The Worst Sunburn You've Ever Had?- Page 2

[ahmelie]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 11:09pm

I'm the least pale in my family (german) but I'm always the one who applies the most sunscreen.

I love my pale skin (and red lips don't look good with a tan, and I will not give up red lipstick), and since I've grown to love my pale skin I haven't had a sun burn. My worst was when my entire back was beet red. And I once burned my eyelids falling asleep in the sun, hurt like a mother.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 11:19pm

The worst was when I was about 10 or 11 and we were at the beach. I am Casper white, so my mom was obsessive with applying sunblock on me. Well, on this particular day, my grandmother took my sister and me out to the ocean while my mother was asleep, and she must not have put sunblock on me or not enough and my sunburn was so bad, I had to be taken to the emergency room. I had second degree burns all down my body. I even sunburned through the shirt I was wearing. I had to stay in the hotel room the entire time and I cried and cried and cried because it hurt so bad.


Oh, and Elphaba . . . PENIS!!!

[misschung]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 11:22pm

Let's see, I got sun poisoning driving to Florida in my parents Volvo with no a/c and crank windows in about 1988.

As for sunburn, I was in Jamaica in April and decided to go snorkeling from about 10 am to 3 pm without any sunscreen. I felt fine until I came out of the water and flipped my hair onto my back after floating in the water all day. Then the chills began. I had to shampoo my hair in front of my face for the rest of the vacation. It was so bad that it took about a week to even blister, it was so deep.

Owch. Still, I'd take it any day over hypothermia

[CostumeMistress]

Posted: 6/19/07 at 11:24pm

PENIS!

SM2, there are clothing-optional campgrounds (yes, even in the "prude" Midwest). I went tent camping with two of my friends and frolicked around buck-ass nekked, which was a great deal of fun - but I didn't use nearly enough sunscreen - a mistake I'll NEVER make again, because there are just some bits you don't want to burn.

(Like your PENIS! Even though I don't have one, I wanted an excuse to say it again.)

[Becky2]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 12:00am

I used to go to Ozzfest every summer, and always had to be up front for all of the second and third stage acts. And for an Irish-Italian person to be in the hot summer sun from 8:00 AM until sunset is never a good thing. Had I been smart I would have taken breaks and sat in the shade periodically, but I didn't want to loose my prime spot. I would never have been able to get it back once I left. But anyway, one year it was articularly bad and my skin ended up peeling three times. There was only one outfit I could wear since just the feel of clothing on my skin was agonizing.

[Chrissy*J]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 12:17am

The worst sunburn I ever had was in August of 2005. I went to the beach with a huge group of friends, and didn't have any sunblock on. I usually get a really nice dark tan, but my skin decided to be dumb this one day only. I was outside for about 9 hours, in the water and laying out. I got beet red, and two days later, I woke up with 2nd degree burns on my face and shoulders. I literally had to quit my summer job because I refused to go out in public until my face healed. I had blisters all over my face, and it was really itchy. It took almost a month for me to heal up with no scars.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 12:52am

I usually burn then tan. One time I was in Cape Cod and had gotten so much sunburn that it hurt to move in bed. Everytime my sunburned skin would rub against sheets, it would sting. It would sting to get out of bed.

Another time I was in my pool and for 3 days in a row tanned for about 1.5 hrs each day. I had sunburn over sunburn. I remember walking up the stairs one time and had to stop. I couldn't move anymore because I had really sharp pains in my legs from the sunburn.

[Marlene]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 1:03am

Memorial Day Weekend Soccer Tournament a few years ago. I totally burned because I neglected to use enough sunscreen and to reapply, and after I recovered from the burns...I got a farmer's tan to boot!

Ever since then if I'm out all day, I use sunblock like nobody's business. But I really need to even out my tan...since my face and my arms are a different color then like every other part of my body.