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Pale is new tan. Crispy tanned is old age.

tanning_crispyI lived near the Black Sea my whole life until I moved to Texas. All of my summers were spent on the beach. I was working on my tan very hard from May until August.  Pale and pink was avery bad look in my circle.  Tan lines were a bad thing too – that’s why I didn’t have a swimming suit!  You could call me and my friends nudists, but we weren’t part of a  cultural and political movement  advocating and defending social  nudity in private and in  public . It was simply vanity – to have bronze skin everywhere, no white spot allowed.

Every year, every summer, I did it again and again. I liked my tanned, golden-bronze look. It was so disappointing when it started to fade every fall – I hated being pale, so not pretty. When I got lucky and started to work at a very fancy fitness club for very rich people, I saw this big shiny silver thingy, my first tanning bed. It was a miracle!  I could be pretty, bronze and without tan lines, all year round. And, it was free; employees had to be tanned to advertise the new service, as it was the first tanning bed in the whole city. We were saying that tanning beds were very safe and good for the skin;  that they had filters to remove dangerous UVB/UVA rays and were therefore much better than the sun.  People loved it, and it was working non-stop.

At that time there wasn’t a lot of information about the connection between premature aging, skin cancer and ultraviolet rays. We heard something, we read something, but really didn’t believe it.  How could something that makes you look and feel good be dangerous?  No way!!!!!

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