If you want to look 45 when you're 30, keep tanning. I regret every moment I spent in the sun honestly. May seem silly but it has easily aged me many years now that I'm 61. Too late now though. Now I wear these cute sun jackets and lightweight sun gloves because the bulk of my sun years were driving. I wish they sold those jackets decades ago when I was a teenager on up. I'm fair skinned though so the sun has really taken a toll, but I know many people with olive skin who look like ancient frog people by 45.

by Electronic-Fig 1 month ago

I know many people with olive skin who look like ancient frog people by 45. Oh yes, that glorious Queensland/Florida look. So enchanting. Still the real risk is skin cancer which can come decades after the tanning session.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I'm leaning into pale skin and covering up now personally. Good choice, my friend!

by Anonymous 1 month ago

You won't die if you tan but you'll look 15 years older.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I mean you could die earlier , and look 15 years older at the same time.

by Wheaney 1 month ago

Who doesn't want to look like leather when they die of cancer?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah. I don't actively tan, but I spend time outside in the sun. Even with SPF 50 I get dark pretty fast.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

what internet are you on because the one I'm on blows up about every single indulgence from cigarettes and booze to food. my husband was like you. he now has cancers cut out every couple months. he lost a strip of his scalp and currently has 10 stitches in his face from his latest cancer. his ex-wife also tanned. she looks twenty years older. frankly it sounds like you are mentally hiding under a rock. basal cell carcinoma is common and can be disfiguring. 1 in 5 women get it and 1in 4 men. the rates are much higher in people with regular sun exposure like tanning. in Australia, it's 1 in 2 and that would be equivalent to regular tanning bed users. also have you seen what tanning does to your skin over time? I'm 52, an age at which your behavioural choices catch up with you. I'm allergic to sunlight, so I get zero unnecessary sun exposure. I wear a hat and sunscreen. I have few wrinkles and they aren't deep. I recently saw an image of an associate who is 4 days older than me who tanned. she looks like she's wearing a leather mask and that she is 15 years my senior easily. enjoy looking like a handbag at 40.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I haven't seen much hate for tanning online and I see like thousands of people outside tanning every summer so I wouldn't say this is unpopular

by Jealous-Address7742 1 month ago

I see constant hate for tanning but yeah most people probably do it anyway so good point

by Few-Garbage 1 month ago

And people always chime in with the most condescending tone, like your first sentence here

by Few-Garbage 1 month ago

You deserve nothing but condescension. There are mountains of evidence, collected by thousands of scientists and medical professionals and even victims of skin cancer, that proves that you are wrong. But you think that you can just say "nah, I don't think so" and somehow you're just as valid. You are not.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Smoking is fine, too. If the urge hits, just light one up. This is you, this is what you sound like.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

The sun is good for you. It always has been. Helps mood, important for healthy skin etc. like anything else, excess sun is bad for you. I tan easily, my mother tanned easily until I was born. I do not purposely tan but I do enjoy being out in the sun during the summer. There is something different from 50 years ago with the strength of the sun or maybe it's peoples genes but there does seem to be a problem for more people being out in the sun for long than there used to be. Maybe it's just the sheer amount of chemicals in their bodies?

by Marcodoyle 1 month ago