Your opinions on tanning salons

Paris400

Paris400

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My happiest moments this summer were spent sunbathing in Ibiza; the warmth and the beauty of those days will keep me warm throughout the harsh winter ahead. It's heartbreaking to watch the beautiful tan start to fade!

What do you all think of tanning salons? A lot of guys at my gym go to them and look fabulous all year.
 
i hate to admit it, but even in these days when being brown is supposedly unfashionable, i think that people with permatans look really cool.
 
A definite no, they're bad for you and they age you, why would you want to look like a wrinkly old prune :roll: If you want a bit of a healthy colour in winter then fake it, there's so many good fake tans on the market these days.
 
i go once a week, and recently (on g'fs advice) stopped wearing shorts so i no longer have a white bum!! I hate looking pastey & white, makes me look, old & ill :(
 
I hired one @ home for £35 a month so i could go on it whenever i wanted, i sent it back when we moved and then started going on one in city centre on way home from work once a week and it costs £3.90 for 6 mins which is disgusting.

The last 4 weeks ive only been on twice but thats been at where i used to live and its only £5 for 10 mins.

Im going to get one at home again because its better value for money.

I think fake tans only last a week and im not prepared to pay £25 a week :roll:
 
Barbie said:
mambobirdette said:
I think fake tans only last a week and im not prepared to pay £25 a week :roll:
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A big bottle of San Tropez costs £30 and does at least 8 applications.
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I was always under the impression that you needed all 3 bottles, the base, the main one and then one you put on after :?
 
Barbie said:
A big bottle of San Tropez costs £30 and does at least 8 applications.
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Totally agree...but does any one want to mail it out to me here in Marbella...I can't get it for love or money!!! And I end up spending over £100 when I come home! 8O
 
mambobirdette said:
I was always under the impression that you needed all 3 bottles, the base, the main one and then one you put on after :?
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No, not all, they might say you need to do the 3 step thing but it's only for them to make more £££ out of you :roll: You're fine to just normally moisturise with any old moisturiser, I just normally use Nivea, and then one application of San Tropez.
 
all I can say is that I can see the difference between my friends that have used sun beds throughout their teens and early twenties and those of us that didn't. Eye wrinkles are obvious on those that did, and they're only 22 years old...
 
One of my good friends is getting bad crows feet/wrinkles round his eyes, he's only 26 8O He's been using sun beds since he was about 18...
 
N8 said:
One of my good friends is getting bad crows feet/wrinkles round his eyes, he's only 26 8O He's been using sun beds since he was about 18...
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in my case it would be like bolting the stable door etc.....!!! ;)
 
I wont use them anymore, for two reasons:-

1. My colleague at work had a cancerous growth removed from her thigh 2 years ago - the growth looked smaller than the size of a 5p but the amount of tissue they took from her leg was 8O 8O 8O she's left with a huge dent in her thigh now.... :? :?

She had used sunbeds every day for 10 years

2. Wrinkles..... :( :( :(

I am quite lucky in that I am sort of olive skinned anyway, but my tan of choice these days is from a bottle, or if in the sun, only using factor 12 - 8, none of that Factor 2 for a week then baby oil anymore...... 8) 8) 8)
 
i agree babs and co, tanning beds make you look ugly, wrincled and is NOT good for your skin. I admit having done lots in the past, resulting in some premature ageskinproblems, BUT the main thing is cancer. my friend died from molecancer at only age 25! so id suggest protecting yourself and in the winther throw on some St. Tropez! 8)
 
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