While it is advised to exfoliate 24 hours in advance, there were a couple of times that I ended up exfoliating the same day of application and it worked just as well. This helps smooth rough areas and allows the tanner to go on more evenly. Ives Apricot Scrub all over my body to exfoliate before applying.

Always exfoliate and shave 24 hours in advance to applying your sunless tanner.

Here are a few tips/tricks we learned along the way for your ultimate sunless tanner experience: I think the majority of how well your sunless tanner goes on and stays actually lies in the preparation, application and the maintenance of it. We’ll be sharing our thoughts on the color tone, smell, longevity, ease of application and more.īefore we begin, I do want to say a few very important things when it comes to sunless tanners. In today’s post you’ll see the five different brands we used, the exact products tried and the results on both fair/light and medium/dark skin tones. We take our work quite seriously around here 😉 We tested drugstore brand sunless tanners all the way up to more expensive beauty store brands and found quite interesting results. To be able to properly answer your question of “which sunless tanner do you recommend?!” we found it necessary to try five different sunless tanners on both fair/light and medium/dark skin tones across five different bodies for five weeks to answer accurately. Either sunless tanner has come a long way or I’ve always been naive to its power. It turns out that I didn’t know a thing about them because well, I’m a sunless tanner junkie for life now and a believer through and through. They scared the heck out of me and had me convinced that sunless tanners only turn people pumpkin colored, leave streaks everywhere and smelled like your senior year prom. Up until this experiment, I had never personally used a sunless tanner in my life. Apparently, we all want to have that nice golden glow as we approach summer without exposing ourselves to all of the UV-Rays.

The amount of requests that we have been receiving here at LIY for sunless tanners has been off the charts.

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