Sun Burn

GreekLetterGirl · #1 03-05-2002, 06:37 PM

ok while my sisters are all out chilling on the beach, I am working 12-8 in the 0 degree weather, so I decided that I wanted to be tan too, well I went to the tanning bed and I have the worst most blotchy sun burn ever in between my chest, my butt, my back, they where refering to me as lobster at work so.. does anyone have any advice ?

bruinaphi · #2 03-05-2002, 06:40 PM

Jason aloe vera with Witch Hazel. It soothes the skin and helps it turn faster. Jason is an all natural brand (they carry it at whole foods and other health food places). Keep it in the refridgerator and then it feels like heaven when you put it on your skin.

AlphaGam1019 · #3 03-05-2002, 06:42 PM

I would recommend Banana Boat Aloe Vera spray gel. It is very cool and refreshing on burnt skin!

SAEalumnus · #4 03-05-2002, 08:10 PM

OUCH! I hope you feel better soon!

amycat412 · #5 03-05-2002, 08:18 PM

Aloe and Lotion are the best things for the burn.

But, a tanning bed should not burn you that bad or leave you splotchy unless there is something wrong with their bulbs--some in the bed may be new, some may be old and wearing out which would account for the splotchiness, but again, this should not happen in a tanning bed. I find my tan to be way more even from tanning bed than from sun.

GreekLetterGirl · #6 03-05-2002, 08:29 PM

i would love to tan in the sun except there is snow onthe ground and it is about 0 degrees out side

so the only way I will like like i was on teh beach will be to tan.. I have one more tan left in my package.. so I am switching to another place on thursday....

amycat412 · #7 03-05-2002, 08:37 PM

I wasn't saying sun is better--

I was just saying there is something wrong with the tanning bed you were using as a tanning bed's advantage is the even tan you get from it.

Its 75 here in SoCal!

ErikaXO · #8 03-05-2002, 11:38 PM

I don't want to be preachy GLG, but my advice would be to take this as a valuable lesson. We all know that suntanning is bad for you......and it has been unequivocally proven that tanning beds are much much worse.

I am very dark-skinned for a white gal. I have nearly black hair and eyes and I tan sooooo easily. But I was a tanorexic in my youth and on top of never using sunscreen when I was a kid (and being almost universally brown) I started going to tanning beds in college. Now I am dealing with tiny freckles under my eyes that never used to be there, a definite change in skin texture, tiny laugh lines around my mouth and a slight crepiness under my eyes.....the culprit? Sun and/or UV damage. I have had to have 2 moles removed already and I know they won't be the last. I have the toughest, oiliest, most non-aging type of skin you can have, and I blew it. PLEASE don't fry yourself!!!!! I used to look at tanned people and see healthy, sexy. Now I look at them and I see cancer, wrinkles......it really isn't worth it. I am terrified that I am going to get skin cancer one of these days.

KillarneyRose · #9 03-06-2002, 12:24 AM

GLG, have you tried self tanner? I understand that some of the higher-end lines make really good ones! (i.e. they don't turn you orange or collect in creases of your skin) Definitely safer than tanning!

AlphaGam1019 · #10 03-06-2002, 12:29 AM

A great self tanner is the one made my Estee Lauder.

Make sure you wash your hands throughly after you apply-- in my younger years, I did not do this and I had brown hands for days! (what a funny sight! lol) Also, watch out for your knees and ankles!

justamom · #11 03-06-2002, 03:58 PM

After the "heat" is gone, try Noxema. My father was burned when an acid line blew. When he came home from the hospital, we kept him slathered in Noxema. The only place he got a scar was the one spot we missed. I also used it on my hand 3 days after a very bad burn and it looks completely normal-I used Aloe (the plant) first and believe that was a ncessary step in the healing.

Tom Earp · #12 03-06-2002, 05:54 PM

DO NOT USE A GREASY FOR OF ANY THING! It Keeps the Burn in!

Try making Tea like you drink and put it on gently! I dont know what makes it work but it does! I always heard about vinegar all it did was make me smell like a salad!

You need to let the skin breath!

greeklawgirl · #13 03-06-2002, 11:33 PM

Just to jump on the anti-tanning wagon...Erika is absolutely correct. I'm very fair and I can't tan to save my life, so I am very careful about slathering on sunblock. On the last day of my honeymoon in Hawaii, I forgot to reapply my sunblock and got burnt on my chest. It was excruciating....and I still have the burn lines a year and a half later. My dermatologist said those lines will probably never go away.

Skin cancer is not worth a tan!