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Summary: After a spray tan session it's important to follow after care instructions to make sure you tan lasts. Learn how to care for a spray tan 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
"Alright, the last thing we're going to do is go over some instructions, and then I'm going to leave Ashley to blow dry herself, and get dressed, and our application is complete. So for our care instructions are: You can't shower for 8-10 hours, okay? We suggest nothing that's going to make you sweat or get wet, okay? If it's raining you have to stay inside, no raindrops. Don't get caught in the rain. Sp after the 10 hours have passed, you want to shower, you want to lightly buff yourself, you want to pat dry - use your towel and pat dry in a patting motion. No - don't take the towel and rub, because that's going to rub the tan off. I want you to use a moisturizer every single day. At this point, any moisturizer you use is fine, preferably something with a bronzer in it, because it's going to make it last a little longer, okay? I want you to wash your hands after you've used a moisturizer with a bronzer in it, because we don't want your hands to turn dark. I want you to take showers, not baths. I want you to use no scrubbers or buffers of any kind. Lightly soap while bathing, towel dry again in the patting motion. Shave lightly using extra shaving cream or extra lather, because anytime, if you go in there with an old razor and not enough shaving cream it's actually going to scrape the skin and allow it, and make it start exfoliating too soon - that'll take your tan off unevenly. No chlorine pools or hot tubs. The minute you get in a chlorine pool or hot tub it's going to take the tan off immediately. So, the last thing you're going to do, is you're going to take a blow dryer, and you're just going to blow dry your skin for 1 or 2 minutes. Because your skin's a little sticky feeling, take the little sticky feeling off your skin, and then you'll be allowed to get dressed with the loose fitting clothes that you brought. And, take your instructions, go home, and enjoy your spray tan. So, just turn that on low, it doesn't have to be a hot dryer, and lightly blow dry your skin. At this point Ashley can actually...turn that off a second...you can actually see, excuse me, she's got a tan line starting. And this will get darker as the day goes on. She'll actually be almost Asian dark in the next 10 or 12 hours. So, when you take your first shower, that severe darkness will be gone, and it'll set into the tan that it's going to be. So, enjoy your spray tan Ashley."
eHow Article: Spray Tanning After Care