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Ladies!! Help me!!

  • 12-06-2010 12:35pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭


    I did my own tan last night as there was nobody around to help.

    Result is bad, very bad!

    What can I do to get this horrible layer of tan off me? Its patchy, thats the problem btw.

    Woke up this morning, nearly died and then tried a second layer this time doing it a bit better. That was at 11am, no change yet and I'm starting to feel a little on the skanky and panicky side.


    What can I do?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭Xiney


    exfoliate it off would be my best guess.

    I've never self tanned though. sorry I'm not more help!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    Xiney wrote: »
    exfoliate it off would be my best guess.

    I've never self tanned though. sorry I'm not more help!

    I very rarely do it myself, hence the predicament!

    thanks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭mariaf24


    Have a long shower,lots of soapy cream. I wouldn't scrub it or it will still appear patchy. Fake tan is always a risk... Good luck :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Well you could try a layer of instant tan over it to cover up the patches.

    It's easy to get it right if you know how, it just takes a bit of getting used to! What brand did you use?


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Someone on here recommended lemon juice to me when I wanted to get the tan from my sisters wedding off me.


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    This happened a friend of mine. .
    And she tried everything. .
    but in the end, the only thing we could was sally over all the bad patches.. it didnt come out tooooo bad. But it woulda been worse if she'd left it.

    Good luck. =]]]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    Hey girls

    thanks for all the advice.

    Okay, so I exfoliated off all that I could, but as said above, the patches were still there, just lighter!!

    The tan I used was Airbrush tan in a can by Model Co.

    The second layer I put on was sublime bronze

    I then went to a friend and got her St Tropez bronzing mousse and that actually seems to have covered the patches!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭aine-maire


    You could try putting some whitening toothpaste on the darker patches. :)
    I hardly ever do it myself though, so I'm no expert :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭SarahJ


    This happened a friend of mine. .
    And she tried everything. .
    but in the end, the only thing we could was sally over all the bad patches.. it didnt come out tooooo bad. But it woulda been worse if she'd left it.

    Good luck. =]]]

    Isn't it gas that Sally is now a verb for us all :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭freida


    the girl in boots told my dh after similar incident (causing me to be housebound and sending him in search of help) take a bath, baby oil etc, but the most valuable piece is this - you won't get it off- get some sun shimmer or other controllable instant tan and fill in the gaps so the blotches don't look so bad, hth's f


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭KillerKity


    After too many horrid applications it's the instant all the way for me. Go Sally!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭Boxoffrogs


    Someone on here recommended lemon juice to me when I wanted to get the tan from my sisters wedding off me.

    I oompa-loompa'd myself once and someone recommended the lemon juice too, but I would just urge you to beware, it had a severe drying effect on my skin, so if you're gonna do that be very careful


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    Well it all worked out fine. Nobody really even noticed as the room was quite dark and at the last minute I threw on a bolero as I was a little conscious (the dress was strapless) All worked out fine and I think I will just shower and exfoliate now to get rid of it over the next few days


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,016 ✭✭✭Blush_01


    I have never tried this, and do not advocate it, but a friend of mine is a beautician and in college they used Cif to get rid of fake tan because they had to tan and re-tan so often. It's awful for your skin, but it should take the tan off. I am not suggesting you try it - it's a crazy thing to do to yourself - but I am just saying that's what they did.

    Glad it all worked out ok in the end!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,551 ✭✭✭panda100


    peanuthead wrote: »
    The tan I used was Airbrush tan in a can by Model Co.

    Too dark for Irish skin. Milton baby disinfectant is the best thing to get rid of fake tan on hands etc. On the rest of your body Im afaraid the only soloution is to scrub everyday and cover yourself up until your skin has returned to a semi-normal colour.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭Boxoffrogs


    Blush_01 wrote: »
    I have never tried this, and do not advocate it, but a friend of mine is a beautician and in college they used Cif to get rid of fake tan because they had to tan and re-tan so often. It's awful for your skin, but it should take the tan off. I am not suggesting you try it - it's a crazy thing to do to yourself - but I am just saying that's what they did.

    Glad it all worked out ok in the end!

    I'm glad you're not advocating it, but you gave me a giggle:eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,339 ✭✭✭convert


    I had a similar problem last year - I ended up with with a stripe down one of my legs :(

    I used some lemon juice and a body buffer. It took about 2 days and 4 30 minute showers of scrubbing to remove it, but it did a really good job, and when I put some instant tan over it after day one you could barely notice it. Just be aware that the lemon juice may sting slightly, depending on how much you've scrubbed your skin. But it definitely does work. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭Wacker


    SarahJ wrote: »
    Isn't it gas that Sally is now a verb for us all :D

    Apparently Oompa-Loompa'd is too WTF!?!
    I oompa-loompa'd myself once and someone recommended the lemon juice too, but I would just urge you to beware, it had a severe drying effect on my skin, so if you're gonna do that be very careful

    Here's a tanning horror story for you: my sister was very briefly working in a beauticians, and a lady came in who was about to go for a sun holiday in Greece or wherever. As she didn't want to be chalky-white at the start of her holiday, she was getting a spray tan done. My sister did her front, and when she went to spray her back, she found she was out of tanning-stuff! The woman screamed at her and stormed out.

    OP, it could be worse!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭Boxoffrogs


    Wacker wrote: »
    Apparently Oompa-Loompa'd is too WTF!?!

    That's what the guys I worked with called me after one tanning disaster, it's just stuck in my head. And I was about the right shade to be fair:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭Wacker


    I know where you're coming from, of course. I'd never heard the word used as a verb before though! :)


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 16,186 ✭✭✭✭Maple


    diddledum wrote: »
    That's what the guys I worked with called me after one tanning disaster, it's just stuck in my head. And I was about the right shade to be fair:D
    :D For my birthday one year, we were having a proper hooley, dress code, private bar, the works. I had fake tanned the hell out of myself for two days in preparation and was decidedly orange. A friend at work gave me a calendar with my birthday highlighted on the page. I was a bit puzzled until I realised he'd pasted a pic of Oompa Loompas dancing over the main pic as a representation of me and my mates on our night out. :D
    OompaLoompas1971.jpg
    Then when I couldn't find my swipe he handed it back and had pasted an Oompa Loompa pic over my face. :D

    I didn't put on any more fake tan after that. :D Cheeky sod.


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