affordable self tanners

I love the color...it helps my face to match my self tanner that I use on my body. I love that it’s made with clean ingredients.

What it is: A talc-free, finely-milled, and velvety powder bronzer with a rich, smooth finish, and skin-loving ingredients.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This silky, soft-matte formula blends seamlessly into the skin, imparting a natural-looking, healthy, sunkissed warmth all year round. Summer Skin Velvet Matte Bronzers come in two shades, complete with a built-in mirror for easy application wherever you are.

The caramel glow color is so nice compared to self tanners. The finish is really nice, not tacky - just weightless.

What it is: An oil-free liquid bronzer that helps sculpt the complexion and can be used alone for a soft wash of warmth or built up for a post-holiday, sunkissed look.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This versatile liquid bronzer can be worn either ultra sheer for subtle warmth or layered for a post-holiday, bronzed finish.

This formula has a very strong self tanner scent.. it kinda fades but not entirely. ...But I was intrigued by the claim that it “self tans” over time. Product is super build & bendable.

What it is: A mineral-based, matte, powder bronzer that gives an instant summer glow, blurs the look of pores, and builds a naturally-sunkissed look over time.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Gradual Glow Complex: Helps build a sunkissed glow over time.
- Mineral Blurring Microspheres: Blurs the look of imperfections and minimizes the appearance of pores.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.

Now that we are getting into springtime, I am using self tanner again and this gives me a nice glow. ...It’s deep enough I can still use it when I self tan, but also buildable enough that I can wear a powder bronzer over it without looking too dark.

What it is: A cream bronzer stick that contours, sculpts, and creates dimension in a blendable, blurring plant-derived formula.

Coverage: Light

Finish: Natural

Formulation: Stick

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Plant Squalane: Provides skin barrier protection.
- Moringa Oil: Acts as a moisturizing antioxidant.
- Shea Butter: Hydrates.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This multipurpose bronzer stick is the ultimate face hack. It contours, sculpts, and creates dimension. The natural-finish, blendable, and blurring formula melts seamlessly into skin for immediate payoff.

LYS stands for love your self. I love what this brand stands for. The packaging is beautiful. ...I wore it with the lys beauty cream blush in the shade self love and they go together nicely. For reference my foundation shade is too faced - mocha and butter pecan.

What it is: A clean, talc-free, buildable matte bronzer that sculpts, defines, and livens up the complexion with a silky-smooth formula.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide: Reduces the appearance of pores and limits excess shine.
- Green Tea Extract: Provides antioxidant benefits that soothe and replenish skin.
- Sodium Hyaluronate: Helps retain skin moisture and visibly plump fine lines.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: Sculpt, define, and warm up your complexion with this matte bronzer. The ultra-velvety, buildable powder effortlessly blends while delivering a sunkissed glow.

I like that the color is 'adjustable'. So if I use a self tanner I can go a little darker. This is a great combination of color for my face. ...I was a little worried that it would be a little too warm for me(got medium based on the product photos) but it ended up looking beautiful on me-I’m a light skinned sunless tanner addict. The formula feels very smooth and almost cream like but applies like a powder.

What it is: A matte, buildable, visible-texture-blurring trio to shade, bronze, and sculpt your face—for a touch of color to a fully contoured look.

Highlighted Ingredients:

- Magnolia Bark Extract: Helps smooth fine lines and wrinkles

I chose the SEYCHELLES (Medium-deep) shade, and it is a tad bit darker than I my go-to shade, but it’s perfect for when I use a self-tanner. I adore creamy formulas because they are easier to blend and manipulate the coverage. ...The shades are very forgiving in that you can layer them for more or less color and even having a Light skin tone I can make the shade Capri work for me skin when I’m wearing a bit of self tanner. And because it’s on the neutral side it also makes for an excellent contour product.

What it is: A smoothing cream bronzer that instantly warms the complexion with a soft-focus, sun-kissed glow while reviving skin radiance.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Tourmaline and Quartz: Illuminate without shimmer.
- Rose Oil: Revitalizes dull skin for increased radiance.
- Squalane: Pure, sustainable, plant-derived moisturizer for weightless hydration.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: For a no-makeup look with sunkissed cheeks or a bronzed soft-glam makeup look, this mistake-proof cream-to-powder formula blurs pores and texture while vitamins C and E provide powerful antioxidant protection.

I also really love the compact it's self. It's heavy and feels luxurious....In this case I had last summers foundation color and no tanning so I think it darkened me more than the bronzer.

What it is: A cutting-edge, clean bronzing powder that blurs and defines with a natural-looking, second-skin finish.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Fermented Arnica Oil: Rich in antioxidant and soothing properties.
- Plant Squalane: Nourishes skin.
- Talc-Free: Maintains moisture.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is clean, vegan, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This bronzer is infused with HAUS LABS BY LADY GAGA’s Patent Pending fermented arnica and delivers skincare benefits without compromising color performance. Its velvety-smooth, weightless, skip-proof formula is unlike any other that effortlessly, visibly defines and sculpts.

Affordable, great product, blends smoothly into skin however the tube feels cheaply made and product breaks off easily hoe putting the cap back on....I have fair to light skin that I use self tanner on. Blue eyes, blonde hair. When I initially applied this, I used a little too much.

What it is: A clean, talc-free, buildable cream bronzer that visibly sculpts, defines, and livens up the complexion with a silky-smooth, blendable formula.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide: Reduces the appearance of pores and limits excess shine.
- Green Tea Extract: Contains antioxidant benefits that soothe and replenish skin.
- Sodium Hyaluronate: Helps skin retain moisture and visibly plumps to improve the look of fine lines.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Visibly sculpt, define, and warm up your complexion with this cream bronzer stick. The creamy, buildable formula effortlessly blends while delivering a sunkissed glow. Formulated wit

I’m quite pale but tend to have more of a neutral complexion as well as use self tanning products so I ordered the medium and it’s the perfect bronze if I have no self tan or self tan on!...I bought the tan shade for an upcoming cruise where I will be self tanning, I wanted to look extremely bronzed.

What it is: An oversized natural matte bronzer in a refillable compact, infused with hyaluronic acid for a skin-perfecting bronzed filter for the face and body.

Coverage: Medium

Finish: Matte

Formulation: Pressed Powder

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Hyaluronic Acid: Hydrates and helps skin appear softer and smoother.