Basic rules for visiting the solarium

Visiting the solarium is an excellent solution if you need to give your skin a beautiful bronze tan in a short time. To maintain the resulting skin color, you will need to look at the solarium about once or twice a week.

You should know that the indications for visiting the solarium for everyone are different. First of all, it depends on the skin type. There are four types of appearance, each of which has a certain color of hair, eyes, skin. Depending on these indicators, the time and number of visits for a particular person is determined.

1. The Celtic type has very light blue, gray, green eyes. Hair is often red or honey, almost white. The skin is pinkish, translucent, very light. As a rule, a person is the owner of a large number of freckles.

Unfortunately, people of the Celtic type do not recommend sunbathing in a solarium. Under the influence of artificial sun, the skin gets severe burns. Even a long visit to the solarium does not give visible results.

2. A representative of the type of a light-skinned European has the same eye color as the Celtic (perhaps not as light). The hair is light brown, the skin is light. Sensitivity to burns is also present, but not so painful.

The first visit to the solarium should last no more than five minutes, after which you need to take a break for several days. Then come no more than three times a week, gradually increasing sessions to 10 minutes.

3. The type of black European successfully sunbathing under a tanning bed lamp. The owner of gray or brown eyes, chestnut or dark blond hair can easily receive ultraviolet for 15 minutes with interruptions for one or two days.

4. A Mediterranean type with a swarthy skin, dark brown or black eyes, dark hair, achieves the desired tan in four or five sessions of 15 minutes each.

What should I do before I go to the solarium?

The rules of visiting the solarium recommend visiting a doctor to make sure that you do not have any contraindications to this. There is a list of diseases in which a visit to the solarium is contraindicated. These include: diabetes mellitus, frequent asthma attacks, liver and kidney disease, tumors of various etiologies, a recent surgery and others. It is also desirable to postpone the trip during the menstrual cycle, taking antibiotics, laxatives, diuretics, tranquilizers.

A visit to the solarium is possible only two weeks after the application of masks with retinol, chemical peeling, epilation, laser resurfacing and other similar cosmetic procedures.

Ask the salon employee about the life of the lamps. Remember that the permissible period of their operation is 540 hours.

Going to the solarium

Visiting rules are not recommended to visit a sauna or a bathhouse the day before, and also wash using soap. This way you will wash away the natural fatty film on the skin. You can not apply perfume before the session.

Take care of purchasing special cosmetics. It is necessary to use lotion or other means for sunburn, which will protect the skin from overheating and harmful rays, and will also contribute to the appearance of a persistent sunburn.

After the procedure you will need cosmetics that help moisturize and soothe the skin, fix the tan.

Such means can be bought directly in the salon. It should also be aware that they are not suitable for use on the beach, since they are not intended for sunlight.

The rules for visiting the solarium include the mandatory use of safety glasses and hats (to help protect your hair from brittleness and dryness).

For women, it is also necessary to have a nipple covering.

Before the session

1. The rules of visiting the solarium recommend removing all jewelry from yourself and removing contact lenses from your eyes.

2. If you have birthmarks, seal them with a band-aid. Such a measure will serve as prevention of the formation of malignant tumors.

3. Spread lips with cream - balm with UV filter. (Lips do not produce melanin.)

4. Cover the tattoo, if you have them, to avoid an allergic reaction.

It is important to remember that the rules of visiting the solarium do not recommend sunbathing under the lamps more than twice a year for 10 to 20 sessions.