Win the First at-home Airbrush Tanning System

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Permalink Reply by charlotte leach on June 9, 2009 at 8:23pm

I went to Florida on vacation. The beach looked so inviting. I Just laid down for 20 minutes later on i was on fire. my mom says that's the florida sun .

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Permalink Reply by Kellyg on June 9, 2009 at 10:21pm

I used a self tanner last summer and I thought I locked really good and then I looked down at my feet and I looked so funny with orange toes 1 I was so embarassed. Now I learned I have lupus and now I have to stay out of the sun this year. This would be an answer to my prayers for me.

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Permalink Reply by Christine Fidance on June 11, 2009 at 8:40am

I used to love to go out in the sun and tan, but three years ago I had skin cancer on my nose and had to go through surgery with skin grafts from my ear. Ever since, I've been very careful about sun exposure and I would love to use this and be tan again. Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by Melissa on June 11, 2009 at 11:34am

I don't tan, I burn, freckle, and peel. Last summer I was the maid of honor in my best friends wedding. Desperate to disguise my translucent shoulders and chest in a oh-so-strapless dress, I decided to give a self-tanner/bronzer a try. 4 hours later and 2 hours before the wedding I found myself in the shower scrubbing myself raw with anything I could find that I thought would remove the orange patches on my wrists, elbows, neck and the area around frisbee sized spot on my back that I couldn't quite reach. In the end I was raw, red, and splotched with unnatural orange patches.

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Permalink Reply by Christina P on June 11, 2009 at 10:04pm

I have an olive complexion, and normally tan very well. I was always in the sun as a child and at the age of 17, I started going to the tanning salons during the summer time.

Last summer at the age of 28, I was going to the tanning salon before I went to the beach, so I would be nice and tan in my bathing suit. After my first day on the beach, I looked at myself in the mirror and I had dark brown spots on my forehead, above my eyebrows and even under my nose. As you can imagine I was horrified. I called my dermatologist to make an appointment to find out what was going on with my skin.

At my appointment my doctor told me these brown spots were called Melasma, and it would most likely come out whenever my skin was exposed to UV rays. (for the rest of my life) It has faded over this past winter, but it is still there waiting to come out as soon as I get in the sun.

I am getting married in September and for obvious reasons, I have to stay out of the sun.....Could you imagine my wedding pictures. My own family teased me when it first came out. They would call me Gorby (short for Gorbachev) you know, the Russian guy with the birthmark on his forehead, and they even named the spots under my nose as "The Melasma Stache". Luckily I can laugh at myself, but I must admit I have a hard time looking at my skin when this comes out.

If I could go back I would of stayed out of the tanning salons and would of been more diligent with using sunblock.
I would love to try this product so I don't have to hear the name Gorby ever again!

Even though I have Melasma, I am very fortunate that it wasn't something more serious.

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Permalink Reply by debralu on June 12, 2009 at 8:34pm

When I was in 8th grade which was MANY years ago, I'd decided to use sunless tanning lotion (I think it was Coppertone - probably the only brand available then) over spring break. I'd heard so many girls talking about going somewhere warm for during spring break and didn't want them to think that I stayed at home in cool Michigan.(My family couldn't afford such a trip back then.) I slathered up with tanning lotion every day and from what I could tell, I looked pretty darn good.

When I went back to school, a couple girls in my gym class asked me if I went to Florida over break since I looked so tan. I lied and said yes. Unfortunately (unknown to me), I'd done such a sloppy job applying the lotion to my legs that there were streaks of orangey brown on my calves, my knees and ankles were dark brown, and there were a few lighter spots that I'd missed completely on the back of my thighs. I didn't notice the problem until I was changing OUT of my gym uniform in the bright florescent lights of the locker room. THEN I realized that the girls were giggling about my fake "tan" that I got in Florida.

Needless to say, I scrubbed and scrubbed my legs that night, trying to get rid of my orangey brown "tan".

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Permalink Reply by katrina mroczek on June 13, 2009 at 5:33pm

My tanning horror story,I went to the tanner about a year ago and I was lying there in the bed when the bed turned off I started to get out when the bed turned back on so i layed back down and layed in there for about another 15 min. somebody had turned my bed back on by mistake, to say the least I looked like a lobster when i got out,I was in there for a total of 30 min.

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Permalink Reply by Kimberly Pruitt on June 14, 2009 at 10:03am

Well, I didn't know that you are suppose to use a loofa first before you use self tanner, so I has some rough patches on my skin that looked like "dirty spots". To make matters worse, both of my knees looked like I had been kneeling in dirt for a few hours!

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Permalink Reply by Heather on June 14, 2009 at 6:54pm

Definately many years ago when I was frequenting the tanning beds and I burned my poor butt! Ouch!

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Permalink Reply by shel on June 14, 2009 at 10:17pm

I'm sickly white all the time. I never tan, I just burn and peel and turn right back into pasty white. Tanning beds scare me after my sister had melanoma on her back and I've never mastered the tan-in-a-can. I end up with white streaks and a faint orange glow to my skin. I made the horrid mistake of trying a self-tanner right before a wedding I was going to; I ended up looking like the poster-child for oranges. Since then, I've avoided self-tanners but I'm anxious to try this air-brush tanning system.

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Permalink Reply by Dani' on June 16, 2009 at 6:14am

I actually tan really easily. if I burn it fades to a tan the next day w/o peeling. BUT I have very yellow toned skin thanks to my mom's Sicilian side. Think Jaundice! Most self tanners make me look like a Cheeto! I've always had the same problem w/ makeup too. I had this friend in middle school. She was very fair and fell asleep tanning in the sun. The next day she came to school with day glow pink eyelids and was burned head to toe.

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Permalink Reply by kendy on June 16, 2009 at 1:32pm

When I was a teenager, everybody wanted to be tan. But with red hair, pale skin and freckles, I didn't have much luck conforming to that beauty ideal. At 19, I was working as a cocktail waitress in a bar near campus. One weekend, I went to the beach with my friends to go surfing. The water was cold, but I didn't have a wetsuit. I borrowed my friends wetsuit shorts to wear over my one-piece bathing suit (which had a weird big circle cut out of the back). After getting out of the water, I was FREEZING, so I just laid face down on my towel waiting to get warm. I ended up falling asleep (NO SUNSCREEN) for like two hours. Before we even got home that evening, I could feel my legs and back BURNING. I actually fainted at the top of the stairs when I went to turn out the light (soo much sun!). My skin blistered and hurt for weeks, but the worst part was, the wetsuit shorts had been LONG, so the burn started at mid-thigh on the backs of my legs. For probably a month, if you looked at me from the back, it absolutely looked like I was wearing red thigh-high stockings with my black cocktail waitress shorty shorts. Of course, the front was completely pale and white. It took A YEAR for the markings to go away completely.

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