Whether you want to prepare for your summer holidays, or keep your post break glow topped up, don’t waste your time and money on self tan products that just don’t cut it. Check out our top tanning products, and you will be glowing all year round.
BEAUBRONZ SOFT SUN SELF TAN FOR ENGLISH ROSES, £24
It’s about time someone thought of us paler beauties! With BIO Active Aloe and 4.5% Ecocert DHA, this self tan is made for fair skinned females.
It smoothes on the skin like a dream and smells delicious, with its essence of wild rose scent taking away from the typical chemical smell of most tanning lotions.
A variant of the product is available for those who prefer a darker tan or have a darker skin tone, but this particular product gives a more medium and subtle colour.
ST TROPEZ SELF TAN DARK BRONZING MOUSSE, £33
The original faking it brand St Tropez has brought us yet another stunning product, this time for those who like a much deeper, darker shade of tan.
The new formula contains allo-melanin, which is made to match your skins natural melanin, to ensure nothing too unnatural to your skin tone, just a flawless deeper, darker glow.
FAKE BAKE 60 MINUTES SELF TAN LIQUID, £24.95
Fake Bake is well known for its lengthy but worthwhile ‘baking’ times, and now they have brought to us their fastest product yet!
The quick drying formula contains DHA, and is ideal for those last minute panic tans!
LANCASTER GRADUAL HYDRATING BRONZE LOTION, £17
If you aren’t one for messing with the dark, messy liquid that is instant fake tan, and you aren’t in any hurry to be instantly dark brown, then you will love this gradual tanning moisturiser.
Easy to apply, it goes on just like a normal body lotion, and is absorbed in to the skin fast for an even sunkissed glow within days (if applied every day).
CLINIQUE SELF SUN BODY TINTED LOTION, £17
If greasy skin moisturisers aren’t your thing, but you want to build a gradual tan without having to mess with the instant stuff, then Clinique’s Self Sun Body Tinted Lotion is perfect for you.
It has an oil-free gel formula and a smooth and light texture for seamless application, and is absorbed by the skin in no time to avoid that greasy lotion feeling.
It also gives off an almost instantaneous glow and a rich tan builds up in no time with regular application.
The best bit is technologically-advanced polymers feature in the formula, to ensure the product holds onto the skin’s surface for maximum tan life, and mica and caramel particles to give off a ‘just off the plane’ shimmer.