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[Chasey_Lane]

Self-tanner question:

What brand do you guys use? And how do you apply it to your back in the places you can't reach?

I've been laying in the UltraBronze bed 3 times a week for 2 weeks now and have darkened barely at all. And that's expensive as hell for the little results I'm getting.

Twice a week and you'll probably maintain your tan. Though, at 3 X's a week, I would think you'd experience some kinda results. :shrug:

 

[Chasey_Lane]

I've been laying in the UltraBronze bed 3 times a week for 2 weeks now and have darkened barely at all. And that's expensive as hell for the little results I'm getting.

Do those beds fully close? With regular 20-minute beds, I have to lay on my sides so that I don't get a streak down the side of me. I'll also flip from my back to my stomach so that my butt cheeks don't burn.

 

[jwwb2000]

Do those beds fully close? With regular 20-minute beds, I have to lay on my sides so that I don't get a streak down the side of me. I'll also flip from my back to my stomach so that my butt cheeks don't burn.

This is why I like the stand up bed. 10 minutes is the max (at least at the place I usually go to) No burned butt cheeks and no streak down my sides.

 

[Chasey_Lane]

This is why I like the stand up bed. 10 minutes is the max (at least at the place I usually go to) No burned butt cheeks and no streak down my sides.

I love stand-up beds, but they're too effing expensive. I was paying $12 for a 5-minute session.

 

[jwwb2000]

I love stand-up beds, but they're too effing expensive. I was paying $12 for a 5-minute session.

The place I went to I got that bed in my package of unlimited minutes

 

[vraiblonde]

Do those beds fully close?

They fully close and you have to flip over because there's a pad that you're laying on instead of bare bed with lights on the bottom. The lights are just on the top.

 

[vraiblonde]

I make Steve do it.

Note to self: make Steve come do my back...

 

[Christy]

Note to self: make Steve come do my back...

He's a pro.

 

[Pandora]

Self-tanner question:

What brand do you guys use? And how do you apply it to your back in the places you can't reach?

I've been laying in the UltraBronze bed 3 times a week for 2 weeks now and have darkened barely at all. And that's expensive as hell for the little results I'm getting.

Stop using those tanning beds.

Get Larry to put that stuff on. That's what the hell husbands are for.

 

[Chasey_Lane]

They fully close and you have to flip over because there's a pad that you're laying on instead of bare bed with lights on the bottom. The lights are just on the top.

That means you're not getting the full benefit. Most beds have bulbs on both sides. When you're in 20 minutes, you get a full 20 minutes. You're just taking turns w/sides. Maybe try switching to another bed? :shrug:

 

[K_Jo]

I love stand-up beds, but they're too effing expensive. I was paying $12 for a 5-minute session.

My guy gives me all the stand-up tanning I want for 50 bucks a month. I think he charges $26 for individual sessions. He recently decided to stop offering the $50 deal, but I'm hooked up with the grandfather clause.

 

[Christy]

That means you're not getting the full benefit. Most beds have bulbs on both sides. When you're in 20 minutes, you get a full 20 minutes. You're just taking turns w/sides. Maybe try switching to another bed? :shrug:

Tanorexia is term coined by doctors to describe the young people who put themselves at risk of getting skin cancer as a result of the frequent use of tanning salons to get the perfect skin colour.

I do believe it is time for an intervention. You have a disease.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanorexia

 

[morganj614]

I do believe it is time for an intervention. You have a disease.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanorexia

tanorexia? I've heard it all now

 

[Christy]

tanorexia? I've heard it all now

Stop being so insensitive. This is serious.

Tanorexia shares many characteristics with the eating disorder anorexia. Similar to the way that an anorexic is obsessed with being thin, a tanorexic is obsessed with being tan. Like an anorexic's fear of fat, a tanorexic has a fear of pastiness. Someone with the disorder may become obsessed with lying out in the sun or under a tanning bed the same way someone with anorexia counts calories or exercises compulsively. While tanorexia may seem like a superficial disorder created by a society concerned with nothing more than skin-deep beauty, for those with the illness, tanorexia can be deadly, as over-exposure of the skin to ultra-violet light can lead to cancer. ......

