Fake Bake Blog

Welcome to the Fake Bake self-tanning blog, where you'll discover all the best new self-tanning products and find advice on how to get a perfect, professional-level results every single time. Offering insight from our brand ambassadors and real customers like you, the Fake Bake blog is chock full of helpful sunless tanning tips and info for self-tan experts and beginners alike.


Whether you're looking to see what's new behind the scenes, discover celebrities who adore our products or watch videos on how to apply self-tanner, the Fake Bake blog is the best place to start. We also regularly upload episodes of the Fake Bake podcast here, so you can listen to full episodes and get to know our team. Check back often for more of the best self-tanning content anywhere!

Fake Bake Explains How Self-Tanners & Sweat Don't Mix

You want to do what's right for your body so that you can look good. That means that you probably work out regularly and apply a self-tanner for a healthy bronze glow. When using a self-tanner and exercising often, you might have questions about how the two work together. A common one we hear is: does self-tanner come off when you sweat?...

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How Safe is Self-Tanning?

In terms of health and safety, anyone who decides to use a self-tanner - whether lotion, gel, mousse, liquid or spray - is already light-years ahead of those who tan in the sun or go to tanning beds. Nearly everyone has been educated repeatedly on the danger of the sun's UV rays in causing sunburn, skin damage, accelerated aging and skin cancer....

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How to Self-Tan Your Face

Never fear! With proper preparation, self-tanning your face shouldn't be difficult (plus, if you make a mistake, you can always use our Fake Bake Tan Corrector & Eraser). Below is a complete guide to achieving a smooth, natural-looking and gorgeous fake tan on your face: 1. Get Ready - Before you begin to self-tan your face, eat, drink, brush your teeth -...

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How to Remove Fake Tan

Achieving a gorgeous, natural-looking sunless tan involves a little more than squeezing self-tan lotion on and rubbing it all over your body. Even with proper preparation, mistakes are inevitable and we end up with streaking. Sometimes the slips are in places that cannot be easily disguised, like our palms, fingertips and soles of our feet. How can we correct these little oopsies...

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Learn About Getting your Glow On with Spray Tanning

If you've never gotten a spray tan, you might have a picture in your head of an aim-and-shoot session with someone holding a can of hardware-store spray paint. Not quite. The process of spray tanning does involve distributing a mist onto your skin. But it is actually a fast, easy way to get an all-over bronze glow without the dangers of ultraviolet...

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Fair-Skinned Tips for Achieving a Beautiful Fake Tan

Ask anyone with fair skin about the beauty frustrations that go along with this - everything from fighting a washed-out look to covering up visible veins. Unfortunately, pale skin has no color camouflage for redness, so any blood rushing to a pale face shows up as a vivid flush. And in the search for hues to brighten up their paler canvas, they...

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Self-Tanning Safety During Your Pregnancy

Pregnant or not, we all know about the dangers of sun tanning. Sunburn, skin damage, premature aging, and the biggie - skin cancer - are consequences of these forms of UV exposure. If you're pregnant, however, there are even more concerns. UV Rays and Folic Acid Breakdown According to the American Pregnancy Association, studies linked ultraviolet radiation to folic acid deficiency. In...

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How to Get a Gorgeous, Even Self-Tan on Hands & Feet

Applying self-tanning lotion to your hands and feet is probably the most challenging part of the fake tanning process. This is because of all the angles, creases and joints in these areas, not to mention dry spots. Follow these guidelines to prevent orange streaks or patchy color, particularly common pitfalls for applying self-tan on hands and feet. Step One - Exfoliate Exfoliating...

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