Community Chat

[goldensrbest]

A very bad mistake, i burned so much as a teen,i have all the sun damage at 75.

[Lakelife62]

Same old song, different choir.

I get spray tans and I'm always shocked at the number of very young people using tanning beds at the salon.

But they will learn, sometimes the hard way, like we all did. And some of us still haven't completed the lesson.

[San Antonio Gal]

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@CJC wrote:

Young people tend to live in the moment. They don't concern themselves with the ailments of older age. Those things are for their grandparents and, of course, they themselves are immortal. I was one of those sun worshippers back in 60's-80's when there was very little warning about cancer, but my grandmother warned me about wrinkles. Didn't care....I just wanted to look good NOW. 

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When you're younger, you're invincible and you don't think about the distant future.  Agree with you @CJC .

[Stray]

I was a sun worshipper & used baby oil & a reflector. I went to the Caribbean every year & got terrible sunburns with blisters. I rarely used sun block. Now, I’ve had two melanomas removed the past two years. My skin is a mess with moles & freckles & the worst on my face. I wish I had listened.

[Marp]

As a teen I lived in CT and spent hours a day at the beach eventually turning a gorgeous coppery color.  No oils or lotions.

When I moved to Florida the first time at the beach for a few hours I turned into a lobster and ended up in bed for almost a week.

Lesson learned.  Now sun exposure is extremely limited and never during the highest UV Index periods.

[haddon9]

Tanmaxing?  Add a new name and it's suddenly a new thing!

Back in 1979 my husband (who was my boyfriend at the time) rented an old fixer three story Victorian house with a huge porch at the Jersey shore with another friend for the summer. It was cheap back then (it needed a lot of work) and was on the beach block.  Half a block away was the boardwalk.

There were several regulars there each weekend and one was a girl that DH worked with.  She had an olive complexion and would sit out for hours each day.  By mid summer she was really very dark! I wonder what she looks like today.

[wagirl]

I am guilty of the tanning to the max when I was a kid---the baby oil, the cocoa butter--all of it. I tan very easily and it looked good!!! Only burned once to the extreme where I peeled. And fortunately, at my age now--72--not any awful damage was done, at this point.  Haven't done any "tanning" for decades now---Had a basal cell spot on my left lower area just under my clavical--years ago--and then a couple years ago, on my left ankle, had a squamous cell spot. I took care of those right away. When I was working in retail, there was a woman who came in to the store- as brown as a coconut every summer and thru the year too---I worked there for 12 years and little by little, her skin turned into the look of leather--was a shiny brown with very exaggerated lines in the usual places. Was not attractive at all. Thought there was serious skin cancer in her future. 

[Still Raining]

The VIRAL tanning TREND exposing the DANGEROUS side of ALGORITHM -DRVEN beauty.  

Can we have a few more buzzwords please?  😂

[SharkE]

I had a couple basal cell cancers removed. One on side of nose one on upper back near the hairline.

I was young and back in my day you just had to have a tan you know.

They give you a shot first to deaden the pain of removal.  Then they dig down and cut out the cancer

not only removing the area, but, some margin areas below the spot and on both sides.  Then they make you

wait while they look at it under a microscope to make sure the margins are clean and no cancer cells are left behind.  If they missed something they go at it till they

know it's gone.

Costly. After healing leaves a white spot that won't darken. It will stay white. 1 on my nose healed fine, but, my back a big white circle that still itches today.

Now in my declining yrs. I had my car windows tinted to the extent legal in my state.  Don't mow unless it's a real cloudy dark day. Wear a mask, sunhat, etc. Sunroof has never been opened.

Basal cell is the least of the skin cancers. Redheads

have the biggest risk.  Tan is not worth it.

[foxywoods]

Ugh. wish I had embraced my paleness as a teen, but we lived a mile from the ocean and we baked in the backyard to look hot in our bikinis. Plus I had a freind who tanned super dark dark, she was Italian so she tanned easily.  Finally wised up around age 30 and at least covered my face at the beach.