when would it best to start tanning?

Question

i'm going to prom in may 2007, plus my dress is strapless. How many months before would i start tanning, i don't want to burn myself and start peeling the day of prom.so when it be good to start tanning away the whiteness so that i don't have tan marks?

Answer 1

i love the excellent uneducated answers. i recommend 1 month. start slow trust me on this. you do not want to burn. tan about 3 to 4 times a week and use a good accelerator with a bronzer to help move things along faster.

Answer 2

Never.

Skin cancer is the most prevelent form of cancer now in patients under the age of 30 and the most preventable. Sun exposure is the primary cause and there is nothing more heartbreaking than to see a young woman in her early twenties dying from metastatic melanoma because she tanned as a teenager.

If you must be tan for your prom, get your tan out of a bottle. Sunless tanning lotions give a beautiful look without the orange glow that used to be associated with it. Do it two days before the event so you have a chance to let it set and touch up any spots you might have missed.

Of you can just take your cue from actresses like Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman and others and be proud of your luminous pale skin. I don't tan and I wear strapless dresses all the time.

Answer 3

I won't reiterate all the warnings about skin cancer, everyone has already done a fantastic job.
I firmly agree with getting a spray tan. Properly applied, and with proper home care it can last up 10 days.
Exfoliate before you go (your whole body) so your skin is fresh and new, and moisturize it daily after you get it done. Also, don't go the day of the prom, go a day or two before.

Answer 4

Start tanning the week or two before. Just go maybe 2 times a week. Just try and wear a strapless top when you go or go with nothing on your top. You shouldn't get tan lines.

Answer 5

depending on how dark you want to get and what your complexion. if you want to be med to dark I would start now and go 3 times a week untill may. first time go 3-5 mins only. 2nd time 5-8mins. 3 time 8-12min. 4th time 12-15mins 5th time 15-18min.s and after that its "safe" to go 20 everytime with out burning. 2-3 weeks before prom increase your times going from 3 to 5 at 15mins each time. this will make you very glowing for the prom if you just dont want to look like you just crawled out of a grave then just start like 1 1/2 -2 months before hand STARTING SLOW IS THE KEY! USE A GREAT LOTION!!
I recommend Swedish Beauty Browning Lotion. Works Wonders.

Answer 6

for gods sake do not you recognize that tanning now might desire to characterize maximum cancers later? once you circulate right into a tanning solon they don't assist you to recognize those issues. if i've got been your mom, i might positioned the breaks on the countless careless issues which you do, this no doube being purely one among them. i don't think of youngsters have sufficient to think of roughly now, you get the countless maximum airheaded concepts. DON"T decide for tanning.

Answer 7

go to you local Hollywood tan a week in advanced and get a spray on tan so you don't have to be yelled at about skin cancer.

Answer 8

Hows this for an Uneducated guess...

Oct. 16, 2003 -- There's more evidence on the hazards of tanning beds. Baking under their artificial lamps as little as once a month can boost your risk of a deadly form of skin cancer by 55% -- and the danger is even greater when done in early adulthood.


A new study involving more than 106,000 Scandinavian women shows what its researchers say is the strongest evidence to date that artificial tanning can cause malignant melanoma.

Past research shows tanning beds raise risk of other types of skin cancer. Last year, Dartmouth researchers reported that people who ever visited a tanning salon were 2½ times more likely to later get squamous cell skin cancer and 1½ times more likely to develop basal cell skin than those who didn't.


When malignant melanoma is detected in its earliest stages, surgical removal cures the cancer in most cases. If the disease spreads survival at 5 years after the diagnosis is only about 30% to 40%. There are a number of factors that increase the risk of melanoma -- a family history, prominent or unusual moles; overexposure to ultraviolet radiation in sunlight is believed to contribute to melanoma in some cases.


For this study, published this week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the Swedish and Norwegian women completed detailed questionnaires in 1991 and 1992 about personal characteristics such as their hair and eye color, the number of moles on their body, and their histories of sunburn and tanning patterns -- whether under natural sunlight or in tanning salons. Researchers tracked their rates of melanoma eight years later and found 187 cases of melanoma.


They find that eye color was not associated with increased risk. "We also found no statistically significant association between tanning of the skin after heavy or repeated sun exposure and the risk of melanoma," write researcher Marit Veierod and colleagues.


But no matter the women's age or hair color -- considered by some to be predictors of later melanoma risk -- the researcher say that women who visited a tanning parlor at least once a month were 55% more likely to later develop melanoma than women who didn't artificially suntan. Those who used sun lamps to tan while in their 20s had the greatest later risk, about 150% higher than similarly aged women who shunned tanning beds.

Answer 9

just start now at like 6 or 7 minutes then you don't have to worry about being burnt for prom, and your tan will build gradually

Answer 10

Two words: Skin cancer.

Park those in the back of your mind. Every time you get in that tanning bed, think to yourself, "I'm risking skin cancer because I'm so vain to think that this will make me look good".

Forget the tan - put on a winning smile instead.