I'm as pale as they come - nearly albino. I tried to go tanning for months and didn't change color at all, but my wallet did get lighter.
I looked into that stuff and just ran into study after study that showed it wasn't so good.
the problem is that it stimulates you to grow more... and I apologize ahead of time for fucking pu the words on this - I'm sick right now and running on half the cylinders - but it creates new malanin - I think it called them melacytes?
anyway, these new spots of pigment centers when hit with UV were like a crazy amount more (hundreds of times) likely to turn into a malignant tumor than normally induced ones.
instead of reading a sick guy on the net trying to recall it, look it up yourself - but it scared me away from it.
I'll stick to being sickly looking but alive.
chicks may dig a tan, but they hate dudes with growths.