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Any of you BL'ers TAN? if so, does it improve your mood/confidence?

Journey

Journey

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I've been tanning everyday during mid-day hours for a couple hours per day, just laying there next to a lake on this hill watching the geese and of course the occasional cute girl jog by :D

I've noticed since I started tanning my mood as improved and I'm more confident. Does the sun raise serotonin levels? I think I read somewhere that it does.

How many of you TAN?
 
Me like tanning.

My skin looks more radiant and glowing when it's sunny outside.

However, make sure you're not out there too long. Take it easy. It's quality over quantity when it comes to the sun and the more you can enjoy being in the moment of being outside with the sun shining, that's what matters.
 
I've noticed since I started tanning my mood as improved and I'm more confident. Does the sun raise serotonin levels? I think I read somewhere that it does.
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Yes it does,
But if you had a high Tryptophan diet, you are more likely to produce more serotonin
 
Yes, yes and omg yes haha. I become more happy, have motivation, and etc when tan. I love to tan, read a book and etc but everyone knows the sun makes you more happy and so will the tan. Plus I'm veryyy pale so in summer I tan a lot. It's gorgeous out... i still havent gone tanning this year but i shopuld..
 
I won't sit there with a reflecting tanning aid, but I do love to get some sun. I tan very well, but don't dig that whole tanning bed thing, so I only get my sun in the spring and summertime when I go out and do enjoy the outdoors

it's been gloriously sunny here in the Mid-West... you can even call this an early summer. just now I was lifting some weights in my backyard without a shirt and soaking up sun some. I know that sounds kind of red neck right there, but what can I say? I freakin' LOVE the sun, and I have noticed that my general mood has improved 100 PERCENT since the frigidness of the winter has all but been a memory of the weeks past

I think a lot of people suffer from seasonal depression, when you count the people that suffer on more mild levels. I know I feel much better in the sunlight :) :D
 
Due to Australia's climate and position on the globe, we have some of the harshest conditions in the world. This makes any kind of 'tanning' very dangerous ad is strongly advised against by every health body in the country.

That said, it's so important to have monitored exposure to sunlight in order for the body to absorb the required amounts of vitamin D.

I have some relevant material from Cancer.org.au

During summer, the majority of people can maintain adequate vitamin D levels from a few minutes of exposure to sunlight on their face, arms and hands or the equivalent area of skin on either side of the peak UV periods (10am to 3pm) on most days of the week.

In winter in the southern parts of Australia, where UV radiation levels are less intense, people may need about two to three hours of sunlight to the face, arms and hands, or equivalent area of skin, spread over a week to maintain adequate vitamin D levels.
In winter in northern parts of Australia, people will continue to maintain adequate vitamin D levels going about their day-to-day activities, so it is not necessary to deliberately seek UV radiation exposure.
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Living in Eastern Australia I am exposed to very high levels of UV on a daily basis, in Summer or Winter. I wear SPF30+ every day on my arms, face, neck and hands.

I use a lie-down solarium bed for 6-8 minutes each fortnight as treatment for my eczema (skin condition). This is controlled in every sense of the word, and does not result in tanning colour - it just gives my skin enough vitamin D to avoid the symptoms of eczema (scaly, dry and bleeding skin).

I have used every treatment under the sun (pun intended ;) ), and aside from steroid cream this is the only thing that consistently and completely works for me. :\
I hate having to do it, but I prefer being able to subject my body to a mesurable amount of UVA and UVB rays instead of risking trying to obtain that same amount from sitting in the sun.. Plus there's the issue of finding a location where I can expose my entire body to the sun?
 
I am VERY tan (from working outside half the day in Phoenix, AZ) people seriously think i'm mexican even though i'm white...

No, it doesnt really improve my confidence....and fake tanning in those booths is fucking horrible for you
 
I love it! I do it 'cause I enjoy the act in itself, not for the great skin color it gives me, but I have no complains about that at all!
 
