AIBU to want my shins to tan at the same rate as the rest of my body?

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Why oh why won't my shins go brown ffs? My feet do. My knees and thighs do. But my shins are white stubborn bastards and will not tan. I'm so cross! I'm using Nivea protect and bronze. F30 or F20 depending on which bottle I find first.

Exactly the same. Why is this? Drives me mad.

I can't even get my to take fake tan

I have an issue too, can't get them to tan real or fake. Drives me mad.

This is the exact same with me! Even if I forget to put sun cream on, everything seems to burn except for my shins? How strange is that!

I’ve never notified this but I’ve just looked at my legs and you’re right! Maybe I need to moisturise them more

Yy even fake tan won't stick, what's that about??

Mine are just starting to catch up with my knees and thighs, I think it's due to body brushing and moisturising every day for the last week.

It is so frustrating. I had to live in Spain for 4 months to get any colour on my lower legs at all.

I don't know if moisturising fixes it, I moisturise every day all year round and mine tan really slowly too.

Just a touch of instant (wash off) tan will help even out.

My legs never tan, apart from a funny little ring i get around my ankle from wearing jeans and trainers on the school run. Its a standing joke in our house.

I always thought it had something to do with shaving - maybe I’m scraping the tan off!

For years I wore Birkenstock's with jeans and it just looked like I had really dirty toes!

I'm not alone then. Small consolation. What are we going to do about it, people? Any ideas? And advances on moisturise? The shins cannot be allowed to get away with this.

Same. I use sally Hansen airbrush legs which looks amazing and is dead easy and requires no forward planning

Omg same and it’s so bloody annoying.

I use that dove summer glow moisturiser and that helps a bit at making them less starkly white. Only a bit though

And yet I've managed to burn the backs of mine a few times over the years falling asleep on my front in the sun. Never tanned either side though.

@TooExtraImmatureCheddar

I always thought it had something to do with shaving - maybe I’m scraping the tan off!

Mine are much better since I swapped to an epilator. At least the fake tan sticks a bit now. However, with me its the backs of my legs at are always white.

I've said this before on here but the first time I ever got a full leg tan was on holiday in 2019 - I had been using a Lumea so shaved very rarely on the lead up to holiday and not at all when I was there. Legs were evenly tanned, first time I've not had lily white shins and tanned feet, which is not a good look!

My legs never tan. The only time I managed to get any colour at all was when I used a tan accelerator for two weeks before our holiday, Soltan tan and protect while out in the sun and Lancaster tan maximiser as an after sun . I don't shave my thighs, never have done, so not sure it's down to that?!

I have always had to use fake tan on my legs, every April I would start to apply it , and it worked for years, covering the pale lilac appendages, which were a decent shape, and even if the rest of me varied in fatness, my ankles were always slim. Now I have various joints affected by arthritis, my ankles are constantly swollen, and I have to wear clumpy trainers to even walk. The skin on my shins is very fragile and will ulcerate if damaged, so I never ever expose them to public view, it is difficult to age gracefully in trainers and leggings. Just count your pale shins as a blessing

It's shaving

I don't shave. I have very unhairy legs

@Iwantamarshmallowman

My legs never tan, apart from a funny little ring i get around my ankle from wearing jeans and trainers on the school run. Its a standing joke in our house.

I've got one of them too. (Or two I suppose). It looks like I don't wash my ankles.

My shins just come out in prickly heat rash at the first hint of sun. Just my shins, nowhere else 🤷‍♀️

I can never tan mine either. So annoying. I remember in the 90s seeing a sunbed that was just for legs. I wish there was a non melanoma causing version of that.