Question for chicks who tan....
 

I didn't want to look stupid and ask the chick behind the counter, but how do you keep your butt from getting burned or slightly baked when you use the tanning bed? Do you put on some sort of sunblock on that area? I got a baby smooth butt, but lately it gets baked each time I tan. Each time is less crispy than before, but it still gets that sunburned feeling to it. At nights I have to sleep on my stomach.

I'm wondering if it could possibly be the tanning lotion I'm using. It's that good stuff that makes you really tan, it costs like 50$ a bottle. I'm sure some of you know what lotion I'm talking about.

Any suggestions?

I always start laughing hilariously when the subject of tanning comes up. . .

Why are white people trying to get dark?
What's wrong with your original color?

Maybe I just don't get the whole tanning thing. Toasting the skin cells with 'harmless' ultraviolet rays on purpose. One of my friends, who is biracial, tans so that people can tell that she's biracial. I just shake my head.

Then again, I guess being black, you don't have to worry about stuff like that. I'm already tan. Lucky me, huh?

As a former employee at a very reputable tanning salon in tampa, florida - i will pm you with your answer. (so go check your pm's)

CTFU!!! You said it! I am just about as white as a person can be, and I never understood the desire to tan. I guess that's why people always think I'm about 7 years younger than I am. ;)

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Could be...

I don't use lotion when I use tanning bed and don't have burning problem at all... sometimes I feel burn-y when I am done, but I don't look it and the feeling usually goes away after a couple of hours.

Valkyrie, I'm right there with you. My skin is so light that it is practically transparent. I have never had a deside to get into a tanning bed and I never will.

After my stepsister had a baby she came up to me and said, "Uh, look at me, I'm so white." I was like, "Newsflash you are white!"

In 15-20 years from now I'm going to look good because everyone else is going to have skin like leather!!

While I'm sure most people tan because they like the look that it creates, tanning can actually be beneficial to those that suffer from depression or SAD (seasonal Affective Disorder).
Many therapists/dcotors may suggest tanning occasionaly, or even a special lamp that creates artificial sunlight, to improve mood, and help battle depression because that dose of light can do wonders.
While tanning often will damage the skin, using a tanning bed once in a while to help battle SAD is a good thing.

I think it has to do with where you live in the country. You probably won't find a shit load of people in Wisconsin who are tanned. In Florida and California you have beaches everywhere. To a lot of people being tanned looks a lot better than being ghost white.

Then again you do have those strange instances where some people look good without a tanned complextion. ( Anne Heche )


And black people can tan.....I have a friend who is black and has complained in the past about being sunburnt.


*Stop trying to hijack my thread*

Good point. Down here, there aren't many really pale people. It has nothing to do with being proud of your whiteness, or whatever, it has to do with trying to acclimate to your surroundings. If you live in Fla, it is nearly impossible not to have some kind of tan anyway, unless you walk around in pants and a turtleneck everyday. Lots of people I know use the tanning bed to even their color out.

And yes, black people can tan. I even know some black people who use the tanning bed (as I said, to even out color).

i personally tan a couple times over winter because i feel sickly looking if i don't. i dont' get that "just went to bermuda" look going, but i don't let myself get paper white..

I personally feel that I look better and healthier with a tan. I definitely don't have a deep, dark tan but I think that a little coloring makes me look better. Certain clothing colors will look better on me. Like UF Pike said, it's Florida where the weather is usually warm all year round (except for the freeze last week....). Today I wore a tank top to class; I'm not going to be all pasty pale and wear a tank top.

I put a towel under my butt when I'm laying on my back in the tanning bed. When I flip over to my stomach, I take it off so I don't get tanlines.

If I want to get a tan I will just do some yard work.

i get very tan in the summer. i have olive colored skin that's very pale in the winter but tans almost instantly, although i use a ton of sunscreen.

it has nothing to do with wanting to be black. :rolleyes: i like the look of a tan and i certainly don't want to change my race.

i like the look of a mid to deep tan, especially since i am at the beach 5-6 times a week over the summer.

i will never go to a tanning booth.

