… has everyone a blast, particularly when you’re sporting a Bahamas tan without actually having been to the Bahamas. Obviously it’s ideal if you have been to the Bahamas, but we must be realistic with the state of our Australian dollar (what’s it buying in London right now? A loaf of bread?) and the pressing need to nurture our skin and fake it, not bake it. Nobody wants to look like a leather boot.
Of course, it’s easy to go over the top with bronzer. I’ve been horribly guilty of this, time and time again. In fact I daresay I’ve spent a good portion of my recent summers walking around looking like a terracotta pot. Actually, I do recall a familiar refrain being ‘terracotta it’ when the girls all used to get ready for mid-week drinking at the uni haunt. God, how embarrassing.
But, as much as we all have our Lindsay Lohan moments, we secretly want to be the love child of Pania Rose and Megan Gale in the brown-sugar skin stakes – so dust along the cheek bones, with a sweep across the forehead and down the nose, for good measure, and be done with it.
Don’t ‘terracotta it’, no matter how tempting it is. And it is tempting. I know.
Trespass Loves …
As someone who has trialled her fair share of bronzers in her time, it takes a real all rounder to win me over, and this little guy is just that. Great colour and texture, doesn’t leave one looking like a pumpkin and is a member of the cosmetic buzz word family – the Mineral Family. I was using Pupa until this one arrived, via Mount Olympus where it has surely been dusting Aphrodite’s cheeks for thousands of years. Now I too can glow like a love goddess. It helps that I am genuinely in love.
Shades: Natural or brazen
RRP: $9.99
Inika Mineral Bronzer in Playful 
As with the Inika blush, then consistency of this bronzer means it’s easy to look a little un-blended, but the colour is oh-so European summer. Turns out this overachiever of the bronzer world is not only perspiration resistant (which will be handy, when summer finally decides to arrive) but also offers a level of sun protection. 100% cruelty free, 100% vegan, 100% mineral, and it does feel lovely on the face.
Shades (from palest to why-are-you-wearing-bronzer-you-really-don’t-need-to): Sunlight, Sunkissed, Sunloving, Sunseeker
For those who fancy a more permanent look, that doesn’t involve standing in front of a gun spraying pomegranate coloured liquid at you (and smelling like a giant sesame seed, 
consequently) may I recommend Palmers Natural Bronze for Face. I am not one to slather faux tan on my face, but if I had to, it would be this one. It contains Vitamin E (which, used by itself is a fantastic moisturiser) as well as SPF 15+ and a soy based skin tightening agent. So you’ll be protected from the sun, whilst you bronze and turn back the clock simultaneously. Oh and it smells good too, which makes a pleasant change for self tanners.
