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From streaky limbs to stained nails to an orange-hued body, many who try to practice safe sun have had a self-tanning disaster. Then came sunless tanning mitts by Solérra Sunless Tanning Science, and we found a new sun(less) god to worship. Now, we’re giving you the chance to get beautifully bronzed for free!
Tell us your most traumatic self-tanning experience, and enter to win five Solérra Instant Bronzing Mitts (more than a month’s supply)!
Solérra Instant Bronzing Mitts deliver a bronze glow with full control on the palm of your hand (no additional lotions required – they’re right in the mitt!). The mitt has a plastic liner on the inside to keep tanner off your hands while delivering instant color application, with additional sunless tan developing in 4-6 hours. The beautiful bronze color lasts 7-10 days. What’s more, they have a light, tropical scent (not even a hint of chemical odors).
How to Enter
1. In the comments below, tell us your most traumatic self-tanner experience (it can be a friend’s for you shy readers).
2. You’re automatically entered to win (one entry per person).
3. Dream of getting the perfect sunless tan for free if you win!
One winner will be chosen at random on Friday, July 31, at 4:00 p.m. ET, and notified via e-mail.
Good luck!
Legalese, Schmegalese:
To be eligible, registrants must be U.S. residents at least 18 years old. The giveaway is open nationwide, and eligibility is at the discretion of BeautyXposé. One winner will be chosen at random on Friday, July 31, at 4 p.m. ET. One entry per person. Contest sponsored by Solérra Sunless Tanning Science. Dates, times, and other contest specifications are subject to change at any time. BeautyXposé reserves the right to cancel the contest for any reason at any time.
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In the 80s we would use self tanners and then we would turn out orange – and the palms of our hands as well – YUCK!
I applied tanning lotion before I went to bed and the next morning I rushed to work, when I looked down at my arms it looked like I was a badly burned in a fire. Thanks for the chance!
My legs and arms looked okay but my hands were bright orange afterwards which made it even more noticable.
Have had orange hands, feet, orange funny marks between my toes. Unfortunately it doesn't show up right away, only when it is too late to do anything about it!
In high school i tried a self tanner but ended up streaked orange with orange hands – i looked like a freak
i am very pale naturally but i always want to look tan during summer season. last year i decided to use sunless spray tanner…. it looked invisble when i sprayed it on my body, so i kept spraying and spraying while in my bathroom…. In the morning, i woke up and decided to go to the bathroom to check on my tan. First thing a saw, was that my light green rug turned bright orange (and i mean like an orange fruit)… Horrified, i looked in the mirror- and fair enough, i had bright orange streaks all over my arms and legs…. Since it was hot out already, there was no way to mask these streaks under layers of clothes. No scrubs and no soap could get rid of my fabulous tan for weeks…
I worked in a tanning salon and had to spray tan people. I was really bad at it. I had virtually no training but my title was "airbrush technichian". I made a fair skined girl VERY spotting on the day before her wedding. There was no way to even it out.
I had horrible zebra stripes
I only tried it once and ended up with huge streaks on my legs.
I wore white shorts after applying self tanner to my legs. I looked all dingy and dirty just on the bottom of my shorts……hmmmm real discreet!
At my High School graduation, I had used self-tanner the night before and awoke to streaky legs! Streaky orange legs, I looked like an alien was wearing my cap and gown. We scrambled to try and fix it, and I ended up looking today at graduation, with an obvious fake glow.
These mitts sound awesome! Thanks!
A VERY CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND'S WEDDING WAS APPROACHING! MYSELF AND ALL HER COUSINS DECIDED TO GO TO HOLLYWOOD TANS, THE SPRAY TAN STAND UP MACHINE PEOPLE, YEAH…..APPARENTLY THERE IS A VIDEO FOR YOU TO WATCH, BUT THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER CARED MORE ABOUT HER STAR MAGAZINE! WE HAD FIGURED TO RUB THE TINT IN, BUT DID NOT KNOW THAT THERE WAS A NUDEY TAN-DANCE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO INSIDE THE MACHINE TO MAKE IT SPRAY EVENLY AND THAT IT TOOK 8 HOURS TO SET EITHER, WE LOOKED GREAT WITH OUR STREAKY ORANGE SKINTONE AND PEPTO-COLORED BRIDESMAID DRESSES! WISH WE COULD POST PICS TOO!
