I must confess that I am in no way a fake tan connoisseur.
I have tried a few brands here and there but I find fake tanning such a faff, it's such a mission in itself and I really don't enjoy smelling like a foot for eight hours in order to have what will inevitably be a patchy fake tan.
I love being brown and when I tan naturally I can achieve a nice golden glow but I find sunbathing quite boring and I don't want unnecessary skin damage.
The facial version of this glow booster came out last year and I was intrigued to say the least but it was such a tiny little bottle and as much as I love a golden complexion, it's my pasty neon white legs that I am more concerned about. I want to be tanned head to toe.
The moment this little guy came out I picked it up and I am so over the moon with it. Finally something that works beautifully and doesn't smell!
I have had this for 3 weeks now and I have used it probably 4 times a week and I am nearly half way through. I am using quite a lot each time so I am sure you can stretch it out more.
My justification is that when I have bought previous tans such as the L'Oreal Sublime Bronze, I can get about 5/6 applications out of it and the result is never right anyway. This may be double the price but you get a hell of a lot more use out of it.
My favorite thing about this is that I can mix it with whatever body lotion I like and then the fake tan takes that smell on. So I have fake tanned smelling of Chanel Chance or Jo Malone Pomegranate Noir- which is infinitely nicer than smelling like a foot.
My skin is left feeling super moisturized and brown. Seriously, what a win Clarins.
Well done.
As for-mentioned, I have super white legs and it is hard to achieve colour on them so I use a squirt of my body cream and tap in 3 drops of the glow booster (the base of the bottle has a little button that you press which gently releases the tan- brilliant as well so you don't waste anything) that usually covers over my knees and then I go in with another 3 drops for the rest of my legs and bum.
It is up to you how brown you want to be- I wouldn't recommend going in immediately with ten drops as you will get through it very quickly and it might look a bit overwhelming.
Start off with a couple of drops and see how you like the results and take it from there.
The ratio I go by is three drops to one dollop of body cream and then I go to bed and I wake up with a lovely glow.
Also not a mark on the bed sheets.
I have used this during the day and sometimes after a good few hours I can smell a very faint hint of fake tan- but it's so faint it could never put me off.
Every few nights I add a couple of drops to my facial moisturizer so my face gets a bit of glow too.
It's just never patchy or streaky and I don't end up with the tell tale orange palms. I dont know how it works so seamlessly, I just know that it does.
Make sure you wash your hands properly after application just in case.
Honestly people give this a go, when this runs out I will pick up another. It works so well for me I know I will always have one in my stash.
I have just got my hands on the new St Tropez in Shower Tan- purely because I am so intrigued to see if or how it works, but I doubt it will come close to this.
Watch this space.
Also just a note- I am lead to believe that the face version has the exact same ingredients- so it is makes more economical sense to pick up this body version as it's twice the size.
It doesn't cling to dry skin nor does it dry the skin out.
If you are going to buy one thing this month, make it this.
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