Ah, yeah I'm looking for another way to tan. For a while now, I've been getting the spray-on "Mystic Tan" or doing it at home. Self-tanners can be expensive, and they generally only last 2 or 3 days. I've grown tired of re-applying them all the time + trying to avoid bleaching my eyebrows or missing spots. It can get to be a real chore.
I figured that maybe doing a regular tan would be a lot easier, though I'm still concerned about skin cancer since my grandfather had some skin cancer.
I'm not a dude of Celtic decent with a lot of freckles who CAN'T tan.
But I am white with auburn hair. I can only remember being naturally tan one or two times in my life. So what would that make me, skin type 2?
Anyways, the Mystic Tans were about 20 dollars a pop. For a broke college student, that's hard to keep up every 3 days. Although the place I go to does offer a plan where you sign up for 6 tans and you pay $100 up front.
Main things I'm considering are:
1) Price
2) How many sessions it'll take for me to see a difference
3) Skin cancer and the formation of freckles or wrinkles
There's no denying that a tan makes you look better, ESPECIALLY if you're extremely pale. A lot of guys won't notice too much of an improvement in looks from a tan. Maybe 1 or 2 points, as mentioned.
But if you're so white that it's a weakness, then you'll notice a huge improvement. In the name of the scientific method, I posted 2 pics of me on hotornot.com. Same pose. Same lighting, pretty much the same hairstyle.
Only difference was that in one I was wearing fake tan and in the other I was pale. FOUR POINT DIFFERENCE in favor of the tan picture. Granted, the camera flash magnified my paleness, so it made me look worse than I really am, but the results still speak volumes.
So anyways. I'm sort of on the fence about this. I might try 2 or 3 sessions just to see how it goes and see if I notice improvement in my skin conditions (my derm told me that keratosis pilaris can be quelled via tanning, and that normally he tells people to avoid the sun, but it can be beneficial for me).
If anybody has experiences to knock me off the fence in either direction, I'm listening.
