Understanding The Orange Community
It is the middle of winter in Akron and the orange people are everywhere. I know people look better tan, but there is a point where you go so much that you turn orange. The only business across the street from my apartment complex is a Hollywood Tans and the parking lot is always full. I don't know much about tanning salons, so I checked out the Hollywood Tans' website.
Two things struck me: First, they offer "unlimited tanning" for $19.95 per month. Unlimited? How much do people go? I think this pricing plan helps explain the increase in the orange population. Second, the beds range in time from 8-11 minutes. How powerful are these lights? How hot does it get? I hope we can discuss these and related issues in the comments.
Unrelated: Happy Birthday to Chelsea Clinton. She turns 26 today.
By Kyle - 2/27/2006
10 Comments:
I tried it once because our apt complex had a free tanning bed. i hated it. It just made my skin itch. Lifetime on tanning.
I went tanning with a friend once. I felt like I was abducted by aliens and my friend felt severly violated. Needless to say, neither of us ever went again.
I'm pretty sure the light rays they use (U.V.?) greatly increase your risk for skin cancer, more so if you smoke while you are tanning. People should just eat more carrots. All tanning places have really gay names.
--Tanfastic
Not to try and look into things too deeply, but does anyone thing there is a direct correlation b/w the number of orange people and the economic status of the community. Barberton, Norton, Cuyahoga Falls, etc. Drive through these places and you'll be stunned. Same goes for Brookpark, which I hear has the highest percentage of tanning beds per capita.
There are hardly any tanning beds in Brookpark! I should know I drive through there daily. What part of Brookpark are you talking about? The nudey bar section? Stop spending so much time over there Chanco!
Paul
I have a friend who owns two Hollywood Tans in Georgia. There aren't a lot of orange people here as far as the eye can see, but my theory is that there is more orange the farther north you go (with the exception being Florida, since you are not allowed to be a state citizen unless you are tan in some capacity).
The pricing plan is "unlimited" - usually month to month. You can only go once per day (not that anyone should ever try to go more).
Regular beds typically contain 25-50 bulbs with a heat of 100-160 watts. Those are 20 min. Hotter beds go up to 500 watts and will fry you in about 10 minutes.
You also may want to note that the orange factor could be due to the new "spray" tans that spray you from 360 degrees for a minute with self-tanner and then proceed to make you look like a rotten tomato.
Oh, and you will smell like a bag of fried dirt for at least three showers after the spray tan. No amount of scent will override this.
KA, you may be on to something with the spray tanning. Maybe these orange people I'm seeing are the spray on tanners.
Smell? That can't be good.
Yes, definitely smelly. Regular beds make you smell like burnt skin. Spray tans make you smell like spoiled fruit. It's supposed to be some sort of fresh scent, but it always goes awry and just lingers. Lingered spoiled fruit. Enough deterrent, if you ask me.
Also, you can always tell the difference between a real tan and a spray tan...look at the palms of people's hands and the tops of their feet. If you spray tan they give you this thick creamy lotion stuff that is "barrier" cream and prevents those places from turning bright orange, since essentially you are spray painting yourself. If those places (insides of fingers, etc.) are white as snow, there's your culprit.
Good call on the unlimited tanning. Also, when I was in Ohio for Thanksgiving, I found it very odd that every girl was really tan. I showed my girlfriend the picture and she kept thinking there was something wrong with all the girls. It really is strange. I mean, its sunny and 80 in Arizona and there are less tanned people then in Ohio.
But maybe those people are using the sprays to avoid cancer. and that's what makes them look orange. if so, I would suggest they either accept a pale look, or risk the cancer by properly tanning, because that orange thing is unacceptable.
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