I am a 27 yr old, blonde hair, blue eyed male about 100kg. Like everyone else i am tired of being called ghost, albino, etc. So I decided to take the plunge. I have ordered my melanotan II and will begin my doses as soon as it comes in. One thing I wanted to try to avoid the side effects was to take very low doses, maybe 0.25mg eod for three weeks and really take my time building up. like with any medication or supplement just to see how my body reacts to it. Has anyone tried anything similar to this? My other question was some people said that they felt they aged after taking this. Has anyone else experienced this. If anything I thought using this would make you age less than before do to the lack of sunburns. I also wanted to use this long term instead of cycling so i will try to post about any long term effects i have. i will try to consistently post pics and updates, hopefully weekly or every other week. Any additional advice before I start?

i just checked out both blogs you mentioned, very interesting. Small doses over an extended period of time seems like the safer method. Thank you for the response btw.

I have a few few freckles on my arms and shoulders nothing major, i do have a  2 moles on my back but thats it, I  have a few freckles on my face, maybe three or four, I am crossing my fingers and hoping nothing major appears, good luck with melanotan-1, it will be interesting to see the difference results between the two. I did have a question for anyone who has had success with melanotan-1 or 2. I have a tendency to  blush or get red in certain social situations. It was cute when I was 5 but not when i am 27, does the darker skin tone help with that? or does the red under tones still show through.

I didn't get much sun this year, the last 2 months have been cloudy and constantly raining. But I'd would say I look like a type 2 with some good amount of color.  
 
In contrast to last year, where I spend pretty much 2 entire days in the sun(partly in shadow of course, because it was just too hot) and went pretty dark. Like a type3 I would say. Really nice tan. I don't worry about getting too dark.
 
I can't say much about weight, but I never thought it plays much of role to be honest. I've put on about 10kg since starting and never had to scale up my dosage, it went down actually.
 

finally got my shipment in today. i am going to do an injection tonight and see how things go. I did have a weird experience today though with my package. it was completely opened. The contents had been sealed inside and that wasnt opened but the outer package I had was opened. Is that normal? I didnt know if it was because I am in the US and it was shipped from another country. Has this happened with anyone else? Also with it being shipped from another country what is the chance that the peptide has been broken down due to the heat it?

I would recommend an anti-histermine half an hour before you inject.  Quite a few of the sides could be due to your body's reaction to a foreign substance so I always find it helps.

Quote from imnotalbino on 08/19/11 at 08:14:42:

 
I don't really remember when I stopped getting sides, maybe a week or two in.  To start with I got the occassional headache or just felt a bit cold/rough but now I don't notice any sides really.  I have been doing 0.7 mg on average 5 times a week for about 8 weeks.  As long as you don't increase the dose too much you will be fine, I did 1 mg a few times and it was too much for me so I went back to 0.7 mg.

day 1: 0.25mg
day2: 0
day 3: 0.25mg
 
I took the anti histamine 30 min prior, it helped out alot. No side effects this time, except for the erection thing. i havent noticed any additional freckles. My face does look a shade darker though. I also wanted to add that I live in southern california where it is always sunny and usually when I am out and about the sun feels like it is literally burning my face even when I wear sunscreen. I was outside yesterday and my skin didnt feel so hot, def a nice benefit.

so i went on vacation to the beach, I used sunscreen of course, I did get a little sun burned where I guess the sunscreen was applied thinly but I must say I have a nice little tan going. I am surprised bec I always burn and burn bad. This is only after a total of .75mg of use! I will post some pics shortly. one weird thing that did happen though is i brought an injection with me and it wouldnt go in my skin. It was a brand new needle I was using a diff injection spot, has anyone else had this problem? I felt if i pushed harder the needle would have broken.

I'm amazed that you are darkening, even slightly, after just 2-3 doses of 0.25mg.  
Low dose and at 100kg/220lbs, yet you're a pretty big guy.  
Me, I weigh less than 70kg even wearing my gym clothes. :p
 
Sounds like 0.25mg might not be as low as I'd thought,  
but actually be quite powerful for someone my size and skin type (3).