Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Tan Quotes from famous authors such as Holly Willoughby, Alexis Ren, Anna Paquin, Abraham Verghese, Trisha Paytas. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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Everybody thinks I wear fake tan but I hate fake tan! Never been able to get on with it. I’m always linked to different fake tan brands and it’s nonsense because I’ve probably had three fake tans in my life.
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I don’t tan my face, ever, because I don’t want sun spots.
3
I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
4
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
5
People would say I am almost narcissistic because I really love the way I look when I tan.
6
If you want a really good tan, you should start with a spray tan, then move into the sun for a little bit.
7
When I was fourteen, Mom and Dad sent me to St. Joseph High School, the Catholic school up the hill from our place, housed in a 1950s-era tan brick building sometimes confused for a light industrial structure due to the surprisingly high smokestack of its old incinerator.
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The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a lifeguard and everyone I knew was out in the sun all day – I was in the theater. Everyone called me Casper because I never had a tan, and everyone else was tan all the time. I think that was the luckiest thing of my life.
9
I wanted to be pale. I didn’t wanna go in the sun, because I was in school with a lot of white girls. I remember one girl said to me, ‘You look better pale.’ And I was like, ‘Well, you’re tan!’ She was like, ‘It’s not the same.’
10
Even though we all know the facts, it’s hard to resist the lure of a tan.
11
As I got older, I realised fake tan was rather messy and I wanted to look cleaner, classier and more demure.
12
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
13
I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.
14
It’s amazing what a spray-on tan will do.
15
The way to make coaches think you’re in shape in the spring is to get a tan.
16
People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you’re tan and I don’t understand why you would tax on that, because you’re making yourself feel more happy about yourself.
17
Always exfoliate and moisturise before you tan. Don’t just moisturise the dry bits – you know your elbows and your knees – moisturise everywhere.
18
I stay out of the sun; I’m pretty fair. I don’t tan – I burn, so I stay out.
19
I hydrate my legs by mixing a body oil with moisturiser and I apply it evenly all over my legs to seal in moisture. For a special occasion I might have a spray tan, which gives my skin a nice glow.
20
I was a very private person. I never had an open social media account. So, for me to walk down the street and have people say, ‘Hey, Tan!’ I turn around thinking, ‘Do I know you?’
21
I think we’re all guilty of judging, and I look a certain way – I wear a lot of make-up and fake tan.
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I do have the tan done now and again. I go for something called a Fantasy Tan.
23
A bit of a spray tan always leaves you feeling better.
24
I do a bit of makeup, but in the summer, I don’t tend to wear anything. When I get tan, I feel like my skin is so fresh that I don’t need anything on it.
25
The importance of a tan and a haircut cannot be understated.
26
I always wear bronzer because I love the way my skin looks when it’s tan.
27
I wish I don’t tan. I dread the thought of shooting on the beach.
28
I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She’s not anorexic or perfectly tan, she’s not trying to be anything but what she is, and that’s the most sexy thing.
29
I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him – he wore these tan Nikes.
30
Dee Dee Ramone was the one who would go to Rockaway Beach, and he wrote that great song about it. He was the beach boy; he loved getting a tan and stuff, and he would ride the bus down Woodhaven Boulevard to Rockaway.
31
I’ve never once in my life had a tan – I’m basically a ghost!
32
The people in L.A. do orient themselves to light. I used to call it ‘Tan Fascist Culture.’ Everyone there is tanned, wears dark sunglasses, looks like a movie star even when they’re not.
33
Most modern Indians don’t stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India’s animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement.
34
My advice to anyone is to try to go cold turkey of make-up and fake tan and see how liberating it feels.
35
I was very young when I was using fake tan and I didn’t care.
36
In recent years, I’ve begun the year by driving across France to the Alps, abandoning the January gloom for Alpine winter sun, even if the ski-goggles do give you panda marks when you get a tan. As a child, I was always a bit of a billygoat when I’d go camping with my mates in North Wales, around Snowdonia.
37
I’m always tan and blonde and don’t really fit into New York. I’m a California girl, even if I try and cover it up with leather.
38
On my mother’s side, I’m English, so that’s where the freckles come from. On my father’s side, I’m German, and he has the fantastic olive hues… I was given mum’s skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad’s skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
39
When I was up for the film ‘Dreamcatcher,’ to play the role of an overweight kid, I was told I’m too fat to play the fat guy. That’s like telling a Mexican to get a tan.
40
I don’t go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he’s pale and would probably want to be tan.
41
I don’t look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That’s what the desert animals do – they don’t have a tan either.
42
I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don’t tan.
43
Fake tan isn’t ideal. You have to be into that whole look to enjoy it – and I hate it.
44
I love to be tan. Maybe this is the wrong message, but I don’t always put sunscreen on.
45
I don’t get all that tan outdoors because I am so fair, and my color goes away so fast. It really is a waste for me to try and get suntan because it’s more work than it’s worth.
