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How to Smell Good & Glow All Summer ☀️ (Tan, Body Care & Fragrance)
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items Get ready for your ultimate summer glow-up. This list includes tanning essentials, body care favourites and irresistible summer scents to help you smell good and keep your skin glowing and bronzed all summer long.
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🌞 Get The Glow
🧴 Skin Softening Essentials
✨ Build Your Tan
🌺 Smell Like Summer
🌞 Get The Glow
The body oils, luminizers and blurring tints I reach for when I want glowing summer skin. These formulas catch the light beautifully to give your arms, legs and collarbones an instant, healthy looking glow.
This gives your skin a beautiful, glass-like, dewy sheen. It feels like a hydrating body serum and enhances your natural tone. Uses reflective pearl pigments instead of glitter, leaving your skin looking smooth, healthy and lit-from-within.
REFY Body Glow
This is basically a real life filter for your body. Instantly blurs uneven skin tone and conceals redness, giving a gorgeous, deep bronzed, airbrushed looking glow. Perfect for last minute plans when you forget to fake tan.
Vita Liberata Body Blur
One of my favourite products for an instant bronzed glow. Adds radiance to skin without glitter, leaving a sun-kissed finish that looks gorgeous on holiday, summer evenings or bare skin days.
Sol de Janeiro Glowmotions Copacabana Bronze Glow Oil
Gives that ultimate “wet look” glossy shine that looks incredible in the sun. The shimmer catches the light beautifully without chunky glitter. It has a gorgeous vanilla scent and a little goes a long way.
Fenty Beauty Body Lava Body Luminizer
Golden hour skin in a bottle kind of product. It gives your skin a warm bronzed glow with a sheen that looks like you've just been on holiday. The ultra-fine shimmer catches the sun and helps blur uneven skin tone. Deeply nourishes the skin but dries...
Patrick Ta Major Glow Nourishing Bronzing Body Oil
Luxury in a bottle and the ultimate treat for summer nights out. It gives your skin the most stunning golden shimmery beach glow that looks incredible with a tan. It feels silky on the skin, doesn't leave a greasy residue and has a gorgeous warm coco...
Tom Ford Soleil Blanc Shimmering Body Oil
If you want a gorgeous summer glow without looking like you're covered in chunky glitter, this is it. Sinks in fast and leaves a velvety satin finish with no greasy residue. The gold shimmer is super fine and gives you that perfect golden hour radian...
NUXE Huile Prodigieuse Shimmering Multi-Purpose Dry Oil
This is how to protect your skin in the sun while looking like a glowing goddess. It gives you a subtle shimmer that catches the light without making you look like a disco ball. Super hydrating, non-sticky and makes your arms and legs instantly look ...
Coco & Eve Highlighter Body SPF50
🧴 Skin Softening Essentials
If your skin ever feels dry, rough or in need of some extra TLC, these are great products to add into your routine. They work wonders for smoothing skin and locking in moisture without ever feeling heavy or sticky in the heat.
A must-have luxurious shower oil if your skin feels tight or stripped after a long day in the sun or pool. Starts as a rich oil but turns into silky milk when it hits water. Leaves skin feeling soft and hydrated and works amazingly as a shave oil for...
L'Occitane Almond Shower Oil
The ultimate saviour for clearing up rough bumps or strawberry legs. It uses gentle acids and super fine exfoliating beads to smooth skin texture. It's also great for prepping your skin before fake tan so it doesn't cling to dry patches.
First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% AHA
Think facial skincare, but for your body. It contains hyaluronic acid and niacinamide, the weightless water-gel formula instantly plumps up parched skin. It absorbs in seconds with zero sticky residue, perfect for layering under your daily moisturise...
Nécessaire The Body Serum | 0.5% Hyaluronic Acid
If you deal with skin texture, KP or random bumpy patches, this retinol body treatment is a game changer to add into your routine. Super lightweight and hydrating, I apply it at night 3 times a week to gently resurface and smooth out my skin while I ...
Nécessaire The Body Retinol
If you hate the feeling of heavy, thick creams in summer, you will love this lightweight lotion. It sinks into skin fast enough that you can get dressed straight away and it does a brilliant job of healing dry patches. It has no scent at all so it wo...
Aveeno Daily Moisturising Lotion
This smells like a luxury holiday in a jar. The whipped texture is rich but sinks in fast. It deeply softens dry skin without feeling sticky. Perfect for locking in post-shower hydration, leaving skin velvety soft and hydrated all day.
OUAI St. Barts Body Crème
If your skin barrier ever feels sensitive or stripped from travelling or being in the sun, this is amazing. It's soothing, has no harsh ingredients, heals dry, flaky skin and calms sunburned areas. Brilliant after shaving, exfoliating or spending too...
First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream
An absolute lifesaver if summer heat dries out your skin. The thick, whipped texture drenches skin instantly and locks in moisture without feeling greasy. The warm scent of vanilla and violet feels soft, comforting and sophisticated on the skin.
