- How do people exfoliate their backs?
I don't know.
Hi everyone, I am Hannah,
and I am the content manager here at Adore Beauty,
and I have been wanting to do this video for so long.
I usually do not wear this outfit
when I am fake tanning,
obviously, I would be topless,
but this is not that kind of channel,
so I am wearing a boob tube
and I'm gonna do my best to show you
how I do my fake tan routine.
This video is gonna be all of my top fake tan hacks.
So over the years,
I have really picked up a lot of good tips
on how to fake tan
so that it's streak-less, so that it lasts,
so that it fades really evenly.
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So how this video is gonna work
is I'm gonna start with the,
probably the most important thing
is how to prep your body properly.
So let's start with that,
then I'm gonna go through some of my favorite fake tans,
and then we're gonna do how to actually fake tan your body,
and how to get the best out of it.
And then also once you've done all that,
how do you kind of maintain a long-lasting tan?
So, let's get on to body prep.
So a really good way to exfoliate your skin,
essentially, your legs, is to actually shave,
because shaving will take off all the dead skin cells.
So I usually will shave my legs,
but you have to make sure that you shave
at least 24 hours before you fake tan
because that will give your pores a chance to close up.
Because if you've ever done this before, and you've shaved,
and then you've done fake tan straight after,
the tan will gather in the little dots on your legs,
and so you'll have all these brown dots,
so you wanna wait at least 24 hours after you shave.
Another thing that I have done, please don't do this,
I waxed my arm hair
and I put fake tan on straight after that.
It was like, both irritated,
and it was also like the tan had gathered
in the little dots, so that also didn't look good.
So make sure you don't wax right before you tan.
This is my number one body exfoliating hack.
So most of the videos, I guess,
I've watched on fake tan or body exfoliation,
is people that kind of scrub their body
with a physical exfoliant.
I'm a little bit different,
and I like to, just like my face,
I like to chemically exfoliate my body, as well.
And I have a really, really good hack,
that's really affordable.
So this is The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toning Solution,
I think it's about $14.50,
it's totally affordable for a body product.
It's actually, I think, for your face,
so I actually use this product on my body.
And how I turn this into a body exfoliator
is I take an old facial mist,
you can take off the nozzle and you can put that onto here.
And I'm gonna show you one that I prepared earlier.
Voila.
Probably two days before I'm getting ready to fake tan,
I start kind of prepping my body
if I've got an event on.
I did this two nights ago.
So what I'll do is I'll, so I spray my whole body.
How do people exfoliate their backs?
I don't know.
But what I do,
and so I will spray my entire body
with this chemical exfoliant,
and then I'll wait for it to dry and then I'll go to sleep.
I think that's a really good hack
so that you can pretty much spray your body
with a chemical exfoliant,
just like you would use it a chemical exfoliant
on your face.
So in terms of the way that I prep my face with fake tan,
I use a tan specifically formulated for the face,
which I'm gonna show you later.
My dermal therapist, James Vivian,
he says, "Please stop fake tanning your face,"
'cause basically I end up with all this congestion
and blackheads.
So he recommends just color-matching your foundation
to your body.
I don't like to wear a lot of makeup during the week,
so what I do is I actually fake tan my face.
Sorry, James.
The way that I prep my skin, I use a glycolic acid,
so I would do this once a week.
I'd probably do this earlier on in the week,
and then my skin is beautifully nice
and prepped for the weekend, right before I fake tan.
So I use the Alpha-H Liquid Gold Midnight Reboot Serum.
So if you know their Liquid Gold,
this is their serum version of that.
It's amazing,
you will wake up glowy and fresh,
and your skin will be perfectly prepped for your fake tan.
So that's got 14% glycolic acid,
so I really, really recommend that one for the face area.
So once I've done the chemical exfoliant,
then when I'm in the shower, I want to get, I guess,
exfoliate off all that dead skin,
any fake tan, residual fake tan, that's still on there.
So this is the Tuscan Tan Tan Removal Mitt.
For me, I like to chemically exfoliate my body,
but you can just use this mitt.
It will soften your skin,
under the water for two to three minutes,
wet the mitt, squeeze out the excess water.
Step out of the shower once your skin is moist,
and then you will start to exfoliate.
So that is also a really good way to exfoliate your body.
I'm not gonna fake time my legs today,
I'm just gonna do my upper body on my face.
But what I always do is I get a moisturizer,
you can use any moisturizer that you've got lying around.
So what happens is that fake tan will gather
in these really dry parts of any dry patches of skin,
like your elbows.
My elbows are literally, I don't know what to do about them.
And you can also do around the wrists, as well.
I actually don't usually do my wrists
'cause I find that the tan
that I use doesn't actually gather up in those areas.
I'm actually using
the Compagnie de Provence Ultra Nourishing Body Balm.
Shea.
Oop.
All right, sorry.
Now onto some of my favorite fake tans.
Now I wanna talk about the Coco & Eve,
this is the Sunny Honey.
This is my second bottle,
I already went through a whole bottle.
I really, really love this tan,
because it smells really nice.
