Hey beautiful bronzed babes! It's Karina, your go-to guru for all things tan-tastic, and today we're diving into the ultimate showdown: Mousse Tan vs. Spray Tan. Buckle up, because we're about to spill the (fake) tea on these two sun-kissed contenders! Let's kick it off with Mousse Tan – the OG of at-home bronzing. Now, don't get me wrong, I love the convenience of slathering on that mousse goodness in the comfort of my own space. But let's be real, achieving that flawless fi

Your dress colour and shape matters to decide what tan shade to use and how to apply it on your skin.

How do I prepare my skin is a question that should be asked more often, so here I will let you know what you can do best to get the best tan. It all starts with caring for the skin way prior to the tan. If you want a GREAT tan you need to drink plenty of water and moisturise your skin with a great product at least for the week prior to your tan.I love the Sunescape Body Butter , It is a beautiful reach and thick moisturiser and it is formulated to help keep your tan beautifu

Will my tan go darker if I sleep with the tan on? It doesn't matter how much you leave your tan on, there is so much dark a person can go at a time. There are all different products available, some are designed to be left on the skin for long hours, sleep with it on skin, and there are products, called rapid/express, that are designed to be left between 1 and 4 hours depending on how dark you want to achieve. When I use a product that is designed to be on the skin for up to 4

Have you been to the shops to look ahead and see a fake tan fading all patchy or like a crackling look? It could be so many different things going. Let's talk fake tan fading. First of all, the skin needs to be moisturised to fade well, inside and out. If you want a tan for a special occasion make sure you drink lots of water and moisturise your skin twice daily before your tan (NOT ON THE DAY), so use an entire 7 week to get skin nice and hydrated with water and a good body

Many of us know how we feel when we get a tan and how it feels so good, how we feel so empowered. But what can really do for you? An anonymous told me about the thinking of feeling good with her husband. The meaning of feeling good in this situation is just to love her body with all that it comes with ageing, having kings, and just enjoying life. That there was one day she was just ok to be naked because she felt good on her skin, and she said the tan was the reason she felt

Tanning mistakes we all do when we add too much tan on our face.

There are a few things that most people do and think it will be ok, before the tan, or after the tan. But they WONT be ok at some stage, believe me. BIG don't number 1: Using Dove or moisturising like body wash, I know it is lovely, but not before your tan. It will create a film on your skin and will come to me and say, my tan is not as dark this time! And my heart will be broken, really will trying to solve the puzzle. So if that is the only thing you have at home to wash yo

Tanning and getting the same shade each time. How funny is sometimes the same tan makes you tan differently. You tan with something different or same product each time? I love not only having a tan but I feel I need to try them all so many different times because I just can see how it tans differently each time I tan. I can use the same product same way and different times and I get same tan or some times it changes a bit just because I am taking different medication or I am

Today I am talking specific tan product. The steps to achieve a perfect tan and its results. Tanning weekly needs its care specially if you tend to build but products in certain areas like myself. The exfoliation process MUST be very well done, sometimes I feel I need a double exfoliation but if you do just pleas me gentle, you don't need to remove your skin to the bone ok! So the entire process for you for this Weekly tan. Tan used is the Olive Ultra Dark applied by myself

This is a tricky question and a hard one to decide. It could go either way, good or very bad. We are usually pretty good here in Australia protecting ourselves from getting sunburned but sometimes it happens for all different reasons. Us, tanners, would recommend only tanning after about 3 weeks if you have a sunburn, to get a tan. That is really the time skin needs to heal. I have tanned many times skin that have gone through a sunburn and most of them were completely fine b

Just at the reception the other day, I was chatting to this lovely lady that I just met and we were talking about tanning and she said she wasn't much of a tanning person. I said not many people are. Then she told me one of the episodes of her tanning occurrence! The funniest part of this conversation I am going to tell you is that I just met her, not as my client but just a person I met and was chatting to. Talking bout a few times she tanned and one of them she will never f

I was just going through an instagram account and they were showing real women body, body shape. I instantly had the urge to write my chest out. What is that? REAL women body? Who can ever come and say such a thing! Real women doesn't come with a body shape of such, that are all kind of shapes out there and they are all real women and they all struggle somehow with something. The skinny woman sometimes doesn't like to be skinny, the curvy woman sometimes doesn't like to be cu

So many different products out there, for in home tans and for in salon. It is hard for us, expert to choose the correct one, I can only imagine for you. I will explain a little bit in how I choose them to the occasion, to the day you have the event, to the shade, to the time to leave on skin. Every time I try a new tan I feel so excited, I want to know how fast it tans, how dark it goes on that show period I try, usually one hour is my trial time as I like to know the speed

I always treat all the tans differently, as they should. When you get a Tan to get married, you will register each and every moment and it is one of the most important day in a couple’s lives. When I tan a bride I always get nervous, even though I have done many and they were always so perfect. I still get the chills. One little thing done wrong and will be to everyone to see and in every picture. Trust from the bride to the tanner and the tanner to the bride, we need to work

Going on holidays and want to get a spray tan but not sure if it will last or if it is worth doing! I will tell you that there is not better feeling than going on a holiday and not better feeling than going on a holiday with a nice fresh tan! But you ask yourself if your tan will last as you will be swimming! My answer is get the tan. It will last long enough to get to your holidays and even swimming it still will last , for sure much less than if you didn’t go in salt or poo

One morning taking the kids to the park or the beach and got that sunburn! So many times I see people that gets a sunburn for just spending a little time playing outdoors or at the beach and or forgot the sunscreen or just got the sunburn because it was very strong at the time of the day. If you have a sunburn you will probably and most definitely peel that skin off, so make sure you moisturise it very well, Aloe Vera always great for it. Now you have the burn it is not the t

Eva Wittgenstein, was a researcher in a USA hospital in the 1950s. Treating children with a disorder on their metabolism. The product applied was staining their skin so she decided to apply it on her own ski. The product used had the famous DHA, dihydroxyacetone, that is the main substance on our tanning solutions. The more DHA percentage in the solution, the darker is the achievement. A trial that turned into something else. The patch she stained her self with after a few h

Lets start our skin preparation for the application of the tan, we all have our mitts and products and all for our bodies but what about our faces? I hope you don't use your mitt that you use for the body on your face and you use something appropriate for it. Our mitts can be a bit too rough for our skin on our face and I do not recommend it. And Be aware if your body product can be used on your face as well. So many times people just don't exfoliate the face. You can use a p

So many times a tan can go wrong for one little mistake. The position of your body. We all have some parts of our bodies that needs more attention when tanning specially parts where there are natural wrinkles, like elbow, fingers, knees, and also your feet. You have to make sure that you stretch those parts of your body, always bending your elbows so there is no white tan lines in between the skin. Sometimes the knees have a bit of skin and skin contact too so you must do a