This is what happens every year:
Wear jeans / leggings / woolly tights & boots all winter. To hell with depilation or moisturisation.
In April-ish, get legs out, scream, put them away.
Spend a good few hours deforesting them, to find they are dry and pale and miserable.
Have a bash with fake tan stuff (e.g. the Johnson & Johnson one that's meant to build up each day), decide it's doing nothing.
Dress each day according to leg hair / colour status, rather than in what I want to wear.
Count down days to September & start of woolly tight season.
This year I really really want to be different, not least because I have a new job so will have to look reasonably smart rather than hiding in jeans.
I sense I will need to start the project early but tbh, I don't even know what I need to do. Some women have legs in nice condition, I don't.
(P.S: Legs themselves are long & slim. It's not as though there aren't raw materials to work with 
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