Sunbeds those that use/used them

[ChelseaHarvey]

I have decided that i am going to start going back on the sunbed once a week, to get a base tan up for b4 i go away on my hols

I havent really had the chance to sunbath at home with alfie, and thought that the days he is in nursery il go and have a sunbed, we have just had a new one open near us for 25p per min :faint:

16 mins cost £4 when i use to go on one 3 + years ago i use to do 12 mins for about £8 i think.

Do you use anything like sunbed tanning cream or oil

I never use to, i just use to jump straight on there but i have seen it in Wilkinsons and i no sunbed places now normally sell them in sachets or a big bottle

Just wondered what you used

[Jamtart]

I never used to use anything when I used a sunbed... I used the fast tan stand up ones but this was a few years back as I stay away from them now. From what I can remember I was told not to use them more than 20 times a year, so about once a fortnight... just FYI!

[Cherrypie]

I once had a course of sunbed sessions when I was 16; it had to be cut short though as I got a really wierd heat rash from it.

I would really advise against using the sunbed. Why not stick to safe tanning and fake it?

[ms sweetcheeks]

Well can I just say that 25p per minute is CHEAP:
Where I work it's 12pounds for 10minutes:faint:

I don't use sunbeds anymore after seeing what it does to those old bags on "Ten years Younger" programmes..

[Princess Fiona]

I used to use this oil stuff that brings out the color pigmentation in your skin, makes you look red raw when you 1st come off but you go really brown within a couple of hours.

Will just add though that sunbeds WILL make your mask of pregnancy look just awful, my GP advised me to steet well clear, i actually haven't been on a sunbed since before i got married in Jan 04, seems ages ago, i used to go on about 3 times a week in the stand up ones and loved having a nice colour all year round.

[Lois Lane]

No no no no no:no: Step away from the sunbed. I had a serious sunbed addiction about 6 years ago and was absolutely murdered by a skin specialist that I had to see because of a dodgy mole on my face. Since then I stay out of the sun, off the sunbeds and just fake it. I was one of the lucky ones - the mole was removed and was non-cancerous but I still scare myself with what could have been.

[Fantasseee]

You were doing so well with teh fake tan, how come you want to go back to damaging yr skin with sunbeds? Especially when the weather is so hot!

[Jamtart]

No no no no no:no: Step away from the sunbed. I had a serious sunbed addiction about 6 years ago and was absolutely murdered by a skin specialist that I had to see because of a dodgy mole on my face. Since then I stay out of the sun, off the sunbeds and just fake it. I was one of the lucky ones - the mole was removed and was non-cancerous but I still scare myself with what could have been.

This is what I am afraid of... I wouldnt use them now and I always use suncream in the sun too. I'd rather fake it than risk my health now! I have always covered Kenidee in suncream too and she is really good about it now... she even puts it on herself and knows how important it is.

[Lois Lane]

At the height of my sunbed addiction I would go on 3-4 times a week for 20 mins at a time. The damage I must have done to my skin is unthinkable. It was total vanity - I used to be very pale and got fed up with people asking me if I was ill. Then I went on holiday to India and sunburned my face and it went really brown and I loved the compliments about how well I looked. I can't believe the pictures of me back then - I look really unnatural.

The dodgy mole was my wake up call and I've never used a sunbed since. If I do spend any time in the sun I make sure I slap a very high factor sun cream on. Paige doesn't leave the house without factor 50 in this weather.

[Chickpea]

I also had a sunbed addiction a while ago, I used to use those 'tingle' creams, like the one Mrs D talked about, they make you go bright red for a while, but then your tan comes out later. I really got into using them, I felt so much better for having a tan, but I'd never NEVER use one again. It's really damaged the skin on my face, I have way more wrinkles than I prob should have for someone my age.

CH - I know it's appealing to use tanbeds/boothes now, but you will bitterly regret it later, when your skin is like that of an old boot. Fake it hon!

cpx

[ChelseaHarvey]

[QUOTE=Mrs Dargonne]

Will just add though that sunbeds WILL make your mask of pregnancy look just awful, QUOTE]

I have it sorted i hope, im wacking factor 60 over the top of my lip and also covering it with a small cotton wool pad rolled up

Its a facto 60 stick so quite thick, im hoping that will do the job, ive been plastering it on when being outside and it seems fine and no darker, in fact it seems to be getting lighter again, it dissaperaed almost b4 i started taking the Dianette and a month in it came up dark again

What was that oil you used?? do you rember??

[ChelseaHarvey]

You were doing so well with teh fake tan, how come you want to go back to damaging yr skin with sunbeds? Especially when the weather is so hot!

