Beauty
FROM THE SLIMY TO THE SECURE AND FROM THE THRIFTY TO THE SEXY SMEARER
The 7 types of sunscreen application on the beach
Two weeks ago I was on the beach in Valencia and I looked around at all the characters lying next to me baking. I found it really interesting because one was getting it done quite quickly, the other was a panicky smearer who then walked around the beach with white streaks and I also noticed some types who probably had never heard of the word smearing. I actually just made a study of it and this is the result.
The-I-don't-have-time-for-this-smearer
The temptations are great on the beach. Characters walking around with coconuts that you immediately want to sip from, a sea that shines and sparkles and where you feel an incredible urge to lay out your air mattress and then of course there's that cocktail bar that beckons. You just really don't have time to smear. And so you just splash some sunscreen here and there, sit down on your bed, the sand sticks everywhere within a minute and you get annoyed by everything on the beach that you were longing for just five minutes earlier.
The-I-just-have-a-lot-of-time-smearer
Exactly the opposite of the smearer before. This smearer has a standard factor fifty in the bag, prefers to set the alarm every two hours and is smearing as if her life depends on it. And honestly: that is of course true.
The-I-only-smear-where-the-sun-shines-smearer
The sun always shines. Everywhere. But if you're only wearing a tank top, you only smear your arms and with a strapless dress, you only do that on the top of your body. Okay, and maybe a drop on the nose. And then in the evening you change and see that you forgot to smear the rest of your body. Oops.
The-I-have-already-smeared-smearer
That was me. Back then, when I wasn't aware of all that radiation from the sun and what it could do to your skin. And because I just totally didn't feel like it, but also because I didn't want to drag liter bottles with me. So I smeared myself from head to toe in the morning. And if someone then asked if I needed to smear again, that person got the answer: ’Already done.‘ Yes, that was of course just the absolute truth.
The-I-think-I-get-tanner-faster-with-oil-smearer
Hopsa, first day at the beach, nice bottle of oil in hand and baking away. Hoping that you then of course get incredibly tanned in a few hours. And the disappointment of rolling off the beach in the evening red-faced. And not learning anything from that and trying again the next day. Oh yes, and of course shouting that oil is good for the skin (I have to admit, that is of course true) and that there is a factor thirty in it which gives you good protection (and you can probably smell my opinion on that now).
The-over-the-top-smearer
Now that is nothing more than normal in Australia and also quite necessary, but in other places I have to chuckle a bit. Types walking around with sunblock on their noses, not spreading the sunscreen neatly and just totally covered under a white mask hopping around the beach.
The-too-late-smearer
This is the smearer who starts smearing when they almost already have skin peeling off their ankles. So burned. Only then does a light bulb go off where the smearer thinks to make up for everything that went wrong in that time before. Well, believe me: too late is too late. You can't make that right anymore. In this case, I point you to type two from which you can learn something.
