Sunless tanner + Bikini Area

[thebootyfaerie.livejournal.com]

I'm sick of being so pale, and since I have relatives who have had skin cancer, tanning is right out. So I want to try a sunless tanner. Are they safe to use on the bikini area? Are they effective? I'd like to use it on the area where I shave - will it be horribly irritating on that skin?

I've never used any kind of sunless tanner before, so any other suggestions you might have would be great, too.

Comments

[binaryprecision.livejournal.com]

Don't shave for at least 24 hours before and after a spray tanning session, and use their barrier cream liberally anywhere on your hands or feed that you don't want turning orange!! Also, if your skin is sensitive or at all irritated, wait until whatever irritation is there to heal before doing a spray tan session. I tried it out a week and a half before my bridal portraits last year and was a tad bit singed from laying out in the sun a few days before, and I got chemical burns/allergic reactions wherever my skin was sensitive from actual UV tanning! Red itchy sploches all over my neckline, chest, back, stomach and butt, and I don't consider myself to have sensitive skin in general. It was awful. Luckily I tried it early enough that most of the rash was gone by the time my bridal portraits came around. I'm nervous about trying one again, but I too cannot tan anymore: the excess of estrogen in my body from my HBC pills gave me melasma, which gets a LOT worse with even a little UV exposure. :(

[binaryprecision.livejournal.com]

P.S. Spray tans usually only last about a week or so.