To celebrate our fab Sunescape giveaway ( just sign up to our site today to be in the draw), we bring you our six top self-tanning secrets:

- Don’t stop tanning in Autumn. Your arms, legs and face are exposed most days in Sydney in Autumn, and most people look better tanned, so keep up the tanning routine.
- Always wear throw away gloves when you apply it. There’s nothing worse than orange hands, and keeping a pair of throw away gloves in your bathroom is easy ( might be best to keep them out of sight though as guests may start to wonder what you’re up to).
- Use the same tanning products on your face as you do your body. There’s a lot of hoo-ha about using different tanning products for your face, but in the majority of cases if your skin is not overly sensitive, use the same product on your face and body.
- If you’re sleeping alone, put your tan on at night and sleep in it – it just seems to last longer. if you wear long sleeved and legged PJ’s, and let the tan dry completely before sleeping, your sheets will be ok.
- Use nail oil on cuticles on hands and feet as self-tan seriously dries out your skin, especially on hands and feet.
- Make sure you tan your feet as white feet and chocolate brown legs is not a good combination.