Paisley said:

It depends on what your natural skin tone is, but Baby Oil is REALLY bad. You just fry with that stuff, and even if you don't burn badly, you never know how the sun will affect you years down the road.

My mother was always really careful in the sun after she hit her 20's, and always covered up with hats, sunglasses, and sunscreen, yet a couple of years ago she was diagnosed with skin cancer.

They say all it takes to trigger skin cancer is tanning a lot when you are younger and not taking precautions (like using baby oil instead of sunscreen) to prevent sun damage. These things alone can creep up on you later on. Even if you've been really badly sunburned once in your life, that highly increases your chances of developing skin cancer years from now.

My mother has memories of being badly burned when she was little when no one used sunscreen, and her doctors think this may have been the cause of her getting malignant melanoma. She had it all removed (we hope) but she has to go in every year for a body scan to check if it's spread.

I love to hang out in the sun as well, but I'm a sunscreen nut now, and worry about myself from time to time because I had some really bad sunburns a long time ago; like 2nd degree burn bad.

minneapolisgenius said:

Yeah but doesn't it take longer to tan when you use something with a sunscreen in it?

Paisley said:

Yep.

Tanning gives you wrinkles too.



Jesus, I sound like my mother.

minneapolisgenius said:

It's never given me any wrinkles and I'm 37, not one wrinkle on me.

Paisley said:

Then you are one of the lucky ones I guess. It also depends on if you already have a dark skin tone. Are you dark skinned anyway?

minneapolisgenius said:

No I'm not dark skined at all, just have olive color skin.

Paisley said:

Well then you should tan easily anyway.

minneapolisgenius said:

Yeah I just have to sit out in the sun for atleast an hour a day.

Paisley said:

That's how most of my relatives are too. And my husband. I just burn first.

minneapolisgenius said:

It'll turn a little red at first and then it turns into a tan, I usually just tan my arms and legs.

Paisley said:

My legs are almost impossible to get really tan. I could probaly lay out for hous and get no color. But then, I do use SPF 30 and higher usually, so at least I know it's working!

I use fake tanner on my legs and the places that are hard to tan... So much easier than sitting and ruining your skin. I love the sun...but it is so harmful!