Employees at Hair By Stewarts, which offers tanning, said they strongly recommend using goggles or eye stickers, but occasionally find the stickers they handed out left unused in tanning rooms. The ability to control UV exposure is a factor in choosing timed tanning beds over laying out in natural sunlight, say local tanning authorities. Reasons for basking in the artificial heat rays vary. Most people use tanning booths before leaving on vacation to set up a primer tan before setting off to bask in the real thing. This is especially true around the University campus, where winter and spring break excursions prompt throngs of sun-splashers to build an artificially induced base before heading south.
Many students use the beds as pit stop during a hectic work-load.
Some say they reap benefits from the drying effects of bellarium bulbs, explaining that tanning clears up problems with acne. Others have no delusions about the vanity factor.