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Steph

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I'm not a tanned lass but after seeing all the sun over the weekend I thought I'd try a few minutes on a sunbed. When I asked the woman she said to me, Just go on for six minutes. I thought she was taking the p**s out of me. SIX MINUTES! How short is that. Anyway on I went and when I got off i didn't feel any different.

That was this afternoon. Now I look like a bloody lobster just been cooked. Can't believe the difference six minutes has made. Why is it I burn so much yet some people go on everyday and just tan?
 
There so powerful nowadays, gone are the times when you had to go on 30 minutes minimum. Just think steph in a couple of days you'll have be a nice brown lobster or a peeling one!!! :o
 
Steph said:
I'm not a tanned lass but after seeing all the sun over the weekend I thought I'd try a few minutes on a sunbed. When I asked the woman she said to me, Just go on for six minutes. I thought she was taking the p**s out of me. SIX MINUTES! How short is that. Anyway on I went and when I got off i didn't feel any different.

That was this afternoon. Now I look like a bloody lobster just been cooked. Can't believe the difference six minutes has made. Why is it I burn so much yet some people go on everyday and just tan?
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Steph please be carefull !! i had a friend that went on a sunbed only once she had a mole on her shoulder and it turned cancerous after sadly she died of it .
 
Sunbeds are a highly speeded up version of "tanning"(for which read "cooking yourself under sunlight").If the sun affect you badly then a sunbed will do only more so. Did you use any cream/lotion/spray as you would have done if sunbathing outdoors? Remember we are advised to use at least SF15 at first. Have you seen the Boots ads?

Awful what appened to your friend Mick. Anyone with moles should be careful of the sun and sunbeds. Both can cause skin cancer.
 
Steph said:
I'm not a tanned lass but after seeing all the sun over the weekend I thought I'd try a few minutes on a sunbed.
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:D Try a sun shower next time Steph they are even better, quicker and a more even tan and you don't get no white stripe labels down the sides of your bod :eek: !

When there is a shortagen of real sun I'm off for 9 minutes of sun shower fantasy that I'm led on a Spanish beach, only thing is there's no sexy Spanish waiter to bring me a cold beer in the tanning shops :( !
 
I haven't been on a sunbed for years but I do know that they are so powerful now that a few minutes is enough. I am fair skinned and I will tan but only with care. If I burn I've had it. You do need to wear some kind of protective cream on sunbeds now. They tend to do their own creams at tanning shops as they used to reckon that using normal SPF doesn't protect on a sunbed or may cause rashes.. and I reckon it's so that they can charge you an extra quid for the cream..:D

I would keep off the sunbed Steph. It's not worth looking like a lobster in order to try to get a tan. I would rather be pale and interesting than brown and wrinkly...:)
 
they would have to pay me to use a sunbed.........If I wanted to look tanned for a special occasion then I would have one of those spray on jobs done.......no fried and peeling skin after one of those.
 
Tinkerbelle said:
:D Try a sun shower next time Steph they are even better, quicker and a more even tan and you don't get no white stripe labels down the sides of your bod :eek: !
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What's a sun shower? I must be behind the times. I've never heard of them.
 
I went to Turkey a couple of years ago. I used SPF50 went out on a boat & came back like a lobster. I used the same lotion as my little'un & he was fine!!! It depends on your skin type.
 
WillowTheWhisp said:
What's a sun shower?
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Like a big walk in sun bed room were you stand up instead of lieing down.

I also agree sunbeds and sun showers aren't the healthiest of things but I don't suit milk bottle white, so I'll cream up well and keep using them and worry about the effects when I'm old and wrinkly!
 
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