Why do people do that to themselves? It looks like a spectacle...sometimes it almost looks like a mockery of something (other than their skin).
I'm against (intentional) tans whether they are sun or tanning salon. Sun tanning sometimes has the cute and healthy glow but it often doesn't, as far as I'm concerned. That's my personal bias.
Random:
I've probably told this story over the years, but I remember when crazy college co-eds really started crowding Jamaica and Cancun for Spring Break. I remember one white guy came back really tanned, with his hair cornrowed and with beads, and with a Bob Marley shirt on. Trendy middle-upper class vacationing, indeed. He told my light skinnedededed friend "hey, I'm Blacker than you are now." My friend said "yeah...holla at me when you can't get a job because of that shit."