The Hype On Tanning

Over the years it is an increasing trend to be tan year-round. We see more and more tanning salons opening up every year, but at the same time see more cases of skin cancers are showing up too. To a lot of people and even to me, I will admit, tanning can be relaxing and make people feel better about themselves. Some people tan before going on vacations, others tan before weddings, or dances, whether it’s to relax, look and feel better, or to prepare for an event, it’s still causing early aging in our skin and skin cancer. There is even a television show out on E! Network called Sunset Tan which is based around a tanning salon and the drama that surrounds it, but nonetheless based off of tanning and they whole hype around it, it has even had two season of the show. I actually used to work at a tanning salon and was surprised to see how much money and time people were willing to spend on being tan, there are some that would come in almost of everyday of the week even in the summer to get this tan and would do this year-round. In magazines and on television they portray everyone being tan too, some celebrities we see embrace the pale and natural color of their skin, but it seems as though a lot are somewhat tan. For more information about the Sunset Tan show you can go to http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/sunsettan/index.jsp?sid=nav-shows or there is even an article that I came across from July of 1988 by the New York Times entitled For Sun Lovers, Tan Is Worth the Risk http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=940DE6DA133BF937A15754C0A96E948260.