Fake tans for older skin???

I don't know about fake tanning products but I could scream at the infantile use of 19 sleeps

Clarins Self Tanning Instant Gel is fast, no streaks and easy to use.

After we get to a certain age people stop assessing and judging our visual attractiveness anyway. People used to comment on my size but now I am just an old lady that everyone is indulgent of

Having had several skin cancers removed due to sun damage, I am and always will be ‘pale and interesting’ with strawberry blond (ginger) hair. Just keep your skin moisturised and glowing and be proud. Hope you have a fabulous holiday ??

I am plump and pale, never bothers me apart from getting the plumpness down after the winter.
Go and enjoy try the Dove summer glow have used that too.
Most of all have a lovely time.

I keep Dove Summer Glow and use it just before any holiday which involves swimming pools

Decleor Aroma Gradual Glow. It’s fantastic.
No preparation needed. Use it like any body moisturiser. Drys quickly. No streaks. No stains on clothes or bedding.
I love it. Just to take away the pale white when we can eventually bare our legs and arms again. When......
Gradually builds up colour. No orange!

Maggiemaybe: I too don’t care anymore about my white limbs, as I have got older, my skin hates direct sunlight anyway. Longer floaty dresses disguise my white legs, pretty flimsy wraps disguise my white arms. I have just returned from the Carnival in Rio and danced on the sand at Ipanema ... white as a ghost, but covered in a pretty chiffon number !

My post has little to do with paleness or tanning, more about confidence. Two years ago we went on our first beach holiday in ages. I wanted to cover up every inch of my then heavily overweight body. Once there I saw women of every shape, but I didn't focus on their bodies - what I noticed most were the ladies enjoying themselves. One in particular had a body shape similar to mine and she was there in a bright bikini, confidently walking up and down the beach. On our latest holiday I decided to discard my hangups about myself - after all I will never see any of these people again. I came home feeling better and started dieting! Getting back to your question, I really think we are all happier if we accept our own bodies and skin, and even celebrate them. Don't fake it, be sun safe and be yourself. Prepare your skin and you will will look healthy and glowing whatever shade it is.

I couldn’t care less what anyone else thinks. What’s wrong with being pale? It’s certainly preferable to an obviously fake tan. But we’re off to Brazil soon and apparently the advice to deter potential muggers is to blend in with the locals. I doubt anyone’s going to mistake me for the girl from Ipanema.

When I feel like this my husband used to say 'who's going to be looking at you anyway' - which on the surface might sound not so nice but actually gave me a sense of freedom. Who cares what anyone else thinks - enjoy your holiday - the shape and colour you are right now. We'll never know what other people think and it doesn't matter anyway.

Buy a tube of Dove Summer Glow. You just put it on as a moisteriser every night and it gives you a very natural colour. My sister is always very white and she used it for a fortnight last year and was a lovely golden colour, ideal for the beach but not really a tan as such.

Nothing wrong with white limbs. I’d stay alabaster and proud.

You could go and have a spray tan done, if you feel up to standing naked apart from a paper thong whilst its done?