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I was just curious if any of you have used Mystic Tan before? Its a spray machine that spray you for about 30 seconds and the tan is suppose to last up to 5 days. I have never tried it before but it have crossed my mind...The reason why I don't want to tan in the sun is because I dont want to be expose to UV rays, and it will increase the chance of skin cancer. so if any of you have any experienced with spray tan, please let me know! Thanks! Any other tanning advice is appreciated! Jul 13 06 12:03 am Link me and my sis have tried pretty much everything..but from now on i get my tan from a bottle..quick and easy Jul 13 06 12:15 am Link Stick to chemical tans. I live in Southern California. I automatically subtract ten years from my estimate of anyone's age here due to excessive sun damage. Compared to Seattle or even New York, women, especially, here are severely sun damaged. Crows feet at 18! Deep lines in the forehead at 25! My mother didn't get those until she was well over 50 and she was a farm girl and literally grew up on horseback. No, she didn't have a olive complexion, She was Highland Scot and Norman. I see so many pre-cancerous lesions when I'm retouching I feel like a dermatologist. Stay out of the sun. Tell anyone who wants you to get a "real" tan to go straight to you know where. Jul 13 06 12:17 am Link Artificial tanning is for the ego of the model. For photography it's contraproductive. It's not attractive in photos and it screws up the edit workflow. It's like trying to compensate for too much makeup. Trying to adjust for magenta skin in Photoshop drives me nuts. Jul 13 06 02:02 am Link i hated it. it came out streaky and darker in some places &its a bitch to get off > Jul 13 06 05:28 am Link Jul 13 06 05:51 am Link Corena beat me to it.... but go with SUNEMBRACE airbrush tanning, not the Mystic. Jul 13 06 06:14 am Link I just wanted to congratulate all of you for being smart enough to not engage in the ridiculous tanning exercises. The advent of tanning salons has to be one of the most ridiculous trends I've seen, alongside purchasing bottled water in developed countries. Of course maybe I'm just old fashioned. Regardless, whether it's because of the fewer wrinkles or the reduced chance of skin cancer, your body will thank you.  Jul 13 06 06:18 am Link A model paid me for a portfolio shoot last week. She turned up ORANGE. I kid you not. I have no idea what she was thinking. Both I and the makeup artist yelled at her. Hopefully she'll stop that. Her coloration is so odd that I'm having to use color-correction techniques I've never even *tried* before to fix her without making it look like she's living on Planet Warhol. (Yes I could mask her out but I might as well learn some heavy-duty color correction flow since I have the, um, "opportunity.") Should've charged her more. M Jul 13 06 07:48 am Link ok, maybe this thread will help me....i have many uneven, strange blotches from where i have tanned through bathing suits, etc., and recently my skin only peeled in one area and then was done, leaving me with a tan arm and a large pink spot in addition to my other weird tan lines. i considered tanning only a few times, as i have heard that this will even out tan lines and give you a fresh start. i dont need skin cancer advice if i plan on tanning 3 times or so- i just need to know if that would work. does tanning a few times even out blotches, or is there something else i can try? i really need help on this one. thanks! Jul 13 06 08:04 am Link I always laugh at my MELANIN DEFICIENT friends.. I just scream at them every summer and say "YOU ARE WHITE, LIVE WITH IT.. Blame your Parents !!!" LMAO So if you are pasty and pale, be proud of your pasty paleness.. I keep hearing people talk about those chemical tans as being SAFE, when none of that has been around long enough to be proven safe.. I would hate to hear 10 years from now that those who were not blessed with a natural tan, end up with some bizarre condition from trying to get it from a bottle. Jul 13 06 08:17 am Link Heidi Lynne wrote: I have a complete airbrush tanning system and use it often. Air Brush is far better than the booth. In a booth, what you do is to stand there and assume different poses. It is axiomatic that some areas get better coverage than others. Jul 13 06 08:25 am Link UIPHOTOS wrote: i want to be pasty and proud! but not until i can even out these bad tan lines....can anyone help? Jul 13 06 08:36 am Link doubled *sigh* Jul 13 06 09:59 am Link baelie wrote: More tanning will NOT help. You can't "even out" a tan. The dark areas will get darker & stay darker longer with exposure as the other areas fade, leaving you uneven again. The "pink" areas are damage, and more UV will make them worse. Jul 13 06 10:02 am Link never use sunscreen or any chemicals on the skin....those chemicals are worse that the sun.The sun gives you vitamin D!You can take skin herbs to boost your natural skin cells! Jul 13 06 10:05 am Link Michael LaPolla wrote: Uh...yeah, ok. Jul 13 06 10:12 am Link You guys think the spray-tans are bad for shoots! I had a model show up once who'd decided it'd be a "good idea" to tan the day before a shoot. She showed up a lovely red-orange color with PALE white bikini lines that were both so large & so bright they showed thru or around 2/3rds of her clothes. Her skin was so dry the makeup wasn't sticking right. She couldn't move because it hurt so much. Ugh. What a waste. Jul 13 06 10:16 am Link YES I HAVE USE IT AND ITS AWESOME, I LOVE IT!!!! BUT IT DOES NOT LAST FOR FIVE DAYS, ITS MORE LIKE TWO DAYS THE MOST THAT IT STAYS ON. YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT THE UVA RAYS SO STAY OUT OF THE TANNING BEDS!!! BETTER TO TAN OUTSIDE THEN