How Often Should You Tan?

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name's Harvey Woodyatt and I'm owner of perfect tan here in Orem, Utah. I own a large tanning salon with twenty different tanning beds as well as a spray on system. I often get asked, "How often should I tan indoors?" You know I always tell people, tanning is a process. Take your time. Depending on your skin type it can take you anywhere from eight sessions to fifteen sessions to develop a good tan. But, you have to do it slowly. If you're fair skinned, you always want to start with a lower time to avoid a burn and build your time up. If you feel prickly or stingy the next day or even right after tanning or itchy. You overexposed your skin with too much. So, always start out slow. Increase it by a minute or two each time until you're at the maximum time. A traditional tanning bed that has tanning lamps as these, you have to be more careful on. Just because they've got a little bit more UVB in them. We do have high pressure tanning. High pressure tanning you don't have to come as much. It won't burn you. It filters out all the UVB rays, so you're getting UVA rays. We can get somebody totally tan in three to five sessions and then you only have to repeat the process once ever two weeks. In a regular tanning bed you need to build your tan base between eight and fifteen sessions and then you need to continue to come back into the tanning salon two to three times a week to maintain your tan. And the reason is you exfoliate a lot faster in a traditional tanning bed like this, where in high pressure tanning beds you don't exfoliate. Your skin goes back to the twenty eight day cycle of exfoliation. And so you keep your tan a lot longer. So, there's a big difference. Just be careful. Build your time up. Tanning is a process."