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Brenda at Eye Pro · 11th May 2008, 11:08 PM

To prevent raccoon eyes, all the ideas above are great. Additionally, some folks like to rotate between eye protection types.

I personally find Viewkeepers to be the best, as you can make them into a much tighter cone than Wink-Ease (my company created both--full disclosure).

All eyewear is a full UV block, so of course you will not tan wherever they are. So moving them and/or using something that fits your eyes and then using coverup afterwards. I'm always tanned and often don't wear makeup and never had it be an issue or anyone ever mention my raccoon eyes--whether I wear my own brand or my competition's (I often tan in other products to know what its like).

Second topic--eye damage. The FDA tracks this--and every year, we send about 12,000 tanners to hospitals with severe eye burns called photokeratitis. That's almost every salon sending someone to the hospital once a year!!! They come in to look good, feel good and wind up with their eyes taped shut and in terrible pain and their corneas peeling!

I can't think of a presentation I've ever done--in 18 years to thousands of salon staff--that someone hasn't talked about the loss of night vision (under 30 years old) or shown me the growths on the whites of their eyes or (this year) a genital herpes wart on their eyelid.

Walk around the ITA and look at the whites of everyone's eyes--about 5% have "pimple growths" called pyterigiums or pingueculas.

Eye glasses are not a full solution in changing lamps--the ambient light comes around the sides, tops and bottoms unless you are wearing wraps like some of the hip sunglasses.

I wish you read my e-mail every day...almost all start out like this..."No one at my salon told me this could happen...".

Check out Island Sun Times "eye to eye" column with salon letters and interviews with the FDA--that all has to be verified before being printed. We have an ophthamologist on retainer--all of the pix are things they see all the time and provided to us. AND we show only the most common....there are literally hundreds and hundreds of gory things that happen to your eyes with UV light.

Brenda
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11th May 2008, 11:08 PM	#13 (permalink)
Brenda at Eye Pro All Star Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Fort Wayne, IN Posts: 94	Re: Raccoon Eyes - What gets rid of them? To prevent raccoon eyes, all the ideas above are great. Additionally, some folks like to rotate between eye protection types. I personally find Viewkeepers to be the best, as you can make them into a much tighter cone than Wink-Ease (my company created both--full disclosure). All eyewear is a full UV block, so of course you will not tan wherever they are. So moving them and/or using something that fits your eyes and then using coverup afterwards. I'm always tanned and often don't wear makeup and never had it be an issue or anyone ever mention my raccoon eyes--whether I wear my own brand or my competition's (I often tan in other products to know what its like). Second topic--eye damage. The FDA tracks this--and every year, we send about 12,000 tanners to hospitals with severe eye burns called photokeratitis. That's almost every salon sending someone to the hospital once a year!!! They come in to look good, feel good and wind up with their eyes taped shut and in terrible pain and their corneas peeling! I can't think of a presentation I've ever done--in 18 years to thousands of salon staff--that someone hasn't talked about the loss of night vision (under 30 years old) or shown me the growths on the whites of their eyes or (this year) a genital herpes wart on their eyelid. Walk around the ITA and look at the whites of everyone's eyes--about 5% have "pimple growths" called pyterigiums or pingueculas. Eye glasses are not a full solution in changing lamps--the ambient light comes around the sides, tops and bottoms unless you are wearing wraps like some of the hip sunglasses. I wish you read my e-mail every day...almost all start out like this..."No one at my salon told me this could happen...". Check out Island Sun Times "eye to eye" column with salon letters and interviews with the FDA--that all has to be verified before being printed. We have an ophthamologist on retainer--all of the pix are things they see all the time and provided to us. AND we show only the most common....there are literally hundreds and hundreds of gory things that happen to your eyes with UV light. Brenda Sorry for the advertisement!