Sia I’m allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched. – Sia
Shilpa Shetty The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go. – Shilpa Shetty
Scarlett Moffatt I wanted to try and get out of the stereotypical Geordie girl. I stopped wearing fake tan and wore WAG dresses. But I was really miserable. – Scarlett Moffatt
Sam Fender Poundshop Kardashians’ is Newcastle on a Saturday night. Nobody wears coats – it’s all muscles and V-necks and fake tan. – Sam Fender
Ryan Hansen Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it’s not even summer. – Ryan Hansen
Rose George Most modern Indians don’t stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India’s animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. – Rose George
Ralphie May When I was up for the film ‘Dreamcatcher,’ to play the role of an overweight kid, I was told I’m too fat to play the fat guy. That’s like telling a Mexican to get a tan. – Ralphie May
Rachel Bloom Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing ‘Annie Get Your Gun.’ – Rachel Bloom
Rachael Taylor Aesthetically, I don’t really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares. – Rachael Taylor
Phil Anselmo I’m glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I’ve been in a cave of music for months and months and months. – Phil Anselmo
