Backstory: Growing up my parents used to take my two older sisters and me to the tanning beds to “pretan” for our trips to Florida, Jamaica, etc. This is back when you were allowed to stay in tanning beds for 30 minutes! My mom would sit in there with me because I was scared. We would even get out of elementary school to go tan for our trip.
There is another study out saying that tanning beds are a big contributor to cancer. We need to stay out of them. Sorry for taking you to them when you were younger. We thought it was better to pretan.
From now on.. sunscreen is needed.
Love you lots,
Mom
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August 5, 2009 at 8:43 pm
HAAA! Way back then it took 6 months for me to work up to 30 minutes. It takes just as long nowadays for me to spend 10 minutes in one of the super-duper 20 minute models. I resort to the spray tan now b/c I have a short attention span and hate just LAYING there. I’m one of the whitest white people in the town of Whiteville. Many thanks to my Irish, Scot & Brit forefathers/foremothers, ye whiter than white jerkweeds. God bless your souls, anyway.
August 5, 2009 at 10:17 pm
I really don’t understand why everyone seemed so surprised when this research came out. What, you didn’t know tanning was bad for you before?
August 12, 2009 at 12:49 pm