Best Sunless Tanning treatments?

This may be a bit off topic, but I don%26#39;t want to arrive to hawaii glowing white!

Other than sitting in the sun or tanning beds.....what is the best sunless tan that actually stays longer than 3 days before rubbing off?

Has anyone tried GlowFusion?

I sometimes use the Dove daily glow moisturizer...it looks nice, but it goes away quickly if you do not apply it regularly....

Any advice? I would like something that I can apply before my trip and have it last a while.

Best Sunless Tanning treatments?

I think the stuff I have is from Hawaiin Tropic and it gives you a little ';glow';. I use it daily on my face in the winter. Since I burn easy, I always go to the tanning salon a couple of weeks before we go to Hawaii to get a base.

Best Sunless Tanning treatments?

We discussed this a couple of days ago in the Maui forum. Some people were a bit rude to those of us who self-tan. Just ignore them and tan away! ;)

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Have you called your local tanning salon to see what kind of ';spray tans'; they offer? They even sell packages of spray-on tans. My friend just got one and she liked the results. From what I hear, just exfoliate really well prior to your spray tan. My friend said it looked really dark for 4 days, then faded a bit, and then by 7-8 days it was pretty much gone.

Anyways, the spray-on tans from a salon should last longer than the self tanners you can buy from the store. But either would work! I just read some reviews for the Bath and Body Words self tanner and people seemed to love it - I would just apply it every few days or so.

lsrs,

You will not get a bad time here on the Kauai board for trying to have some kind of a tan when you arrive.

The fighter pilots code: '; Look Good at All Costs ';.

Now, if you can get just one hour in the sun back in texas, each day, you can build a darned good base and not get totally wiped out with sun burn.

A month of that, probably not every day, but you will be brown and beautiful.

That will give you a good base. Please remember the self tanning does nothing for preparing you for our strong ultrviolet rays.

And, sunscreen is a real good idea here on Kauai. The sun is much stronger than on the mainland.

suggest if possible that you do both.

Get your skin used to the sun a bit, with real live time in the sun. Not beating yourself up, however. Just a short hour a day will work.

I like the idea of a spray, but do not know much about that. A lot of sthe tubeor bottle self tanners come off in the shower or pool, or really do not do much for skin that has never been in the sun.

Tanning beds, can really accelerate skin cancer, so you might just let %26#39;em spray you brown and healthy looking. Ask first, or maybe find someone who has used the solons particular spray method. Check out he results and how they like it.

I was raised in the sun, on the beaches, and made a living sailing for 30 years. We are still out in the sun. And I do not plan to halt being outside enjoying life and beauty of the island.

Yes, I do go to the dermo doc every six months. Better than okole sitting in the shade on a beautiful island. Or anyplace for that matter.

Others differ in ideas and what they fell is good for them. We prefer living our dreams over dreaming our lives.

Kauai is an island perfect for those who wish to get out and share the natural beauty that is provided.

Denny

I%26#39;ve tried Jergen%26#39;s ';Natural Glow'; (which I think is funny because it%26#39;s not ';Natural';) and Neutrogena. Both are fine in terms of not making you look orange, but I think the smell is weird. I notice the color come off when I work out and wipe off my arms with the white towels at the club. Ooops. Embarrassing. But I%26#39;ll still use alittle before putting on a swim suit in the winter!

One of my friends swears by the spray-on salon tanning. After going a few times she has a rather elaborate ritual of exfoliating, then putting lotion on her elbows and knees (where dry skin tends to soak in more of the spray and therefore look darker), and wearing loose plastic gloves so that she can cover her palms but get the back of her hands tanned. Too much work for me!

Awesome post!

I have a quick question. What would be recommonded SPF down there? I don%26#39;t have fair skin (only on my face) and I thought SPF 15 would be fine for me but should I go higher?

I also just started laying out 1 hour a day (SPF15 w/ tanning oil mixed in) so I won%26#39;t get burned down in there and look decent in my wedding dress :o)

-Joelyn

BabyGrl ~

You may want to go with a higher SPF the first few days or so. I went tanning before we went, so I had a nice base tan. I used 35 the first day or so. I then went to SPF 15 when we hit the beach. After a while, I would reapply with SPF 35 so not to get fried. The sun is pretty intense there, especially if you are in the water. I came back dark. But I am a little worried about skin cancer, so I would probably use a higher SPF the entire trip next time.

Ok Thanks!

Want to make sure I don%26#39;t overdue it :o)

hope it works for you, but I don%26#39;t think having untanned skin is bad ... times are changing. I see tanned women on the beach and they look baked to me (baked is NOT a good thing), and I see fair-skinned women not afraid to be fair and they look beautiful, in Hawai%26#39;i or not. And people who have naturally darker skin look beautiful. But blondes and redheads who are tan look fake to me.

So don%26#39;t be afraid to be yourself, guys. It is just not important to anyone whether you%26#39;re tan or not, except maybe to you and to people who are obsessed with tanning.

Two weeks ago my husband got his third skin cancer taken off, after a routine visit to the derm doctor. He didn%26#39;t even notice he had these spots and one was pretty deep. So it%26#39;s good that you do get checked, Denny. My first husband got malignant melanoma living in Arizona ... but he did survive it. My aunt from Colorado got it and died.

I don%26#39;t put people down for wanting tans or doing the fake tans; what bothers me is that people without tans feel like they are funny-looking at the beach and have to take risks such as tanning beds to avoid anticipated ridicule. We should be more kind to each other and appreciate people%26#39;s natural skin tones -- and if time in the sun turns us brown, in a way that is more of a price we pay for outdoors play than a good thing ...

but whatever you choose, have a great trip.

Thanks KamaainaK. I wish more people thought like you. A lifetime of being teased by the majority of people has led me to use self-tanner in the summer months when I%26#39;ll be at the beach. I see nothing wrong with minor beauty treatment that boost confidence...self-tanner, lipgloss, what%26#39;s the diff? The rest of the year, everyone can just suffer the glare off my glowing lack of tan. Haha.