Tanning Salons for Over-Cooked Look

Just think how yucky their skin is going to look as they get older. Some day they will be sorry for all the tanning.

I know what you mean. Ive seen alot of them lately.LOL Im as white as my bed sheets.LOL And I like it that way.LOL I never thought I would feel that this way.LOL I think its ugly.

What about that brown dried up leather look, doesn't that just scream sexy? LOL

I am not allowed to be in the sun because of meds that I take. I will not go to a tanning bed. My sister goes to a tanning bed and her color is not a natural tan color. She is dark, real dark but it is not the color you get from the sun. I wish I could get a tan, not a dark one just a tan but as long as I am on these meds (and it looks like the rest of my life) I will have to stay out of the sun.

I agree! When someone's skin is cooked brown, it just isn't appealing. I personally like a health glow to my skin but by no means will I go to a tanning alson to get it. I go outside and enjoy what nature gives to me for free! It might be harder to tan in the winter, but I just don't think tanning salons are worth it for all the risks associated with it.

Oh yes...are you on to something with this topic. I feel into the 'tanning trap' years ago because I loved the initial look of my brozed body. The relaxing warmth of the beds was a bonus...or so I thought. I was hosting and producing a talk show at the time. In the beginning my 'bronzed look' was very appealing to me. Then after a few months of comparing older shows with newer shows it became very evident that my passion for tanning beds was radically affecting my skin tone. It didn't take too long before my skin was looking drier, less toned and slightly saggy. Needless to say I quickly stopped. Besides I was doing it in the middle of our cold Manitoba winters. Viewers started writing to say it looked weird to see me looking like I just got back from a Southern vacation...week after week when they knew I was going 'live.' So...I may be a 'pale patty' but I managed to save my skin before my face fell off so it was a good trade-of. Now I notice that women are using that body spray to achieve the same effect. I cannot help but wonder what they are abosorbing into their bodies. The skin is the largest 'organ' in the body. Who knows what the long term effects will be? Those darn fashion police strike again...setting down image-management 'rules' that so many just 'have' to live by. All these orange people out there keep life interesting! Shows that we can accept differences even when we don't agree.

Add the tight pulled eyelids of plastic surgery, to keep us looking young you know, and it is almost laughable. A well broiled steak with a surprised look on it's face. Question: Were they also wonderfully blonde? I have to admit not everyone who indulges in the salon is also blonde from a bottle, but it seems to go together. I am a fine one to be talking right now, as I got definitely overcooked when I took the grandkids to the pool the other day. I did put sunscreen on the spots I could reach, but the kids are too young, and ran away too fast to help me out.

In my younger days I loved to have a tan. But I always did it in the sun. It never crossed my mind to go to a tanning salon. I never really liked the idea of them. Now, I could care less if I have a tan.

They may look as if they are "friend to a crispt" but at least it didn't hurt to it and they did not damage their skin.

YUK-- I say- I think these tanning salon tans are too much- They cost too much and are really bad for your skin. I prefer the no tan look- or at least just a bit of a tan- But then again I don't tan well anyways!

My parent's next door neighbor is a lovely woman in her late 40's. But she goes to the tanning salon and her face looks like leather. I wish she knew how pretty she already was. I know her husband tells her, I've heard him. And she has great self-esteem. But when she gets to be in her 60's and looks like she is eighty instead, she is really going to regret the tanning salon. She smokes as well, and that adds years on to your face too.

Fried to a crisp doesn't cut it with me either. I think super fair skin looks sickly but i also feel the same about dark tropical tans too. Way too much damage to the skin.I know it can't be good

I tan occassionally and my skin doesn't look "fried" at all. It's the women who end up tanning for years and years that get leathery looking. Before I got pregnant, I tanned for 20 minutes everyday. I did that for 7 months and my skin looked great. Now I don't really have the time to go to the tanning salon and I miss it so much.

think tanning is a preventive to sun strokes and other skin problems.think its much more advisable for people who are exposed to the sun to get tanned.

I agree with you as it is not good for the Skin either It is actually very damaging I just do not know why People do that to their Skin just a little Tan will do

I am not a fan of fake bakes of any kind. I think it just looks bad on most people. They just don't look right. Natural tans are fine, cause they are actually quite nice looking most of the time. But no fake bakes...yea not my thing or what I like to see.

We have really tried to get away from that tanned look here, due to our very high skin cancer rates. Many of us are darkish skinned anyway. But the idea never really took on, & there are still a lot of people, mainly fair skinned young women, who want to be tan. Half the time it looks unnatural. I also do wonder aboput the safety of some of these tanning prodsucts & what chemicals are in them?

Looks very funny when they overcook themselves. You can really tell that its fake. I don't use tanning salons because I tan easily in the sun anyways.

lol. I know what you mean. I can't get it either, some looked so ridiculously tanned they looked like crispy fried chickens.

Hi.I am from India and this tan concept is not a talk going around here.No one here in India needs a tan apart from the natural one they get from the sun.We people always have to bear the sun most time of the year.So tanning salons are not a concept going around here.