Does anyone else tan in beds?
PascosGirl wrote: Who all goes to the tanning bed? I do and I bought the most AWESOME lotion today. It is an after tan lotion to be applied after you shower. It is made by Swedish Beauty. I love it. It smells so good and honestly puts me ina good mood. lol I am weird, I know. 
moped replied: Yes i love tanning
Boys r us replied: I used to until a couple of years ago, I'm pretty lucky though once I get tan, I stay that way for a long time, so I can tan two or three times in the winter months and have a nice color and stay that way until it's spring/summer and I get to lay out at the beach, then I get REALLY tan so eaily!! I don't like to tan in the winter too much because my friends and I always make fun of the "orange" girls and do the whole "excessive Tanner alert" lol
gr33n3y3z replied: Nope I just use the sun
Josie83 replied: No way, sooooo bad for your skin! xx
PascosGirl replied:
I never, ever tan my face. I think it is fine just the way it is. Besides, I over moisturize my skin so it won't be leathery when I get older.
mammag replied: I tan. My sister is an over tanner though. She is a year older than me but looks much older because her skin is so dry and wrinkling. I still get comments on my skin.  I only tan my face periodically and use moisturizer also.
I tan because I am soooo pale that I look sick. Then I have blonde hair so I look like a big white blob. 
Josie83 replied:
I don't think its just bad for your face. I was always told it gives you wrinkles makes you age faster and can be very harmful to your health. but hey, if people want to do it, that's there lookout!! xx
Mommy2BAK replied: yes, I do. 
Alice replied: No. I LOVE the sun!! But I'm blonde with blue eyes and freckles... I don't tan. I get burnt, peel then start over. So I hit the beach (or used to before kids) from 10-noon, and then run home before the leprosy hits!!!
PascosGirl replied:
Well technically, it is bad for your health because it makes you more prone to skin cancer. However, just about everything these days will make you sick, so why not? lol 
3xsthefun replied: I'm thinking about it my hubby wants buy me some sessions.
Kaitlin'smom replied: I used to, never alot just enough to get a bit of color, it always made me feel better
GavinsMommy replied: I like airbrush tanning the best....it's SAFE and if you buy your own it's just about the same price as tanning...
MyBlueEyedBabies replied: I used to, to get some base color, then would spend the rest of the season just outside to keep up the color. However I am pasty white and always have been. I was just deluding myself into thinking I had color 
mammag replied: I used to use the sunless tanners (started way back when I was like 12). I liked the way it looked on me because it is similar to my tanned skin color. What I hated was the smell and then one year I went to the Irish Festival and it was soooo hot. Well, as i was sweating the color was seeping out of my skin and onto my white tank top. I had taked 2 showers since applying it! It was pretty embarassing!
PascosGirl replied:
ha ha!! Beds should have helped. They probably didn't give you the right lotion.
My2Beauties replied: I do I do! I know it's bad but I'm so freaking pale if I didn't get a base tan I would burn half to death the instant I got out in the sun the first time in the summer! plus I am about to get married so that is my excuse and I am sticking to it 
A&A'smommy replied: I wish I could go to the tanning bed!!! But I don't want to go a lot the other day I saw a girl that had tanned too much she look SOOO dark and ODD I can't explain it but you all know what i'm talking about 
jcc64 replied:
Hate to be a buzzkill, but why tempt fate unnecessarily? You all know I just watched my dad die of cancer a few months ago, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. A month after he passed, a friend (age 26) passed away from malignant melanoma (skin cancer), leaving her 2 young kids as orphans (she was a single mom).
At what price vanity, kwim? Pale skin may not look as attractive as tan skin, but skin cancer's not too attractive either. When you're young, you have the luxury of indulging the fantasy that you're impervious to catastrophe. No one is- and I hope you don't learn that the hard way. Sorry to sound like the grim reaper! 
PascosGirl replied:
Well if y ou keep an eye on your body, mainly moles or any discoloring, you should be able to head off any melanoma.
BTW - I am a nurse and I currently doing my thesis in grad school on Cancer and how I believe that people are born with cancer cells that become active at a certain time in their lives. If that wasn't the case, then how do you explain people that worked in the sun their entire lives but never got skin cancer. Just a thought.
jcc64 replied: I can't explain why some people with a lot of sun exposure never get skin cancer, just as some people can smoke their entire lives and not develop lung cancer. Sometimes life is unexplainably random and unfair. But my point is, while you can't stop a rainstorm, you can use an umbrella, kwim? And while I have no formal background in science as you do, I became educated quite quickly on the fly during my dad's extensive illness. (my little brother is a physician at a major teaching hospital in NYC). Any new cell growth is an opportunity for a cancer to grow. In anyone. The belief that susceptibility to cancer is solely a genetic predestiny seems like an incomplete theory, imo, and completely flies in the face of all the current recommendations on how and why to live a healthy lifestyle. I would be interested in hearing more about your thesis though, maybe you could post a link when you're done.
