Confusion about my tan

[Lyla]

Yesterday my character was very brown, today she is even darker. I'm a pasty white girl! I don't like her being this dark.. so yesterday I made her go around with an umbrella all day. Didn't work one bit. What am I to do?

 

[MattKimura]

This is my question exactly. Dark is such a bad skin color in this game. I finally got tan cuz I leave my game on sitting there.
Thanks for asking this question for me xD Strange how we had the same question at the same time

 

[Jarachi29]

Hmm, I heard that wearing a Mii Mask helps and spending more time in buildings/homes than you did outside helps you get back to the whiter tones. O:

 

[MattKimura]

Just try not to leave your 3DS on, while your character is in the sun. Can't imagine how my character feels lol

Here's a wiki about Tans:
http://animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Tan

 

[radical6]

i like tans, but i wanna wear a qr code. the thing is that it has skin showing so yeah
it looks really weird
so for now im stuck wearing a bear outfit because i dont want to hold an umbrella
i thought if i wore a bear cap it would stop letting me tan so i could keep playing but i've had a level 5 tan for about a week.


but anyway, you could wear a hat that covers your head. (i think that stops it from tanning, not making your tan go away tho) or time travel a bit. and spend lots of time in building yeah.

 

[Robert Plant]

Enter a building.

 

[Randysteele992]

Whoa... I didn't know you could tan in NL. Is that new to this game?

 

[Marceline]

I was quite dark at one point. I wore both a straw hat and held an umbrella. The next day when I turned my game on and my character left her house, she was much paler. I don't know if it was the hat or umbrella. I was outside most of the time because inside is boring.

 

[Shonnie666]

This page lists, hats and head accessories which prevent tanning: http://www.gamefaqs.com/3ds/997811-animal-crossing-new-leaf/faqs/65246

Ctrl + F : Tanning Season

The tan will take a while to go away but wont get any darker