If you are over 40, do you still tan?
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Anonymous
| I never tanned. Melanoma and saggy, leathery, aging skin are not a goal for me. |
Anonymous
| If you are still tanning at 39 you may as well continue because the damage is done ... That said, as I get older I have gotten a little laxer about sun protection because I do think vitamin d is important too. |
Anonymous
Yes, great tip!!! |
Anonymous
| I can't believe anyone would tan. The only tanning I did was when I was too lazy to wear sunscreen religiously as a teenager. I especially can't believe that a woman in her 30s or 40s would purposefully tan their skin. Ugh. |
Anonymous
| Don't wear much sunscreen, don't tan on purpose |
Anonymous
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I know everyone looks better w/a tan, and I admit in my younger days I used to lay out on the beach or w/friends by the pool during the summer to "work" on my tan. Lots of people did it back in the day before spray tans.
Lucky for me I didn't over do it. As a woman in my 40's, I see a lot of women who look terrible because they spent too much time in the sun. Their skin has that dry leathery look now. I would NEVER tan intentionally at this stage of my life. If I really wanted to look tan, I would use either a self~tanner or get a professional spray tan. I look young and want to enjoy my youth as long as I can. Also, the fear of skin cancer {or any cancer for that matter} resides in me and at this stage in my life, I acknowledge that life is really too short...it is not some cliche. I want to live as healthy as I possibly can. The two most drastic agers are too much sun and smoking. |
Anonymous
| I never started. I'm reaping the rewards. |
Anonymous
| Nope. Stop tanning in HS when I got skin cancer. |
Anonymous
Totally disagree! After age 40 it just puts on years. Tans look awful on pretty much everyone. Yeech. |
Anonymous
| No - but I still get color in the summer from being out with the kids - even with applying sunscreen religiously. i guess i need to start wearing a hat. |
Anonymous
My sister only dated darker skinned men because she didn't want her kids to have our pasty while skin. She married a man from Madrid. Her children have golden skin. Worked for her. |
Anonymous
| I have so many scars from burned off cut off skin cancer. I have a standing 6 month appointment with my dermatologist. I am always covered from head to toe, as are my children. And, even covered up, i sit in the shade. I don't even open my car's sunroof. I tanned (at the beach) probably until I was in my mid twenties. Never again. |
Anonymous
| My dad is a doctor and he was very indulgent of us. He made very few demands on us. One of them was, sunscreen is not negotiable. So I wore sunscreen from the minute that he read the medical literature about skin cancer on. As an adult, I wear sunscreen daily. I do sit out at the pool and the beach but always with a hat and in the shade. I am over 40 and have had several people over the past 3 years ask me how old I was when I had my ten year old and one woman younger than me said recently that she knew that I had to be older than she was, but she thought I was 35ish. She is my new favorite person. |
Anonymous
| As a darker skinned person, I have never understood what's so great about being tanned. I love my shade, but what's wrong with fair skin, even if it's pale? A clear, smooth complexion trumps a tan anyday. |
Anonymous
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I don't tan, but I want to. It makes me feel sooooo good, as if I am warm to my bones.
Once in a while at the pool I will lie on my stomach in the sun for just a few minutes. I don't really tan though, but it feels so nice. |