Building a Base Tan
Within a little while I am off to beautiful Hawaii for a care-free vacation of merriment in the sunny state. However living within the Rocky Mountain region of the United States, I tend to be more used to cloudy days, even while in the spring.
I have a lot to do before I can feel truly prepared for my respite from the rigors of life, some items more prudent than some others. But the one particular item on my list I’m blogging about in this blog involves my pasty white skin.
I do know that it is a myth that building up a base suntan can help you prevent burning you skin, however that does not stop me from becoming self-conscious about appearing so ghostly white and void of a tan in an area in which everyone is habituated to dressing in little to nothing all the while playing in the sunshine.
So to help me feel more confident and care-free during my precious and unusual vacation, I have inquired the easiest ways to establish a natural looking tan in front of hitting the beautiful Hawaiian beaches.
One option will be airbrush tanning. With this sunless tanning selection, I can have a professional tanning studio carefully apply and shade my suntan to my spec.
I understand that some people believe I should attempt to use a commercial tanning bed instead of a sunless spray tan, but I’m not so sure about excessively prolonging my UV ray exposure. The minimum measure of melanin within my skin might make me particularly vulnerable to skin damage.
I am hoping to drop my inhibtions so I might fully relax and savor my vacation, not initialize a chronic effort to develop melanoma indications or white spots because of tanning.
It is my understanding that those white spots from tanning are more liable to occur with salon bronzing beds, either because of a fungus caught in a less clean public facility or because of lines or spots on my skin produced from the pressure points of reclining in the bed.
So I have isolated my airbrush suntanning to a couple of well-established tanning parlors. I may just buy a tanning cream to apply in the privateness of my house, however I believe I’ll start with a professional sunless bronze than maintain it with a sunless bronzing cream.
From my research, I am convinced I will avoid the hokey look which people stereotype of sunless tanning, however I guess you never know for sure until you try. I will make certain to work on my sun-free tan long before I leave for vacation so I can refine the process and master my results to appear my most natural when I arrive at that place.