General Chat

Hiya Thanks everyone for their comments :-) The tanning tablets I had seen were in Holland & Barrett - 60 for £3.99. I had a look on Boots website for tan acceleraters but they didnt have any :-( will go and have a nose early next week in my local one :-) Karen

thanks Saints, will have a browse there then ! Maz. XX

Boots sells loadsa tanning accelarators :-))))

no thanks not with my tan

my o.h. used them last year, cant say they made much difference, he was still quite white after he had finished the course. tina x

*backs away from tablets* Jooooan !!!! Accelerator info pleeeease!! Maz. XX

My auntie took tanning tablets years ago. they made her a strange orangey colour, even the palms of her hands went orange! It was as if she'd been Tangoed, or had been eating too many carrots. Louise

A girl I worked with once used to take them all the time - she always looked a bit ......................... orange !!!!

nudging cos I don't tan either and am rubbish at putting fake on - I end up stripy ! Karen luvvie where do you get the tablets from pelase and Joan who makes the accelerators please?! Maz. XX

Karen The best thing you can do is to buy a 'tan accelerator' cream by one of the big names in a department store. These products work by increasing the melanin production in your skin. You need to apply morning & evening a week before you go, every day, and continue on holiday. They don't contain an SPF though, so still use a very high factor sun cream for the first few days out there, then a lower one providing you haven't burnt. Accelerators do work, I have tried them. :0) Joan

No I havent cos i take enough tablets at the mo ,Im very white behind my freckles and burn easily. we always use the highest factor sunbloc, even here, in the summer. I was going on my hols two years ago and didnt want to be the whitey at the hotel so i had the spray tanning done at my hairdressers. It looked very natural and it lasted for the hol. I still used my factor 30 sunbloc tho. Shirley

Karen I'm a redhead too, but have never dared try the tablets. For the last year I've been using the Johnsons Holiday Skin stuff, and have looked much healthier!! I know I've not helped, but didn't want the thread dropping off the page before you got an answer! Sharon xx

I'm going on holiday end of next week and being a redhead my tan takes a very long time to appear and then disappears by the time I get back to Heathrow. A friend suggested tanning tablets that increase your melanin, has anyone tried any? Thanks. Karen