Face
A stick you can find in a pocket.
Broad spectrum, SPF 50, solid, the size of a lip balm. Nose, ears, cheekbones, the parting in your hair.
Sun · Places · Activities · Kit
Look good, feel good, everything under the sun.
The magazine and the circle for people who make time to be outside. Where to go, what to do, what to carry, and the people already out there.
Golden hour · after the evening session
Lisbon · sunrise7:34 am · UV 1
Lisbon · midday1:58 pm · UV 4
Shade by12:30 pm–3:30 pm
Golden hour6:42 pm–7:16 pm
Sea19°C · calm
Sample figures. The live strip reads your city's UV index and sun times.
Everything under the sun.
Four ways in
Sun
Sun sense
The UV index, the shade, the reapply. Told as the habits of people who are outside a lot, never as a warning.
Places
Places
Lidos, ridges, courts by the river, the bay at Perast. Every place we print, someone on the roster actually goes to.
Activities
Activities
Swims, runs, rides and games, and the Hosts who run them. Come once, stay for coffee.
Kit
Kit
What people actually carried. Picked, tried outside, disclosed, never ranked for money.
Sun Stories.
All Sun Stories →Shade is a love language.
Four rituals
- Before you leave
On at the car.
Fifteen minutes before you start, while everyone is still finding their shoes. Ears, nose, the back of the neck.
- 12 pm–3 pm
Shade by noon.
Plan the hard part for the morning, the long lunch for the middle and the swim for the end.
- Every two hours
Reapply at the changeover.
Sets, laps, the water stop. Tie it to something you already do and you'll never forget it.
- After six
Long sleeve for the way back.
The light gets lower and kinder. Your shoulders have done enough for one day.
No. 001The Light IssuePeople who work in the sun, and how they look after themselves.
The magazine · Issue 001
The Light Issue.
Twenty people whose work happens outside: bird photographers, a muralist, field botanists, a fish printer, a ballerina and a skateboard racer. One story each, made in the light they work in.
- Editors' letter: close this and go outsidep. 2
- A Sun Story: the wall in Julyp. 6
- Places: five swims before workp. 14
- The Sun List: what we carriedp. 20
- Hosted: the Saturday swimp. 24
For people who bring others outside
Host your people under the sun.
You already run the Saturday swim, the dawn loop or the court booking. Host it with TANNED. It's free to host and to earn: your own TANNED page, sun-sense training and a circle of Hosts in other cities. Want the kit from our partner brand? The Host Kit is optional, and it never changes what you earn.
You earn on what your community buys, never on who you sign up. Make something the brand loves and they'll pay to use it.
Now you have everything you need to grow.
Hosting opens city by city. Until it reaches yours, find a session near you in the app.
Sessions near youHosting is a community role, not a job or a business. Hosts apply and are accepted; nobody pays to earn and nobody is paid for signing anyone up. Every year we publish what Hosts earned: the median, the spread, and how many earned nothing.
The Sun List.
What we carried this month
Body
A lotion that survives a swim.
Broad spectrum, SPF 30 or more, water resistant for 80 minutes. We say 80 because that's what the label can claim. Then reapply.
Cover
A cap with a long brim, a shirt with long sleeves.
The cheapest sun care there is. Linen for the town, a UPF shirt for the water.
Picks before links: we choose first, then look for a link. When a link earns us money we say so beside it. Brands that work with the TANNED Studio are never ranked here.
Why TANNED.
From the editors
We started TANNED because the best afternoons of our lives happened outside, and almost nothing we read helped us have more of them. Sun brands sold fear. Sports brands sold effort. Nobody sold Thursday at four, with a swim at the end.
So this is a magazine about the good afternoon: the places, the people, the kit, and the small habits that let you stay out longer and come back for more. Read it, then close it and go.
The editors, TANNED