I am very pale and burn extremely easily. With that said, I want to start using the tanning beds at my gym to prepare for summer, but I have never used them before and am kind of nervous (and claustrophobic and don't like that scene from Final Destination 3). Can anyone suggest the right lotions, other products, timeframes, frequency, etc, to obtain a good tan by June/July without getting horribly burnt along the way? Do those beds (actually I think my gym has the standing booths) tan you so that it affects your entire body evenly (I always seemed to fail at this when poolside tanning)? I know nothing about this and feel awkward asking the dudes working at my gym, so any advice would be great!
 
^ Start off very slow with the tanning beds. If you get told to start off with 10 minutes, I'd suggest halving it to five and seeing how you do--It's better to not see any results than to get burnt to a crisp. ;)

I went to tanning beds for awhile with a friend, and I really didn't get tan--I'd turn red but it would not fade into a tan. Summer sunshine turns me red but that fades into a slight tan.

I did notice with the beds, that the lower parts of legs would not get much color at all--Every once in awhile they'd get burnt, but it was rare. I don't know if it was from how I was laying on them or what, but yeah.
 
I used tanning beds from 1992 and quit in 2005 or 06. I used to not give a shit and say bury me in a white dress. I have definite visible skin damage (discoloration, broken capillaries) that worsens in the sun. I regret my tanning years. I wish I cared about myself more in my 20's.

I still like having a tan. I like the way it looks. It covers up MOST skin imperfections except the damaged areas which just get darker and more noticeable. I don't lay out much. It bores me. If I do I will wear SPF 30 on my body where in previous years I would not apply anything. I wear 30 SPF daily face. 45 SPF on the face in the summer months. I like getting colour on my skin from being active outdoors. I do not burn easily.
 
I tan and use Melanotan II year around. I love being tan in the middle of winter and not even having to go out in the sun or hit a bed lol.
 
I think it does raise my confidence. I've always been incredibly pale, as if I was born a heroin addict. This summer though I went to the south and worked on a farm for a month and I got a tan for the first time, it made me feel great.
 
It's tacky and unhealthy. Its popularity started in the 50's/60's as a status display when the expanding European middle class began taking holidays on the sunny Southern European coastline. "Look at my tan, I can afford to holiday".
 
As a pastime no - I have much better things to do with my time...It's not good for me to lie (and read for e.g) in teh sun, working in the sun is fine, but I won't ever sunbathe UNLESS I am ill, and it is needed as part of my rest bite - I have not yet needed this though and I fuckin hope I won't need to anytime soon. Much as I love the sun - it makes me happy - mmm serotonine.

I also value not getting skin cancer, so I accept that I am a white Celt and do not try to do anything more than be so - I use sun cream in teh summer and veg oil in the spring when I go out, and this does me fine.

In fact I'm going to go out now and catch the last rays. excuse me :)
 
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both my parents have had instances of skin cancer on their face from spending lots of time outside unprotected in their youth. thanks to my shit genetics i burn in under 20 minutes on a bright day, so i never tan and always wear the strongest sunscreen i can find. Usually 70spf with metals in it. i'd like nothing more in my life than maybe a tan and it's never going to happen. my nickname in high school (among others) was the flying albino.
 
In Florida, if you go to the beaches at any time, but especially the winter time, you see what happens when you go out in the sun all your life. The old women look nasty. It just ages you. I stay out of the sun although I have a little tiny tan from working out outside. I put sunscreen on my face every day. I did beach days as a kid, but I'm really white and know that I need to stay out of the sun as much as possible for my health and I don't want to look like I'm 50 when I turn 40. :D
 
I don't lay out and tan. I tan just walking around and going about my life. It's always sunny in Hawaii. :) Everyone is tanned here. It does improve my confidence because I fit in with everyone and makes me look skinnier? I don't know. Growing up it was always a bad thing to be white.
 
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