Raccoon Eyes - What gets rid of them?

[Alan @ TanToday]

Short of not wearing goggles, which isnt even an option, what gets rid of raccoon eyes?????

Tried moving goggles around, getting smaller ones, etc - still have the light glow around the eyes.

I actually cant believe I dont have an answer to my own question. Someone chime in with your success formula.

[Din]

1. No Goggles when you tan
2. Bronzer
3. Cover up for girls
4. Poop smearing.

[frankie]

I have never had a problem myself. Use a little bronzer around your eyes and also sunless solution and that should do the trick. Just keep a small bottle of lotion for the face w/bronzer on your sink when you are getting ready in the morning and you will be fine. My makeup covers it up too but of course that will not be an option for a man. I have never known why people make such a fuss about this.

[Jim Fisher]

eyecones

[dbl-a]

GOOD TOPIC! I see a lot of people that look funny with raccoon eyes. I get them every now and then. I usually will only wear them for a bit over half the time. I think that the majority of the people that don't wear goggles don't want circles around their eyes. Wink eez seem to work well to prevent them.

[Brian Oshman]

Just stare into the light. Do you think I work on lit beds with my eyes closed. I have been staring at the light for 17 years now and my vision is fine.

[EliteMike]

Brian you dont' wear the UV shields??

[Brian Oshman]

I wear prescription glasses with polycarbonate lenses. All eyeglasses block UV. If you don't believe me, check it with your meter.

I guess you should wear goggles or winkees outside too.

When was the last time you seen someone walking around that looked like one of the pictures in Brenda's counter chart? Exactly. Those symtoms are not common unless you spent time in a concentration torture facility.

[Isltan]

Yes, that's how Brian works, I've witnessed it!

[frankie]

All I can say if you don`t wear something on your eyes while tanning you will be sorry. I promise you will have night blindnes.

 I usually will only wear them for a bit over half the time.

How dumb is that? If you are a tanning salon owner I hope you are NOT telling your customers this. Our customers have to show their eyewear before they tan. If they tell us they are not going to wear them......guess what? they don`t tan.

[Isltan]

Agreed, what is that, only 1/2 the time?

[Brian Oshman]

Originally Posted by frankie

All I can say if you don`t wear something on your eyes while tanning you will be sorry. I promise you will have night blindnes.

I never use or need the high beams at night and bet I stare at the light more then any tanner or salon owner. Your eyelids shield out all of the UV otherwise everyone on the planet would be blind by now.

Taking off the goggles for some of the session is not going to hurt anything.

[Brenda at Eye Pro]

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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[Brian Oshman]

Originally Posted by Brenda at Eye Pro

I'm always tanned and often don't wear makeup and never had it be an issue or anyone ever mention my raccoon eyes

No one is going to mention it unless they want to be rude but it looks freaky, just like if you have a booger on your face, no one is going to tell you that it is there but they are staring at it.

[Brian Oshman]

[Isltan]

I have looked at our lamps in beds for many years, no eye wear (wear prot. eye wear when looking for extended periods of time to troubleshoot or do checks), never had a single eye exam in my life and can read a license plate on the street from the 2nd level at the shore in a condo...not bragging in any way

[EliteMike]

F you if you have perfect vision, I hate you. I was born with eye problems. My eyes ache if I don't have protection on.

[frankie]

Well I tell you what all you just keep on saying this will not hurt your eyes. Open your eyes and keep thinking it will not hurt you. BUT please do not tell your customers this. I wish someone had told me 25 years ago I could/would damage my eyes if I did not protect them. How many times have my eyes felt like they had grit in them after tanning. At one time I would lay in the bed and count the lamps. How stupid on my part.

Once you have an ulser on your cornea and the doctor tells you how dangerous it is you will not lay in a tanning bed without protection again. Don`t tell me this can`t happen because it has/will if you lay in the bed and stare at the lamps.

[dbl-a]

Ha ha Brian. I guess we should all be wearing Blue Blockers outside! I wear them for say 10 min if I am in the bed for 15. If I told you that I do that and you told me I couldn't tan, I would either lie and tell you that I will wear them and keep paying you to tan, or I would laugh at you and then go to another salon and tell them how stupid your rule is.

[Brian Oshman]