Tanning beds

[slick]

Hey, I'm blonde/gray white trash and I love it!! Although skin cancer is one of the curables ones if caught early, who in their right mind would want to risk his/her health for brown skin??? Constant suntanning is the same as digging your own grave. My Dad has skin cancer for 20 years and he had all kinds of skin deformities. He had bits of his ears taken off and really bad scars all over his body.

If you still insist on suntanning after hearing this, it's your funeral.

[Cheshirekatt]

Originally posted by RICHARD
SHUT UP!!

jealous of the California Girls, aren't we??

lol,
when i see a pale brunette wearing sliver around here i do a double take!!! other people point and yell, "TOURIST!!!!"

There are lots of those types of girls up in Washington, too.

[Cheshirekatt]

Nothing wrong with blonde.....it's all in how you wear it!

[Denyce]

After all the information on skin cancer and the harmful effects...for me it is sort of like smoking...I see a tan person and I am seeing someone who either doesn't care about themselves at all or is just plain stupid. Of course I could be wrong and they could be using the tan in a can... . I am blonde with green eyes and a rosy complexion...why mess with perfection

[Aspen and Misty]

Denyce- I recently went to the beach, spent about 4 hours at the beach. I re-aplied my sun screen every half hour (my dad set his watch). I still got EXTREMLY burnt and didn't go to the beach or outside till after dark because my skin would start to bubble (eww). But when I got home I had a nice tan. I didn't mean to get tan, not at all. And was that week of hell worth the 2 weeks or so of tan, no, But what I'm trying to say is I did get tan, but that doesn't mean I don't care about myself and well, I am stupid but I did do everything in my power not to get burnt and I did and it still resulted in a tan, I guess what I'm trying to say is not everyone can help the fact that they get tan, I know I sure didn't mean to, It was nice to be tan, but o boy what I would have given to have been pasty white that one week I was sun burned.

I've gone tanning in a tanning bed a few times, I stoped cause I hated the way it smelled and the way I smelled when I came home, eww.

Ash

[2kitties]

What spf were you using? If you use at least an spf of 45, and reapply often, you will not burn. This is a fact, no matter if you're one month old or 50 years old.

[2kitties]

Originally posted by slick
Hey, I'm blonde/gray white trash and I love it!!

You made great points, but I have to ask why you would ever refer to yourself as trash? I realize you were probably making a joke, but why would anyone degrade themselves? No person is deserves to be called trash, no matter who says it.
I don't take that as a joke at all.

[Tonya]

Geez, lighten up.

[carole]

Tikeyas-Mom ignorance is not bliss, no matter what you are told, one thing you have to know is that skin cancer does not often present itself in your young years, but that is when the damage is done, if you continue to get sun-burned over the years whilst you are young, also you are still at risk even if you donot burn but tan, however your skin type does play a role in this, to some degree, but no-one is 100 per cent safe.

So if you still continue to think tan beds are safe, go ahead, they are no different to baking in the sun, and having a tan may look healthy but it is not.

Our rays are much more harmful today , than say in my young day's especially down under, because of the depletion of our ozone layer.

So if you are still happy to risk skin cancer and getting like a wrinkled old prune, go for it.

Hopefully a cure will not be far away, but until then everyone should be cautious.

I know of people also that have had half their faces chopped away to get rid of the cancer, it is NOT NICE.

[wolfsoul]

It is a common misconception that tanning beds do not cause cancer, because most times, the people that work with them don't even know. They claim that because the booths only use UVA rays, and not UVB, that it is safe. But UVA does cause cancer, and alot of people don't know it because UVA rays mostly only cause aging and wrinkling of the skin. But there is still a high cancer risk.

[RubyMutt]

T_M (and anyone else who may not think tanning can lead to skin cancer) check out these links.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/700312.asp

http://146.186.194.36/archive/2003/0...-column-02.asp

http://www.ismanet.org/html/tanning.html

http://bcbsnj.myhealthyhorizon.com/a...outn/103499566

http://www.karismamag.com/Page.aspx?ID=141

http://www.preventcancer.org/healthy...ancer-Risk.cfm

http://www.mercola.com/2001/jun/2/tanning_beds.htm

http://webmd.lycos.com/content/artic...2F3E6A41D2F%7D

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vumcpub/?articleID=195

And believe me, this is just the tip of the iceberg. I can find you PLENTY more links.
Keep on tanning if you want (hey, it's your life, not mine), just stop saying that no one who tans is putting themself at risk of getting cancer.

[RubyMutt]

T_M, don't you have tattoos? UV rays can easily discolor and/or fade tattoos.

[Tonya]

Everyone's right about beds causing cancer. They surely do. On the same line, if you are going to tan, a bed is safer then the natural sun. You all are right, we should be happy with the skin we have. I wish it was that easy for me to feel that way.

[Cheshirekatt]

Originally posted by Tonya
Everyone's right about beds causing cancer. They surely do. On the same line, if you are going to tan, a bed is safer then the natural sun. You all are right, we should be happy with the skin we have. I wish it was that easy for me to feel that way.

I don't think a bed is safer. 15 minutes in a bed is equal to a full day at the beach. How can that be safer?

I think they just say that because people think a sunburn causes cancer (which it can) but all exposure to sun (including non-burning rays) puts you at risk.

But you're very right, we should be happy with the skin we have. We can all blame Coco Chanel.

[Soledad]

Noooooooo! Never blame Coco Chanel for anything!

When Coco got a tan in the 1920s it was revolutionary. There were still very prejudiced ideas about skin tone. Anyone with a tan was considered "dirty" or "classless" as it meant that they must have been common people who had to work outside. After Coco, those connotations faded, and I think that can only be a good thing.