Your confusion is completely fair. One minute you are told to avoid “chemical sunscreens.” The next minute dermatologists are saying

Your feed makes it sound like getting tan now requires a lab kit, a nasal spray, or an injection. That

If your self-tan has started looking blotchy the minute the temperature spikes, you are not imagining it. Heatwaves make everything

If your self tan looks great on day one, then turns patchy, itchy, or weirdly dry by day three, you

If you are pregnant, trying to conceive, doing IVF, or breastfeeding, shopping for self tanner can feel weirdly stressful. One

You finally get your self tan looking even, natural and expensive, then the next day your skin starts acting strange.

Your “trusted” self tanner suddenly making you itch, sting, or break out is maddening. You did not switch laundry detergent.

If your feed is suddenly full of people calling Melanotan II a “shortcut” to a darker tan, you are not

Your self-tan is not the only thing looking patchy right now. For a lot of people, the real issue is

Your feed can make it feel like everyone is suddenly trying to get darker, faster, and somehow more “natural” about