I once got sunburned here,
Its not very nice place to get sunburned.
I once got sunburned here,
Its not very nice place to get sunburned.
I can second this. Actually, sunburning the scalp is the *second *most painful experience. The first is forgetting that you’ve sunburnt your scalp and trying to brush your hair. Insta-tears, I don’t care how old and tough you are. Yes, it’s worse than childbirth (but luckily, doesn’t last as long.)
Nipples don’t really hurt as much as you’d think, although the same can’t be said for the top of the breast. It’s nicely placed sunny side up, as it were, and takes the brunt of the sun. The tops of the feet are likewise pretty bad.
Miss Purl, y’know that smiley face of pale skin **plnnr **talked about under the butt? You can get a similar white triangle in an angry red field from wearing a tight bodice and low cut shift all day. Fair warning.
The most interesting sunburn I had was with full body paint on at a clothing optional festival. Apparently, paint does provide some SPF, because the lines where it wasn’t burned bright red and blistered. The paint was put on all over and then someone used her fingers to make white lines and swirls all over me - the white being my skin under the paint. By the end of the day, I was blue and red instead of blue and white. Ow. Those marks lasted for over 6 months, although they did turn to tan (amazingly enough on my skin!). I had a dickens of a time explaining to my mother-in-law at Christmas why I had tan swirls on my décolletage.
Allow me to recommend the Tilley Hat. Not only does it offer UV protection, they come in sizes big enough even for my ginormous noggin.
Second the nomination. My wife and I have matching ones and they are terrific.
In high school, our band made yearly trips. Every four years was to Hawaii (from the SF area). When I went, a girl put tanning lotion on (SPF6 or so) to get a nice tan. Which she did. She just forgot about the soles of her feet, and couldn’t walk.
I’ve never liked the sun…I’m very pale, I don’t think I’ve ever actually had a tan in my life. Whenever I’m going to be spending some time in the sun, I slather myself with the SPF 800 bajillion, and usually, if I’m not wearing a hat, I remember the bit of scalp that shows in my part. Alas, last Wednesday I did not. Some friends were in town, and we spent the day looking at waterfalls in the area and doing some hiking. Ouch.
On top of it, I bonked my head on the cave we toured the day before, so hard I was seeing stars. So then I had a lumpy head, and that plus scalp sunburn equals fucking misery.
Third this. My wife keeps trying to steal mine, so she’s getting her own for Christmas. The single best hat made.
I’m sure the garment company will be thrilled to get the endorsement of our local nudist!
Just trust us on this one.
Suburnt lips (the facial ones, pervs!) are pretty bad.
Worst sunburn I got though was a few years ago at Huntington Beach. Me and my nephew - the two lone olive-skinned people in a group of the seriously melanin-impaired - pointed and laughed at everyone’s uber-whiteness and went out on the boogie boards sans sunblock. Everyone else stayed under the umbrella. I got exactly the third sunburn I’ve ever had in my life and it hurt pretty bad. I peeled for a month and then emerged about 72 different shades of brown (I peel to tan usually).
Ah, hubris. I’m very careful about using my sunscreen now.
Sunburn in unpleasant places
What… like the back of a Volkswagen?
A vote for the tops of the feet. Not that I doubt the agony of a burn on the bottom of the feet, just that the top burn seems more likely (well, at least for me) and - for me - it made the simple task of wearing shoes, well, memorable.
I can count on my husband frying his scalp at least once each summer. He hates wearing sunblock or sunscreen, and he WILL lose a hat or two each season, so I can pretty much count on spending a few evenings each summer peeling his scalp.
Sunburned moderately on my shoulders and back right now. I feel like I’m in a convection oven =/
I came in to mention sunburned lips. I did the Breast Cancer 3-day walk last year, and the one place I forgot about was the lips. I’ve never sunburned my lips.
Holy crap I looked like a fish that got in a barfight. My lower lip was swollen HUGE, and had blisters all along it. It was painful to talk, to eat, to drink, anything.
Thankfully, lips heal fast. It was only maybe 3 or 4 days of pain and cracking.
Sunblock your lips, people.
I went to a nude beach with a strange boyfriend many years ago and he sunburned his gentleman area. He was worried what his mother might thing. :eek:
Yes, this. When I was in high school I burned the tops of my feet so badly that I couldn’t wear shoes for several days. It was pretty inconvenient since I had a couple of softball games that week. Coach wasn’t impressed.
Not nearly so interesting as other spots posted here, but a few weekends ago I was doing a lot of gardening, bent over, in capris that rode down a bit. I thought the neighbor’s eyes were the only things suffering, but my turn came the next day when I realized I had a sunburned stripe of skin at the lower part of my back/top of my ass where my low-riding pants exposed it.
Two years ago I forgot to get sunscreen in the area between swimsuit strap and armpit. It was a very painful triangle-shaped burn that made wearing bras a total misery for a week or more. The skin there is still darker than the skin around it.
Oh, man. I’ve done that. I was snorkeling, and forgot to put sunblock on the backs of the knees. Since I’m not a “lay-around-in-the-sun” kinda guy (I’m looking for shade as soon as the temp hits 80F), they burned quickly and it hurt like heck.
I would really be much more concerned about how his mother was going to discover the state of his “gentleman area.”
Thank you both! I didn’t enjoy the sunburn, but I love that dress and had a great time wearing it.