The Pakastani woman I used to work with couldnt understand it either. She was like, "in a culture where the media has historically put such an overemphasis on "whiteness" as being the desired, why do you as a white kid, try to get sun?" And ya know, I could never explain it to her. I have since eliminated my exposure to the sun. Skin cancer is prevalant in mi familia. Plus, I dotn wanna look like a wallet when I am 50. Coem on, skin isnt supposed to make a sound when you walk. My aunt was always in the sun and she looked like she used to bob for apples in a deep fat fryer. I never could tell if she was original recipie, or extra crispy. My friend Les has fake baked so much she now looks like a photo negative. She has that healthy orange glow.

White people getting tans is along the same line of some black females getting "weave", simmering pressed locks, relaxers, using Pink moisterizer, etc. It doesn't mean much.

Me, too! What I don't understand is why people have to point out that I am really pale. As if I didn't know that.

Right now my very white mom is in Hawaii wearing SPF 45. :)

This is your best bet . . also start removing the towel for like 5 minutes . . and then slowly increasing the time without the towel.

I am tan most of the year. I tan easily and dark. Come to think of it I haven't tanned in a while not good . . . its great in winter because it warms you up, subjectively at least .

Or screw it, use a stand up. We have the 8 minute ones that are really popular now. Tan all over no burn.

i think that same stuff too. i didn't even think it was real until i moved out from the northeast. and for some reason, i always thought guys who did it were you know....happy. but then again, i've never had that kinda problem, so i guess it's not for me to say.

I'm a pretty happy guy most of the time . . .

To me it seems like people who tan for a really long time start to have skin with a "leatheresque" quality. Kinda creepy.

hahaha, i'm not mad at you :D :D :D

ROFL@ the wallet comment! I'm about as pasty as they come - I burn if I *think* about sun. I'm the kind of person that can get burned from riding in the car. I'll fake bake in the summer, just to avoid that super-pasty look.

I already look much younger than I am - and I plan to keep on looking that way. I wear SPF 15 daily, and if I"m going out into the sun for any prolonged period of time, I wear SPF 45.

Hooray for pasty people! :)

Re: Question for chicks who tan....
 

I'm not a chick, but a women by the way....

To answer the original question, though I don't know why I even bother....

When you're tanning take the towel they provide for you and lay it on top of your bottem (or under) when tanning. Not the whole time, but for a few minutes while the rest of your body is tanning.

What do you do if you want to tan just your booty?! I hear that sort of thing is in these days...

Wear a body suit and cut out the ass part and bake it!!!

Actually, it's very easy...:D

Ivory

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If you don't know why you're answering, then get the hell out of my thread. You can come back once you realize why you want to post in here.

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Don't be such a D*CK! Why do you assume I was even referring to YOU when I made that comment? What? Are you paranoid?

I meant that since no one even bothered to answer your question and turned the whole thread in a different direction, than why should I answer it? I was being sarcastic. Maybe you should look that up.

Oh, I can't wait for the response! I bet it will say something about me being Korean or a "chick".....
This I can't wait to read!!<- an example of sarcasim

I've only booth tanned once in my life before (before fall formal, i went two or three times to get rid of tanlines - i wore a strapless dress)

but I am suffering from the winter blahs big time...I may go once just to test if it does help SAD related type stuff

Everytime I think of tanning salons I think of that really nasty and wrinkly old lady from "There's Something about Mary". M-something...Minerva?

My genes guarantee me a perfect tan 24/7/365 and I'm thankful for it. I really don't understand how tanning salons stay in business in Hawaii.

LOL, I think her name was Magda. :)

I don't think black people tan on purpose though. Do they? WHo knows?

What am I hijaking? What does that mean?

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Where do you get me assuming I was thinking you reffered to me from my post?


Do you have a problem with reading comprehension? Did you have to take prep classes in English? All my post said was that you needed to leave since you had no idea why you posted in my thread.

And yes, people did answer my question.


Let's make an effort to avoid each other in the future....

Yes, they do. To even out their color. In Florida, it is nearly inpossible not to have some kind of effects from the sun. I know black people who go on the beach and sunbathe to get a tan. Come to FL, you'll see.

I take it you have to tan as well? Even out that faint heinny of yours....lol

:eek:

That is a major faux pas in the black community (Asians and hipanics too) where I'm from. Blacks and other minorities who tan are accused of trying to "be white" (though the opposite happens).

I don't go near tanning beds, so my sister keeps telling me I need to use sunless tanner during the winter because I get pretty pale. Has anyone had any good experiences with that stuff? I tried it once, but it didn't make much difference. I think I'll just stick to my BeneFit bronzing powder.