No. You do not need to make that sacrifice.

  

Only one week of vacation. That's a scary reality. What's scarier, is realizing you only have one week to lose those bad tan lines, or at least gain a pity base coat so that it doesn't look as though you spent your entire summer in a basement without windows. Soon it'll be hasta la vista summer sun and you will be back in your office or classroom.

So when you begin packing for this one week vacation (of which you deserve much more than a mere 7 days out of 365), it makes sense for you to want to pack your skimpiest bathing suits. Whether you're packing two of these skimpy bathing suits or five of them, choosing the ones of similar shape and structure to avoid creating overlapping and bad tan lines is crucial...or so you think.  What about that wicked cute b-suit top you purchased for $59.99... (even though you aren't a surfer but you told yourself you were gonna wear it all the time because the neon coral color was to die for and the tank top style with its cropped overlay ruffle was a style you wanted to trend)? It provides more coverage than you want on the beach, edging on a tankini but IT IS WICKED CUTE.

It's all about gradually skimplifying...

You can still wear your favorite bathing suit without wearing its tan lines. If you're anything like me, you are a bathing suit hoarder. This makes telling yourself that you are only going to wear this medium coverage cropped overlay ruffle top on Monday less painful because you have others you want to wear that week too. And yet, you still get one more wear out of that suit than you would have. And if you aren't like me, and only have three bathing suits, that's even better. Give yourself Monday and Tuesday in your medium coverage wicked cute bathing suit top and then spend Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday split between the other two bathing suits, making sure to end in the skimpiest one for two days. Not only do you get to wear your favorite bathing suit, and still end the week with little to no tan lines, you can also avoid burning those Elmer's glue white areas under the edges of your bikini by not wearing something too skimpy, too soon.