Moisturize! Moisturize! Healthy skin tans faster, darker, and retains a tan longer. Drink plenty of water and make sure to keep your skin moisturized with a high quality lotion especially formulated-for-tanning. Your skin is constantly renewing itself. The dryer your skin is, the faster it wants to shed its top layers and bring new skin to the surface. You loose the top layers, you loose your tan.

It is recommended that a person tans every other day for 4-7 tanning sessions to develop a base tan. Then it is recommended they tan once or twice per week to maintain it. Although some people prefer to tan every day, it is not necessary.

Sunlight is absolutely essential to all life on earth. There are various reasons, both biological and psychological, why exposure to light is desirable. In addition, many people believe they look better with a tan. Thus, having a tan may provide a psychological uplift for some.

Some people choose to wear a swimsuit, just as they would at the beach. But, because of the privacy of indoor tanning, most tan in the nude to avoid tan lines. Any skin that has never been exposed to ultraviolet light before will be more sensitive. These parts must acquire a tan slowly. Cut down the exposure time for these areas to 1/3 or less of the total time recommended by your tanning professional.

When you are taking photosensitizing medication it is not recommended to tan outdoors or indoors. If you aren't sure, ask your doctor, or ask our tanning consultant to see a list of medications, which can greatly increase the risk of overexposure. A partial list, by no means inclusive, appears below. Many common medications and even ingredients in food, shampoos & soaps can cause photo sensitivity which may lead to overexposure.

A tan is the body's natural protection against sunburn. Your skin is designed to tan as a natural body function. Each year, millions of Americans visit professional indoor tanning facilities in the spring, prior to sun-filled vacations or outdoor summertime activities, to establish what tanners know as a "base tan." Doing so enables vacationers to gradually increase their exposure to ultraviolet light without burning.

Usually, you will tan about as well indoors as you do outdoors. If you have never been able to produce a tan outdoors, you will not be able to produce a tan indoors either. Some who do not tan well outdoors are able to tan indoors in a controlled environment with the right amount of exposure in carefully controlled intervals.

Yes. You can shower immediately after tanning. However, it is important that you apply a moisturizing lotion after showering to replenish all the moisture that you have lost from tanning and the HOT shower. After all, dry skin and flaking is what causes a tan to fade the fastest.

This is a delicate question and the answer should be "no". But our skin has certain protective mechanisms that become active whenever our skin is exposed to sun light. One is pigmentation which is caused by melanin and the other is the thickening of the epidermis and horny layer of the skin. However these mechanisms occur only after chronic light exposure and cannot fully remove the chances of getting a sunburn or cause other skin reactions due to UV radiation.

Yes, you will get a tan. It will just take longer. However the SPF is a shield to prevent you from sunburn. A SPF 20 for instance allows you to stay in the sun 20 times longer without getting sunburnt than with no sun screen at all. Therefore you will tan as much as with a SPF 8 if you stay proportionately longer in the sun. But anyhow always be aware that a high SPF is not your license to stay in the sun and fry.