How To Apply Self Tanner To Face. Self Tanner Tips

June 24, 2010 · By howtomakeup

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Learn how to apply self tanner evenly on your face. Great self tanner tips that you need to know specially if you’ll be self tanning for the first time.

Apply self tanner to clean and dry skin using your fingers. Blend well over your entire face and under the chin. Apply little self tanner also around your eye area. Blend over the hair line and over the ears. Don’t forget to wash your hands after using self tanner or wear gloves during the application.

Self Tanner Tips

Some rules apply to all self-tanners, otherwise you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. Here goes:

1) You have to exfoliate before you tan. Use exfoliation gloves or scrub.

2) Wear gloves! You have to wear gloves! Using bare hands and washing them afterward has never worked for me. Wear gloves until you’ve finished everywhere else, then tan your hands with a gradual tanner and blending into your wrists well.

3) Tan in the evening, giving yourself 30 minutes to dry before heading to bed. Tanning during the day will get self tanner on your clothes. Let the tan develop while you sleep!

4) Get some towel on your bed cause you’ll get it on your sheets too or pick dark colored bedding like burgundy, dark brown, or plum colored. If you have white or cream colored sheets, forget about it, they will be brown in the morning.

5) Avoid water until the morning. Don’t brush your teeth after you’ve applied sunless tanner, you’ll end up with a lovely pale ring around your mouth because the tanner was disturbed there.

6) If you want to use self tanner on whole your body follow these rules as well. Apply lotion to your palms after you’ve finished gradual tanning your hands, and rub your palms to your elbows to get a good bit of lotion there, and this will sound weird, but carefully apply lotion with a fingertip to the knuckle on your big toes. Then take a paper towel and rub the lotion off your palms and big toe knuckles, and wipe the lotion off your elbows (because of the color guide, it’ll look odd there, but it’ll be even in the morning). Use the now-lotion-covered paper towel to wipe your fingernails and cuticles off.

Self Tanner Reviews

Self tanners are ideal for those who wish to maintain a year-round tanned appearance. Apply regularly and you’ll get golden tan for your face and body without sun exposure. Just be sure to wash your hands well after applying it or use gloves!

Millenium Tanning New Paint It Black Auto-darkening Dark Tanning Lotion, 50X, 13.5 Ounce

Millenium Tanning 2011, Misc., $12.99

50X Auto Darkening Tan Technology delivers extreme dark bronze tanning results. Smells nice – clean cotton blossom fragrance. Great for pale and also sensitive skin. The self tanner leaves your skin silky smooth to the touch. You can use it both at the beach and at a tanning salon.

Fake Bake Self-Tanning Lotion, 6-Ounces

Fake Bake 2007, Health and Beauty, $12.50

Non-greasy and quick drying. The self tanner leaves skin looking sun-kissed without an orange hue but a natural looking tan. Initially use this 3 nights in a row (apply before bedtime) to achieve your desired color and then have it re-applying twice weekly to maintain. Everyone will keep you asking if you went on vacation…

Clarins Self Tanning Instant Gel, 4.4-Ounce Box

Clarins, Health and Beauty, $32.00

Promotes beautiful, deeper, darker, longer lasting tan by up to 50% and does not turn the skin orange.

3-Way Heart Tanning Stickers 50 Count

Sticker Firm, Health and Beauty, $1.50

Self tanner with no smell brings out healthy color in the skin. Non-oily gel promotes a natural, golden tan for face and body without sun exposure. It’s instantly absorbed, so there’s no need to wait before dressing, with results in just two hours. This has a gel-like consistency and goes on smoothly. I always moisturize my knees, feet, and elbows to ensure an even tan.

Makes 3 Heart stickers. Large, small or the outline. 50 count of Triple Hearts Tanning Stickers