Personally, I'd rather have blue skin. Google Image search "argyria," an awesome (as far as dermatological disorders go) skin condition resulting from excess silver consumption. Since colloidal silver is worthless medically, the snake oil companies that sell it should really start marketing towards cosplayers and WoW players, instead. (Full disclosure: my main is a human female warlock!)
P.S. Checking The Beauty Brains Forum at a bar speaks poorly of my coolness, but even worse of the quality of conversation around me.
JamiSings -- I KNOW! The caption above one of them was "Her skin looks like the top of the gravy before you stir it" or something.....and they're right! Ewwwwww.
I don't know which is more depressing, the women with the real tans and skin that looks like the top of gravy before you stir it or the older men with the fake tans who've botoxed their faces to the point that they look like orange aliens. Both are frightening in their own way.
That's another thing. I mean, with people like Armani and Valentino I can see - celebs can't help whom they're forced to pose with from time to time. But the normal people with the orange ones. Ug! I'd personally be like the princess in the comic someone drew. Pushing them off of towers. Or at least telling them, "I'm not going anywhere with you until you take a shower, you orange putz!"
hahaha for everyone's amusement, here's my current "control tan"
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-sjc1/hs483.snc3/26436_100963406608180_100000835635605_23686_7540635_n.jpg
when I self tan to the utmost:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs255.snc1/10221_267921430583_672070583_8958975_3210799_n.jpg
when I was 16 with my real skin color:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?op=1&view=global&subj=672070583&pid=3873348&id=504588910
When I was at my most acutely tanning bed addicted:
http://www.nexopia.com/users/%2AElena%2A/gallery/1-yeah-bebez/1