Anyone who’s ever suffered a sunburn knows how painful one is. More often than not, most people tend to forget to put on any decent sunscreen when going out in the sun. Worse, there are people who use little or no sunscreen at all, then fall asleep in their lawn chairs with the direct UVA and UVB rays of the sun bearing down on their skin. A few hours later, they’ll be in a world of itching, soreness, and of course, a lot of pain, that they’ll wish they went to a tanning salon and did some sunless tanning instead.

But when it comes to sunburns, the people whose pictures appear below apparently have had it worse. Collected from all over the Internet, these pictures are pretty good illustrations of what could happen to any one of us if we stay too long in the sun, don’t use the right sunscreen or use any sunscreen at all.

Some pics may seem gross for some, so beware.

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