<p>I would like to stop being yellow and turn a nice shade of Filipino-brown.</p>
<p>unfortunately I can spend an absurdly long time out in the sun. every day. and</p>
<p>NOTHING EVER HAPPENS.</p>
<p>Hmmmm…have you tried Google? Just a shot in the dark here but I am sure if there is information on it then you will have better luck there then here.</p>
<p>When I google, I get advice that is geared towards those who are white or those who burn…</p>
<p>Instead of slowly aging/killing yourself with deadly, deadly sunshine by laying out all the time, may I suggest fake tanning? I enjoy being obscenely pale, so I don’t do it, but all my friends swear by St. Tropez.</p>
<p>Fake tanning is worse than sunshine eek!</p>
<p>and I love the sun</p>
<p>Fake tanning is not restricted to tanning booths. You can buy oils and lotions, or you can get a spray tan.</p>
<p>Your options at this point is to get a faux tan (spray, lotions, etc.) or accept your condition as a sign that your skin is supposed to be the color that it is. Or you can keep frying in the sun and the only type of brown it’s going to give you is the kind that signals melanoma.</p>
<p>If you’re talking about tanning booths, then yes they are. </p>
<p>The fake tan I’m talking about, which I believe is a mousse, is not.</p>
<p>Why are you so desperate to change your skin color anyway? Why not stop stressing about it and just accept it? I used to stress over being tan before I realized that my skin color was the right one for me, and I didn’t look better with a different one.</p>
<p>I don’t fry. Nothing happens. </p>
<p>what do I do to increase the sensitivity of melanoreceptors?</p>
<p>You can’t tan. Accept it.</p>
<p>But this is impossible, considering my ancestors come from Fujian, Hainan, Guangzhou, and other South Chinese provinces, generally filled with very dark people.</p>
<p>And yet you can’t tan. Accept it.</p>
<p>“And yet you can’t tan. Accept it.”</p>
<p>Word.</p>
<p>This is every drunk sorority girls conversation. Learn it boys. You’ll get to hear it many different times, and you have to act like it’s important.</p>