Hi everyone! I have been so appreciative of all of the logs on here and would not be doing Melanotan without having read them so I figured I should help others out by doing a log myself. I am 19, female, with Type 1-2 skin. I have had a very light tan before but it takes a lot of sun or tanning bed exposure to achieve one. I have gone to the tanning bed maybe once a week for the last couple months but built up barely any color at all. I don't burn easily in tanning beds (they take out most of UVB-burning ray) but I usually burn in the sun. I have light freckles all over my face, so light that you can see them slightly without makeup but can't see them at all when i have makeup or fake tan on my face. These freckles have always been light, maybe slightly more prominent as a child, I have completely protected my face from sun exposure for at least 8 years now and it is extremely pale. I have light freckles on my shoulders also which have not seem to darken at all with exposure in tanning beds so we will see how the Melanotan changes them. I have spray tanned twice a week for about 8 years now and never ever leave the house without being fake tanned. I am really, really hoping that in a few months I won't have to do that ever again, if this works for me it would be beyond anything I could have ever hoped for.
 
I have 50 mg of melanotan-1 and this is what I have done so far.
 
7/14: 0.5
7/15: 0.5
7/16: 0.5
7/17: 0.5 (my first time doing the injection to myself and some seemed to come out of my skin when I pulled out needle so I may have not had a full 0.5)
7/18: 0.5
7/19: 0.5
7/20: 0.5
7/21: 0.75
7/22: Will do 0.75 later today and possibly a tanning bed (Does anyone know if it is better to tan right after injecting or not?)
 
So far no sides what so ever. I realize my dose is low for melanotan-1 but I want to build it up very slowly, I am also hoping that by doing so it may lessen hyperpigmentation a bit. We'll see. So far no change in skin color as expected I am barely halfway through my first 10mg. I will try to keep you guys updated as much as I can and I hope that my experience will help some of you. I'll also probably get around to posting a before picture I know that these logs are not very helpful without pictures. I just need to figure out how I am going to do it as I will not be posting my face, or full body even out of privacy concerns. Maybe individual body parts? Not sure yet but I'll definitely try to do that.
 

Hi simpson any updates?would love to know how your getting on especially with the freckles situation.I really want to give melanotan-1 a go only thing holding me back is how my freckles react to it and of course me being a big baby when it comes too needles

Just a quick update.  
 
7/23 0.75
7/24 0.75
7/25 0.75
 
Total: 7.25
 
Unfortunately I am somehow done with my first 10 mg vial although I have only injected 7.25. I lost a bit here and there trying to get the air out of the syringe and stuff, didn't realize it had amounted to that much, oh well. So considering i lost part of the 7/17 injection I am going to say it is likely that I am at 7 mg right now and I will begin the next vial tomorrow. So far the only sun exposure I have had is yesterday for about 30 min. Usually laying out on a sunny California day for 30 min I would have a faint line from my bathing suit that would usually be a burn, not a severe burn after only 30 min but a mild burn. Yesterday it was not hot and sunny though it was overcast but there was still a little sun, I did not burn and had a slight tan line around my lower stomach area but nowhere else (this is not a huge deal for me, I would usually have a tan line in the same area it's just it would usually be a mild burn). I do not know if this is due to melanotan preventing me from burning or if it was because it was overcast, I have never laid out in that kind of weather before so I don't really know how my skin would normally have reacted. Also, I had my face completely covered in SPF and a hat on because I am still really worried about those facial freckles, not going to expose them to any sun what so ever yet just to be safe. So I will do another update probably once I do a tanning session or have something interesting to tell you guys sorry if this is boring!

7/26 0.75
7/27 0.75
7/28 1.00
 
Upped my dosage today to 1 mg. I just did the injection 20 min ago and feel no sides. I know that a lot of people do two 0.5 shots a day or two 0.75 shots. If any of you could tell me why you guy split the shots in two that would be great. Why prick yourself twice instead of once? Is it just to avoid sides or is there another reason? Oh and I plan to do a sun bed this evening so we will see how that goes.

Didn't do a tanning bed the other day as I had planned but will definitely be doing one tomorrow morning.
 
7/29 1.00
7/30 1.00
7/31 1.00
 
Total:12.5
 
Unfortunately I have definitely been noticing darkening of moles on my face (I still have not exposed my face to sun at least not purposely). I kept telling myself it was in my head but no, they are absolutely darker. Fortunately, none of my freckles have darkened, not even slightly. These facial freckles were my main concern as they are lightly spread all over my face and if they darkened it would completely change my appearance. I maybe have 5-6 small flat moles on my face though and one larger one by my ear which have darkened significantly. The interesting thing is that I have many of these same flat small moles on my body, on my arms primarily and a couple on my legs and none of these have darkened at all. I'm thinking this must be because my body has had quite a bit of sun exposure recently through tanning beds but my face has had none in 7+ years. My moles on my body must be just as dark as they get but my moles on my face I am noticing because my face has had absolutely no exposure to sun so now that melanocytes are being stimulated there, the darkening is happening. I'm not going to lie I'm kind of sad about the moles on my face just because I like my face to be completely clear but if this works and I get a great tan they will be not at all noticeable and it will be completely worth it.  
 
