can get a good tan and then I won't burn.

[Msputiton]

Gotcha.

[abc3643]

I do... all my life. So, I generally avoid the sun. Really, I should have stayed in the often-cloudy upstate New York area. Instead, I moved to very hot and sunny Missouri where I have to stay inside for much of the summer (April-October).

[SnowedIn]

This is a really good question and, no, I do not.

[Msputiton]

Ask good questions

[SnowedIn]

Regarding your update: yes.

[sage2021]

White woman here.

I have to be in the 🌞 sun almost the entire day to get any sort of tan. Usually my nose and my shoulders get burned. Ouch! 🤬

[GreenEyes_2020]

Yup, lol I blister. I'm out in the sun for 10 minutes and I'm burneddddd.

[Msputiton]

Ouch sounds painful

[GreenEyes_2020]

It definitely is ! I wish I tanned , to have some protection. But I was told in more prone to skin cancer ! So I wear white long sleeves to protect my skin. Or cake on the sun screen.

[GreenEyes_2020]

I'm*

[UniquelyBasic]

Yes to the point where my skin sheds like a snake 😳

[Msputiton]

Oof.

[Moose304]

I'm out in the sun so much that getting burned is not something I worry about. Oh and for the record, people of color can get burned! ALL races need to take the proper precautions to avoid skin problems caused by the sun!

[humanearth]

Nope, I get darker and darker. I don't sunburn

[Msputiton]

Are you italian also? Almost everyone white on this post claims the reason they don't burn is because they are Italian

[humanearth]

I am not Italian, but I am part Sicilian, part American Indian, part black and a bunch of other junk

[humanearth]

But I have blue eyes

[Msputiton]

Gotcha. Isn't Sicilian italian?

[humanearth]

Go ahead and ask the question. Are Italians and Sicilians the same or different?

Better yet, make it a poll.

Let your voters tell you

[humanearth]

Oh yeah, I never used sunscreen my entire life. Did you know sunscreen lotions cause skin cancer, not the sun.

If the sun cause cancer, how did humans live over a million years.

Sunscreen is just a snake oil to make chemical companies rich

[Msputiton]

I might ask it.🤔
I didn't know that. Interesting