Just wanted to get a base tan up for my holiday, i figured im doing no different than when abroad and lying out for hours in it when on holiday

Its once a week for 8 mins

[Princess Fiona]

Well if the factor 60 is working then good for you. I've been plastering Lu's Nivia SPF50 white stuff all over my face and it looks god awful atm. I'm tempted to get one of those marhoosive hats with a net over the front, my patchy skin looks terrible atm, looks like someone has dropped a tea bag on my face :sigh:

I can't remember what that oil was called SORRY! It was in a clear round bottle with a spray head, and it was red and yellow, the red sat at the bottom and the yellow oil rested on the top, and you had to shake it up!! It was about 2.5 years ago now so i don't even know where to start looking for it. You could use it on the sunbeds or in the REAL sun. I don't think it had any factor to it though :oops: :oops: Really worked though as i got dead brown for my wedding, as i used it for about a month before i went and during the 10 days we were in Jamaica before we got married!! I bought it from the salon i used to use the sunbeds at but its not there anymore else i'd ring them and ask!!

[Sashy]

I have a red and yellow tan maximiser called ' Solaresse'. Don't know if thats the one you mean? You have to mix this one together until it goes orange. I got it from the sunbed shop and remember it was quite cheap, seems to work too.

[Petrus]

I used to go on sunbeds loads, about 2-3 times per week for ten minutes a time, i personally don't think that 8 minutes a week is that dreadful so long as its just to build up the base tan, around here you can get an hour on a stand up in any amount of time for £18. So cheap its stupid!

I used to use the tingle creams too but have since stopped going on the sunbeds and using tingle creams, yeah ok you feel great when you have a nice colour but its still looks fake compared to a holiday in the sun.:grin:

[Princess Fiona]

That COULD be it Sashy!!

[cartchick]

Don't use a sunbed. They are worse than the sun for causing skin cancer.

My uncle died 3 years ago from skin cancer after having a cricket ball sized chunk removed from his leg to take out the tumour - but it had already spread to the other organs.

My old housemates mum died from skin cancer when he was 10 years old and his sister was 6 years old. They never got over that.

If you really want a tan, fake it.

[Azana]

Step away from the sunbed - like the others have said bad idea. Slap on the suncream and just go out and about in this weather a bit! Spend the pennies you save on some fantastic accessory for you hols that will be far nicer and long lasting!

My advice fwiw!

Az

[Minky]

Gemma, you know what I'm going to say.

You are utterly bonkers to be even considering this :loco:

Do you WANT to look like those horrible women on 10 years younger who have skin like leather? And deep horrible wrinkles? And who look 10 years older than they really are?

If you do, go head, use a sunbed and lie in the sun, because that's what you WILL look like in 15 years time.

Not even THINKING about the risk of skin cancer.

Fake it. It's the only safe way and you'll be doing yourself a big favour.

Take it from me, my face is damaged with hyperpigmentation from sun exposure. It is irreversible and I hate hate hate it. I wish someone had read me the riot act when I was your age (actually, when I was at school as I know I did some damage then).

My mother lost her whole TOP LIP FROM SKIN CANCER and had her legs were like craters from having tumours removed. She used to sunbathe all the time with oil when she was young.

Maybe she'd still be alive now if she hadn't and I could tell her how much I love her. Oh feck it, that's made me cry.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON'T USE A SUNBED AND USE SUNSCREEN WHEN YOU ARE IN THE SUN.

Minky

[DillyDally]

Please take notice of what Minky said, it's so dangerous. It may be nice now, but once you are older you can't go back and un-do the damage. Fake it, or be pale, like me :grin:

My mother sunbathes all the time, has done ever since I can remember - doesn't use sunscreen in this country :no: and she is very, very wrinkled. She is lucky she hasn't developed skin cancer. As it is, she is 74, but looks haggard, and much older.

DON'T DO IT!

[Chickpea]

Also - aren't those tan booths WAY more powerful than the sun, something like 8 mins is about equivalent to a day in the sun or something.

Just don't do it - you'll have nothing but regret later! A tan fades, but wrinkles never go away! (and that's just 'best case' scenario!)

cpx

[Fantasseee]

Oh Minky youve made me all tearful now :higgies:

Sometime you have to just let other people make their own mistakes. Maybe in 20 years time Gems will look as young and peachy as a babies bottom, or maybe she will be berating herself for not listening to the pale folk on Damsels, but either way it has to be her choice.

[cartchick]

I absolutely agree with you Fantasseee about Gemma, and anyone else, making their own choices and sometimes mistakes.

Perhaps some of the replies to a relatively innocent question have seemed a bit dramatic - however if someone reads my post about my uncle and friends' Mum, or Minky's post, or everyone elses posts about wrinkles, and it stops one person enduring what my family and friends have gone through, then that would be brilliant.

ccxx

[Minky]

:agree:

Minky

[Lois Lane]

I agree - this isn't a 'get at Gemma' thread but we all just want to let her know our experiences. At the end of the day she is a grown woman and it's her choice but sometimes we often think 'I WISH somebody had told me x/y/z'.

[Fantasseee]

Absolutely. My Mum looks amazing, at least 10 years plus younger than she is, so much so that people cannot believe it when she says she's 64. She has never had a tan and has never been sunburnt.

[ChelseaHarvey]

Im not taking what is being said to heart

I no your just voicing your opinons and im glad.

I just thought that 8 mins a week would be ok, and just a good way to get a base tan up, as its no different that what im going to be doing abroad lying out in the sun for 2 weeks.

You always think "ohh it wont happen to me" we all do until it does or to a friend or relative.