I just entered this tanning contest thinger! Oh Boy!

[coco-bean]

I work at a tanning salon for those of you who dont know, and i like to learn about the lotions not just for the customers but because i like to tan too! So i was looking on some of the tanning lotions website and i happened to notice a contest for spring break to be one of their new models for their lotions (poster's ect.) well i entered! it asked for swimsuit pictures so i had to hurry and throw mine on, do my hair, load some make-up on so my face didnt look so uneven! (from tanning and my complexion, my skin tone on my face is really uneven) I feel kinda dumb haha and i just wanted everyone else to know how dumb i felt too! haha! It'd be cool if i got qualified but im sure theirs alot prettier girls out their who dont eat as much as i do before they take pictures(opps, i like dounuts a little too much) so in the picture i look bloated and not to mention tan to much so my neck and chest are a little red!
OH DID I MENTION....that my swimming suit hasnt fit me for the last two summers so of course the ladies are poppin out everywhere...oh geezzz!

[elizabethann]

Good luck. Maybe you'll win. You never know.

[borzoimom]

ohhhhhhhhhhh honey- I read this and my heart sunk- I have had several friends last year battle skin cancer- PLEASE DONT.. please.. I am sure I am wrong but pleaseeeeee dont! I am begging...

[Vela]

Well good luck with that, I hope you win if that's what you want. I hate the way tanning makes the skin look leathery, not to mention the skin cancer issue, so I don't do it myself, but good luck!

[coco-bean]

dont worry everyone, not only do i work there but im trained in what i sell(tanning sessions that is) i know all the risks and health problems that occur. Im not saying im immune to health problems i just no more then the average joe with tanning procedures! I practice safe tanning and pass that to my customers!

[Karen]

From what I have learned, there is no such thing as safe tanning. Tanning is skin damage, and it will show up, sooner rather than later. The only "safe" tan is the sray-on stuff, but who knows how safe that is in the long run!

I never have tanned, my skin always burned, just genetics, but consequently I wore sunscreen, and many women my age that I know used to "tan" have skin that is much wrinklier, more creased and leathery, and I am only 42.

I had a teacher in High school who explained her very wrinkly, leathery skin that way, said when she was in high school everyone envied her dark tan.

All that said, good luck with the contest, okay?

[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.

[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.