Every Tuesday we open up the opportunity for our salons and customers to ask us anything related to fake tanning.  This week's question was about moisturising and when you should moisturise after a spray tan appointment.  It's a great question, and one that spray tan clients often receive various forms of feedback about.  The answer all comes down to what sort of spray tan solution you are being sprayed in, or alternatively what sunless tan you are using.  

How fake tanning works

Sunless tanning is a chemical reaction between the outler layer of your skin, and the tanning ingredient, known as DHA.  Your skin goes brown the same way that a cut piece of fruit or a potato turns brown when it is left for a period of time after being cut.  The longer the tan is left on - or the longer the fruit is left out on the bench after cutting - the darker the result.  With any sunless tanning product, whether its' a spray tan or a tan cream, 60% of colour happens in the first 2 hours.  This enables the wearer to wash the colour off rather than walking around in it for the 8 hours we only knew about decades ago.  

The Custom Tan Spray Tanning Dress has been added to the short list of favs for Kimberly Nissen from The Plastic Diaries article: Fake Tan Latest Innovations and New Products.

Kimberly says "Going to a salon for a professional spray tan is usually my preferred method but one of the reasons I hated it was finding something to wear afterwards. I know, it sounds stupid but if you have ever done it you will know what I mean. You can’t wear underwear or bras so not only do you need something 100% opaque but you need something that won’t cling. Sitting in a car or on a bus/train is impossible because the tan makes you sticky and stain everything you sit on. Finally, the wrong kind of fabric can spell disaster for your tan so not every bit of old raggedy clothing can become your “tan wear”. Enter the Spray tanning dress and never worry about what to wear again.

The Spray Tanning Dress is made from super soft bamboo jersey cotton so it feels great to wear while serving many purposes. The V-neck style keeps you protected from seatbelt marks; a babydoll style skims curves and hangs perfectly from under the bust; and the Hi-Low skirt provides that necessary protection when sitting without the rubbing from unnecessary excess material of a maxi dress. The dark black hue keeps stains invisible and you can safely ditch the underwear without risk of people knowing. Available in Small (8-12) and Large (12-16), it’s the LBD I can’t live without"

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Spray Tan Sydney?  Choose the brand that most Aussies prefer.  Custom Tan has 3 times been voted Australia's best fake tan by independent review.  

We have hundreds of spray tanners in Sydney, and offer spray tanning from our warehouse on Sydney's Northern Beaches in Frenchs Forest between Chatswood and Manly.  Our spray tanning room is child friendly, and has lots of toys for tots and lots of off street parking at our door, so it's about as close to a drive through tan as you can get.

Want to get the best spray tan? For even coverage and flawless colour, try the professional products from Custom Tan - three times voted Australia's Best Fake Tan.   Custom Tan works with the wearer's skin to create a professional flawless tan result for every individual.  Because we use the highest grade dha your skin will always be brown and never orange.  For the ultimate sunless tanning guide you need to choose between the different spray tan bases and then the varying degree of tanning ingredient - the DHA which will determine your end results.

What are the different spray tan base colours?

Spray tan bases are in a kind of way similar to hair dying bases, and it's a little bit of a science to get the perfect blend, but we offer 2 different bases.  Green based spray tan and violet based spray tan.  What's the difference between a green base tan and a violet base tan?  Consider the colour wheel.

Whether you want to learn how to spray tan to be come a mobile spray tanning specialist, or if you want to just be able to fake tan at home this introductory tanning course is perfect for you. Each month in Sydney (and in other states, just check out website) we Spray Tanning Courses with certificates for anyone who wants to take part and learn how to apply a professional spray tan. 

The pinnacle of knowing you have a great product, is when the Beauty Director for Australia's most iconic magazine - Vogue, loves your product.  Sigourney Cantelo is an amazingly talented beauty expert.  Rather than the photoshopped and airbrushed images projected throughout the beauty industry, Sigourney wanted the opportunity to personally connect with her readers and share the industry secrets of the experts she's had the opportunity to meet.  And so the idea for Beauticate was born. A website devoted to the “Whos” and the “How Tos” of beauty.  She want this to be a site which celebrates anything that makes women feel beautiful – whether it’s how they style their hair or where they go for a facial; a new miracle product they've discovered or a can’t-live-without fragrance.  At Custom Tan we have been truly blessed to have Sigourney try and love our fake tan.  We've had the good fortune of being published in Vogue, been tweeted about by Sigourney, and now graciously we've been profiled on Beauticate.  See Sigourney's story on creating an Endless Summer here.  We encourage you to browse to this wonderful site and connect and learn the latest on the hottest from who's who.  

Want a custom selection of Custom Tan solution?  No problem.  

Before Your Spray Tan or Self Tan

Wearing the wrong clothing to your spray tan appointment can mean you end up looking more like a zebra that a golden goddess.  The Spray Tanning Dress is the Little Black Dress for beauty and should be a staple for every appointment.  The dress is functional, yet inline with progressive fashion to enable the wearer to look and feel good while hitting the streets after any spray tan appointment or DIY self tan.

"If your skin ends up more tangerine than tanned, one of two things has likely happened: either you’ve used a product with a poor quality tanning ingredient, or you’ve over applied — or both," explains Heidi Reid, founder of Custom Tan, a range of eco-certified organic tanning that has twice been voted Australia’s best self tan.