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By I.10NA Z. KOPPELLIAN
Ladies in your mother's bridge club.
Your sorority sister or dorm-mate.
Your boyfriend who's leaving you behind on spring
break while he goes to Padre Island.
Brown, in the middle of murky March. Where do
they get those terrific tans?
Given the present weather conditions, these
bronzed beauties probably do as millions of others
in the United States do patronize tanning salons.
Stephen Schulz, manager at the Lincoln Euro
pean Tanspa at 1 120 K St., gave four reasons to tan
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"It helps people feel better about themselves and
look healthier " Schulz said. "It's especially nice to do
thb time of year when everybody has cabin fever."
He said older women often want a tan for cos
metic reasons, but the sun is too harsh for older
skin. Salon tanning inhibits skin aging and also gives
the self-conscious more privacy.
Second, Schulz said, a tan makes a person more
attractive to prospective suitors. He said people
who appear "sporty" have greater sex appeal
SchuLs's third reason was warm-weather vaca
tions, like a trip to Hawaii, Mexico or the Caribbean.
"If you get a basic tan before you leave, youll be
able to stay out longer on vacation," he said. "When
you want to don a pair of shorts, your legs won't look
like milk bottles."
A European Tanspa brochure also cites certain
health benefits of salon tans: general stimulation of
blood circulation and increased resistance to infec
tion and sunburn.
John Stroup, owner of Tanning Plus at 2710 S.
70th St., said some people tan at his salon to dry up
acne and tighten stretch marks resulting from
childbirth or weight loss.
Lincoln dermatologist Margaret Kontras Sutton
said she doesn't think ultraviolet rays could have a
drying effect on acne, since oil secretion, bacteria
and hormones are contributing factors not influ
enced by topical ray application.
Sutton also said stretch marks result from loss of
tissue underneath the skin the dermis and
there is nothing ultraviolet rays can do to remove
stretch marks.
Sutton said ultraviolet rays are recommended for
treatment of some skin conditions, including psori
asis. The treatment is accompanied by medication
and a strict exposure regimen.
All salon employees interviewed said college stu
dents make up most of their clientele. But Lisa Tag
gart, hair designer for Hair Express who operates
Great Tan at 245 N. 13th St., said her salon's bread-and-butter
customers are business people. Great
Tan is open until 8 p.m. Monday through Friday to
accommodate these people after work.
"During the summer, business people will be the
bulk of our business," Taggart said. "They have to
work 8 to 5 just like us. And they feel even more
uncomfortable in the summer being white when
everybody else is tan."
Schulz said he does a lot of "business business"
during lunch hour and in the mornings before work.
He said many come in for the relaxation as much as
the tan. Schulz said his clientele includes male and
female models, waiters and waitresses, lawyers,
doctors, housewives, railroad workers and lobbyists
at the Legislature.
Some people who don't tan easily have better luck
in salons because of controlled time and light
exposure.
Some salon operators claim large doses of Vitamin
C can inhibit tanning and advise against such doses
before going to salons. Not all tanning experts agree,
however, saying tanning depends primarily on the
amount of melanin in the skin and the type of light
exposure.
Ultraviolet radiation falls into three categories
UVA, UVB and UVC.
UVC has the shortest wavelength and penetrates
deepest into the skin. UVC rays penetrate to the
collagen or third level of skin where cells form.
UVC rays cause cell mutation and skin cancer. The
earth's atmosphere naturally blocks out UVC rays
from the sun and the Food and Drug Administra
tion bans them down here on earth.
UVB rays are partly blocked by the atmosphere,
but not entirely. These little devils are the ones that
cause burning, peeling, blistering and premature
skin aging. UVB stand-up tanning booths have not
yet been FDA-banned, but the agency is working on
it.
UVB rays also can penetrate to the collagen layer
and cause skin mutations. UVB booths only allow
exposures of about three minutes. Stroup at Tanning
Plus said even that exposure can be dangerous at
the very least, causing burns or blisters.
UVC and UVB rays are particularly dangerous to
fluids in the eye. The rays promote increased mole
cule action so the liquid behind the retina literally
"boils " This boiling can detach the retina and cause
temporary or even permanent blindness, Stroup
said.
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