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Help!! Fake tan disaster!!!

  • 03-09-2010 8:49am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭


    Hi all I really need some ideas!!!

    I applied my fake tan last night as normal but today my hands have turned out a disaster and I really need to get it off or to fade at least ASAP as i have a wedding party to go to tonight!!

    any suggestions that work would be grately appreciated!!!!!:eek::eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,640 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67643944&postcount=2641

    :o Sorry, it's all I can think off offhand. (No pun intended)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭Vinta81


    Wash them? Good ole scrub in the shower over the hand basin should do the trick and then when they're back to their normal shade get some rimmel sun shimmer or something or foundation? :pac: and rub it on the tops of you hand to maintain colour? lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭mecanoman


    Other half has a few of theses "tantastic accidents" she swears by
    baby wipes! Get a packet and it'll have you looking your regular self
    in no time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    If it's really bad, wash in hot water and scrub, dry, then scrub with lemon juice and sugar.

    If you're really stuck, use hydrogen peroxide... but it's going to wreak havoc on your skin.

    Either ways, moisturise after with baby wipes.

    That'll get everything from fake tan to industrial facepaint out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭tierney2


    Some chemists have fake tan removal wipes.. try Boots.. I got some in Swords last year.. lemon juice also recommended.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭abrr1000


    Kitchen cleaner is usually good for getting it off hands!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭ams


    yeah Im ashamed to admit Ive used bleach before. Maybe try washing a garment by hand - my Mam always recommends that for getting off stains off your hands.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭itsallaboutme!!


    thanks for the suggestions guys lemon juice with sugar or salt has come up a few times will try that.been sitting with my hands in nail polish remover and been scrubbing with exfoliating gloves for the last while and had to give that up as its starting to burn a bit now!!!although it has faded a small bit!!

    gonna give it a while now and them try the lemon juice!!!;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭Pipsie Pie


    St Tropez do a tan remover ;) Its a bluey green sparkly scrub. Bit pricey but it works!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭pookie82


    To be honest the lemon juice and tan remover solutions are grand if you want totally white hands, but I'm guessing, as you've applied tan all over, that you don't want them to be stripped completely. Pale hands and dark arms will look as bad as tangoed hands.

    Get a rough face cloth, lather it in shower gel, fill the sink with water and gently bathe and scrub them for an hour or so. It should get the excess off without returning them to their pre-tan colour, which won't match your arms.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭itsallaboutme!!


    thanks again for all the suggestions guys!

    As some of ye have said i didnt really want it to all come off as then it would just looke like i had white gloves on:D a friend suggested i try rubbing bicarbonate of soda mixed with water on it and i have to say it worked a treat! rubbed it on with an exfoliating glove and it faded almost imediately! its still not perfect but its alot better than it was and will do now as i dont think my hands can take any more scrubbing!!! gonnd lash the hand cream on for the day and hoe the rawness goes down!!!!:o


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