I just entered this tanning contest thinger! Oh Boy!

[bckrazy]

:< what is up with jumping her for tanning? My sister is a model and tans all the time, as does my other sister. They do it as little as possible to maintain a tan, and they use lots of special lotions.

She works at a tanning salon, so OF COURSE she knows the potential dangers of it! And I'm sure she sees people who tan way too much all the time. Who are we to judge some one's lifestyle, especially when it's something like tanning? People do WAAAY worse stuff to their body, such as eating very unhealthy food every day & not exercising, and I doubt anyone here would jump another member for that. I just don't get it.

My point is: Good luck! You should post them, if you're comfortable doing that. I'm sure you look awesome. =] I know I wouldn't be able to get the courage to send in swimsuit shots to a modeling contest.

[critter crazy]

:< what is up with jumping her for tanning? My sister is a model and tans all the time, as does my other sister. They do it as little as possible to maintain a tan, and they use lots of special lotions.

She works at a tanning salon, so OF COURSE she knows the potential dangers of it! And I'm sure she sees people who tan way too much all the time. Who are we to judge some one's lifestyle, especially when it's something like tanning? People do WAAAY worse stuff to their body, such as eating very unhealthy food every day & not exercising, and I doubt anyone here would jump another member for that. I just don't get it.

My point is: Good luck! You should post them, if you're comfortable doing that. I'm sure you look awesome. =] I know I wouldn't be able to get the courage to send in swimsuit shots to a modeling contest.

I agree! To each their own!!
I smoke, jump down my throat!

[coco-bean]

Thanks a bunch the last two of you who posted! To each their own! But again i do see everyones point. thanks again!

[GreyhoundGirl]

We understand you, just are concerned because we know stories, things that have happened to our friends and families. Please do try to stop, or at least put a strict minimum on your time spent tanning. We just don't want you to be hurt-emotionally or phisically- by this. Trust me, I've got russian heiracy; I know white skin!!!! I can't even wear a white shirt because it will make me glow! IMO It is better to be white now then hurt later.

Please.

[catnapper]

I'm pasty white and proud of it. I would never purposefully tan myself. I wear UV protection every day. I don't go out without my polarized lenses.

My grandmother, her mother, and her grandmother all died from skin cancer. I already spotted one mark on my left arm and watch it like a hawk.

I think your information is slightly skewed towards making sunless tanning sound better than it is, Of COURSE your boss and the manufacturers of the tanning beds and supplies are going to downplay the risks.

Goodluck on the competition

PS: Pasty white sounds much better than what you've described happened to your face.... I don't like the sound of uneven - warning sign to me.

[coco-bean]

I'm pasty white and proud of it. I would never purposefully tan myself. I wear UV protection every day. I don't go out without my polarized lenses.

My grandmother, her mother, and her grandmother all died from skin cancer. I already spotted one mark on my left arm and watch it like a hawk.

I think your information is slightly skewed towards making sunless tanning sound better than it is, Of COURSE your boss and the manufacturers of the tanning beds and supplies are going to downplay the risks.

Goodluck on the competition

PS: Pasty white sounds much better than what you've described happened to your face.... I don't like the sound of uneven - warning sign to me.

No no no...nothing happened to my face. It's just how it is whether i tan or not! It's alot easier to see when i dont tan because my uneven-ness of my face is red/blotching and not attractive whatso ever, but when i tan it makes the redness fade but is still uneven. It's pretty much a loose loose situation with my face. It's a never ending make-up battle of trying to cover up new uneven'ness! haha!
The tanning didnt make my face uneven, it was like that already.

[finn's mom]

Good luck! Most people have an unhealthy vice that can potentially be lethal, whether it be smoking, drinking, drugs (including caffeine), tanning, etc. I don't tan often, but I do when I can and want a tan. I know it's risky, and I've seen young girls with skin cancer. I don't smoke, never have...I don't drink a lot, I don't take caffeine in on a daily basis, although I want to remove it entirely from my body, but that's hard for me. There are a lot of things people do all the time that present huge health issues. People are usually aware of them, but for their own reasons, choose to take the risk. Again, I say good luck!

[CathyBogart]

Yeesh, you guys. I can see why so many people are leaving PT.

Coco-bean: Good luck in the contest! Let us know if you wind up on any posters!

My friends would look at me wierd if I tanned, I'm goth and happy to be pale.

[buttercup132]

:< what is up with jumping her for tanning? My sister is a model and tans all the time, as does my other sister. They do it as little as possible to maintain a tan, and they use lots of special lotions.

