Bright white legs!

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Any suggestions about how to get colour on my legs below the knees? I haven't been abroad on a holiday for several years but normally tan quite easily. My legs just look so pale. How can I help this area apart from fake tan?

Shorts??

Yeah I wear em but the legs don't get in the sun like the rest of me! I can't be the only one who has this problem!

My legs stay white and even after getting a bit burned (accidentally!) just go a slightly dirtier looking shade of white. I just use a great fake tan, even on hols!

Best solution is fake tan -ish. Get a tanning mitt, Sally Hansen legs (one of the medium ones with a 'glow'). Spray the mitt not your body, then rub in circles like crazy like you are shining/buffing a window. You can build up the colour. If you do it like that it goes on very evenly.
Stays on til you wash it off with a washcloth. Hasn't come off on any sheets if I've forget ten its there (could be different in hot countries if you sweat a lot). If you hate it washes off really easy unlike the stay-on fake tans.
Also great for arms and shoulders top of back etc.

Dove do a very very gradual self tan that doesn't turn ankles and knees orange, use daily as a moisturiser on your legs

I use the garnier gradual tan. One coat just to take away the glare
My legs never tan and stay ghost white, belly goes golden brown and top half goes pink. I come back off hols looking like Neapolitan ice cream!

Ooh thanks for these tips!

I have to agree about the gradual tan
Dove £1.99 from savers
Just apply like body lotion
Honestly I'm so pale I'm practically see through
This makes me look human

I use the Dove and Garnier light self tan, they're hard to mess up and take away the gleam.

I'm ghostly pale and also lazy. I use Dove medium-dark with a mitt on my legs, and even with my lazy application, it definitely takes off the gleam.

Great! Can I use any old bath mitt?

I would also recommend Dove Summer glow gradual tanner.

It doesn't go all orange, just takes the glare off my pasty white legs!

Yes another fan of the dove gradual tan here too - and without any help my legs are so pale they virtually glow in the dark!

St Tropez in shower gradual tan, streak free, no horrible smell and really natural looking.