Keeping that glow can be hard to keep up with in the colder climates. I'm going to share my tanning routing that I have done for well over a year now. The Day Before Tanning. Shower.... OR Bath I'd recommend showering a day before you're planning on tanning and just exfoliate your skin, this mean the tan can be applied to a fresh layer of skin and it will last longer and look more natural, also I would shave just so my skin is nice and smooth. If I was going to do this on the day I tan i'd probably get those brown dots of all over my legs were the tan seeps in. Which isn't a good look so I do it a day before. After the shower I moisturize to make sure my skin is nice and smooth and hydrated. This will make the tan look better, and again this time of year is usually drying on the skin. So you don't want your skin to look dry and cracked its not a good look and will look so much worse if you apply tan on top as tan is quite drying to the skin on its own