Q&A for How to Get a Tan in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Eventually... yes! Stay indoors when possible and use an umbrella during the day. Letting the sun beam down on you will make your tan darker.

As long as you are in the sun, you can move around. You don't have to stay in one place.

Other players from other towns can go with you, but they are also the mayor of their town. Unless you bring another player to the island (via the train station), there is no other possible way to have another human on the island. Plus, the only human characters in the ‘Animal Crossing’ series are the mayors/players.

No; you can tan in the summer in your town. On the island it is always summer, so if you want a tan in the winter, you can go to the island. Otherwise, you can wait for summer in your town.

You can obtain a Mii mask from Shampoodle. Once you have one, you can replace your character's regular face with the Mii mask. You can swap it back at any time.

Time travelling works, but you can tan multiple levels in a day, so it isn't necessary, unless you are time traveling to summer time.

If you have the Welcome Amiibo update, the mask should change your skin tone, but only when it is on. Your skin tone will change back once it's taken off.

As long as you stay outside at the right time of year and day and follow the steps in the article, it should still work. You have to be patient because one level of tan takes 15 minutes.

It starts in late November and ends on the 25th of February. Winter is categorized by the snow on the ground in the game.

You can usually earn bells by smashing rocks and selling fish, bugs, fruit, mushrooms, shells and ore. MEOW tokens are also worth 3,000 bells each; you can exchange them at the ATM at the post office. Read the article Make Bells Quick on Animal Crossing: New Leaf for more advice.

A 15-minute tan would be one level of tan. It takes about three days for one level of tan to fade away.

You can tan any time of year on the island, just as long as it's in the morning.

You must stay outside on the island for at least 15 minutes to get a tan.

Animal Crossing is a game with many animals and not many humans so it would be weird. The game lets you develop friendships but you can't be in relationships. Tomodachi Life is a similar game which lets you marry.

Yes. A sleeveless dress should work when getting a tan on Animal Crossing.

To customise objects, you need to speak to Cryus, the blue alpaca at ReTail. He will start of sleeping and but if you continue to visit ReTail and disturb him he will eventually wake up. After that you can bring furniture items for him to customise. There are many ways objects can be customised, fossil sets can be shrank, you can use clothing fabric or ore to change furniture or you can change the colour of a piece of furniture.

To take off the wetsuit, open your pockets by pressing the (X) button, click on the character in the middle of the touch screen and select "Remove Wetsuit".

When playing multiplayer, whether you are at your town or someone else's or on the island at Club Tortimer, you can have up to four people at a time, including yourself.