What to Know Before You Spray-Tan

I got the Versaspray and it was the best! I actually looked tan and not orange and I have pale skin that never tans, just gets a deep pink. I am hooked for sure!

Cyndi, I started laughing when I read your comment; "I looked like a carrot. An unhappy carrot." LOL!

Everybody, just go with your own glow!

I never got it? Why pay for a fake tan when you can just go outside and soak in the sun for couple of mintues? All that money being wasted on something you can get/do for free.

Help the rocks - I use lightening creams in the winter time. Once tanning season is over, I start to use the lighteners through the winter on my face to fade any sunspots. It helps even out my already-pale complexion. I just stick to winter time months though so I am ready when spring arrives.

My mother, my daughter and I all got a mystic tan before spring break last year. The booth experience is a bit awful, the tans set up nicely, but didn't last. The tanning salon operating didn't tell us that as soon as you step in to salt water, like the Pacific ocean, the tan immediately rubs off. This left the three of us streaked and faded for the rest of our vacation. Not worth the 40.00 dollars a piece. I now use an at home gradual tanning foam. It doesn't make me as dark as the spray tan, but I don't get the streaks and since I apply it every few days, I don't have to worry about fading. At 6 bucks a can, I only spend about 25 bucks a year, not bad in my book.

Spray tanning a day before an important event is a must. In pictures, your skin tone glows with a warm radiance. If you turned an orange color, you may have gone to an unexperienced salon or choose the wrong level of color.

I tried it once - what a waste of money. It didn't do anything. 8 hours later I looked exactly the same as I did before I went in.

The sad thing to those who do this kind of thing to make them look as if they have been laying out in the sun....They do not realize how bad to fake they really look!.

I have a question, is there anything you can do about spray tan getting into your pores because of shaving? When I shave my legs before a spray tan, it leaves little brown dots all over my legs from where the hair was. Any way to prevent that? Or am I just screwed with giant pores? Haha!

danielle- i had a similar experience to yours. i used a mystic tan booth. i tried holding my breath but it was so cold that it shocked me into breathing. i inhaled a little bit of the stuff. afterwards, it was streaky and i had exfoliated beforehand like i was told to do. it was a horrible experience and i'm never doing it again. i'd rather have my pale skin than be streaky.

i got an airbrush tan once... i liked it but there was one problem... any places where you have a little extra fat might cause creases. i got one under my ribs. also, i was rediculous looking for those 8 hours that i couldn't shower. but once i could shower the color faded to a nice realistic tan color. i'd go again

I haven't ever been airbrushed, but I've done the Mystic Tan where you just stand in a booth and get the stuff blasted on. If you pay attention to the instructions it works great! It usually lasts about 8 days!

I've only spray tanned once and it was one of the worst experience of my life! They had none of the supplies I needed and when I got in the booth and the tanning solution hit me it was so cold I couldn't catch my breath. I ended up eating a bunch of the spray it was so disgusting not to mention I didn't have just streaks, but green streaks everywhere afterwards. Needless to say I didn't leave the house for a while after that.

One day out in the sun and I'll get some weird farmer's tan. I was thinking about doing this to get an even tan look for my brother's wedding. I'm still not sure if it'd be worth it. I'm a little worried about rubbing off on everything. I think in the end I'm just going to go natural with my farmer's tan.

Check out http://www.paleisthenewtan.com before you go and see how silly many fake-tanned folks look.

how do u knoe what color is right for your skin if your looking for a bronze look for summer?

lol spray tan is just nasty. it makes you orangey or brownish and that's not even a good thing. plus it might come off onto other things or articles of clothing, that's just bad.

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yikes tanning beds are totally bad for you. i don't recommend them at all. plus the fake tans look horrible, some people fake bake for too long in those machines and they look scary when they come out of them. the fake tanning lotions are nasty, they can make you look blotchy or streaky or both lol, if not applied right and they look fake also. mostly if they come off the next day or can be showered off and if you forget to reapply it. some even make the skin appear orangey or an odd colour that makes you look silly. spray tans even if it's done by a professional can make you look scary too. some even make em too dark and also fake looking.