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Guest Beauty Blogger Wednesday - Bionic Beauty Shares Self Tanning Tips

Posted May 20th 2009 at 4:00PM by Laura Kenney

Filed under: Skin Care, Beauty Tips

It's Guest Beauty Blogger Wednesday! Today we've got Jami from Bionic Beauty, a blog that delivers beauty with a dose of power, merging makeup tutorials and product reviews with weekly features on self-esteem and confidence.

Photo: John M. Heller, Getty Images

Bionic Beauty's Sunless Tanner Tips
With the sun and hence swimsuit season upon us, let's share tips on sunless tanners. Below are my fail safe tricks to get a natural looking glow sans streaks, blotches or skin nightmares.

* Exfoliate during your shower. This is so very important to getting an even application with sunless tanners. I use a bath pouf or a loofah with my body wash and wash my entire body. Then, I very lightly wash with a non-moisturizing exfoliant or microdermabrasion body wash (like Lancome's Microdermabrasion for body). Your goal is to get an even layer of fresh skin. Without exfoliating, your skin has an uneven "shed" of skin cells causing the skin to absorb the tanner at different rates.

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Styles that Stick: A (safe) St. Tropez Tan

Posted Jul 29th 2007 at 2:01PM by Sarah J. Gim

Filed under: Vintage and Retro, Skin Care

tan woman in a hat
Given that it's a gloriously warm and sunny weekend day at the peak of summer, it's the perfect time to talk about tans, tanning, and just "being tan."

A deep, dark, St. Tropez tan is style that will stick. Entertainment and media have tried to shift the idea by glamorizing fair-skinned beauties like Nicole Kidman, Rose McGowan, and Liv Tyler. Even with every outlet -- whether it's media, internet sources, your friends, family, and even your doctor -- hurling warnings of early aging, risk factors, health and medical statistics, and case studies of people who have died of one of various forms of skin cancer, "tan is beautiful" will never go away.

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