Repost :/ no one answered. Tanning help.

Mar 2, 2014

Kat A.

Get a tanning sunscreen from the store. then go out & tan lol. you're lucky. it's only 1 degree here.

Mar 2, 2014

Shannon S.

Get a spray on tan:)

Mar 2, 2014

Tara G.

I second the spray tan.

Mar 2, 2014

Bridgette D.

Spray tans don't work for me, tried them a few times and made me look orange and then rubbed off on my clothes really soon.

Mar 2, 2014

Abbey H.

Try fake bake flawless.

Mar 2, 2014

Adaria S.

Coconut oil or vaseline. they both attract sun. I wish I could be tanning right now. sadly its -40.

Mar 2, 2014

Whitney J.

Spray tan. Anything from Fake Bake line I know looks super realistic. I used to get compliments all the time on my tan, when it was from a bottle. Fake bake 60 is awesome. You only have to wear it for an hour before bed then wash it off. It still develops a tan but I don't have to wear it all night. Don't age your skin withe the suns deadly rays. It will cause wrinkles and cancer!!

Mar 3, 2014

Janette B.

Like Whitney said, tan--> premature wrinkles, cancer, etc... Skin cancer is not sexy. Stick w/ a spray tan. Instant results.

Mar 3, 2014

Brittany F.

Get a good quality lotion from a tanning salon. It should have tyrosine in it which is what stimulates your melanin and makes you brown. I want to just strangle people who claim skin cancer, you're more likely to be suffering of vitamin D deficiency than you are of developing melanoma in our world today.

Mar 4, 2014

Emily W.

Brittany, that isn't true. With a proper diet (hell, even a diet that consists of mostly junk with a salad now and then) and normal exposure to sunlight, an average person absorbs plenty of vitamin d. Minimal exposure to UV from sunlight coming through windows on a normal day is sufficient.

The only time that adding additional UV exposure would be beneficial is if one is suffering from a severe condition that prevents absorption of vitamin d, and in that case they would be in the care of a physician, not lying out trying to get brown.

A tan is skin damage. Your body is reacting to damage from radiation on a cellular level, by attempting to produce melanin to block additional damage. This damage is what leads to wrinkles, dark spots, texture changes, and cancer.

True, melanoma is still rare. Though, rates are increasing EXPONENTIALLY amongst young women. There are many other types of skin cancer. Just because it starts on the skin does not make it any less serious than other cancers. You don't have to burn, getting a tan is enough damage to destroy healthy cells.

I have had skin cancer twice from sun exposure. Both times led to a skin biopsy that hurt and created scars, a full body CAT scan and a full body MRI with contrast (that's over five hours lying perfectly still inside of a giant metal tube that makes loud noises, with an IV in your arm), and blood panels. Thankfully, it never metastasized. Now I go in every other month and repeat this process, to make sure it hasn't returned.

Skin cancer is dangerous, expensive, and frightening. It isn't worth putting yourself at risk for nothing more than vanity.

Mar 4, 2014

Brittany F.

The problem is there is 0 direct sunlight from November- March and unless you're drinking 3 gallons of milk I don't see how you plan on gaining enough vitamin D, not to mention your body should only be getting 10 percent of it's vitamin d from Melanin from food anyways, because only 30 percent of the vitamin d you ingest stays in your body, it's hard to keep up with. But unfortunately there are always people that get the short of end of the stick, I get it. But so many things in the world can give us cancer, and I'm not one ready to cut chocolate out of my diet. I am truly sorry for your circumstances, and because of that I know it's hard to see this from my point of view- but I can honestly say the benefits of tanning (in the northern hemisphere at least) out weigh the defaults.