Jolon

Hi,
I'm kindof new back to tanning. A few weeeks ago I started tanning again. I'm very fair skinned, milk-bottle white, even an unpretty grayish white on the legs, freckles and all. I can get a nice light tan with a bit of effort. I have found in the dim and distant past that even a very light golden base tan from beds helps me get a real nice tan quickly and easily even with high factor sunscreen when I go abroad on holidays. I'm from Ireland - land of a thousand rain showers.

Near the beginning of June I started to use the bed and built up minutes very gradually and a nice little base began to develop. Then I lost a little interest and kept forgetting to go to tan - so maybe only once or twice a week for a few weeks - and eeek nearly back to white again!!

I'm off to Barbados in 2 weks so there's only about 8 or 9 tanning days left. I'm using a Hapro Lumina bed for 20 minutes a session. There is also a stand-up available 10 minutes approx = to 20 in Lumina but the stand-up is expensive - 1 Euro per minute. I've used Swedish Beauty Tantalise factor T1 on my legs. My legs are pathetically pale maybe because the skin is so dry on them - it's not because they're used to the elements as suggested in another post. My upper back and shoulders are reasonably tanned and my well rounded unpregnant tummy is very pale. Arms not too brown either.

I have the following lotions: 3/4 bottle of AG Velocity, Swedish Beauty - Swedish Intensifier and Tantalize(3/4 bottle of each), CalTan - Melted Butter, Designer Skin - Saving Face and Drama Queen(1/2 bottls), Emerald Bay - Dark and Dazed and Mojo (Tingle). Also tiny sachets of Brown Envy, Africa, Enigma and Margharita Madness.

The challenge to you should you accept it is this: design a regime for me using these lotions on this bed to maximise my tan before I hit the beach in Barbados and blind them with my fat irish grey legs PLEASE!! I may use the stand up for a couple of sessions if it's essential but it's a bit too pricey for much. I don't want to use a bronzer - I'm so pale it streaks very easily anyway.

Any ideas on working with what I've got please I'd really appreciate the help.
Thanks,
Jolon.