How to Apply Sunless Tanning Lotion

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Kelli, I'm an aesthetician and makeup artist at Ulta Salon and Cosmetics and I'm going to give you some tips on how you can apply a sunless tanning lotion. One of the the first things that you want to make sure you do is exfoliate. Use a really good body and or facial exfoliant. Especially pay special attention to knees, elbows and around the feet. Those are places where a tanner will definitely stick and grab and discolor if you don't exfoliate. You never want to put a self tanner on over an unexfoliated skin. You're basically just asking for disaster because it's going to grab to any dead skin flakes or scaliness that you have and it's going to look completely discolored and it's not going to give you the result that you want. So when you're applying your tanner, you're going to take a small amount and when you apply it, you want to rub it first in a vertical direction and then in a horizontal direction and you want to just keep doing that until it's completely rubbed in. And that's going to make sure that you cover every area and you don't leave any streaking. I also like to use a self tanner that you can see when you put it on because that way you know where you're putting it and it's going to minimize streaking and blotchiness. So those are some tips you can use to apply a self tanner."