Tanning naturally - help me!

[EMT97]

Hello 👋🏼
I am looking for tips/peoples experiences. I am due to go on holiday in June & my skin is prone to burning then just going back to its natural colour, completely skipping the tan phase! I am just wondering what everyone's experience to sun beds are? (I have pale skin but not the palest, probably skin type 2 on the Fitzpatrick scale) Do sun beds help the tanning process? Are they worth it? Any products recommended to help? It's not even just a how I look thing for me as the burn obviously hurts 😅 I'd rather avoid it/minimise the amount I burn so I can enjoy my holiday fully but also hopefully get a good tan out of it too!
Any tips or tricks I am grateful for!

[Slanketblanket]

No no no. Not worth it. Just use a gradual tan moisturiser a week or so before you go if needs be.

[GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut]

Fake tan and sunscreen. I'm fair, and burn not tan, so I use a factor 50 once a day type sunscreen, and I reapply it after swimming / towel drying etc. Also reapply round things like shoe straps that might rub it off.

[PawsisShady]

Just use plenty of factor 50, it's not worth the skin damage, ageing effects and risk of skin cancer

[DSD9472]

Do you realise that tanned skin is damaged skin? Its a protective act on the skins part!
Fake tan and factor 50 is the answer! Enjoy your holiday.

[EMT97]

I forgot to mention in my post that I do use factor 50 & reapply it throughout the day! I was just wanting some opinions as sun beds have been suggested to me by others to help me not burn badly but I have never used them before so a curious about it all! Thanks for the replies though ☺️

[Remaker]

Wow do tanning beds still exist? They’ve been illegal in Australia for nearly ten years.

There’s no such thing as a safe tan unless it’s out of a bottle.

[Pondering89]

Yes and no. The idea of a base tan is you can withstand longer sun exposure before burning. 10 minutes without a base tan, 40 minutes with a base tan. So even with a base tan, you’ll still burn unless you’re wearing SPF.

I am fair and used to frequent the sun beds for vanity reasons, I had to absolutely hammer in the minutes to get the slightest bit of colour.

It’s really not worth the damage you’re doing to your skin. My 7 step skin care routine would cringe at the amount of ageing I must of done to myself in those sun bed years!

Get a good spray tan and whack on factor 50.