Is it Fall yet?

We're getting ready for Fall here at Hollywood Tans, and we'd like you to also!


Whether you or your kids are getting ready to head back to school - or you're simply getting ready for Fall, we're here to help! We want you to stay tan and relaxed! Visit your local HT for September promotions and deals. Participating salons only.

Enter to Win: Hollywood Tans Copacabana Tee + Tanning Lotion!

Three (3) Grand Prize winners will receive the Hollywood Tans Copacabana T-shirt and a Hollywood Tans Copacabana tanning lotion packet. Limited size run.

Contest begins August 12, 2011 and ends August 19, 2011 at 11:59 PM PDT. All entries must be submitted by August 19, 2011 at 11:59 PM PDT.

The Grand Prize winner will be notified by email on August 20, 2011.

1. Must be 13 years old and live in the United States of America to be eligible.
2. Must provide a valid mailing address to which grand prize may be shipped. No P.O. Boxes will be honored.
3. No shipping and handling fee.
4. No purchase necessary.

You can either enter on our Facebook page - simply click the "SWEEPSTAKES" tab on the left side of the page, under our fabulous profile picture and voila!

Or, you can enter...here!

Win a Hollywood Tans "Special Event" Tee!

All of us here at Hollywood Tans are in the back to school mode! So, we've turned into Hollywood Tans Academy to get everyone on board and ready for Fall! We'll even be giving out some Tanning 101 tactics!

Every school has spirit right? We want you to have to Hollywood Tans pride and show your spirit, so we're giving you the opportunity to win this:

Cool, Right?

Here are some guidelines and rules:

Three (3) Grand Prize winners will receive the Hollywood Tans Special Event T-shirt and a Hollywood Tans Special Event tanning lotion packet. Limited size run.

Contest begins August 3, 2011 and ends August 10, 2011 at 11:59 PM PDT. All entries must be submitted by August 10, 2011 at 11:59 PM PDT.

The Grand Prize winner will be notified by email on August 11, 2011.

1. Must be 13 years old and live in the United States of America to be eligible.
2. Must provide a valid mailing address to which grand prize may be shipped. No P.O. Boxes will be honored.
3. No shipping and handling fee.
4. No purchase necessary.

You can either enter on our Facebook page - simply click the "SWEEPSTAKES" tab on the left side of the page, under our fabulous profile picture and voila!

Or, you can enter...here!

Hollywood Tans Academy : Tanning 101

Tanning 101: Visit your local Hollywood Tans and educate yourself on the savings you could earn to get ready for fall! Headed back to school? No prob! Getting the kids ready to head back to school? We got your back! Through the month of August we have an awesome variety of student packages and cool incentives for new members!

Welcome to Hollywood Tans Academy - savings now in session!

*participating salons vary in savings

Primetime Emmy Nominations are announced!

Are you as excited as we are? We think it's safe to assume that most of you tanners are prime time TV watchers. Especially, since the red carpet mainly means scoping out who looks the best and worst!

Click the title of this post to see the nominees!


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Study: Sun Lowers Heart Attack Risk

https://smarttan.com/blog/index.php/sun-lowers-heart-attack-risk-study/

A Danish research team this week presented data suggesting that overexposure to the sun lowers a person’s risk of heart attacks, hip fractures and overall mortality — a trade-off that would outweigh the risks of skin-related diseases, most of which are non-lethal in most cases.

2011-07-12 Sun Lowers Heart Attack Risk copy “Cumulative incidences of myocardial infarction, hip fracture and mortality were lower among individuals with non-melanoma skin cancer or cutaneous malignant melanoma,” Dr. Peter Brondum Jacobson, of University Hospital in Herlev, Denmark, wrote in the study. “This suggests that sun exposure might have beneficial effects on health.”

The team speculates that non-melanoma and melanoma incidence are signs of overexposure to UV light — an assumption that lacks a solid straightforward relationship, particularly for melanoma and basal cell carcinoma, which have complex relationships with sun exposure in research. Melanoma is more common in indoor workers — who get four- to six-times less sun exposure — than in outdoor workers.

But, studying the entire Danish population from 1980-2006, Jacobson and his colleagues found that those with non-melanoma skin cancer were:

* 34 percent less likely to suffer a heart attack.
* 32 percent less likely to suffer a hip fracture.
* 46 percent less likely to die of any cause in the time period.

The results were less dramatic among melanoma victims — most likely due to the fact that melanoma’s relationship with sun exposure is not straightforward. Other papers have suggested that vitamin D from sun exposure is the mechanism lowering the risk of these and other diseases.

“What is interesting about this new paper is that it is looking at signs of overexposure to UV and presenting benefits of overexposure,” Smart Tan Vice President Joseph Levy says. “No one is advocating overexposure to sunlight. But researchers might want to identify if regular, moderate exposure might present the same benefit to this population without the risk of skin cancer. That would be an even better study.”

The study was presented at a meeting of the European Atherosclerosis Society July 1.

CEO Lewis Shender talks tan tax, myths and the tanning industry!

Hollywood Tans CEO Lewis Shender was on the Fox Business Channel discussing the tan tax and it's impact on the tanning industry, as well as the validity of claims that tanning is detrimental to health.

Take a look at the video (06:26)