txsbondsman and pdaddy are the experts on this subject.
txsbondsman in particular helped me get the nice overall even tan that looks perfectly natural and just the right shade for me.
FOLLOW HIS ADVICE!! THE DUDE IS AN EXPERT AT THIS AND CAN DEBATE - TALK THIS THING UP AND DOWN AND INSIDE OUT.
Don't guess at this. Then you won't be screaming about freckles appearing or blue tongues.
What I did for mine was :
1mg nightly for 10 days. No direct exposure to sunlight / UV in this time. LET IT LOAD.
1mg for the next 10 days with tanning bed 10ming EOD OR visiting the beach for 1 - 1.5 hours.
I got such a beautiful color that my maintenance phase started FOUR WEEKS past my last injection on the loading phase. I now do 1mg E6D and my color has not faded at all. I am not getting darker, but I don't want to. But I am holding this color with only 1.5 hours in the sun on each Saturday OR 1 twenty minute visit to the tanning PER WEEK.
Had it not been for txsbondsman I would have jumped right in and started tanning from day one and continued on and on, only crying about it when it was too late.