Tanning boothes have not really waned in popularity, even in the wake of lots of bad PR about how bad those UV rays are for you, how they prematurely age the skin and can facilitate the start of skin cancers as well.  However, while there are a lot of negatives about tanning under the UV lamps that have been made so popular over the years, there are actually some up sides as well.

For instance, UV therapy can help with psoriasis, it can help to increase your positive moods in the winter, since one of the reasons we get depressed in the winter months when there is not a lot of sunlight is that we do not get enough exposure to sunlight, it helps in some cases to clear up acne, although it needs to be done in very miniscule quantities to do so, otherwise it will actually aggravate it, and it of course makes you feel fantastically sexy with a golden brown color!

One of the things you’ve got to watch for though in a tanning booth, or heck, if you happen to like sun bathing topless in your yard or on a topless beach, is to watch that your nipples don’t get too much sun exposure.  If your nipples get too much exposure to the UV rays, it can actually harm them and even eventually discolor them or alter their appearance. 

Some women may choose to rectify this by wearing a bikini top in the tanning booth or always wearing one when sunbathing outdoors, or they can put some form of “pasties”, which are those dubious little things that caused such a ruckus in the Janet Jackson Super Bowl debacle a few years back.  They stick to the nipple part of the breasts, and are a staple at many burlesques because they cover just enough of the nipple to make it a “tease” that you are not seeing the whole breast. 

Among other things to protect, you probably don’t ever really want to expose your facial skin for very long, because UV light does accelerate aging, so you may want to wear a powerful SPF on your face when tanning, or do what many others do, and cover your face with a little hand towel that they usually give out in tanning salons, which will guarantee that you won’t get any UV filtration, as long as you at least double it up and fold it on your face as many times as possible to make sure there’s no penetration. 

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