I have read most of the melanotan-1 logs but most people don't show their faces or discuss how their faces reacted in much detail. Can any of you fellow melanotan-1 users tell me more about how your face reacted? Did you get a nice dark even tan? Or did you get a lot of freckles and your face didn't respond as well as your body? I know every person is different but to me my face is the most important aspect of this and I'm curious to know more about how other peoples faces looked after melanotan-1 use. Thanks I will continue to update every few days and I'll let you guys know how the tanning bed goes. Hoping for the best!

I have gone to a tanning bed twice in the last 5 days and have covered my face. I am definitely getting a little color, nothing impressive at all yet but I can tell it is working. My stomach seems to be getting the most color. Moles are continuing to get darker, but I don't have very many and they don't look bad. Freckles still seem the same, which I am happy about but somewhat confused, I wonder why the moles would darken and not the freckles? Also, I was wondering if someone could help me understand how this works more. Obviously people get much better color the more they have injected like when I am at 50 mg I will be tanning a lot more than I am now. But I've read that the half life of melanotan-1 is somewhere between 30 min and 2 hours. If this is true and it is completely out of our systems by then, how is it building up in our bodies to cause us to tan more the more we have injected? I am just confused about this and want to understand it more if anyone could help    
 
8/1 1.00
8/2 1.00
8/3 1.00
8/4 0.5
8/5 1.00
 
Total:17 mg

8/9 0.75
8/10 0.75
8/11 0.75x2
8/12 missed a day
8/13 0.75x2
 
Total: 24.5
 
Have not been exposing myself to UV much at all, I wasn't seeing any dramatic results so I am going to wait until I'm about 30 mg in to get lots of UV. Still noticing darkening of moles on face, seems like new ones are popping up but Im sure they are not new. Still not noticeable to anyone else really and have not had freckles darken. I really hope the moles stop though I don't want anymore

8/14 0.75
8/15 1.25
8/16 1.25
8/17 1.50
8/18 1.50
8/19 1.50
8/20 1.50
8/21 1.50
 
Total: 35.25 mg
 
Wow didn't realize that I'm already more than 35 mg in. Like I said I was going to wait until 30 mg+ to really expose my skin to UV so I think this week I will start doing that. I have had 10-15 minutes of sun exposure here and there and again have noticed my stomach is getting the most color. Still have not been exposing my face to the sun purposely although I stopped wearing sunscreen on my face, I think my face has a slight glow to it now and it was the palest part of me before, extremely pale! Maybe this week I will do a couple tanning bed sessions or if the weather permits, some good real UV. I have been doing once daily injections of 1.5 instead of two 0.75 injections. I am doing this because I really hate injecting myself as I have been having some bruising lately, nothing major, but I don't like it. I may continue doing just one injection a day for a while and see if it is working well with tanning and if it is not I will switch to two injections like I know a lot of other people do. The other reason I have been just doing one is because I know in the human trials for melanotan-1 they did only one injection a day and it was somewhere between 5-15 mg a day depending on body weight. So from that I assume the body can absorb at least that much at a time so 1.5 is obviously significantly less than that. Oh well, we'll see what happens.
 
Also, I am happy to say that I think my moles have stopped darkening and new ones have stopped popping up. The ones on my body are not even slightly bothersome to me, the ones on my face are not much of a problem either. The freckles on my face and shoulders have not darkened at ALL! I am so glad about this. To think for so long I hesitated to try this peptide due to thinking freckles/moles would pop up all over my face, now I'm just thinking "this is it?" I expected so much worse and this is nothing, a few more moles on my face, some might even find them attractive. I just can't wait to see the major results that I know I will achieve soon. Trying to stay patient ant positive about this but I am very excited! Will do an update soon and hopefully I will have a little more color by then!
 
whitechick- I do plan on showing some pics of my results once I have some worth showing  

8/22 1.50
8/23 0.75
8/24 1.00
8/25 1.00
8/26 1.00
8/27 0.75
8/28 0.75
 
Total: 42 mg
 
So this week we had great weather! I am getting some really good color! I was out in the sun 3 days for 1 and a half to two hours each time. I wanted to be careful because the sun was strong here this last week, UV index of 8-9 which is very high. I tanned my back for the first time, usually I lay on my back because it is more comfortable but wanted to get some exposure there so my back had it's first exposure to strong sun. I exposed it for about an hour and a half and didn't really burn but my skin felt tight and the tan had a slight pinkish hue but that went away after a day. My stomach is still tanning the most, then my arms and legs, and my hands and feet are the slowest to tan. My face I have still not exposed so it is a lot paler than my body. I still want to get a lot darker than I am although I am very happy to be seeing some color. I'm attaching a picture that shows my stomach and the color difference to the palm of my hand, before this my entire body was the color of the palm of my hand. Remember, this is the darkest part of my body the rest of my body is not as dark but just wanted to show you guys a little progress. I will update again soon, I will be going back to 1.5 mg daily shots, I have only been doing less because I was waiting for the arrival of a new batch which arrived today.

Thanks Bob, yes I am pretty happy! But I definitely do want to get more color. I need to start tanning my face now because my face and body are distinctly different colors now. I am just still scared of those freckles darkening but we will see what happens hopefully the weather stays nice so I can tan my face this week. I will keep you updated.