Do tans seem to dark to anyone else?

"keekee53;c-17130651" wrote:
Eh I like it and I think it does depend on skintone. For example, if a sim has a darker undertone which in turn makes sense for some sims to get a deeper tan. I think it is pretty realistic.

Max Villareal and Elsa Bjergsen for example are not too different in their non tan tone but Max gets a way deeper darker tan than Elsa. I hope they don't change it unless they are going to enhance it with stages of tanning.

I like the tans too. My sim is fair skinned and she didn't get a dark tan. It looked like she barely got a tan, so I'm going to have her tan a couple of days in a row. I had her tan once and she was still a light skin color.

What's really jarring is the skin changing undertone after tanning. That's just not possible.

That was also the problem with the new batch of darker skins added last year. They all had a really red undertone, instead of the more common yellow. I'm not saying dark skin with cool undertone doesn't exist, it very much does, what I'm saying is someone at EA should have watched more make-up tutorials to get a better grasp of how skin works.

As for tanning, I'm 90% sure the game just assigns a darker skintone on the palette instead of a proper tan mechanic.
If you're lucky, you get a skin with same-ish undertone, and it will look okay. If you're not lucky, well have fun looking at this imposter pretending to be your sim for a while.

@LadyKyn's sim looks really nice with her tan, but mine looks more like @MDianaSanders's sim - her skin seems to have a slightly grubby look, especially the face. I think it might be because she had fair skin with a cool undertone before, whereas maybe the tans work best on sims with a warm undertone.

Yeah my sim got tan (I cancelled once it said its sun burning) and it totally changed his ethnicity! Not being problematic either but it looked unrealistic and didnt fit him, he has a mild skin tone leaning a little dark it didnt look good at all I never tanned again..really disappoint..

I play on ultra too, amd the tan looks so dark also. There has to be levels. If you sunbathe for a shorter time, the skin must be barely tanned, and if you stay for hours it must be deeper.

I think it might have something to do with how long you tan cause my sim tanned for just a sim hour or two and she looks fine but she does have a slightly dark skin originally so her tan just makes her look a bit darker. Might also have to do with the time of day as my sim tanned in the evening so maybe tanning at different times of the day affect it.

I think the sunburn is a little much. My poor sim looked dark red. It was painful just looking at her.

Does anyone know how long a suntan lasts? I don't want my sim looking super tanned forever lol

"sarahxcutie;c-17132490" wrote:
Does anyone know how long a suntan lasts? I don't want my sim looking super tanned forever lol

@sarahxcutie About 4 sim days, I think.

Hold on @everyone , so are there varying degrees of tan? Like a 2 hour tan vs a 4 hour tan? Cause I just waited for sim to get a middle of well tanned thought that was it. Is there just one tan overlay or many? @cmbaker16