[Senior Shrimpo]

So, this has been a big thing in my family at least, where they treat returning from vacation with a good tan with the same enthusiasm as they would getting into an ivy league, a wedding announcement, etc. (cheers and hoorahs)

I can't tan personally, but I don't think I'd ever try spray tans or tanning booths. For tanning booths, they just seem claustrophobic, and it doesn't seem safe. And spray tans look bad to me.

So what are people's opinions on sun tanning/tanning booths/spray tans? Good? Bad? Goofy? Just plain weird (Jersey Shore)?

 

[sewingalot]

Tanning beds are unhealthy for most people. Nothing like getting skin cancer by forcing yourself to tan/burn when your skin is not supposed to do so. If you are pale hair, pale skin, light eyes, you shouldn't tan. Spray tans always look fake and just Sesame Streetish.

 

[kamikazi]

I prefer to avoid cancer and save money. If I get a little tan from working or playing outside I'm happy, but if I don't it doesn't bother me either.

 

[Senior Shrimpo]

Yeah they're really expensive too... I was surprised when I found out.

 

[shrimpnmoss]

fake tans look....well...FAKE!....

 

[JRMott]

I'm too tired...anyone want to make a joke about using our aquarium lights to tan? You know, something technical and geeky, that we'd all laugh at but would never admit to laughing over with a non-plantedtank(er?).

 

[wendyjo]

Fake tans can be great if you find the right product for your skin type, and they always look better than cancer.

 

[MoeBetta]

I do not see the point of trying to attain a tan.

 

[Chrisinator]

Being naturally tan is the way to go . I'd gladly donate some of my tan.

For me, being Half Filipino-Half American, my skin is pretty tan and it gets extremely tan when I'm out for 5 minutes. Yikes!

 

[MCHRKiller]

Im half greek, thus Im naturally fairly tan anyway.

I dont understand the obsession that a lot of people have with skin tone, accept what you have and deal with it. I do feel for people who are very pale and burn easily tho.

 

[kamikazi]

I'm too tired...anyone want to make a joke about using our aquarium lights to tan? You know, something technical and geeky, that we'd all laugh at but would never admit to laughing over with a non-plantedtank(er?).

lol!

 

[Kitty_Kitsch]

hahaha! I'd call myself half fair half olive skinnned? I avoid the sun because I see my grandpa and he is soooo dark! I used to tan very dark in summer but now since I avoided the sun I just burn

 

[10gallonplanted]

Yeah I'm always tan too, being Half Native American.

 

[OverStocked]

This is my take on tanning: http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/l...8-anyone-have-had-skin-cancer-dysplastic.html

 

[OverStocked]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jgUcxMezM

 

[allegoriest]

I was in a waiting room a few weeks ago, looking out the window, and there was a tanning parlour next door. I saw a bunch of people go in, come out like 30 minutes later, and looked baaarely different, but it was only in a '...something is not right' way. When I was leaving, I looked in, and they started at $50 for MEMBERS per tan. People I've met that go tanning do it several times a week. Also, it's sunny EVERY. DAY.


Meanwhile, I'm living under an umbrella, in this perpetual OH GOD SKIN CANCER bubble. I coat myself in skin stuff religiously. ...I also supposedly have a porphyria, which makes me not like the sun, so really, I have no idea if I'd even be out there long enough to get anything.


...Or course, this is all silly, because I'm actually rather dark, so I probably have considerably smaller chances of the sun doing things to me. (I'm kinda pasty right now, but I'm still pretty tan. I get ridiculously dark if I do go outside.) Of course, I grew up with a grandfather who had skin cancer on his face, which was all kinda of traumatic. (He was blonde, blue eyed and in Africa.)


But I just want to be pasty. Go away, sun. *hiss*

 

[wendyjo]

Dark skin people get skin cancer too. Bob Marley died of skin cancer.

 

[OverStocked]

Dark skin people get skin cancer too. Bob Marley died of skin cancer.

This.

Malignant melanoma, for instance does not have a known cause.

http://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-and-skin-of-color.html

 

[allegoriest]

Oh, don't worry. I'm still in a MUST PROTECT SKIN FROM SUN fervor. And I usually wear a suit, so at least, most sun probably isn't hitting a large portion of me.

...Actually, it's kinda nice to know my MUST PROTECT SELF paranoia isn't pointless. Even, if its still like, terrifying.


Only mole I'm suspicious of is on my forehead, so it's really hard NOT to watch it like a hawk. (it's just BARELY off centre. it drives me insane.) But I'm between insurances, so, can't go for now. But yeah, it drives me insane just on an aesthetic level, nevermind a health one. So I'm certainly getting it checked by a dermatologist.

 

[JasonG75]

As long as I dont come out ORANGE like this EITHER is a good option.