The young and overly-perky girls at the tanning salon need to chill out....

[SacredCow]

No, I do NOT want a facial. No, I do NOT want to buy your useless and ridiculously-priced "bronzing lotions." No, I do NOT want to set up a recurring account. I just want to lay in one of your silly beds a few times per week up to the cruise I'm taking in April, so I do not look like a vampire and so I won't roast myself on the first day out. Is that really so hard to understand?

[AlCzervik]

1. don't over do, you don't want to look like a negative.

i'm going to Hawaii March 30th, i'm using self tanner starting next week.

[SacredCow]

3. I don't get all that dark, anyway....

I just want enough to keep me from really roasting right off the bat (because I am absolutely the WORST about applying sunscreen).

Which reminds me of one I forgot: No, I do NOT want to do the spray-on tan right before I leave...

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

6. i used sun block 70 all last summer and it helped but yes i'm bad about reapplying it

and my poor nose, i will be be walking round with zinc on it.

[SacredCow]

8. But I do have an excuse for my sunscreen reluctance....

I've yet to find one that doesn't irritate my skin (and I've tried lots). It may not happen the first time I apply it, but I eventually break out in an itchy rash.

Yeah, I know all about the "cancer beds" and all.... but other than living like a mole, this is my option...

[AlCzervik]

18. i used to love laying out in the sun, every spring i'd use the tanning bed, now i avoid

the sun when possible, even with sunblock a million i still get really dark but my nose aka the fin get really red.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Tanning beds are madness

Cancer machines, my dermatologist buddy calls them.

There are great self-tanners out there that won't do permanent damage to your skin. And remember that a tan is nothing but a symptom of your skin cells having been injured. That "healthy glow" stuff was debunked a long time ago.

I'm always surprised to hear of anyone actually patronizing those places.

[Nickster]

4. See I take care of all that by going to Vegas and staying indoors for 90% of my stay. That way, I

keep my ghostly white look and I don't have to fuss with all that tanning bed stuff.

[guitar man]

5. hehe

when those young and overly-perky girls ask you if you would like a facial,just respond, "no, but would you like one?"

:evilgrin:

:hide:

:yoiks:

[SacredCow]

7. I think you underestimate their abilities....

These girls are PROS.... I'm certain they've got a snappy sales-pitch comeback to even THAT....

[guitar man]

9. LOL

I know the type. :)

[Bake]

10. +1

:hi:

Bake

[guitar man]

12. :)

Hey, it's like a knee jerk reaction for a guitar player, right? :evilgrin:

[SacredCow]

16. Don't think it didn't cross my mind......

So apparently my gay gene is somewhat suppressed by the guitar-playing gene at times? I dunno.... Genetics are a complicated thing!

:hi:

[guitar man]

17. rofl, with me

...I think it's the "dirty old man" gene more than anything :D

[SacredCow]

19. LOL....

I think most of the lounge ladies would surmise that "old" is an un-necessary superlative- Men are dirty, be they old OR young....

:rofl:

[guitar man]

20. yeah, but

the older we get, the more we perfect the art! :rofl:

[DevonRex]

11. Overly perky is annoying even if they're not trying to sell you anything.

[SacredCow]

14. I agree....

But I think it's a sales technique they employ on any male that walks in there (but kinda wasted on me, as a gay man). But I don't DARE tell them so- I fear they'd redouble their efforts on the sales pitches for creams, lotions, hydrating massages, etc....

[SoxFan]

13. Sacred Cow: Before & After

Before the tanning sessions:




After the tanning sessions:

[SacredCow]

15. ROFL....

Before looks a little on the blue side.... I'm not aware of any smurfs in my family tree!

After..... :scared: EXACTLY why I don't want any kind of spray-on tan. I fear that I'd end up looking like that.

[SoxFan]

21. That guy scares me

I'm not sure if he was dipped in asphalt or left on a 7-11 hot dog roller too long.

[SacredCow]

22. It's kind of freaky that you can't see any sign of lips....

and that his neck seems to be darker than any other body part....

I'll vote for the hot-dog roller- that would also explain the greasy sheen, after all!

[redwitch]

23. Nosferatu looks better than they do.

Jeebus, he's really awful looking!

[DarkTirade]

24. The second pic's a LOT scarier than the first.

[SacredCow]

25. Absolutely.....

:scared: