Funny tan line

[songlady]

I purchased a new wonderfully lightweight Bell Alchera helmet this year. Of course, one of the reasons this helmet is so light is that it is very well vented. By mid July, I noticed I was starting to sport some very "Sci Fi"-like tan marks on my forehead starting at my hairline and running towards my eyebrows, despite wearing sunscreen. My family started taking to calling me "Alien" in their ever so sweet way
Eventually I was forced to buy a headband to protect that area. The marks are only now starting to disappear.

[margo49]

I wear an elastic elbow brace on my right arm.
So I have a line on that arm about 7 cm down from the pointy bit.

[DebW]

Back when cycling gloves all came with crocheted backs, you could get speckled tans on the backs of both hands.

[margo49]

Yeah, I had a pair for years and years that I bought in France

[7rider]

I have a funny stripe across my wrist from my new PI gloves. White hands, tanned forearms (and I always ride with at least SPF15, usually SPF30).
Since this year I've been wearing my new Keens and the Tevas have been relegated to the closet, this is the first summer I haven't had the distinctive "Teva Tan" on my feet! No straps across the top or by the toes and no triangle at the base of the little toes. Oh, what you give up (or gain?) for fashion!

[alpinerabbit]

Yep Teva tan on feet, down to the little triangle.

Also, you can start to see the helmet straps and I have two types of shorts in two different lengths so I have 3 degrees of tanning on my thighs.

[Geonz]

I've got the decapitated look with that strange whiteness just below the jawlines.
I've always wondered if I get the chain tattoo soon enough, that it might block the sun and I'll get a pale spot there...

[mary9761]

Back when cycling gloves all came with crocheted backs, you could get speckled tans on the backs of both hands.

My nearly 3 yo grandson Tomas calls them "Grandma's Polkadots!" "From you bicycle Grandma"
I'm tan from the knuckles to fingertips as well. From jerseys with evidently a couple different lengths of sleeves I have a rainbow tan line on the upper arm. I have the "decapitated" look as well as the strap tan AND the thigh to ankle tan that looks funny as all get out in sandals LOL