How to lose your tan in 10 days.

Hey y’all! This is my first blog post! YAY. Everyone wants to get the best spray tan out there, I believe there are just a few important spray tanning tips that will always help you achieve the perfect tan! I have created this spray tanning tips blog to help share all my knowledge and any fun facts that will help you get the best spray tan every time.

XX Allie

Here is one of my favorite spray tanning tips: 

  • Exfoliating: If you are using a sugar scrub, you’re wrong :) sugar scrubs leave a film and residue on the skin which leaves a barrier on the skin, preventing the tan to fully get in your pores. I cannot stress how important this step is in order to getting the best spray tan results. Exfoliating your skin provides numerous amounts of benefits. The first benefit of exfoliating is it will get you the most smooth looking tan. Another great benefit of exfoliating the skin especially when done prior to shaving helps create a closer shave and prevents ingrown hairs. Exfoliating helps create the best spray by helping remove all the dead skin cells of your body.

One of the best products that I recommend all my clients and that I personally use is ST. TROPEZ  tan enhancing polish. The great benefits of ST. TROPEZ'S tan enhancing polish is that it  provides great exfoliation, as well as a pH cleansing the provides your skin as the perfect blank canvas before you get your spray tan! 

  • Recommended Best Use Tips – Exfoliation Mitt or Glove: MAKES THE WORLD OF DIFFERENCE.

I recommend using a mitt or glove with a mild “translucent/transparent” shower gel of choice, at the end of the shower after all hair cleansing, shaving etc is finished. Using this as a LAST step will remove all product residue from the skin surface from scrubs, soaps, conditioners, oils etc.

ALWAYS DO THIS this 24 hours before your spray tan session, without applying other products on the skin. 

I recommend a transparent gel cleanser, as opposed to a milky looking opaque gel cleanser or a bar soap (of any type) – ether of these options can coat skin with products that can hamper self-tanner development and penetration. (want to know more about soaps and cleansers to use?

  • For the regular weekly Tanner:

    Use the exfoliation mitt to both maintain the sunless tan, and prepare for the next tan sessions.  A light exfoliation done mid-week, and topping off color with ether a Drugstore self-tanning product, or TBT’s Mousse, Aerosol, or Tan Therepe Lotion will help keep the color fresh between salon visits. (using the mitt more lightly on the skin to just lightly remove “buff-off” any loose skin cells, do not scrub hard enough to remove majority of the tan)  This may or may not been needed, depending on how your tan fades, tan depth, skin type, environment etc. So this is optional. (I personally do use this option)

    Once a week, just before you get a new fresh tan, exfoliate heavily (more of a “scrub” effect) especially focusing on dry skin areas, like feet, ankles, hands, knees or any areas of “build up”, uneveness or spots. This would be required for most self tan users,  once a week roughly. Though some would do this every 5 days, every 7 days or every 10, or 15 days. Again, it depends on each client, products used, tan depth etc.  So adjust as needed.

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Chris Nugent