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Gucci

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Like in a tanning bed? I know they say its bad for you but I feel like I look so much healthier with a little bit of color. We don't get that much natural sun anyway, even in the summer, so it helps with getting vitamin D too. And I don't roast myself, I have no desire to look like an old leather boot.

My question is about tanning lotion...There are soooo many I am completely lost and my salon girls are super unhelpful. Can anyone recommend something they like? Do you really need accelerators, bronzers, tinglers, etc? What do they even do?



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Marc Jacobs

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Not anymore, but I used to. Check out iamtan.com. It's a tanning forum and there are tons of lotion reviews, etc. It's pretty helpful.

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Marc Jacobs

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I used to work at a tanning salon. A lot of those lotions aren't worth it, but some do help. I imagine the products I hocked 10 years ago aren't at salons any more for me to give advice on.

However, I also wouldn't receoomend tanning. Yes, we need vitamin D, but I really don't think a tanning bed is the way to get it. I use bronzer or tinted moisturizer or tan in a can and am happy with that.

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I tan for one month a year, but I don't use lotions. The one time I used a sample, it seemed to make my skin way more sensitive to the bed, so I just go lotion-free smile.gif

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I used to tan allthroughout high school and college but stopped several years. I cringe when I think about all the damage I probably did to my skin. EEK.

I didn't like the "tinglers" because they made my skin so red, but the accelerators seemed fine.

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Gucci

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I tan a sporadically and the lotion I've used is Matahari Diamond Diva stage 1.  I'm not to knowledgable on the different lotions and what they do, but I know I don't like the tingling lotions either.  This was recommended to me by someone at my salon but was $60 or $70 a bottle!  I buy it off eBay and pay about $20.  It works and I like the smell.  I just can't pay salon prices.  They're outrageous!

Here's a random auction I found for the lotionl:

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-MATAHARI-DIAMOND-DIVA-STEP-1-TANNING-BED-LOTION_W0QQitemZ380112188281QQcmdZViewItemQQptZSkin_Care_test?hash=item380112188281&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A570%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A0%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

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