La moda y las tendencias vienen y van with every season. No matter how ridiculous they can seem, if they are endorsed by the media and quasi celebrities and d-listers, they become the must-have chic tendency. Let it be skinny jeans, striped tops, hooker heels, silicon boobs, short spiky hair… whatever it is- truth of the matter is that if you see it in a magazine or on TV, sooner than later you’re gonna see it a la vuelta de la esquina. Come summertime diets are a must fashion, but there’s another thing that takes over people’s brains during the summer: tanning.
Burning up
Especially for us living in Southern California, tanning plays a major part during summer season. Whether we want to or not, by the end of summer, we find our skin to be darker, even if it’s just a “farmer’s tan”. And while we might be fortunate to go out and about and get some color in our skin, like good American’s we want more.
No matter what beach you go to, you’ll find both guys and chicks laying in the sand, oiled up and soaking up the sun. While a little color never hurts anyone and a nice summer glow is always greatly appreciated, some people just don’t know when to stop.
Shake’n’bake
Just like chocolate, cigarettes, booze, coke, heroin and [insert drug of choice here], tanning can be quite addictive. It can turn the nicest emo person into a tanorexic freak.
What exactly is a tanorexic freak? You’ll be able to spot them from miles away.
When someone is addicted to adding an unnatural amount of pigment to their body, the sun itself is not enough, they tend to live at tanning salons- jumping from spray tan to the old school tanning beds.
A tanorexic freak is known to sport a nice “healthy” orange color that may rub off if you stand too close or if the wind is blowing too hard. Usually, tanorexics tend to go for the stereotypical “surfer/ lifeguard look” which includes bleached hair.
Burn, baby burn
What people suffering from this “disease” don’t realize is that there are severe side effects to this lifestyle. Yes, if done properly you can don a perfect bronze tone, but more often than not the results of excessive tanning are quite atrocious.
Just take a look at some Hollywood celebutards like Lindsay Lohan and her mom tanorexic queen Dina Lohan, Paris Hilton, Christina Aguilera, that dude from the new season of Project Runway, and even Donald Trump.
In a celebrity obsessed society where civilians blindly follow their trends (por más ridículas que sean), it’s easy to spot on the street a couple of tanorexic freaks… heck, you might even know one.
Now that Stephenie Meyer began the vampire craze with her “Twilight” saga, pale is beautiful, so stop the tanorexic madness!!!