She works at a tanning salon, so OF COURSE she knows the potential dangers of it! And I'm sure she sees people who tan way too much all the time. Who are we to judge some one's lifestyle, especially when it's something like tanning? People do WAAAY worse stuff to their body, such as eating very unhealthy food every day & not exercising, and I doubt anyone here would jump another member for that. I just don't get it.

My point is: Good luck! You should post them, if you're comfortable doing that. I'm sure you look awesome. =] I know I wouldn't be able to get the courage to send in swimsuit shots to a modeling contest.

I agree. This is why PT is being so "unhapy" latley. Guys it her life and of course your trying to offer her advice but you don't have to take it so far and bash her for her lifestyle.
Goodluck. It will be cool if you win!

[Karen]

I, for one, just wanted to make her aware of the dangers of tanning in a way she will never hear from her bosses at the tanning salon.

If you notice, I also wished her well in the contest, and I do hope she stays safe.

[Marigold2]

I think this whole converstion is very interesting. I am willing to bet that the younger people, teenagers and people in their early 20's are ok will tanning and are wishing you luck. While the older ones 30's and up are warning you about all the dangers on tanning. Why? Well us old folks have seen what skin cancer can do. It is not pretty. Not just the cancer but the long term effects on the skin. But when you are younger then 30 you don't care, because 30 sounds so old and far away. Heck I did such dumb, dangerous things when I was young, me and my friends are all amazed we are still alive. We grew up in the drug world of the 70's. Our teachers used to smoke pot in the morning before coming into class. Only way they could get through the day. If my kids did half of the **** I did when I was younger I would have grounded them for life. And what did my friends and I learn from all this some 30 years later, all the drugs, boys, parties? We learned how dumb, stupid and worthless our lives were. How uncool we really were. Sad, sad, sad. We should have buckled down and studied and once we had our college degress and we were making $70,000 a year, we could have partied in a nicer house with a way cooler crowd.
So here is my two cents on your tanning. Go ahead and do what makes you happy. You like everyone else will pay or not for what you do now. Maybe you will win the contest and it will lead to great things. At least you are taking a chance, be brave, be true and study hard. 30 is right around the corner.

[borzoimom]

I, for one, just wanted to make her aware of the dangers of tanning in a way she will never hear from her bosses at the tanning salon.

If you notice, I also wished her well in the contest, and I do hope she stays safe.

I agree- I make the same type of comments sometimes in the dog sections- not throwing a 'wet blanket on the party" but offering some advice on the other side of the coin so to speak.
My grandfather, God rest his soul, use to say as the philosphy of how he lived his life was " everything in moderation, and nothing in excess" is the best way to lead a healthy life. ( He lived to be 94...)

[BOBS DAD]

so where is your pic???

I am curious now and I am sure we would all be interested in seeing. You should have sent it to me first for some professional retouching. I could have touched you up a bit (just like the cover models have done) and evened out any blotchiness that you mentioned in your face (or even overall tones). Just keep all the advice everyone offered in mind and remember, "everything in moderation".

[BOBS DAD]

Yeesh, you guys. I can see why so many people are leaving PT.

Coco-bean: Good luck in the contest! Let us know if you wind up on any posters!

My friends would look at me wierd if I tanned, I'm goth and happy to be pale.

Cathy,

Interesting angle!!! I was always curious about the Goth thing. Have a neighbor girl who is in to the whole Goth look. She seems very nice and always says hello - she just looks weird to us who don't understand it. I guess like alot of things, you are naturally wary of that which you don't regularly see.

[Daisy and Delilah]

For the record;
I don't see anybody here bashing coco-bean for her lifestyle. As MG stated(very well, I might add), we are older and have seen what skin cancer can do to a person. No one is angry at coco-bean for what she wants to do. We are merely having a healthy discussion of these issues so she is aware of what some of us older members have seen or experienced. If we weren't concerned about her welfare, we wouldn't have bothered.

The contest she's in deals with tanning lotions for the most part. I have fully realized that and I have PM'd her to apologise to her in case I may have offended her. I have given her my congratulations in the contest and she has accepted graciously. If anyone wants to know, she was not upset with my comments and thanked me for replying. As far as I know, she is handling this whole thread with a positive attitude. The outcome is bothering some of you much more than it's bothering her.

If a healthy, informative discussion such as this is making people leave PT then I hope they're happy wherever they go. This is what makes the world go round. When I can't express my opinion or respond to something on this forum and feel it's my right, then I'll leave PT. I think it's time that some of us become more thick skinned and stop seeing everything as bashing someone.

Some of you may need to consider giving some people the benefit of the doubt before quickly deciding they're wrong. Some of us really do care about people and are only offering evidence of certain situations that may happen in certain scenarios.