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Spring break comes once a year, but with the help of a tanning bed, many students are making sure that post-vacation-like tan lasts year-round - even with the possibility of negative side effects.
The local Yellow Pages list more than 25 locations under "tanning salons," and according to salon managers, students are making use of them more than ever.
Mary Wojnar, manager of the Electric Beach Tanning Salon in Champaign, said business has consistently increased over the 13 years that it has been open.
"Tanning is more and more a part of students' personal care," Wojnar said. "It goes along with exercising, doing nails or anything else someone would do for personal enhancement."
She mentioned that a person achieves color in different ways, such as ultraviolet (UV) and UV-free tanning.
UV tanning, done in a tanning bed, tries to duplicate what happens when skin is exposed to the sun to produce a natural color. The UV-free process involves strictly artificial color that is applied to the skin in spray or lotion form, Wojnar explained.
"Some people think UV tanning is bad for you, but I believe that moderate exposure is actually beneficial," she said. "People just shouldn't take it too far to the point where they end up looking like a leather handbag."
Wojnar said she does not recommend UV-free tanning because it often contains many chemicals, and it is uncertain how different bodies can react to them when absorbed through the skin.
However, Wojnar said UV tanning is not for everyone.
"Very fair-skinned people or those with a family history of skin cancer shouldn't tan," Wojnar said. "If you are fair-skinned, your body is just not made to produce the coloring agent necessary to get a dark tan."
She said mostly female students tan, but that the amount of males is always increasing.
"On an average day we'll get about 3 percent guys, which is still a lot more than we used to get when we first opened," she said. "But that percentage usually increases a lot right before spring break, when they want to get tan before going out of town."
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