Guides
Know before you go on
Tanning is one of the few things people buy repeatedly without ever being told how it works. These are the answers, written plainly and without a sales pitch — including the times the honest answer is that a sunbed is not for you.
Start here
Responsible tanning
Two things decide whether a session does what you want: knowing your own skin, and protecting your eyes. Neither is optional and neither takes long.
Skin
Know your skin type
The Fitzpatrick scale in plain English, what each type means for how long you should start at, and why type I should not be on a sunbed at all.
Eyes
Why goggles are not optional
Closing your eyes is not protection. What the eyelid actually blocks, what UV does to the eye, and why we will not start a session without them.
Using a sunbed
UV tanning
From walking in for the first time to keeping the colour you paid for.
Planning
Building colour before a holiday
How far ahead to start, and why a sunbed is not sun protection.
Aftercare
Making it last
The single biggest factor in how long colour stays, and it is not the session.
Straight answers
Six things people get wrong
Base tans, vitamin D, burning versus tanning, and the rest.
The long read
The full tanning guide
How sunbeds work, the law, who should not use one, and what the evidence says.
Also worth reading
- The equipment — the beds, the 0.3 W/m² standard and why lamp age costs you a session.
- Lotions and aftercare — what accelerators, bronzers and extenders are actually for.
- Help and questions — the twenty-odd things people ask at the desk.
Read something you want to ask about?
Come in and ask. The skin-type consultation is free, takes a couple of minutes, and carries no obligation to book anything.