Very White Skin - What do I do?

Hi, I'm 18 years old and next week I'm going to Spain with a group of mates
for two weeks. The trouble is I'm white, and I mean *very* white.
Practically translucent skin, easily visible blue veins running up and down my
legs. Yuk, not a pretty sight! I've never been interested before in aquiring
a tan, hell it must have been five years since I even wore a pair of shorts.
Now I can hardly sit on the Spanish beaches in high summer wearing a pair
of trousers, so I am inevitiably going to have to expose my legs to the sun.
Now I am wondering what on earth I should do here. Can skin that has been
so unused to the sun ever tan properly after only two weeks?
Or perhaps I should slaver my legs with factor 50 suncream for the whole
2 weeks. I don't particulary want to become deeply bronzed, though a bit
of colour would be nice, at least so you couldn't see the veins

Serious Moonlight wrote:

> Hi, I'm 18 years old and next week I'm going to Spain with a group of mates
> for two weeks. The trouble is I'm white, and I mean *very* white.
> Practically translucent skin, easily visible blue veins running up and down my
> legs. Yuk, not a pretty sight! I've never been interested before in aquiring
> a tan, hell it must have been five years since I even wore a pair of shorts.
> Now I can hardly sit on the Spanish beaches in high summer wearing a pair
> of trousers, so I am inevitiably going to have to expose my legs to the sun.
> Now I am wondering what on earth I should do here. Can skin that has been
> so unused to the sun ever tan properly after only two weeks?
> Or perhaps I should slaver my legs with factor 50 suncream for the whole
> 2 weeks. I don't particulary want to become deeply bronzed, though a bit
> of colour would be nice, at least so you couldn't see the veins

how about going to a salon in the St Tropez tan booth. I heard it gives a nice bit
of colour and it's about 30 quid but looks good.