Aibu to use sunbeds instead of fake tan?

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As a way of focusing on myself, I’m losing weight and making myself a better version of me. Due to getting so large I have bad stretchmarks. Am I unreasonable to use sunbeds as they actually blend the stretch marks more. I find fake tan doesn’t stain the skin the same and makes them stand out more! Really trying to make an effort. Get a colour. Lose weight. Dye my hair. I’m on a mission to regain my confidence through my appearance I’m thinking once I’ve lost the weight in a year to reward myself with veneers and a breast uplift with implants. So yes to fake boobs, tanned and blonde or no stay natural, brunette and pale

There is the possibility that any sun damage could lead to cancer at some point. Protecting yourself from sun damage is the primary point of sun protection,but it has the side effect of minimising wrinkling as well.

@PinotPony I was tempted to put my ulcerated metastases on here but I’d get banned

As others have said it’s your choice but I wouldn’t do it, I was friends with a girl years ago who is younger than me and used sun beds all the time, her face is all wrinkled and she looks much older than me now not to
mention storing up the risk of skin cancer.

I wear SPF 50 if I sit out in the sun, I only sit out after the intense afternoon sun has passed and usually mostly in the shade.

as another poster said I am also too vain in that I don’t want to age prematurely and wear spf on my face every day. I find the in shower fake tan to be brill think st tropez do one

I'm allergic to fake tan so when I want a tan I use body bronzer - it's a rub-on tan but it's basically makeup. Stains the skin, lasts a couple of days and covers stretch marks COMPLETELY

Could you fake tan and then touch up the stretch marks with a rub on tan? It'd give you even more coverage/smoothing of the skin than a real tan

Also, aside from the health risks, sunbeds make you look SO OLD. Save your skin (and the Botox) use SPF, fake tan and avoid the sun

Sunbeds only have a limited place in the medical industry for treating skin conditions that improve with uv exposure, like psoriasis. They should not be available to the general public because the general public do not, or will not, regulate their exposure.
My mother had psoriasis over 80 percent of her body, she was hospitalised many times, swathed in bandages from head to foot, every area of skin a raw bleeding mess. The uv treatment helped enormously but even then, two decades ago, it was being used with caution and highly regulated.
Now we can treat with biologic injections etc which are phenomenally successful and have been for my mother who is practically cured.
I have just had a cancer screen for a suspicious mole on my back, thankfully benign.
Just to let people on here know, that Boots do a mole check in some shops. The pharmacist photographs the lesions with a special camera called a dermatoscope and they are sent to a dermatologist, who then sends you a report. £40 BARGAIN, I got the report in 2 days from a consultant dermatologist. I would have paid the same guy £200 to have a private consultation for the same thing. I highly recommend it, probably even better than a GP as they often misdiagnose . Reading the reviews on the ScreenCancer mole check service in Boots, it's awful how many people have been told by their doctor that it's nothing to worry about when actually they are then diagnosed with malignant melanoma.
Anyway, don't use sunbeds, or accept the risk that you are massively increasing your risk of skin cancer, and definitely ageing your skin.

Don't do it.

There is nothing wrong with wrinkling as you age - but why on earth would anyone want to make it worse than it need be?

I'm almost 65 myself, and yes, of course I have wrinkles. However, I have used moisturiser with sunscreen for years (I'm not in the UK, we are at more risk of burning here) and people always think I am younger. I had a boss once who was a regular tanner - her face was like leather. If you are happy with that good for you, but I imagine most people wouldn't be, and her face wouldn't have been like that had she not been such a sun worshipper.

Thanks for your nice reply, @ForGreyKoala. I guess I just don't see wrinkled skin as "worse", not once you're past the mid-fifties or so. People definitely think my sister's younger than she is - and it matters to her - but I don't see the point! Neither of us is short on life experience, and I'm happy for mine to show on my face.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.