Tanning??

im tanned but i tan the healthy way

out of the st tropez bottle:laugh:

I'm sure she was serious. There are some pretty neat chemicals in our personal care products. You can look yours up here: http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/browse/moisturizer/

I think pale is pretty, on me at least. My husband likes my freckles. I also think tans are just skin damage. However, I am outside a lot, and almost can't help but pick up a little color by the end of summer. I liken someone getting a "base tan" in a tanning bed so they don't burn later to someone lighting up some full flavors so that their lites don't make them cough at the bar later.

I think you got your analogy the wrong way round - it would be like someone smoking lights so that their full flavours don't make them cough later.

I guess it is horses for courses to a certain extent. Personally I know that I will hardly ever apply sun cream when I'm outside. By getting the base tan down I know I have potentially caused damage, but that base tan will prevent against further damage, of which I believe for me there would be more of given my love of getting out in the sun and my laziness surrounding sun cream.

Also tans look cool and I'm not going to live forever, I'd rather look good in the meantime.

No, my analogy was how I meant it: the base tan in a tanning bed is like the full flavors because you get a higher dose of UV from a tanning bed than from sunlight, which is lower UV, so sunlight is like the lite cigarettes. Certainly thats true at my latitude. People go in tanning beds for, what a few minutes at a time? But you can be outside all day in full sunshine and only pick up minimal color.

I will definitely go to the tanning bed for a quick fix. Like before I left for Florida. It was too chilly at home to lie out and get a base, so I tanned twice. I just burn way too easily to risk it. Once I get a tan, I can maintain by lying out on my back porch naked

I use XEN-TAN a sunless tanner that gives you an olive tone. LOVE it!

As a licensed esthetician, I am strongly opposed to tanning beds! Even if you take the skin cancer factor away, tanning will really age your skin and can cause hyperpigmentation (dark spots/freckles). You can't reverse the effect of damaging your collagen and elastin, once it's gone it's gone - and tanning even a little contributes to the damage. Products can temporarily help, but nothing is permanent.

I love being tan as much as the next girl, but if you're gonna tan, spray tan is the way to go. Please don't use the beds! Love your skin and treat it well!

All I heard was that sound when adults talked in Peanuts... lol

Y.O.L.O - You only live once. Enjoy it.

Cancer is fun!

As a licensed esthetician, I am strongly opposed to tanning beds! Even if you take the skin cancer factor away, tanning will really age your skin and can cause hyperpigmentation (dark spots/freckles). You can't reverse the effect of damaging your collagen and elastin, once it's gone it's gone - and tanning even a little contributes to the damage. Products can temporarily help, but nothing is permanent.

I love being tan as much as the next girl, but if you're gonna tan, spray tan is the way to go. Please don't use the beds! Love your skin and treat it well!

This!!
I work in a hair and beauty salon and we are heavily opposed to tanning beds. We offer spray tans but as much as the client's ask for tanning beds we will not be getting them!

My boyfriend is as pale as can be, and I wouldn't have him any other way! (Poor baby burns in about 10 minutes though :ohwell:

I'm sincerely trying to avoid tanning this summer, even though i went in moderation. I'm part Hispanic, so a few hours of sunshine gives me a great base, and I started using the Jergens Tanning Lotion and it surprisingly works!

ahaha im with sergeant i do it so i dont get sun burned also when ever it is hard to find time for the beach, i dont do it a lot and i dont put all that crap on me . i use a lotion and i put sunblock on my face/// my man dont really care he is mixed... blak and white

I tan and I'm proud of it, haters gonna hate.

I guess if you think someone being concerned you are setting yourself up for skin cancer, I'm-a hatin'. Be careful, skin cancer is very serious because it spreads to organs before you even know it.:flowerforyou:

I tan in the sun, not tanning beds. And my boyfriend is black so he is naturally "tan" : )

I love my ivory-ish skin. Other people seem to have a huge problem with the fact that I have no "color" and I get rather rude comments about how I must never go outside. I'm French-Canadian and English, for ****'s sake.

Ugh! My best friend describes people as "pasty white" all the time. It's obnoxious.

Meanwhile, she's been tanning since she was 14. She's younger than I am but looks much older, had to start wearing wrinkle cream in her mid-20s and caked on makeup to hide the damage she's done.

On top of all that, she had to move up her wedding by months because of a suspicious mole and she didn't have insurance.

No thanks. I'll take my smooth, pasty-white skin.

Aside from the vanity, I tan occaionally for the serotonin. Depression is the pits and the UV rays actually help. Especially in the winter when the sun is lacking.

Spray-tans only for me. Very pale Scottish skin = lobster pink, very fast. Sunblock on first thing in the morning and reapplied on all exposed skin before I go outside in the summer, in my moisturiser and foundation in the winter. That said I did turn a very faint shade of Rich Tea Biscuit after two months in Italy...

I was diagnosed with Melanoma at 25. It is one of the fastest growing cancer for women between 25-29. I never really got burnt growing up but it does make your chances of getting melanoma or basal cell greater. I come from a long line of fair skinned people, have reddish hair and freckles. They said this also made my chances of getting melanoma higher. Just be careful.

I start tanning a few months before summer, and right after summer (to hold tan through Halloween.) From May to August I'm usually next to a river or lake every single weekend so I get a pretty good tan that way.

The last couple of years I have been more conscious of putting spf on my face/neck and also covering my face with a towel in the tanning bed. I know non of it is really good for your skin, but I at least have been trying to protect my face/neck. Plus, I have slight eczema on my legs and arms, and tanning (sun or tanning bed) seem to REALLY help it go away.