Nicola Roberts Quotes

So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.

I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.

I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today's sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence.

Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan.

I love to be tan. Maybe this is the wrong message, but I don't always put sunscreen on.

I used to use a sunbed after school. It wasn't a regular thing, but I'd go in wearing my uniform. No one ever stopped me. No one told me it was dangerous.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.

When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.

There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

I've gone to a tanning bed.

I keep my skin - especially on my face and neck - out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I've got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

I'm not going to lie. I rarely wear sunblock.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

There's a common misconception that you don't need SPF during the grey winter months, but it's so important to protect skin from UVA/UVB rays year-round.

Never suntan! Ten minutes in the sun on a daily basis is good to get vitamin D, but sun tanning is terrible for your skin. It dehydrates your skin, creates sunspots, and can give you skin cancer.

It's important to me to have a healthy tan with so much skin showing.

With sun exposure, be careful.

The sun sucks. I used to love the sun, but now I hate it because it just wants to kill everything. I always tell everyone, if you don't want to do skin care, fine, but at least put sunscreen on. The reason why we have little freckles, skin cancer, and wrinkles is because of the sun.

I do worry about getting skin cancer in the future - you only have to use a sunbed a handful of times.

Nothing beats a good tan, but I've also been trying to avoid sun exposure on my face as much as possible.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.