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Summary: Moisturizing your skin before a spray tan is very important for evening your skin pores. Learn how to moisturize the skin before spray tans with tips from a beautician in this free sunless tanning video.
Sandy Powell has been styling hair for more than 20 years. She has experience in coloring, cutting, styling, highlighting and lowlighting all styles of hair. Powell currently owns and...read more
"OK, so now you have exfoliated, you've shaved and the next step is equally as important. You want to make sure you moisturize your skin really well. You want to use a moisturizer with a good moisturizing property to it. Not the smell good kind that's just going to make you smell good. You want something that has a good moisturizing property to it. You're going to moisturize your whole entire body from head to toe and you want to make sure that you do this process at least eight to ten hours prior to your spray tan. So Ashley's now going to moisturize herself really well. And this has to absorb eight to ten hours prior to your spray tan and this allows your skin to prepare. It evens the porosity, any dry areas, play close attention to your elbows, maybe your hands, knees, heels, any of the drier areas of your body are the areas that you want to make sure you moisturize really well. Also use a good moisturizer on your face because you will also be spraying your face. So now you've moisturized your skin really well. Now the next step is to wait your eight to ten hours before spraying."
eHow Article: Moisturizing for Spray Tans