Tanning Bed help??!!.....?

I have been recently going to a tanning bed, and Im now wrestling with the decision to stop tanning due to the risk of skin cancer. I am 23, have blonde hair and fair skin, but I dont burn badly, and I do tan nicely and pretty quickly....so, I guess Im just trying to decide if I should just stop tanning and be very white and just deal with it, or if the positive effects of the sunbed outweighs the negative...???oh the drama!haha....any advice? preferably backed by facts...

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as long as you don't tan excessively u should be okay.. try lsaying out with low spf if you're worried..

fake tans are no good

use jergens gradual tanning lotion ..use that and tan just like once a week it will maintain your sunny glow

I applaud you for considering the negative effects tanning beds have on your body. Most people who tan don't. Also, anybody can get skin cancer, regardless of skin color or anything. What I don't understand is why you have to change your natural skin color. Why not be happy with what you have? If you can't do that at this point, stop using tanning beds with damaging UV rays and try doing the full body spray tans that the tanning salons give instead. I know for a fact that they don't turn you orange.

"Through in-depth studies, today we know that the effects of tanning beds can be detrimental. Although we now have safer beds that put out less ultraviolet rays, the fact is that tanning still gives off 50% more ultraviolet radiation as what you would get from the sun. Many people believe that with new beds now using long-wave rays, or UVA instead of short-wave rays, UVB, there is no longer risk.

Keep in mind that although UVA rays do not burn the skin in the same way that UVB rays do, they actually permeate the skin even deeper, thus causing more significant and permanent damage. Now, consider that even the top of the line tanning beds still emit some degree of UVB rays and you can imagine the long-term devastation to the skin as well as the cornea of the eyes.

Unfortunately, exposure over a long period of time causes irreversible damage. Therefore, the next time you want to get a suntan, you should consider all the possible effects to determine if you are willing to put yourself at risk simply for a dark, golden tan."

STOp tanning, i think fair skin is beautiful, women today dont seem to notice how very beautiful fair porcelain skin can be. YOu can play it up to look like a china doll. PErsonally i have red hair and also really fair skin. My friends are always like omg ur so pale, you can play a vampire, or you look like a doll, or u look like queen elizabeth. And i am proud of it. I will never do tanning beds. ANd in the summer i use sun block to avoid anyburns.

Overall be proud- Pale is beautiful!!

tanning beds causing cancer is just a myth. And if your that worried about it, just dont go as much. Try to replace some days of going with laying out in the sun on warmer days

not everyone is susceptible to skin cancer, but sadly quite a high percentage are. to me , the risks of getting skin cancer from a tanning bed far outweigh being white. I would rather live a long and healthy life and be pale than be nice and tanned for my funeral......
Statistics show Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world which claims over 1000 lives each year.

Melanoma, one of the most dangerous types of skin cancer, is the most common life threatening cancer in men and women between the ages of 15 鈥?25 years.

In fact in Queensland the cummulative risk of developing a melanoma up to the age of 75 is 1 in 17 for males and 1 in 25 for females (figures for 2003, personal communication from the Queensland Cancer Fund)

Tanning beds aren't any good.
Tanning lotion is better.

The fact is that the UVA rays that are emitted from the Ultraviolet A light sources in tanning salons are two to three times more powerful than the UVA rays which occur naturally from the sun.

**Embrace your beautiful fair skin. Skin cancer isn't so pretty**

http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/azhealt...

Please, please, please don't use a tan bed! Bad things can happen to people who use them. Use spray on tan PLEASE!!!

The media hates tanning salons. But the truth is, there are benefits to getting doses of UV. The difference between a tanning bed and playing in the sun is that a tanning session is measured based upon your skin type and what you want to achieve. Playing in the sun results in sun burn and skin damage more often because you forget to apply spf, and you lost track of time. Not so with a tanning bed.

Joe Nation came out a few years ago and was dead set on shutting tanning salons down. Guess what? He never set foot in a salon, and his history of skin cancer was a result of playing lot so tennis in the sun without sunblock! So he assumed that tanning beds were bad based upon no experience.

At our salon, doctors are actually subscribing people to tan in a tanning bed because...drum role please...these people have either a vitamin D deficiancy, or they have skin problems because...they are not getting enough uv exposure!!!