A Perfect Tan

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This is stupid - in England, they have automated tanning beds and anyone can walk in off the street, plunk some coins into the timer and fry themselves. From the London Daily Mail:
Girl, 10, suffers burns on 70% of her body after 16 minutes in coin-operated tanning booth
A girl of ten has suffered burns to more than 70 per cent of her body after spending 16 minutes on a sunbed at a tanning salon.

By the time Kelly Thompson got home after using the unmanned, coin-operated solarium she was in agony and was rushed to hospital.

Now she has been told to stay out of the sun for up to ten years because her damaged skin is more susceptible to cancer. Doctors who treated her said she would have needed skin grafts if she had spent two more minutes in the tanning booth.

Yesterday, her mother demanded a ban on unsupervised coin-operated sunbeds.

Sharon Hannaford, 34, added: 'These sunbeds are very high powered and there is nobody there to prevent a youngster going in and doing this. I want them shut down.'
I would question the parent more than I would the tanning outfit. Take a look at this picture and see if you see why:
tanning_too_much.jpg
While Mum could be from a Mediterranean lineage and therefore have naturally olive complexion, her facial features suggest pure England. So do those of her daughter. You are going to obsess about a perfect tan in front of your ten year old daughter and not educate her on the technique needed and the inherent dangers? You have no right to pass the blame on to the tanning salon...

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