Please remind me about sun beds...

[cutspujumas]

I have pale skin. I don't burn easily but I don't tan either. My face is the worst, it never goes brown. When I got married years ago I wanted to be a nice light honey colour. For three months before I went on a sun bed for 2 mins working up to 5 mins every three days. I had a "base tan" by the time I went away (we married abroad) and then I sunbathed when I got to the Mediterranean and I was a perfect shade of very very light brown for my wedding.

That's the only time I've ever done it, or that I've ever had a tan and I remember it making me feel really good, both psychologically and physically from the vitamin D.

I want to do it again as I am just so pale and so depleted, but I know how awful sun beds are.

If I was to go for 2 mins every three or four days, for a month, would that be so bad? What if I covered my face and kept an eye on my moles?

I've tried fake tan but it doesn't last, makes me smell (and sweat) and comes off in patches.

Don't do it.

I'm as pale as they get and I've made peace with it. The thing about sunbed tans (aside from the health dangers!) is that they don't even look like a real tan. I'm in Glasgow where sunbeds still reign but it's so easy to tell the difference between an actual suntan and a sunbed tan. The sunbed people have apricot coloured skin. And they get wizened young.

I would go to a salon and get a spray tan then use something like Ambre Solaire Aftersun Tan Maintainer everyday or every other day to eek it out for as long as possible. Are you signed up to Groupon as they quite often have spray tans at local salons on offer

Make peace with it l.m.a.o i 'm white as it comes i false tan it sunbed once a week does me

Please please don't. I lost my mother last year due to squamous cell carcinoma two years before which had then spread. No tan is worth the suffering and loss of life. She was never on a sunbed or out of the UK in her life but suffered bad sunburnings as a child in this country.

No natural tan is worth that suffering and ultimate death in unlucky cases like my mammy's. Get a good spray tan is my advice!

A subtle bronzer is really effective to feel a bit less pale. I've been using Body Shop honey bronze, it's completely changed my make up routine as no longer bother with foundation, love it!