46
Maybe one day there will be a snooker pin-up calendar if we all get in shape. I would be up for that, get some spray tan going.
47
My legs are ice skaters’ legs. No tan in sight.
48
Sometimes I’ve sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
49
Using Tan-Luxe makes it easy to not expose my face to the sun because I know I can still get that natural tan. It’s very easy to apply, and I love the bronzed color it turns into – definitely not an orange tone at all.
50
I don’t want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.
51
The make-up on ‘Footballers’ Wives’ is unbelievable – there’s loads of fake tan.
52
I’m actually more confident when I’m tan.
53
If someone were to call me ‘the next Amy Tan,’ it would not be because – or not primarily because – we have similar themes or subjects or styles. Let’s be honest: it would be because we are both Chinese American.
54
I don’t like tan lines, and I work out a lot.
55
My wild days are made up of wigs, a spray tan, nails, fashion, and looks… I feel the most beautiful when I’m getting into my mode and it can take a really long time, like 3 to 4 hours sometimes.
56
For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.
57
I used to put on spray tan, like, three times a day, and it just looked like there was a terrible accident in my bed at all times… it looked like a crime scene.
58
Kim Tan is me! And I am Kim Tan.
59
Surfing is not my strong point. And… I don’t really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.
60
It’s so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.
61
I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the green one because when I have a pimple, it’s good to use that to contrast the red. Then you put the yellow over it, and it helps it disappear.
62
I can’t give more than I have. It doesn’t matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
63
People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
64
In Europe, you can sit out and sit in the sun, and you get a very golden tan. The tan you get in Las Vegas is a darker tan, and it’s not the same.
65
I hate being tan.
66
I’ve used fake tan since my teens. I remember walking into school at 14 with orange hands!
67
I like getting a tan, so if I’m lying on the beach, I want to get as much skin out as possible.
68
I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do – surfing, swimming or being – and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!
69
I wanted to try and get out of the stereotypical Geordie girl. I stopped wearing fake tan and wore WAG dresses. But I was really miserable.
70
I look better with a tan, but I’ve never gone the fake route. I don’t need to – I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.
71
I’m a comedian. I can’t get a spray tan. I can’t get a weave. I can’t get my teeth done. Can you imagine if I came out on stage looking really hunky? Comedy doesn’t work like that.
72
When I started modeling, I was told to tan, but I always protected my face.
73
I’m a tan addict.
74
I just want to say that I want to endorse Tan Jee Say for President because I think he really has what it takes.
75
I used to spray tan a lot when I was a teenager. The last time I got spray-tanned was for the Golden Globes. And I was like, ‘I love spray-tanning so much.’ I still really like it. But it definitely makes me look like I have leprosy, after a point.
76
Of course I like to be tan, but now I try to avoid it. I don’t mind having a little glow, but now when I go to the beach, I put SPF 50 everywhere – either Avene or La Roche-Posay Anthelios. I have freckles, so as long as my little freckles come out, I’m happy.
77
Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing ‘Annie Get Your Gun.’
78
Seriously, I like to wear hats so I don’t get super tan. You have to protect the face.
79
‘Poundshop Kardashians’ is Newcastle on a Saturday night. Nobody wears coats – it’s all muscles and V-necks and fake tan.
80
I do wear a lot less makeup in the summer, definitely – mainly because you’ve got a bit of a base tan.
81
People see me with sparkles and fake tan but nobody knows what I am like!
82
Gu Jun Pyo and Kim Tan were both brought up in wealthy backgrounds, and Gu Jun Pyo is a selfish guy who only cares about himself. However, Kim Tan is a totally different person.
83
I feel like I’m being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I’m upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo’s outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody’s peeping.
84
If I feel like I need a little color, I’ll get a natural spray tan. Not only does this give me a little extra coverage, but it also allows me to achieve the bronzed look I want without the sun damage.
85
It was simple reality – most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock – great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
86
I’m delighted to be the face of the Garnier No Streak Bronzer Self Tan Range.
87
I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan.
88
I love the Pembroke coastal path. Whenever I’ve been there, it’s been sunny, but slightly bracing. So you’re happy to keep walking, but you’ll get a bit of a tan. The wildflowers and the insects are great and you’ll occasionally see a small mammal.
89
I’ll sometimes go and do a sunbed, but never spray tan.
90
I use two concealer shades. I have vanilla and light beige, and I use vanilla on my under eyes – if I have a spray tan, I’ll use the light beige instead, it just depends on how light or dark I am. Then I use one shade darker on my face.
91
I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body’s covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
92
I enjoyed ‘Gossip Girl’ so much. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the cast of that show. I was so intimidated doing that show because I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, those people are so young and gorgeous, and I’m a million years old, and I need a spray tan, and I’m going to be wearing all these fabulous clothes.’
93
I don’t take such good care of my skin; my mom kills me about it… I sit in the sun so much. I love a tan.
94
I worked in Tesco’s staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course – I had a lovely white onesie.
95
I’ve never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.