When you work all day indoors at the offices of an executive recruitment firm and only go outside for a few minutes to expose yourself to the grey winter clouds, your skin will look awfully white when you strip down for your bath. You can ignore it when it's just you, but what if you have to put on a bathing suit and go down to the Caribbean on your beach vacation. Everyone there will be nicely tanned and you'll stick out like a white thumb. That's why so many people opt to get faux tans before they leave home.

If you're looking for a place to get an artificial tan between showings of condos for rent in Toronto, there are plenty of places to go to downtown. However, be careful when you're selecting a tanning center. Different tanning businesses use different methods to brown your skin, and some of them can be dangerous to your health. We'll outline the popular methods here and take you through the pros and cons so that you'll be able to make the intelligent choice.

First of all, our advice is to avoid tanning beds. These beds try to replicate the natural tanning process in a short period of time by exposing you to concentrated doses of ultraviolet light. Many Toronto real estate agents who have used this type of tanning have ended up with skin cancers, prematurely aged skin, and cataracts. There's also the danger of painful burns if you spend too long in a tanning bed or fall asleep during your treatment. Therefore the World Health Organization has issued warnings on this type of tanning.

The new fad, therefore, is sunless tanning, which is achieved by spraying pigment onto the skin. You may think that this method is likely to leave you looking patchy and orange, but like dental implants in Mississauga, sunless tanning has come a long way since the 1960s. There are still some cheap false tan brands you can buy at department stores that will turn you orange, but the newer more upscale brands work much better when applied according to the directions.

The best way to get a sunless tan, however, is to visit a sunless tanning center and allow the experts to make sure your tan is even. They do this by placing you in a shower-like stall and using computer-programmed jets to apply the spray tan all over your body. There are places that do this near the Wellington - 30 Wellington E. Sunless tanning products are approved and safe for use, but there is the danger of permanent skin pigmentation resulting from overuse.