
Originally Posted by
lildreamer316
Okay.
Yes, thank you for the warning. I must say that eye protection is a must; never ever ever leave it off.
I am 34. I have tanned in a tanning bed since age 20. Almost every week, at least twice, from age 20 to age 30.
I have Irish, English, and Cherokee blood. Slightly olive skin that does not burn easily but is not darkest either. Green eyes.
I have several moles all over because it is hereditary. Have had them checked out; no malignancy as of now. As I age, I seem to get more, no matter whether I am in the sun or not. Again, mostly because of heredity - my mother and grandmother, out in the sun picking tobacco much of their lives, had a LOT. Of course sun accelerates the problem. I am only tanning about twice a month now, and sometimes not even that. They are still there, not really increasing, but not going away. My cousins have the same thing.
My skin is not leathery or pigmented on my body. On my face,if I have any spots it is because of acne scars (I remember where they were, and they are really not dark at all). I have managed to lighten these (ongoing) with AHAs, BHAs, and retinoids.
Having worked at a tanning salon for at least five years, I cannot agree with the above assesment that the safest tan is the SUN!!??!! The FULL spectrum of rays that you are exposed to, as well as fluctuations in such,and varying amounts of radiation (small); is hard to measure and prepare for on an ongoing basis. The rays you are exposed to in a tanning bed are limited to two; and a certain, pre-arrranged amount of those. You can also control that by limiting your time (minuites in bed). How on earth could outdoor suntanning be safer than that?
Everyone has a different health, as Lewis Black says. What is horrible for one person, can be indifferent or even helpful for the next. Of course certain things as a general rule are not healthful for the majority of people, but each person has to be observant and figure out what works best for them. This also assumes that one is smart enough to know to do this, and to do one's research about a subject; learning about it enough to know what is relevant and what is not.
Everything in moderation is the best 'rule' ever put into the venacular.
Again, each to her own, but that is exactly what I mean.
From one of my fave books of all time:
"..a woman ... introduced me to her daughter and asked me to tell her that she should quit smoking. I tuned in and told the daughter that if she quit smoking at that point in her life that she would likely die. The daughter had just gone through a divorce, lost a child and endured several other traumatic events. I could see that the one and only stress release that she had was inhaling and exhaling on her cigarettes. It was a form of meditation for her. I told her that she had better continue to do that deep breathing if she wanted to survive. All judgments that the ego makes about other people's habits and behavior are in error." - from the book No Time For Karma by Paxton Robey with Lone Jensen.
(...walks off to take that advice....maybe I shouldn't even have posted. Hmm.)
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