What color of T shirt maximizes the appearance of tanned skin?
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A nice white shirt - not just an undershirt, but a nice shirt.  But then I got to thinking about, (I used to work at a tanning salon), and I started getting mental images of all the guys who came tanning and different colors that would work... If you've got a nice tan it won't matter what color you're wearing... it will be noticable.  But the colors I imagined were nice bold colors... nothing pastel or real dark.  Just nice, vibrant colors.
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u can take mine...I am about as white as people get..I'd like to get a good tan! But the sun and I arent the best of friends....lol...i get burnt badly in the summer....
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dark brown, remember the armpits picture from the 80's!
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Wear a t-shirt with really fit abs printed on the front
196046
White would look great on you. You're so lucky.
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black..goes with everything..give me the ten points ! ...cause im the sexiest lol i wish
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color of skin\ngender
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All guys c_ocks are a bit darker shade than the rest or their skin.  That way when we go suntanning, we don't have to burn our peepee, it's already tanned.
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The evolution of the different skin colors is thought to have occurred as follows: the haired ancestor of humans, like modern great apes, had light skin under their hair. Once the hair was lost, they evolved dark skin, needed to prevent low folate levels since they lived in sun-rich Africa. (The skin cancer connection is probably of secondary importance, since skin cancer usually kills only after the reproductive age and therefore doesn't exert much evolutionary pressure.) When humans migrated to sun-poorer regions in the north, low vitamin D3 levels became a problem and light skin color evolved.\n\nDark-skinned people who live in sun-poor regions often lack vitamin D3, one reason for the fortification of milk with vitamin D in some countries.\n\nThe Inuit are a special case: even though they live in an extremely sun-poor environment, they have retained their relatively dark skin. This can be explained by the fact that their traditional animal-based diet provides plenty of vitamin D.\n\nAlbinism is a condition characterized by the absence of melanin, resulting in white skin and hair; it is caused by a genetic mutation.\n\nResearch on skin color variability:\nThe color of human skin varies from dark brown to pale pink. In attempting to discover the mechanisms that have generated such a wide variation in human skin color, Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin (2000) discovered that there is a high correlation between the coloration of the human skin of indigenous peoples and the average annual ultraviolet (UV) radiation available for skin exposure where the indigenous peoples live. Accordingly, Jablonski and Chaplin plotted the whiteness (W) of skin coloration of indigenous peoples who have stayed in the same geographical area for the last 500 years versus the annual UV available for skin exposure (AUV) for over 200 indigenous persons and found that whiteness W of skin coloration is related to to the annual UV available for skin exposure AUV according to\n\n    W = 70 - [(AUV)/(10)]\n\n(Jablonski and Chaplin (2000), p. 67, formula coefficients have been rounded to one-figure accuracy) where the whiteness W of skin coloration is measured as the percentage of light reflected from the upper inner arm at which location on humans there should be minimal tanning of human skin due to personal exposure to the sun; a lighter skinned human would reflect more light and would have a higher W number. Judging from the above linear fit to the empirical data, the theoretical maximum whitest human skin would reflect only 70 per cent of incident light for a hypothetical indigenous human-like population that lived where there was zero annual UV available for skin exposure (AUV = 0 in the above formula). Jablonski and Chaplin evaluated average annual UV available for skin exposure AUV from satellite measurements that took into consideration the measured daily variation in the thickness of the ozone layer that blocked UV hitting the earth, measured daily variation in opacity of cloud cover, and daily change in angle at which the sunlight containing UV radiation strikes the earth and passes through different thicknesses of earth's atmosphere at different latitudes for each of the different human indigenous peoples' home areas from 1979 to 1992.\n\nJablonski and Chaplin proposed an explanation for the observed variation of untanned human skin with annual UV exposure. By Jablonski and Chaplin's explanation, there are two competing forces affecting human skin color:\n\n   1. the melanin that produces the darker tones of human skin serves as a light filter to protect against too much UV light getting under the human skin where too much UV causes sunburn and disrupts the synthesis of precursors necessary to make human DNA; versus\n   2. humans need at least a minimum threshold of UV light to get deep under human skin to produce vitamin D, which is essential for building and maintaining the bones of the human skeleton.\n\nJablonski and Chaplin
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I already see you have 23 answers so they will probably pick my answer. I pick black because most of my clothes are black. Makes me look thinner I hope. Of course, when I color with my grandkids, I love the color blue, and red, and especially yellow so the picture is bright or a red orange.
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The color of the skin is depends on the amount of the melnins. if one have more then his color will be black and if it's less then color will be white.
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Dark skinned (tanned) are MUCH hotter.
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I think it depends on your natural skin tone. If you ever watch Desperate Housewives, Brie (marcia cross) has alabaster skin. It's practically white! She's a natural redhead and that whole tone suits her. She wouldn't look good tan. Now me, for instance, I have a lot of natural olive tones in my skin, but I'm still a white guy. However, the olive tones allow me to tan really easily and as a result I look a lot healthier and radiant with a tan. I think the general consensus is that if you have light features, a fair complexion suits you better. Now judging by your avatar, I'd say you have dark dark hair and pale skin. If your look is kinda pale, maybe you want to add a little color with some blush, but if you're really pale?? Then I'd suggest staying really white, because chances are you have a northern european background, which means STAY away from the sun. In my opinion, stay pale if your're super pale already, chances are your skin quality is fantastic, and try to tan if you can tan easily, like me.\n\nHope this helps! Vote me for best answer, I'm trying to get my level up! ;-)
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actually it should be. bronzing rays (UVA) go deeper into your skin to hold color longer and better. they also take away the red tint that you might posess when you are tanning. and they are usually not as hot temperature wise!
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Black/ grey. All black I think is a bit too much and expected, I just wear really dark blue / brown / grey. And be covered up (NOT revealing clothing)
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Black because it makes me look thinner when I wear that color. It's makes one also mysterious, daring and sexy to look at.
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Wear the right protection for your skin type, any good pharmacy should have a guide. Take it slowly and try not to spend too much time in the sun during the hottest part of the day. The slower you build your tan the longer it will last. There are lotions out there as well as pills that can boost your melonin lovels resulting in a quicker, darker tan. If you are going for an extremely dark tan beyond your natural plateau then you will need specialist lotions available from tanning shops that contain melonin boosting chemicals such as trf2000. California tan are a good company for these lotions.