Smokin' Lil

I totally love tanning, and consider myself a really serious tanner, but for me it's natural sunshine or nothing. I spend an hour or more every day on my tanning deck. I feel a need to tan totally nude, which for me means not only no clothes at all on my skin, but no oils or lotions either, and definitely no sunscreens. It has to be the sun for me, though, I just haven't any interest at all in ever getting into a tanning bed. In fact the idea totally turns be off. Sometimes they offer me a free tan when I go in for a pedicure, but I don't want to know about it. I really don't mind being white for the winter, either. In fact I sort of like it, 'cause half the high I get from tanning is seeing myself changing color again every year. Is it just me, or are there any other serious tanners out there who feel so strongly that there's just nothing like the Sun?

My daughter and I both love to show off our tans in pretty much the same summer outfits, bikini tops and short shorts most of the time, 'cause it just isn't comfortable to wear much more than that where we are. We usually pretty much match except for our feet. I've always loved wearing ultra bare high heeled sandals, and she's pretty much always just barefoot. I know how much she loves going barefoot, and she knows I'm fine with it. I'd never try to talk her into wearing shoes. I just want her to admit that my high heels are going to get a lot more positive notice than her bare feet, and that she needs to stop making fun of them and calling them "stripper shoes". I also think it's more attractive for a girl to have nice soft soles like mine when her shoes come off, than never wear any shoes and have soles that feel as tough as leather when you touch them. So what do you guys prefer? I'm betting her the cost of a pedicure for both of us that I win this vote, but I still think the pedicure will be half wasted on her.