So this one has a green-gray base
and I find this one is a beautiful color.
Anytime that I wear it,
people always compliment me on my fake tan, and it's a foam.
It develops in just two hours,
so this is a good one because you can wash it off
so you don't have to sleep in it.
So that is a really good mousse.
The next one I'm gonna do is a lotion,
so if you don't like a mousse,
I really recommend, this is the mini version,
'cause I've also gone through two bottles of this one.
This is the Vita Liberata Self-Tanning Lotion
with mineral oils.
It has a guide so you can see where you're going.
It is an absolutely stunning color.
Next, we're gonna go for a gradual tan,
I use the Loving Tan Deluxe Gradual Tan.
The reason I also like this one is it also has a guide.
I literally, for me,
if I was using a fake tan,
it needs to have a guide
so that I can see where I'm going.
Other Loving Tan that's super, super popular,
is their two-hour mousse.
I haven't used that one,
but Joanna Fleming is our beauty editor,
that's her go-to tan.
That is my favorite gradual tan.
Now onto, I really wanted to show you guys this one,
because there's a little funny story behind this one.
This is the Vita Liberata 2-3 Week Tan Mousse.
Bradley Cooper wore this tan in "A Star Is Born."
And if you remember that movie,
he was really, really tanned.
- I just wanna take another look at you.
- But this one's an interesting one
'cause it's a two to three week tan mousse.
So that one's really popular if, I guess,
you're going on holidays and you want an extra,
extra long-lasting tan.
Now, onto my, this is my favorite tan,
and this is the one that I'm gonna use today.
I have just discovered this brand
and I cannot believe I didn't discover it earlier.
This is the Tuscan Tan Self Tan Foam.
It's got a one to three-hour express development,
it also is in one color.
So it's light/medium/dark,
depending on how long you leave it on for to develop,
which is really cool.
So I really wanna show you this one
and show you how good it is,
because it is streak-less, it fades evenly,
it's a beautiful color, and it actually,
it has these color technology,
combines all tan color bases, violet, green, red, blue,
in one multitasking formulation.
So I'm pretty sure that it works
with your undertones of your skin,
and so it's true to you.
What we're gonna do now is I'm going
to put this one on so that you can see it.
So I am using the Tuscan Tan Mitt,
I really like this 'cause it's got this little thumb.
It's the little things, you know?
So I'm gonna do a couple pumps, let's get started.
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Can you say how it's completely streak-free.
Areas that you don't wanna forget are around here,
definitely, I always forget here,
I always forget the back of my neck, and also your ears.
I'm gonna show you how,
also how I fake tan my back, as well.
So this is from a dry brushing brush,
you could use a wooden spoon, I reckon.
You use something like this,
and I'm just like, go.
I usually would use the excess.
Oops, don't put that in.
The other thing I wanted to take you through
is how to do your hands,
because I always feel like the hands
are one of the hardest parts to do.
And so what I do is, and the same for the feet,
is I have this Coco & Eve kabuki brush,
you can literally use any kabuki brush that you've got
that you no longer use,
or get a really cheap one, I don't know,
but I like the, I use the Coco & Eve one.
So what I do, just a little bit,
brush it on like makeup, in circular motions.
Just a tiny, tiny, little bit on the hands.
Now, onto the face.
So I personally don't like to use my body tan on my face,
so Tuscan Tan also has these Tanning Drops,
so I use these for my face.
And what I do is I either mix it in with my serum
or with my moisturizer.
I'm just using this Skinstitut Moisture Defense.
It says one to three drops.
I'm almost out, that's how much I love this stuff.
Mix that together.
Make sure you blend it around your hairline.
Voila.
So now I'm gonna get off-camera,
I'm going to try and finish my body,
take this off and fix it up.
Then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna shower in three hours
and I'm gonna come back
and I'm gonna show you what the tan looks like
and then chat you through
how to maintain a beautiful streak-less tan.
I have waited a few hours,
how gorgeous does this tan look?
I feel like a Kardashian right now,
that's just had a spray tan.
But I feel like you can really see how stunning,
maybe I'll go outside so you can actually see.
It's really glowy, it is a really beautiful color.
So I'm gonna wash it off now and show you in a minute.
Okay, so I've had a shower, that is the final tan.
And I have a couple of tips before I go
on how to extend the life of your tan.
So the first one is wait 12 hours before you moisturize
because the tan will continue to develop.
I use the HydraBase Body by Tuscan Tan,
it is a really light, hydrating moisturizer,
so that will help to maintain your tan.
Another really good tip,
which is a new tip that I've actually got,
it's the Tuscan Tan Tan Toner,
it's a violet-toned body wash.
So it's kind of like your purple shampoo for your hair
but this is kind of like a, it is.
It is a purple body wash for your body.
Finally, if you wanna do a bit of a top-up in between,
I would definitely go for a gradual tan.
I obviously love the Loving Tan Gradual Tan.
So that is all my tips for fake tan,
I really hope that you have gotten something out of it.
Fake it, don't bake it.
Hope you enjoyed, like, subscribe, comment.
Ask me any questions in the comments,
and I'll see you next time.
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