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Do you go to tanning booths?
I thought these were a thing of the past.[Poll]
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Re: Do you go to tanning booths?
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I see NOTHING attractive about having leather skin and lots of wrinkles.
Funny story, Mitch came into the bathroom when I was moisturizing my face one day and asked what I was doing...I said "i'm moisturizing with lotion so I don't get dry and wrinkly skin." He responded with "Oh! Grandma didn't moisturze did she and her skin got REALLY dry, huh!" (the grandma he was talking about...my MIL....is the WORST when it comes to laying in the sun trying to get tan....her ENTIRE life....and it shows)
I also don't tan in the sun. I use SPF 30-50 when we're out. I don't think that I look my age and I attribute it to not tanning when I was younger.
My cousin is a little less than 2 years older than I am and used to baste herself and bake for hours. She looks like she's well into her 50s. Same with my aunt-- she lay out all the time. She's 6 months younger than my mom (76) and looks much older.
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I did when I was younger, but never really regularly. when we go on vacation I will go to a friends salon and get in the spray tan booth though so I don't look like a ghost!
eta.. friend that has the salon, owns many and they do have a slow season but usually they are so busy you have to wait at times, and some of them have more than 30 beds. people definitely don't care about their skin!
I used to in college, not anymore.
I did go last year a few times before a wedding i was in though because i had awful tan lines. I forgot how low cut my dress was in the back and was good about the front (wore a bandeau bikini top) but the back had this cutout design thingy and it look like i had some sort of disease on my skin.
I went in college but haven't done so since then.
I have a sorority sister that is addicted to tanning. She was addicted back in college and still is and it's so sad! She's only about 30 but has horrible wrinkles and total leather skin. I don't understand how she can think it makes her look good.
Fat looks SOOOOOOO much better tan than white.
I just finished one month of tanning. I ended up only going about 10 times (actually, I think I went about 8 - which ticks me off that I paid $72 for one month + indoor tanning lotion and eye goggles and didn't go more than 8 freaking times...but anyway).
I went to the beach two weekends ago and got burnt. I always burn. Of course, I hardly ever use sunscreen! DUH!
I'm not one to take care of myself for the long term though (as you all know). I eat crappy stuff, I drink alcohol, I smoke cigarettes occasionally, I ride a Harley without a helmet, etc etc etc. Whatever I get, I deserve, obviously. And I'm willing to take those risks -- I'm all about the FUN. Not so much about the responsibility!
I have in the past (like high school/college).
And I would totally do it now if I didn't think it was risky. I love tanning. LOVE LOVE LOVE. There is nothing better than laying in the sun, baking, on the beach w/a good book. I'm a sun worshipper, and a reasonable substitute is definitely the tanning bed. I think it's relaxing, too.
I do wear sunblock outside - I still tan, however. Oddly, if I forget to put sunscreen/block on my face, I still don't tan or get burnt there.
I did in the past (high school) and I wish I could go slap my 16 year old self in the face for doing it. Now, I don't even tan in the sun.
My Grandma died from melanoma and it was a terrible thing to see. Not to mention, melanoma is "the young person's cancer". If its not caught early, its very aggressive. Risks aside, I live in Wisconsin and there is nothing natural or attractive about having an orange tan in December. Or having your boobs look like leather punching bags at 40.
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This, but I go at the beginning of the summer and usually once in the winter to help with my SAD
I suppose one positive about being extremely predisposed to skin cancer and covering up all the time is that, at 34, people's jaws drop if my age comes up and most of the time I get, "no...you can't be that old."
And now I'm okay with it--it was annoying for a while.
I only recently stopped being carded all the time. I mean, I'd get carded and H wouldn't. He's younger than I am.
In my late teens/early 20s I definitely "tried" to tan a little--not in a tanning booth though. But after my first pre-cancerous mole was removed, I'm no longer self-conscious about my pale, white skin. I'll wear it proud if it means I won't have to deal with skin cancer.
Barring extremes, I don't think looking young has much to do with whether you tanned or not.
I have a baby face. With or without being tanned.
Good point. I guess I'm picturing the people that look young from afar, but when you get up close to them their skin looks...weathered, like around the eyes. I don't think that tanning automatically means you look older either.