Spray Tan – At Home

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Many people go to spray tan salons for their tan or as a tanning solution, but you can do it at home as well. Did you know?
If you want to create a fake tan without paying too much money on a salon session, here are a few things you should know about how to use a home spray tan with maximum of results. Many people choose this variant to booth tanning because of the costs, however, the opinions are shared about which version is the best: DIY tanning or machine tanning. But, we’ll only discuss the tanning option available for home use.

The application of the home spray tan should follow a careful skin preparation. You should shower, exfoliate the skin, shave and dry without applying any moisturizer whatsoever. Why so much insistance on exfoliation? Well, only the superficial dead skin layer at the surface of the skin is exposed to the action of the coloring agents, the thinner this is, the longer the tan will resist without wearing off. The home spray tan option involves a selection from a wide range of products belonging to different brand names.

No-name products will always be cheaper, that is a fact, but the decision is up to the buyer whether to go for quality or for price advantages. The bronze look is the main feature that distinguishes a good home spray tan from a low quality one. Then, an important aspect that you should bear in mind is that color builds in time, at least for the first application. Do not use too much active substance from the very beginning, the first tan will hence be a gentle brown.

After you apply the home spray tan, allow it to dry before getting dressed and avoid contact with water for the next five hours. Do not apply the home spray tan before going to the gym for instance, because perspiration causes color streaks. The setting of the color depends on total skin dryness. The life of the tan will be prolonged if you take quick showers with warm water and mild soaps. Then, rubbing the skin too vigurously with the towel will also cause exfoliation and cause the color to wear off.

Try to use loose clothes on the day you tan. You’ll also see that for the first showers, the hands, the joints and the face will give away more color. Moreover, in case you get some darker skin areas that make you look blotchy, you can reduce the tan intensity with some lemon juice rubbed into the skin.