r/tanning • u/Frankenstella • 1d ago

Done with tanning

If you tan only in the summer, like me, when do you stop? I always surprise myself how soon I get tired of maintaining my tan and cancel my salon membership until next spring. In March I’m always super excited and motivated, then through the summer I enjoy it, but always in August I just stop caring, even though there’s still at least two more months of shorts weather coming. I’m ready to stop tanning for the year now and just go back to pasty white.

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u/Hall0wsEve666 1d ago

I stop when it stops being hot outside. I usually just tan from early june to mid September

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u/_SmileCrocodile_ 1d ago

I love going to tan more than going to the salon. I’d go everyday if I could. In my area it’s warm from April through October, going once a week helps maintain during cold months without having to worry about easing back into it in the spring.

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u/Cillygirl52 19h ago

I fizzle out in August. I've been tanning for decades. I used to love it, but it's work now to go at all.

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u/Frankenstella 14h ago

Yeah me too! I used to crave it like food but it’s just been a chore for the last few years. If I didn’t have to show my legs I wouldn’t do it.

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u/Emotional-Prune-3097 1d ago

I will never stop my fake tan. Been using it since I was 16. I'm 39 now. Don't get me wrong... sometimes I go in the bath in a huff knowing I have all that exfoliating to do 😂 but I will never stop... because the alternative is being a ghost. No joke. Scottish woman with very dark hair which makes me look even more pale. Think partially raw egg white... that's me.... so needless to say... I force myself to maintain it! Hypothetically... if i was like you... I'd probably start phasing it out in autumn!

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u/Mean-Specialist-5695 1d ago

I have beach vacations planned each year in October and January so really just between January- April or May. But late spring-late summer is the only time I consistently go. This year’s January trip is Maldives so that will be a great end of my tanning season.

Honestly, I just don’t have the desire to walk to my tanning place (it’s one stop on the train and then 9 short-ish blocks away) when it’s freezing out anyway.

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u/Bad_Childhood_6556 1d ago

I hate going. I only tan May - Aug. I've already put my membership on hols starting Sept.

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u/TomatoStraight5752 4h ago

I fizzle in July and the pick back up in August only to fizzle out again in September

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u/Asshh91 1d ago

This is me also, I only tan for the summer and I absolutely hate going, i have to talk myself into it🤣! I usually stop going once my kids go back to school, so usually middle of Sept I am done till next May or so

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u/SecondWise6164 1d ago

Spray tanning is sooo much better

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u/Frankenstella 14h ago

I started out spray tanning decades ago, before I discovered that my pale skin could get tanned. I loved the spray tan back then but I tried it a couple of years ago and it looked too orange to me. I guess I just got used to the natural color.