Tanning without the airfare

Hola Dalimoos!

I am the pasty type of person, I am practically blue i'm that white!

When I was a girl in my early 20s, I was a active sunbed user and had yearly holidays in the sun with my girlies. Oh they were the best times of my life...

Anyway, once I got pregnant with my daughter the sunbed's stopped (and so did my holidays), so I needed to get my tan fix from the sunless kind.  If I am going out and want a quick tan I am using X-Tan at the moment but I am pretty fickle when it comes to gradual tanners and never stick to one brand and throughout any given summer I can use more than one brand.

I was shopping on the superdrug's website a couple of weeks ago and came across Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Natural Bronze Gradual Tanning Moisturiser.  I LOVE Palmer's body lotion, it is the epitome of my 20s and the smell just brings me back to my girlie holidays in the Mediterranean, so when I saw they did a gradual tanner I was all up for a trip down memory lane and looking tanned without the cost of a holiday!

The blurb on the back describes it as having a yummy chocolate scent!  Well unless I have an out of date one it smells nothing like chocolate, the fake tan smell is so strong I can smell it on me hours after I put it on.  But that is the only negative thing I have to say about this tanner.

The English Summer is always something to be desired, so getting even an hour of sun and to tan naturally is almost as hard as getting water in a desert!  If you can get over the strong fake tan smell then I couldn't recommend this product highly enough.  I have used many a gradual tanner and after using them for a week I can start looking slightly orange and can never get dark enough.  I have been using this for a week so far and I am starting to look lightly tanned without the orange-tinge,  I am pretty impressed so far and I am sure if I carry on using this every day for another week I will start looking like I have had a few good days in the sun.   I cannot see me using a different gradual tanner this year!

If you have any other gradual tanners that you could recommend then please comment below and let me know, I love trying new things.

Ciao for now sweet peas xx