Last summer I worked at Wild Rivers and after the first couple days of work I was able to wear SPF 4 tanning sunscreen and not get burned aka work on my tan. it was great. I got paid to get tan (and be a ride attendant)
Then I went to BYU in Utah, and got really white again.
Then I came home from Utah after 8 months and started using SPF 4 when I would go to the beach. I would go for a couple of hours, never reapply and all I would be was a pink, sometimes a little red. I would just put some aloe on it, and 2 days later the pink/sunburn would be gone and I would be less white!
Today I went to the beach for 5 hours, used SPF 4 all over (except for on my face I used SPF 30), and reapplied on most of my skin. Because I didn't re-apply frequently enough or use enough SPF... I am now a lobster.
And this lobster has her first day of work tomorrow, where she will be out in the sun with kids for 6 hours and in pain because of her sunburn. Not cool.
Moral of the Story: Don't use SPF 4 suncreen after living in Utah for 8 months even if you think you can handle it like you did last summer. Because you CAN'T! your skin still isn't used to the California sun. You have not graduated to the SPF4 tanning sunscreen yet. You've got a while till you build up your tan and can get on that level of expedential tan gain/whiteness loss due to the use of SPF4 tanning suncreen lotion.
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