Tanning in the sun makes me so dark!!!?

Question

when I tan..my tan is not golden..its quite a dark brown (conker colour)Im naturally quite pale. Whyy????

Answer 1

Luckyyyyyy.

Who knows, but you get tan so don't worry about it.

Answer 2

sunbeds are different to natural sun, sounds like u go on sunbeds more than natural sun, both knacker your skin, the skin pigment melatonin reacts with uv and changes colour to protect you, suns got uv and infra-red, infra-red causes skin to reddin, and that combination of uv and ir gives more golden tan, than sunbeds,i'm fair and sunbeds used to make me more of a purplely conkor colour around the inside of elbow,  look on net about skin pigents, sun etc.

thats my answer, im not a doc or ought, batter the sun and it will come back on you, i burnt my face in sun years ago and each year i get the burn marks of dark pigments back and it looks c**p.

  

Answer 3

Use sunscreen. I tan darkly, too, but it looks considerably lighter if I've been wearing sunscreen. Wear at least SPF30.

Answer 4

That's just the way your skin works, I guess. If it bothers you, get a golden spray-on tan instead...