Want a Rubbish Fake Tan?

This is one of the worst tan products I have ever had the misfortune to use!

 

‘No streaks’ is just not true and as for the application, it is embarrassing. I would not recommend this product to anyone but in fact I would recommend you do not buy it. I’m off to summer concert today and have put it on this morning and I don’t want to begin to tell you what I look like. Buy this product if your going for the ‘I’ve just rolled in mud’ look. I won’t be purchasing garnier products again.

I should know better!  I reviewed a similar tinted gel from Marie claire last year and did not rate that one too.  In fact it was horrible! It wouldn’t apply evenly and it didn’t get absorbed properly into my skin.  The only benefit of a tinted gel is that I could see that it wasn’t applying well and I was able to wash it off before it gave me tiger striped legs.

You can see that this is a dark amber/brown tinted gel which is quite runny and contains a lot of shimmer. The tinted colour and the shimmer is supposed to last on your skin until you wash it off, but by the time you do need to wash it off, the fake tan has developed. This product does smell like fake tan, even though it does have that typical Garnier fruity scent trying to mask it.

So you apply the tan directly to clean and exfoliated skin. It doesn’t take much time to blend the colour into the skin, and you can see where there are any uneven spots so you can rub it in before the tan sets in. This does dry pretty quickly once it has applied – you have plenty of time to rub it in, but you don’t have to stand there air drying before you put on your clothes.

Here is a bit of a weird photo… but it shows the tan applied to the leg on the left and not on the leg to the right. You can see that this gives an instant natural tan to the skin, which will develop further over the next few hours. It does give quite a natural tan finish, so if you want a stronger tan then you may need to apply it again the following day. I personally will probably use this once a week, just to give my skin more of a glow rather than a strong tan.