I left my tanning addiction where it belongs—in 2011, along the term . But if I'm being honest, the transition sucked. The best self-tanners of the time were notoriously awful.
Putting them on took forever, and no matter how careful I was, I'd end up streaky, splotchy, and slightly orange. Not to mention I reeked of fake tan smell wherever I went.
Not cute—but better than .Formulas have come a long way in the past decade, though, and thankfully today's innovations look (and smell) infinitely better.
Just ask our editors, who've spent the past few weeks . (One silver lining of being stuck indoors? No one to see a failed self-tanner experiment.) What we came away with was a little something for everyone: foams that give a natural-looking.