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[krickets]

I was link-hopping while at work today and came across a photo album at the New York Daily News called "Tanorexia" which was pointing out the "over-tanning" of celebrities. I'm flipping through pictures and some of the choices already seem a bit strange to me. I can't stand orange white people -- it's not natural. So when I'm sitting there saying "oh they're not too bad" [like I did when they showed a picture of Hilary Duff, for example], I'm already a little suspect.

But then I get to picture #67 which blasts Rihanna for being too tan. The caption reads: "Rihanna channels Madonna in a lace-and-pearl getup, but the Material Girl never sported the Oompa Loompa look!"

Yes, this Rihanna:


W....what?

Seriously? What the fuck is wrong with people?

Comments

I wrote this as I was clicking through the pictures...

[harlot2.livejournal.com]

1) She needs to learn more ways to describe a bad fake tan than "Oompa Loompa" "simply glowing" and "glow-in-the-dark." I've already lost respect for this journalist due to her lack of vocabulary.

2) While most of these are indeed fake tans, they're not all bad. Anyway, they're not all fake. Some of these look like they spent too much time at the beach. As a matter of fact, a few of these examples are SUNBURNS. Not bad tans. Strike two for the respect.

3) If Adam Lambert is tan, I'm an albino.

4) Apparently, according to this list, if you're not lily white, you have a bad tan. Besides the Rihanna example, there are at least two hispanics here.

5) This reporter needs to stop picking on the same celebrities over and over. We get it. Paris spray-tans. Big surprise. She doesn't look like Snooki, and also, I don't care.


I don't know, maybe there's a line at which I don't understand because I've never used spray-tan, but I'm with you. Most of these don't look that bad. And a lot of the ones that do look bad, it's the way they've always looked. The Jersey kids are badly tanned. The housewives of New York are badly tanned. Donnatella Versacci is VERY badly tanned, but that's her look. We're used to seeing them. What she should have done is make a top ten or twenty list, and rank the few celebrities who 1) actually have a really bad fake tan and 2) are not expected to have one.