As bronzed skin has grown in social desirability, so has the popularity of "fake 'n bake" salons. In an age when we are obsessed with instant gratification, we fail to look at the long-term effects. Skin cancer aside, it is pretty safe to say that dry, leathery skin at the age of 50 will never be in style. Without even considering the graver effects, this alone is reason enough to use caution when out in the sun and avoid tanning beds like the plague.

http://www.cornellsun.com/media/paper866/news/2005/04/06/Opinion/Tans-Gone.Bad-1337999.shtml?norewrite200603221610&sourcedomain=www.cornellsun.com

 

[mAlice]

Self-tanner question:

What brand do you guys use? And how do you apply it to your back in the places you can't reach?

I've been laying in the UltraBronze bed 3 times a week for 2 weeks now and have darkened barely at all. And that's expensive as hell for the little results I'm getting.

When I use a self tanner, I always use ban de soleil (or however ya' spell it) great results. I always wear latex gloves to apply so I don't have funky hands, and use lots of lotion and lots of spreading to avoid streaking.

As for the bed, I'd ask for my money back and take my business elsewhere.

 

[morganj614]

Stop being so insensitive. This is serious.


http://www.cornellsun.com/media/paper866/news/2005/04/06/Opinion/Tans-Gone.Bad-1337999.shtml?norewrite200603221610&sourcedomain=www.cornellsun.com

stop smacking me. I just read it. I have done my share of tanning and it was addictive. Luckily I didn't start until my 30's and most of it was from sailing and being on the water. These kids are starting in their teens and will be dried, skinny prunes by 40. I am now edumacated

 

[vraiblonde]

That means you're not getting the full benefit. Most beds have bulbs on both sides.

UltraBronze beds all have a mattress. It's a high-pressure bed with only 1% UVA (3% is normal). My skin is very fair and burns easily, so this is what they put me in - 8 minutes on each side. I've never spent 20 minutes in a full tanning bed in my life - I'd be fried to a crisp.

And I'm pleased that I'm not burnt, but it just seems to be a long time building color. So I'm going to self-tan until the bed does its job.

 

[vraiblonde]

As for the bed, I'd ask for my money back and take my business elsewhere.

It's not the bed - it's my skin. I had to go get that white freckled Irish stuff from my Dad instead of my Mom's French and Injun skin.

 

[Nickel]

Has anyone used the foaming self tanners or the spray ones? And what's the general consensus on most bang for your buck? I used the NO AD stuff last year and it was okay, but I can't use the same product twice in a row.

 

[Pandora]

UltraBronze beds all have a mattress. It's a high-pressure bed with only 1% UVA (3% is normal). My skin is very fair and burns easily, so this is what they put me in - 8 minutes on each side. I've never spent 20 minutes in a full tanning bed in my life - I'd be fried to a crisp.

And I'm pleased that I'm not burnt, but it just seems to be a long time building color. So I'm going to self-tan until the bed does its job.

Actually you could if you continued to go and use tanning accelerators.

I use to be pasty white and when I was in my early 20’s, I started hitting the tanning beds. I got very dark and stopped going when I got pregnant with my 1st child (1994). I guess I hit those beds for about 5-years on and off.

After that, my skin had a memory to it and tans fairly quickly. Where before it took an awful long time to tan. 10-years later, in 2004, I tanned for a short amount of time and got really dark fast.

Last year, I was debating on going just to get a base tan, but I had a large lump appear on my neck. I went to the dermatologist and they said, oh, it isn’t anything buy a cyst. They injected it and sent me on my way. It itched so badly and I couldn’t stop scratching it. The next thing you know, it is the size of a golf ball. They finally did a freeze on it where they remove it but it left a hole that took a long time to heal. It was a basal cell.

Just like many others, I didn’t think it would happen to me. :shrug: My tanning and tanning bed days are over.