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!

featured 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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Self-Tanning for Sensitive Skin - Info & Advice

We are all unique, as is our skin and its reaction to self-tanning. Some of us can have negative, allergic-type reactions to self-tanning formulations, resulting in rash and itchiness called contact dermatitis. This could be caused by a number of things - which makes it frustrating because you often can't be sure what you're reacting to - like perfume, alcohol or even...

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How to Keep Your Sunless Tan Looking Great for Longer

So, you took care of all the before-sunless-tanning prep and followed all the suggestions for applying the formulation correctly. Yay! Your fake tan is on its way to looking fabulous already, even though it may not have developed fully yet. Some self-tanners may take longer than others to reach their maximum darkening, after all. At this point, you're wondering how long your...

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Our Pro Tips on Preparing Skin for Self-Tanning

A word to the wise: the success of any endeavor usually depends on the amount and quality of preparation that goes into it. It's the same with sunless tanning, of course - before you use any type of self-tanning product, it's important to prepare your skin. How well you do so will definitely affect the quality of your results. Getting Your Skin...

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8 Steps to a Professional-Looking Sunless Tan

Are you ready to get a gorgeous self-tan - the absolute best way to have the beautiful sun-kissed skin tone you want without ultraviolet damage from the sun itself? Here are the steps to an even, professional-looking self-tan: 1. Choose your Tanner - Decide the type of self-tanning product you want to use, because there are several choices, including lotions, sprays, gels...

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