Don't mean to start a debate, really. Just trying to share some personal stories that may or may not ignite a spark and help shed light in some way. To each his own, and I hope and pray you enjoy your health well into old age.
PascosGirl replied:
My thesis will be published and I am currently working with several high profile oncologists that agree there is a reason some people get cancer and some don't. There is so much to explain it would be impossible for me to do it here.
However, let me say that there have been thousands of cases of people who have melanoma that never had contact with the sun.
My point was, there is really no way for science to determine what is and is not going to cause cancer. Every person's genetic make up is different.
I am not going to feel as if I am too vain because I desire a tan. There are many things that can cause an untimely or early death. Cars are dangerous. In fact, car accidents are the number one cause of death for many age groups, yet people still use them. Point being, when it is your time to die, it is your time to die and no medicine on earth can prevent that.
I am sorry that your father was stricken with such a horrible disease and I can understand your reasoning completely. If I was in your shoes, I would most likely feel the exact same way.
JAYMESMOM replied: I worked in dermatology for years and skin cancer can happen to anyone but
exposure to the sun and lights in tanning beds increase your risk for skin cancer.
Yes, some people are more prone but unfortunately you never know if you
are one of them. You may be lucky and not get skin cancer but you may be unlucky also.
Also many people who have skin cancer don't even know. Skin cancer can happen below the skin and work itself upward. It can also work its way into your body causing cancer to other parts of your body. My father-in-law had a huge squamous cell carcinoma on his ear and lost the part of it when they did surgery to remove it. He now wears a hat and sunscreen whenever he is outside.
Also the chance of getting more skin cancers after you have had one is very high. They can grow back in the same place, mutate into different forms, or show up in new areas.
Trust me I have tanned before but now choose to get the airbrush tan when I need to get a beautiful color to my skin.
I would rather be white than take the chance I will get skin cancer.
PascosGirl replied: Well I know that some cancer develops inside. There is no way to tell.
Everyone has a choice of what to do with their bodies. Thanks for the advice though. I appreciate it.
maraelise replied: on the plus side of tanning:
there was a study that came out about a year ago demonstrating that a statistically significant number people who tanned (in the beds) actually increased there positive mood for about two to five hours afterwards. so that's something.
i don't tan in the beds-- i just run outside and swim outside and i'm that skin type that's just asking for cancer (freckles everywhere and pale). so i figure if i'm going to get cancer it should be b/c it's inevitable, and not b/c i'm pushing the envelope.
there are those chronic tanners' and they just start to have this dodgy looking color overall...
(i used to live in a city in germany that had the highest concentration of tanning-salons per capita and there were a lot of really funny looking people on the streets there-- evenly brown all year round )
My2Beauties replied: I don't tan much - I'm not a tanning bed junkie at all, but I do like to go get a base tan before I go on vacation or right before summer starts so I don't get the he** burned out of me, I burn so bad, sunscreen or not! I am going right now because of my wedding too! I do know there are risks involved but I think if someone doesn't over do it then they should be ok. I also always and I mean always wear a ton of sunscreen outside through the summer. You still tan with it on and it stops me from being burnt and getting those harmful UV rays!
kit_kats_mom replied: I was a punk rocker in my younger days & I shunned the sun. I love the creamy paleness of my skin & if I dont wear sunscreen, it takes forever for the tan to wear off...drives me nuts. I also despise tan lines. Of course, living in FL, my left arm is always somewhat tan from driving
I see my "tanning" friends who I went to high school with now & they have way more wrinkles than I do.
5littleladies replied: My hubby loves, and I mean loves, my fair skin. I don't tan (indoors or out) for many of the reasons listed but the fact that dh adores me the way I am is an added plus!  I am very fair and I burn easily-I have had 2 very serious sunburns *ouch*-so I lather up with sunscreen all summer. I don't mind my fair skin at all.
I have a friend whose mom used a tanning bed and after just a year or two she had very leathery, starting to wrinkle skin. That was a definite turn-off for me. 
