I went to a tanning bed and overdone it! I'm all red and my skin burns

[Anonymous]

I went to a tanning bed a couple hours ago. It was all okay, I wasn't that red and my skin didn't burn.

But now my skin is burning and is hot and it hurts. I look like a tomato!

And I'm freezing, I'm covered up with blankets and my skin hurts cause its hot.

I swallowed a pain killer and I hope it gets better. But what else can I do for my skin now?

I know I'm never gonna go to a tanning bed again!

[MrOracle]

This reminds me of the time when my girlfriend had some friends over, and it was summertime and hot, so they decided they were going to lay out and tan. And then they decided that they were going to do so topless.

They foolishly thought that since it was an overcast day, that they'd be safe, so out come their milky-white, never-seen-the-sun boobs, and they laid out for about an hour. I get home, and I've got 4 itchy, crying girls at my house with lobster-red boobs. And even though I'm the one who went and got the aloe vera burn ointment, she was actually mad at ME for some reason...

[wpmason]

Aloe Vera gel.

I'm trying not to be mean, but seriously? You don't seem to know anything about a sunburn. Are you a northerner or something?

1)stay out of tanning beds, for your health, for your finances, for your appearance... Nothing good comes from a tanning bed.

2) always use proper sun protection outdoors, especially when in or on water.

3) "I wasn't that red and my skin didn't burn." yes, you're skin did burn, quite badly from the sound of it. And as sunburn take a little while to appear, the fact that you were red at all means that you were burnt.

[dominatingkelly]

Sunburns take a few hours to fully come out, so if you were already even a very light shade or red at the salon, you very well could have given yourself first degree burns!

Also, because tanning beds do not have any pollution and/or clouds to filter some of the UV rays out like the sun does, you should stay not quite as long in a tanning bed as you do when tanning outside.

[fhfreakk]

You might have to go to a doctor if it gets really bad. Get some pure aloe gel- even some aloe plants, because the natural kind gives the best treatment. You can cut off the leaves and then scrape off the aloe that's on the inside.

[Anonymous]

LOL what did you think was going to happen, chances are now since you burned instead tanned, you will probably peel, and you won't tan, haha.