I don't have any overly traumatic story – just the usual orange/uneven. I'd love to try these though!
i went to get the spray tan a couple days before my wedding because the back of my dress was all open an it was october so i was really white well when i got in the both to get sprayed and it started before i was ready an i still had on my bra when i noticed it was to late i opened my mouth not thinking an got sprayed in the mouth . so on my wedding day i had a huge white strap mark across my back it was terrible i tell ya
Oh wow I want these so badly…I have had so many traumatic tanning experiences, but my worst is probably this:
It was the summer after my first year of college and my friend was having a pool party with all of my friends from high school, including my ex boyfriend. I am super pale (like sick-looking pale) and I was like, there's no WAY I am wearing a bathing suit being this pale, and I can't real tan because I just burn. So I used the self tanner, and I thought it looked pretty good, if a little orangey. So I get to the party and am in my bathing suit, when one of the girls points out and says "What happened to your legs?" I had big messy streaks ALL over the back of my legs so you could totally tell I fake tanned. Then of course my ex had to tease me and be mean, and I was just so embarassed because then everyone knew it was fake!
I really need a good tanning experience!
I have never really used a self-tanner, I've been too afraid. So I am super pale all the time, and my husband keeps telling me I have to try something! So if I win this, it can be my first (hopefully mistake free) foray into self-tanning!
I seem to have the same story as everyone else. Yup….turned my self bright orange. Thank goodness orange looks good on me.
I'm a se;f-tnner freak; I did not know there were bronzing gloves. I can't wait to purchase them. However, I went to family doctor who was convinced that my skin coloring was due to a terminal/progressive liver disease. Not just useless and inappropriate self-tanner!!!!!!!!!!!!!Weel due to the expense/medical and the time away from work; appreciative that the yellow/streaked mixed colors came from a bottle and not the liver. This was and still lives asa nightmare from ———–". Thanks sW
I was going on a trip to the beach so I wanted to not be lily white. Instead I looked like a tiger.
I have very senstive skin. I have to use a high SPF and try to stay out of the sun. So, I use a self-tanner on my face. One time, I guess I did not spread it evenly so it came out all blotchy and orange. I tried really hard to scrub it away but that only made it worse since only the yellow spots seemed to disappear. I had orange spots on my face for over a week. It was hiddeous.
Well, I have very sensitive skin. So, I try to use self-tanners especially on my face — as well as a high SPF lotion. Anyways, I put some self-tanner on my face and I guess it was not spread evenly. I had splotches of yellow and orange all over my face for over a week even though I tried really hard to scrub it off.
i turned myself orange the day before prom! ugh!
I went to give myself a tan via Neutrogena's Sunless Spray.
Would've been fine, except I ended up looking like an orange Zebra. No good!
Love,
JP
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My girlfriend tried out a cheapo brand and turned orange. I laughed after I left the room.
That would basically be when I looked like an oompa-loompa. I also was an idiot and didn't wash my hands completely clean so I ended up with orange palms as well. Later it started peeling off and I ended up with a spotted orange look – not my best moment!
i ended up with brown splotchy places everywhere
This would be great. I'm outside all the time. My arms are tanned, but even with shorts on my legs still look white. Please enter me, thank you
I TEND TO MAKE MYSELF LOOKED STRIPED LIKE A TIGER
The first time that I used a self tanner I was so excited.
I took a bath and exfoliated,ran into the bedroom and applied the tanner.
In two hours I had a great tan except on my hands,elbows,knees,ankles,feet and neck and there I was the worst shade of orange that I have ever seen.
It took me weeks of scrubbing and wearing sweatpants to remove it.
