Henry,
Great copper brown color. The contrast with your daughter is stricking.
 
You said you only did natural sun and not a lot. Would you please go into a little more detail-time of day, minutes on front and back, any tanning lotion, any SPF. Do you have any outside before picture you could post?
 
Thanks, you look great!

Hi socalguy! Thanks for your kind words
 
I forgott to mention that my main objectiv was not to create a tan when I first joined this board, but to be helped with my rosacia that I've been struggled with for many years.
So I found out about this site from a rosacia board. Meanwhile I was reading up on this subject I was helped from a another treatment I undertook for my rosacia.  
But after given this site so many hours reading about peoples progress I was to curious not to try it myself.
So I was no longer effected by rosacia when I begun my melanotan II trial.
 
I was like everybodyelse concerned about mole and freckles, so I decided to supplement with nutrients 2 month prior to my trial and I have been on the same supplements througout the hole period.
I take 1000mg ester C and 400IU D3 in the mornings along with a tablespoon kolloidal minerals.
In the evenings I take 1000mg ester C and 2000IU D3. Since we are getting better and better weather here I exclude D3 in the evenings the days I receive sun.
 
To moisture my face I use an oil that contains vitamin A,C and D. this is an very light and soothing oil common among rosacia suffers. On my body do I use a regular moisteriser.
 
I've been on melanotan II for more than 2 months now. And I saw results almost from the first injection.
I'm sure that I had visible results on my face after 5 injections of 0.37mg.  
I tried to get sun from the first day. but since it was quite cold here at the time there where many days that I didn't get any.
 
If I should estimate how much sun in hours I got during my first to vials I would say perhaps 8-10hours.
During weekdays when I'm in town I drive home during lunch and sit for half hour, only front side with no spf. If the weather is good on weekends I trie to stay out as much as the weather allows me to and at those times I've used spf10. I haven't used any accelerators of any kind, thinkig of start with coconut oil though.
 
 Since the end of May we are been able to hit the beach around here, and my colour has developed to a more deeper brown/blackish colour. Today the were clody weather here and I got the same colour on my skin that Spencer has on the picture with his girlfriend in the harbour.
 
My daughter didn't brought here camera perfect condition for a good shot otherwise.
I haven't got any digital camera myself but I have a lot of paper copies. I can go thrue my albums and see if I can scan a pics of me with my natural colour.
 
My legs/feet haven't got much UV and they is starting to catch up with my body. there are more like golden brown today except for my kneebowls which has the same colour as my upper body. The area on my chest close to my arm pits, are black there must be a higher concentration of melanocytes there.
 
So to sum it up. My first sun did I receive from small portions in the middle of the day without spf.
 
Have a nice evening Socalguy!
 
 
 
 

Are you going to go on a maintenance dose now, and if so what do you think you will try?

Was harder than I thought to find an undressed picture of me.
This was the best I could come up with. It is taken 9 years ago, but the skin colour is representative for me.
It is scaned from a paper copy therefore the poor quality.  
 

Ok, I took one shot tonight I thougth I should share.
I'm now 30,5mg in and I've got extremly dark. Picture is taking with a flash and if you look closely you could see where the flash hit me in the middle of the body, in real life I look more browner blacker(could you say so?). me so dark with light eyebrows and golden hair. no wonder people looking

Hi Henry Porter (not Harry Potter!),
 
Your experiment prooves my theory: you don't need as much melanotan II as the chart says. I experimented with melanotan II last year and found I needed much LOWER doses than the chart & also a much SHORTER cycle.  
 
Before I stepped into the hot Spanish sun, I had only had a 4 injections of melanotan II divided over a monthly period. The result was awsome: tan straight off - no sunburn whatsoever!!

excelent results mate 1 of the darkest and most natural looking ive seen, do you get your hair highlighted now ? because it is completley dark brown in the before pic from 9 years ago but now is more golden but i can still see the dark roots, how are you maintaining ?

I'm type 1 and have responded extremly well, with very low doses.  Results were seen very early on too.  Good tan Henry Porter.
 
 

Your results are pretty amazing Henry!  Great stuff to see.  
 
This begs the question of whether dose and time are somewhat dependent.  For instance, you got great results with 20mgs, but you did that amount over a period of 2 months.  It begs the question of would your results have been as good if you did one Mg per day for 20 days?  Know what I mean?
 
Therefore, it seems there is a little bit of a time/dose dependency in that you can get good results with lower doses over a longer period of time.  It may be a little quicker to bump up that dose, but I'm wondering if the body simply needs time (as opposed to more mgs) to create the building blocks for darker skin.  
 
There is no doubt some people respond faster/better than others.  Also, some people have varying results depending on location of the body.  You seem to have naturally thick skin.  I think that thick skin aides in the look of being dark.  For those with thinner skin, if the peptide is able to thicken it, it may help to provide that same benefit (in a hopeful world).  
 
You are certainly one of the top responders here Henry.  It will be interesting to see just how dark you get.

Hi long2btan and capn rip!
 
I don't belive I would have this results if I would have take the same amount over a shorter period of time. My theroy is that our body only can assimilate a certain amount every day/injection, and that amount varies from person to person. And that is the difference between the good responders and the not so good.  
 
I also wonders how dark I could get! after today i'm not sure there is a limit
In my earlier post I said that I've got another type of comments this last week after I have recived a lot of sun.
Yesterday for example. I went to a gas station to fill up gas in my car, when i handed over my card to the shop assistent he said
-how is it in Africa nowadays
to which I answered I just came back from a week abroad.  
-You don't get that type of colour from one week you MUST have been away for a longer period of time.  
Kind of weird, I had to stand there lie to him about high pressure tanning beds and lotions and all that sort of things.
 
I haven't been on my job for three weeks, My plan is to stay away from there until after the vacation. last time I visit I had to explain for everybody about tanningbeds and that I've been abroad etc. etc. And then I was not as near as tanned as I'm today.
 
One last story that happend today, than I won't tell anymore I swear, so I don't bore you to death.
 
We have had very warm weather here last week, so I took the day of and was planning to walk on the beach. So I drove out to the coast, and started on one side and walked to the other about 15km one way. when I came to the other side wich is normally very very crowded. Today even for the early season ther were quite a few people there.
When I walked there I saw a dark very tanned person walking in the opposite direction as me, the minute I saw him I thought to myself oh what skin that person has lucky him, dark skin and hair /eyes.  
The fun thing is I've got eye contact with him and he walks up to me and says.  
-you are absolutely the most tanned person on the beach!!  
What me, I thought that was you. And than we stand there in the middle of all people and compaired our arms to each other, kind of cute lol.  And guess what I came out on top I was darker. It kind of knocked me out of my feet.
So on my way back to the car I started to look att my skin and it was weird, I was so much darker then the picture I was posting I didn't think it was possible to improve the darknes of my skin in such short period of time.  
In the parking lot were the light was a little different I reflected myself in the side mirror and I looked like something from a magazine. I could't really belive my eyes.
 
On my way back I picked up my daughter from an outdoor swimmingpool all of her friends(10 years old) all of them said I looked like a different person and they also started to compair their arms to mine( starts to be a habbit of mine).
And when I got home the first thing my wife told me not hello or anything just.  
-you have to stop you are black!!
 
So this long storie's point is I belive it is very hard to judge your own colour. You have to see it from a distance. I could swear that I didn't looked as near as tanned as this person I met on the beach but when we came close I was. not just as tanned I was also darker.
And also If i continue to improve my colour furhter with this low dosage, this stuff must be super potent.
 
That is good enough for now