Holidays & Sun preparations

aimerlans

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone could offer some advice on suntan preparations. I am going to Crete the end of the month for three weeks and I'm hoping to get as good a colour as possible. I am looking at getting the banana boat tan intensifiers but I am unsure as to what factors I should use? my skin usually takes to the sun fairly well.. any help would be greatly appreciated!

here's the product I'm looking at;
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/BANANA-BOAT-P...ht_3563wt_1037

Er, wear the highest factor sunscreen possible tbh. If your skin tans naturally, then you will tan with sun-cream on!

My Mother wears factor 40 in the sun an has a year round tan. Saving your skin from sun damage is far more important than a tan in fairness.

orchidsrpretty

Im not saying you should as they are awful for your health but sunbeds are meant to help tanning along I.e give you a base.

Also getting a body scrub is meant to be good.

Acoshla

orchidsrpretty wrote: »

Im not saying you should as they are awful for your health but sunbeds are meant to help tanning along I.e give you a base.

Also getting a body scrub is meant to be good.

They don't give you a base, sunbeds are pointless.

Polloloca

Sunbeds are ridiculous and dangerous. The sooner they are made illegal, the better.

sam34

orchidsrpretty wrote: »

Im not saying you should as they are awful for your health but sunbeds are meant to help tanning along I.e give you a base

yeah.

they also help cancer along.

hdowney

I have to echo what people say, use the highest factor sunscreen and protect your skin. if you are going to tan, you will tan, but wont burn. ALL tan is skin damage, so you don't want to be encouraging it.

Also (not assuming anyone is thick, but didn't think I was ) little tip!!! When I went to florida I liberally applied the factor 60 daily all was good. Weeel the morning I was going to Discovery Cove I got dressed as normal, applied sunscreen and off I went. Got there, stripped to my swimmies and out into the sun. Dunce here forgot to apply sunscreen to the bits that had been covered by the top and skirt!! I was Lobster red. Like proper ooowie. Check this picture for an idea of how red I was, and this wasn't the end of the day, so I was WAY worse by the time we went home that night!!

Won't make that mistake again

Unregistered39

I will echo the highest protection possible. I'm early 40s now and can clearly see sun damage from my teens/twenties and equally clearly can see the great skin of people who never let themselves burn/tan excessively. I tan fairly easily too.

I can't emphasise it enough, it is absolutely not worth it. It will cause you a lot of grief in the long run. Two weeks of looking great now can mean looking like a handbag in your forties...

Acoshla

You're meant to apply suncream before you get dressed not after, to allow it time to dry anyway, and when in water you're meant to reapply throughout the day, so either of those things would protect from bits that didn't have cream on getting burnt.

hdowney

Acoshla wrote: »

You're meant to apply suncream before you get dressed not after, to allow it time to dry anyway, and when in water you're meant to reapply throughout the day, so either of those things would protect from bits that didn't have cream on getting burnt.

Don't go to sunny places often. Made rookie mistake. Paid for it. Couldn't put a bra on for two days. Wanted to cry!!!! WILL NEVER MAKE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN!!. Going to Spain later this year. SUNSCREEN every bit of myself I will

Acoshla

hdowney wrote: »

Don't go to sunny places often. Made rookie mistake. Paid for it. Couldn't put a bra on for two days. Wanted to cry!!!! WILL NEVER MAKE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN!!. Going to Spain later this year. SUNSCREEN every bit of myself I will

If you're going to be in the water buy Banana Boat kids waterproof factor 50, that stuff sticks around like crazy, brilliant, I slather pasty boyfriend in it on holidays.

hdowney

Acoshla wrote: »

If you're going to be in the water buy Banana Boat kids waterproof factor 50, that stuff sticks around like crazy, brilliant, I slather pasty boyfriend in it on holidays.

cheers for the tip hun. normally use the garnier (i think, i'd have to check the fridge ) factor sixty for sun intolerant skin. But i like the idea of something that'l hang around in the water might get that just for when swimming, can imagine you'd look like you leaped in a chip vat if you wore it generally, if it is that clingy :rolleyes:

Acoshla

hdowney wrote: »

cheers for the tip hun. normally use the garnier (i think, i'd have to check the fridge ) factor sixty for sun intolerant skin. But i like the idea of something that'l hang around in the water might get that just for when swimming, can imagine you'd look like you leaped in a chip vat if you wore it generally, if it is that clingy :rolleyes:

Nope, it's a bit shiny but that's it. It's also very cheap, for a good suncream it's a bargain.

hdowney

Acoshla wrote: »

Nope, it's a bit shiny but that's it. It's also very cheap, for a good suncream it's a bargain.

Putting into my notes now. I like the sound of it