Sol de Janeiro Delícia Drench Body Butter
✨ Build Your Tan
Everything you need for a flawless summer tan without any of the stress. These tanning mousses, express tans, oils and gradual tanners are a lifesaver. They are easy to apply, dry down quickly and help you achieve a beautiful, streak-free glow.
Getting old tan off can be an absolute nightmare, but this stuff completely changed the game for removing old, patchy tan. You just slather it on, wait about a minute then buff it off in the shower or bath with an exfoliating mitt. Saves you from hav...
Rose & Caramel Purity Excel 60 Second Self Tan Remover
Customisable tanning drops you mix into your favourite daily moisturiser or serum for a natural-looking glow. The more drops you add, the deeper your tan. Easy to build up and great for beginners or for maintaining colour between fake tan days. Leave...
Isle of Paradise Self-Tanning Body Drops
The ultimate swap if you hate that biscuit fake tan smell on your face. It's a super lightweight serum packed with hyaluronic acid that plumps your skin, while building a natural, gradual golden glow. You can apply it straight to your face or mix a f...
NUXE Self-Tanning Serum Prodigieuse BOOST
An essential for me every summer. If you're scared of ending up orange or patchy, this gradual tan is a great option. It's just like applying your everyday body lotion but it builds up a beautiful, sun-kissed tint over a few days. Leaves your skin fe...
Garnier Summer Body Hydrating Gradual Tan Moisturiser
Perfect if you love a bronzed glow but hate waiting around for your tan to dry or worrying about ruining your clothes. The dry oil formula absorbs instantly, develops over a few hours into a beautiful golden tan and doesn't need rinsing off. Great fo...
Bondi Sands Liquid Gold Self Tanning Oil
Tropical mango and guava scented fake tan so you don't get the usual biscuit smell 😂. Lightweight foam applies smoothly, dries fast and develops into a natural looking tan with no orange tones. Fades evenly and is great for beginners.
Coco & Eve Sunny Honey Bali Bronzing Foam
The ultimate last-minute tan for busy days. It dries quickly and doesn't leave you feeling sticky. Can be rinsed off before bed so you don't have to worry about staining bedsheets. Has a guide colour so you don't miss any spots and fades naturally.
St. Tropez Self Tan Express Bronzing Mousse
A saviour for last minute plans or if you hate waiting for self tan to develop. It gives you an instant, streak-free tan that blurs any imperfections with a beautiful matte finish. The best shortcut for a night out or a sunny day when you just need a...
Bondi Sands GLO Matte One Day Tan
🌺 Smell Like Summer
The perfumes, body mists and hair scents that smell like summer. From fresh florals, dreamy tropical blends, soft gourmands to warm beachy fragrances, these are the types to get compliments and have people asking “what perfume are you wearing?”. They...
This is like capturing sunshine in a bottle. Has the most gorgeous, bright citrus scent, is super light and crisp and is handy to throw in your bag for a quick refresh throughout the day. Great for layering too when you want something fresh that feel...
Glossier Orange Blossom Neroli Body Spritz
If you love the St. Barts body crème earlier in this list, you need this matching mist. Smells like an expensive tropical holiday with notes of dragon fruit, orange blossom and warm amber. Spraying it in your hair helps the scent last all day and it ...
OUAI St. Barts Hair and Body Mist
A fresh, beachy fragrance mist that smells like sun-warmed skin and salty ocean air. Light enough for everyday wear, it layers beautifully on both hair & body for a clean summer scent that feels soft, airy and not overpowering on hot days.
Phlur Beach Skin Body Mist
Pistachio and salted caramel notes leave you smelling irresistible. Although it's a body mist, it lasts really well without feeling heavy in the heat. Layers amazingly with the Bum Bum cream for a longer lasting fragrance.
Sol de Janeiro Cheirosa 62 Perfume Mist
Smells like a creamy pistachio gelato on a hot summer's day. This is a softer, lighter version of the viral perfume, sweet, nutty and slightly gourmand without being overpowering. It layers beautifully with vanilla based scents.
Kayali Yum Pistachio Gelato | 33 Body Spray
If you want a daily scent that feels breezy and light rather than musky or intense, this one is beautiful. It's a mix of juicy fruits, light florals and is slightly sweet. Gives that soft, “clean girl summer” vibe.
Marc Jacobs Daisy Eau So Fresh Eau De Toilette
Smells like a breezy walk along the coast on a hot summer's day. Has fresh sea salt and earthy sage notes. It's one of those fragrances that always gets compliments because it's a beautifully clean, crisp scent that's completely different from overly...
Jo Malone London Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne
This is the definition of a luxury summer scent. Smells like warm, golden skin after a long day at the beach. Has a rich, solar vibe to it that quickly melts into the dreamiest blend of warm coconut, vanilla and tropical white flowers. Long lasting a...
Killian Sunkissed Goddess Eau de Parfum