THE BEDS BUT I WOULD JUST SITCK WITH MYSTIC. ITS GREAT! JUST REMEMBER TO COVER YOUR NAILS WITH LOTS OF LOTION AND YOUR FEET OR ELSE YOUR NAILS WOULD TURN YELLOW. Jul 13 06 10:21 am Link SLE Photography wrote: my problem is that, when i get tan lines, they stay for about a year-they dont fade out. its too much to ask anyone to photoshop, and i dont want to not model for a year!!! i need some sort of solution. i talked to someone who went tanning regularly and they said tanning a few times will even out lines. i recently got a dark tan on my arm after a cross country drive while wearing a t shirt, and i had a white shoulder. the next few days i wore a tank top and the dramatic line faded into my normal skin color and everything blended, the part that was already dark didnt get comparably darker. this is why i would think tanning might work. has anyone had any personal experience with this, and not just speculation? thanks though SLE, i am trying to avoid skin damage as much as possible while getting even skin. Jul 13 06 10:31 am Link My standard advice for models is no tanning or a week before a shoot. If they need a tan we can apply a spray tan at the start of the shoot. It takes a while to work so we can do some shots with a paler look and later shots with a tanner look. Some people require more than one application. The one I use if Neutrogena spray mist. The mist is more even that the lotion or foam and does not require any touching that may make the model or photographer uncomfortable. It also does not discolor the palm of your hands as do the lotions and foams. I also find that how well it works is very dependent on the person. If the model tans well they are more likely to take the mist well. It does give a natural look whereas a "real" recent tan produces redness that is a challenge in Photoshop. The camera picks up red tones more readily that the eye does. I hope this helps. Jul 13 06 10:43 am Link baelie wrote: I wore capris sitting at the pool, and the next time I wore shorts, I realized my lower legs had tanned. Weird tan, I'd say. I call it the capri tan... Jul 13 06 10:53 am Link Angel Tara wrote: i guess ill have to try it. thanks guys. Jul 13 06 10:56 am Link I use Jergens Natural Glow daily.. it gives you a nice glow and I also use L'Oreal Sublime Bronze.. the first week everyday then after use it like every 2-3 days.. while using the jergens. Jul 13 06 11:00 am Link Angel Tara wrote: Here is my evening out plan. Jul 13 06 11:11 am Link Michael LaPolla wrote: Oh lordie... Jul 13 06 11:54 am Link Nemi Bea wrote: LMAO Jul 13 06 12:23 pm Link just so you know fake tans can be a NIGHTMARE for make-up artists. if you do the whole tanning in a bottle thing, tell the makeup artist IMMEDIATELY. Jul 13 06 01:30 pm Link Angel Tara wrote: lol seriously, try putting 30 on your capri tan. Jul 13 06 05:32 pm Link Click Hamilton wrote: You're my new hero. Jul 13 06 05:58 pm Link Angel Tara wrote: baelie wrote: Tara's advice is good. Your "farmer's tan" si why always wearing sunblock & protective clothing is important. Different people DO fade at different rates, but in your case you'd be better off to use one of the full-body artifical tans to even you out than to try real tanning. Jul 13 06 06:08 pm Link Mystic Tan = no good. I've found it's expensive and just a waste of money. You have to put this stuff called barrier cream on your hands and feet so that they don't turn orange but if you don't put enough on or any on your nails they'll turn a weird color... And if you don't whipe it off evenly when you're doing getting sprayed you'll have streak marks. Better off with one of the bronzer lotions or airbrush by a person. Jul 13 06 09:35 pm Link Granted I'm a photographer - and don't care what I look like in pictures.... But I'm also a 25 year old socialite (ha, I use the term loosely) recently diagnosed with skin cancer. Who knows what contributed to this - my fair German heritage, my dad who never put sunscreen on me when I was a kid (resulting in many 2nd degree burns), my years of tanning in high school, or now that I live in Florida - any way it happened, it happened. So I applaud everyone for living on the "bottle" (sunless tanning). And yeah, use liberally so all of us poor photographers don't have to spend hours at the computer UN-tanning you. All my love! --- KristenJul 13 06 09:40 pm Link When your nails turn orange from it because they are not covered with whatever, that should tell you right there what your doing to your skin. Stay natural and get good with colors for wardrobe, makeup ect. You can do more with what you have naturaly then what your trying to cover up because it looks terrible. Like stated already, its too new to determine if it is safe or not but also consider what may be safe for someone else could not be safe for you. Jul 13 06 09:51 pm Link Nothing is safe. But the chances of dying from any single thing is extremely small. Even 19 out of 20 smokers don't die from lunng cancer. Quit listening to the news. Just worrying about all the crap that can kill you probably knocks a bunch of years off your life. Jul 13 06 10:31 pm Link Dave Krueger wrote: No, the rest die from heart disease, strokes, emphysema... LOL Jul 13 06 10:38 pm Link Kristen Weaver wrote: OMG, Jul 14 06 12:16 am Link my first double post...wow lol Jul 14 06 12:18 am Link I talked to a photographer that does mostly swimwear and he told me I should tan. I am very sensitive to the sun and end up getting moles and little red dots when I am in the sun, so I was considering going to a salon to get the spray on or airbrush tan. I live in California so I have the farmer's tan from driving, it is 100's here this week. Kisses, MEL Jul 14 06 12:34 am Link Sindia wrote: i got the same two! Jul 22 06 04:03 am Link |
