I'm going to a wedding tomorrow and the 2 year old bottle of fake tan in the bathroom seems like a good idea

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Please talk me out of it.

I'm envisioning myself as a glowy goddess a stone lighter.

One slathering?

Does it have a use-by date? And is it worth the risk of ending up orange?

Does it go off? I sort of want to find out by you applying it but would hate for it to go horribly wrong and for you to have to go to the wedding looking tango’d!!

It smells all right

I do not want to be orange or worse, streaky. I'd take consistently orange

My dd did similar and ended up looking green (and stinking). Can you see the colour of the tan if it has changed any?
There should be an open jar symbol on the bottle of tan that tells you how long it is good for, hopefully it says 24, any less I’d bin it.

Isn't it meant to smell like vinegar if it's gone off?

Personally, I wouldn't risk it because of the possible colour outcomes! Could you do a patch test somewhere not visible to see?

I do not want to be green

It's my legs. They're so pasty!

Step away from the tan and chuck it in the bin.
Nip out if you can and get a new one.

Been here and ended up green! Don't do it !

a woman walked past me today, my thoughts were, 'oh what a lovely dress, she looks really nic....... wtf is wrong with her legs?' fake tan fail big time, if it had not been for the fake tan all clogged around her heels she would have looked perfect, lovely dress, lovely hair etc, pale legs would not even have registered, it is still only may, after all!

I went to use a bottle which was around a year old a couple of weeks ago. I also went green!! I wouldn't risk it

I used old tan once, it was greenish going on and didn't develop properly. Go and get a new bottle, a mousse one for easy application if nervous. And be a golden glowy goddess!

Been there, done that, looked like princess Fiona 😭

Get yourself some Sally Hanson Airbrush Legs. If it all goes wrong you can wash it off, no risk of streaks, dries really quickly. I use it in summer when I want to make me legs a little more tanned looking. I love it

Okay- green is NOT the look I'm going for

Am retreating from the bottle.

Do it do it do it

Ok here's what you do ....

Take the bottle.
Go outside.
Put it in the Wheely bin.

Go back inside and breathe at a disaster well averted! (Have fun at the wedding!)

Just to echo everyone else, if you don't wish to end up like Shrek in a dress (i.e. green), step away from the old bottle of tan!

Oh go on

I'm quite disappointed I've never seen a green fake tan fail

Sally Hansen is brilliant or rimmel sunshimmer (wash off in light)

There are some magnificent green fake tan images on Google. Nearly fecked the bottle out of the window after I saw them

Have you got any cheap foundation? Works brilliantly as an instant fix

Could you wear tights for the wedding and then put the tan on afterwards purely for our amusement?