PascosGirl replied:
Tanning in the sun depletes moisture from your skin. If you moisturize often and properly, you can make it to where your skin is not leathery.
bwalkerletters replied: I don't tan......my feet would hang out of the tanning bed! I have been told I'd fit in a stand up one though.........who knows..... haha
PascosGirl replied:
You would fit in a hex.
bwalkerletters replied: how tall are they??
PascosGirl replied:
About 9 feet.
bwalkerletters replied: Yeah, I should check into that. I go to Golds Gym and they have a nice tanning area, so I should check into it. How much do you pay a month??
PascosGirl replied:
I pay about $60 a month but other places are much less. I go to a spa which tends to be a little more.
bwalkerletters replied: 60 dollars?? I don't think I'll be going in any in a spa! I'm a season ticket holder to the Titans, and I'll just save that money for the 7 dollar beers that we have here.
PascosGirl replied:
You are silly. I said you can get it cheaper elsewhere. lol Go to a tanning salon. It is about $25 a month there. Besides, your gym should let you add on tanning for about $15 a month.
CCTandME replied: I love a tan and I tan well, but now at 30 and w/ 3 kids I get very little time to lounge in the sun. No time for salons. I did that before kids, though. Also, my mom's Irish skin NEVER tanned so at 58 her skin looks pretty good. I see people out at the store who talk about their age and I am shocked. My mothers age or a few years younger and they look 10-20yrs OLDER. Smoking can also have that affect.
Isn't it also that burn is more likely to be the cause of skin cancer? I'm not really sure. I thought people w/ more pigmentation in their skin are less likely to get skin cancer. Is that right?
mammag replied: My place you can tan everyday for $11.99 a month. Not that I do.... I go maybe twice a week. Course, I'm really missing it right now because I haven't been able to get over there for 9 days.... I'm starting to get pale already. 
bwalkerletters replied: That's a good deal......I could handle paying 12 dollars a month for a tan.
GavinsMommy replied:
Use the sun...it's FREE! LOL. 
bwalkerletters replied: It's too hot outside sometimes! Haha........
JessC replied:
Me too! ^ That way you arent frying your skin... its just lotion.
I have never gone to a tanning bed because my grandma died of skin cancer.
I will NEVER go tanning I sit in the sun in the summer... but I can't even stand that for like 20 mins. It gets too hot and the though runs through my head that I am making myself AGE!  
So NO tanning for me unless fake... lots of sunscreen used in my household!
mysweetpeasWil&Wes replied: I used to tan a ton while I was in college. It's quite addictive. But now I haven't tanned for years. I wear sunscreen everyday because my skin looks terrible from years of bad tanning. Perhaps the tanning salons are different today, but I'm not willing to take the risk. I live in Colorado and laugh at the girls at the gym who are orange. Not that us folks in Colorado don't get "real" sun, but I grew up in California and was always at the beach and getting the glow. I made the mistake and have a ton of freckles and dark pigment that makes me look older than I am. I do wish I could have the "look" of a little tan, so maybe I'll try one of those misting tans sometime. But I also have eczema, so I have to watch what I put on my skin at all times. My sister-in-law is a model (I'm talking super model, big campaigns, runway in Europe, covers of Italian Vogue, etc) and she is pasty white and beautiful. Her skin is almost transluscent and it's what gets her the jobs. I'm very jealous!!!
Don't let anyone tell you to stop doing something you enjoy. It's just not for me anymore, but believe me, it crosses my mind at times. Self tanners just aren't the same thing.
Mylilprincesses replied: I do. I actually prefer going in the high pressure tanning beds. They block out the more harmful rays and use UVB rays (I believe) to activate the natural melanin in your skin. That way, you get a more natural looking tan- more brown, less red. You only have to do it about 2-3 times a month tops and it has immediate results and most importantly, you don't burn at all.
I go about twice a month and maintain a very tan/brown skin tone. I love it. Definitely worth looking into, all you tanners. It's fairly a new thing but they're popping up everywhere.
My2Beauties replied:
This is what I use to tan! I love them, I was able to stay for 10 minutes the first time I went in (i was pale as a ghost) and I didn't burn - never have not once but I'm darker than I've ever been!
Mylilprincesses replied:
Me too! Not a burn EVER and you get a really rich tan! I love it too!!
paradisemommy replied: when i was in HS and after i graduated, i found it was one of the few things that helped clear my acne up..i didn't overly use it, but i could tell a big difference when i went and when i didn't and i tried everything under the sun for my acne...
but now with an almost 3 year old and another on the way - i don't think i've tanned for about 10 years..course i live in hawaii too and you'd look kinda weird walking into a tanning salon over here..LOL
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