Are you there, sunburn?

Apr. 17, 2010

It’s me. Lauren.

On Friday morning, I was sitting outside for around two hours in a cardigan. No big deal, right? It’s still early-ish spring, and thinking about body sunscreen wasn’t really high on my priorities.

Um, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Those two hours in one position left me with the weirdest one-sided sunburn I’ve ever had. It… well, you can see what it looks like. It looks just strange, and I’m not very happy about it. For one thing, it’s angry, swollen, and looks gross.

For another thing, I am pretty much the palest person on the planet. It’s a type of blue-pink pale that can only be truly “appreciated” in person, but trust me… it’s a shocking form of pale. This whiter side of pale…

also means that when I get burned, I STAY burned. It takes months and months and months for the mark to go away. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Oh yeah. This is most likely still going to be visible on our wedding day, which is a mere 2 months away. Such luck have I. Hopefully, once it peels and heals, I’ll be able to exfoliate the you-know-what out of it so that I have an even chest color on the big day and not a weird one-sided cardigan mark.

Lesson Learned: WEAR SUNSCREEN, EVEN IF YOU’RE STILL IN CARDIGAN WEATHER.

Anybody else get a weird sunburn, or any sunburn for that matter, before their wedding? What did you do to make sure that it wouldn’t still show on the wedding day?

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megan marie @ no, not literallyApril 17, 2010 - 1:00 pm

I got a semi-mild, oddly-shaped-bathing-suit-back-sunburn (in Hawaii, sun was stronger than I knew!) in November ’07 and I had tan lines from it for almost 2 years. No joke. You can kinda see it in some wedding photos, but it isn’t noticeable unless you look for it. It is now totally gone. Being pale is weird.

Good luck with yours… Maybe some vitamin e oil would help??!

Becky BApril 17, 2010 - 1:04 pm

Wow! I know you said it was bad… but man does that look painful! If you burned bad enough maybe all the color will peal right off and it won’t be a one side tan. Otherwise, maybe you could artistically paint henna on yourself so it hides the burn and looks like it was meant to be that way… ;)

My fear of getting a weird farmers tan from everyday sun exposure to and from work over the next 5 months has me wanting to find some kind of everyday lotion with an SPF in it. I want protection but don’t want to smell like some pool rat. =)

A. MarigoldApril 17, 2010 - 1:18 pm

Ouch. :( I sorry.

BrittApril 17, 2010 - 3:27 pm

Owch!! I burnt badly in June/09 and still have horrible lines all over my back from it. My wedding is in September and I know the lines will still be there. What can do you. Find some aloe (preferably aloe with lidocaine!) to make it feel better!

KatieApril 18, 2010 - 6:27 pm

Ohhh my gosh…that is AWFUL! I know you were saying the other day that it was bad, but I didn’t realize it was this bad! I hope it fades quickly….

ReneeApril 20, 2010 - 2:24 pm

You just described exactly what happened to me two months before my wedding! And I’m also the palest person that ever paled. So yes, it lasted. And yeah, you can sort of see an odd squarish tan line in my wedding photos. I tried fake tanning lotion to even it out (don’t try this!). I tried exfoliating the tanned area daily and vigorously (after the burn healed of course – it helped a bit). In the end? meh. it wasn’t the end of the world, and it faded enough that no one noticed but me. GOOD LUCK!

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