My most traumatic experience was way back when QT was popular. I came out streaked orange all over!
Talk about a TRAUMATIC TRUE STORY – Here's a really Olde-Time method for self-tanning I bet few gals nowadays are familiar with, and when I was ten years old growing up in Fla in the late 60's, my mom and I tried this method out:
You gather up about 2 gallons or so of WALNUTS out of your yard and fill up the bathtub with straight hot water. When the water has cooled down just enough to tolerate, you then immerse your naked body into this walnut filled bath water and procede to soak yourself until the hot water has gone cold.
And God forbid you accidentally gathered up any WORMY walnuts – YUK! Imagine soaking in a tub with two gallons of walnut and tiny worms floating on the top and you get the idea. Yes, it was TRAUMATIC!
Well, it worked okay for my mother who had a naturally warm skin tone. But as I am fair and freckled, I was the most disgusting shade of sickly yellow-orange you ever saw and we both vowed never to try that method again……. I wish I had a picture to share!
i tried putting makeup on my face to look tanner but i was very white at the time so it looed very weird…
i went to the pool with some shorts on and i layed on the chairs for a couple hours and i got a "shorts tan"
Turned me very orange and very streaky!
I decided to treat myself to a Mystic Tan spray-on tan. The attendant explained everything to me, and I thought I could handle the process. But when I got in the booth, I found it impossible to hold my breath while remembering to turn and move my arms and legs the right way. My resulting tan was streak-free and beautiful– but the bronchitis I developed was a nightmare. I was literally coughing up green stuff for weeks! Never again…
I would love to try this most all I have used either streaks
bad or the color is not good. Thanks
I've never tried a self tanner, so this would be a first for me.
When I was in high school I had put a self tanner and bronzer on before I went to school. Well half way through the day I went to the bathroom and I noticed that when I put it on I didn't apply it ALL over my face…I missed my nose and my neck so I looked super weird. It was so embarassing and I couldn't go home!
I had orange palms for weeks! LOL
Well I foolishly turned myself as orange as an oompa-loompa. I then spent hours in the bath trying to scrub the nasty streaks away…only to end up with orange colored ring around the tub.
hands fingers elbows orange- streaks on face and huge white marks on back of thighs back when my thighs were tiny mrs.mommyyatgmaildotocm
I HAVE WOULD UP WITH A WHITE SKUNK STRIP DOWN THE BACK OF MY LEGS
too many too count. orange streaks on my legs. forgetting to wash my hands and having orange palms forever. i never have gotten it right except to wear disposable gloves
i put too much on my nose so my WHOLE nose was orange, nothing else!
In high school we were having track photos taken for the yearbook the next day, so my friend and I used self tanner for the first time. Needless to say, our photos looked horrible. Very orange streaks!
I always hated going to fake-bake, so I figured I'd get some tinned lotion to darken my pale skin- I didn't want to walk into my important business meeting looking like a snowman. Without thinking, I went to Wal-mart and grabbed the first lotion I found, which happened to be the darkest shade they had!
After applying the lotion, I was suspicious of the dark liquid I was rubbing into my skin, but since I was new to this method of tanning, I thought this might be a part of the process.
I wasn't a snowman during that meeting, and I turned out to be an African princes- my skin was as dark as the night was long! I was sooo embarrassed and never touched another lotion since!
I only recently started using sunless tanner, and I've been careful! But this would help me from making mistakes too!
I used a sunless tanner lotion in the mid 90's and it turned my skin burnt orange!
I had a big event coming up and wanted to look tanned and healthy…and beautiful. I used a self-tanner on my body and face, knowing I would look great! The next morning my hands(between the fingers) were a lovely shade of orange and my face looked splotchy with dirt.
I tried soap and water, alchohol, even baking soda to remove "my tan"….to no avail. I skipped the event.
Thank you.
I bought one of those store-bought lotions and it turned my legs bright orange for weeks! Just in time for the annual family reunion!
i turned myself orange mverno@roadrunner.com