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Well, it was until I had to pay the price. See, I’d applied sunblock everywhere except (for some totally stupid reason) on my legs. After a few hours in mid-day sun, my super pale skin got mega-torched.
My mom was the first one to notice. “Um, honey? Did you put on sunblock? I think you’re getting burned!,” she said. “God, Mom! I’m fine! Will you just LET ME ENJOY this afternoon?!,” was naturally my immediate reply. I mean, moms always bug you about stuff, right? It’s like they want you to have a problem they can solve!
Except I kind of wish I’d let her solve this one. A few hours later, my burn was so bad that it actually hurt to bend my knees even to walk. I spent the next two days laying around in air-conditioning (my legs were actually hot to the touch!) with globs of chilled aloe vera gel all over them. I’m sexy and I know it?
One week later, my best girlfriend came to visit, and we had this awesome pool party to go to on the rooftop of a fancy hotel in LA. She kept reassuring me that I looked fine, that my burn had “totally faded,” which I sort of believed, until the bad thing happened.
We were lounging on the roof near the pool, trying to look cool in our cheapie Forever 21 sunglasses, when this hot guy walked over to us. I was sure he was going to offer to buy us a drink or ask if he could join us or something, but instead, he came straight over to me and asked, “What happened to your legs?!” I could have died, but the fact was, my stems were redder than a stop sign. Of course he thought something terrible had happened to me!
I’ve been more vigilant than ever about sunblock since that day. And maybe, just maybe, I try to listen to my mom a little more.
What’s the worst sunburn you’ve ever had? Do you wear sunblock all the time? Tell me in the comments!
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One time I was in Canada, and I had applied sunscreen religiously to everywhere but the tops of my feet and a thin line around my bikini. Obviously, I get terribly burnt on those patches of skin, and, even with after-burn cream it didn’t fade for two months (yeah, it was fun having a red, bird shaped pattern on my chest for two months).
last week at school we had sports day, we went to this university sports field and we were outside all day and there was little shade. i forgot to put sunscreen on before i left and it was 30-80 degress. i got burned on my face, my neck and my arms. one funny thing about this though was that me and two of my friends had the same sunburn on our faces. i have been putting aloe vera gel on it so its getting better now
it didn’t hurt at all though.
Once upon a time I went to Key West and actually got so burt that my skin was purple. This later on turned into an infection and I had to sleep sitting up because no matter how I laid it felt like i was dying. It was later determined by my doctor that i had 2nd and 3rd degree burns on my back and now I have the scars to prove it.
The only funny result of this was when we went to a museum it had a heat sensor camera you could stand in front of and when I stood in front of it my silhouette was bright red and black. The lady explaining what the heat sensor camera was looked at me and said she had never seen anyone make black appear on the camera unless they were holding a lit lighter. Black is the hottest you can get on their camera and that is how hot my skin was.
A couple summers ago I was staying in a beach house with some of my family they had rented for a few days. For two days straight I was outside in the water or laying out nonstop all day for those couple of days. I was really enjoying myself. That is until the second night I wasn’t feeling very well. My skin hurt so bad everywhere. I was freezing but my skin was just radiating heat. Then next day I decided to stay with my grandma
who I lived with at the time. She lives maybe 45 minutes from the beach. She is like my second mom, I always go to her whenever I’m not feeling good. She globbed aloe vera lotion all over me hoping it would help and put vinegar in my bath water. By this time I had tiny water blisters all over my shoulders and my face… I don’t know what happened. My skin was so awful on my face. I had blisters all over that were yellow and puss-y (sorry for the spelling) looking. I looked like my face had started melting.. Seriously. After a few days the blisters on my face had hardened and I was finally able to start peeling the skin (which doesn’t sound like a good idea, I know). But the skin underneath was much healthier than the gross dried bits. It was like peeling after a sunburn.. I probably should have seen a doctor but I didn’t and I still to this day am not really sure why my skin reacted the way it did.. I live near the gulf of Mexico and I always go to the beach in the summer but never have I had such a bad reaction… It probably doesn’t help that I’m fair-skinned and have red hair. :/ but I have learned my lesson!!
That is not as bad as when I was 8 and my dad let me out on the slip and slide ALL DAY without any sunscreen on. First off, I am super SUPER pale. The underside of my arms its basiclly white. I can’t wear just 50+, I have to have waterproof baby 70+ sunscreen and it has to be reapplied often. My friend came over and we played outside all day in the water. When my mother got home she killed my father because of his forgetfulness of sun screen. I had blister on my shoulders about 3 inches round and 2 inches high.