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Feeling Tantastic // St Moriz Fast Tan Mist and No.7 Naturally Sunkissed Gradual Facial Tan


Well summer is well and truly here (I know the weather at the moment would have you thinking otherwise). I think everyone is a little bit tentative about getting their legs out for the first time - months of hybernation in the safe comfort of skinny jeans and tights has rendered mine resembling milk bottles. I'm a very pale person anyway and I do try and avoid staying out in the sun too much; I'm not very good in the heat and I tend to go boiled lobster rather than golden goddess if I sit in it for too long, even with SPF 1000000 on. I'm pretty fed up of resembling Casper the Friendly Ghost to be honest, so lately I've been very tempted to try self-tanning. I was pretty hesitant at first - knowing my luck I would probably end up looking like a tangerine - but was finally swayed when my assistant manager came into work looking beautiful and glowy after using a St Moritz tanning mist. I thought I would give it a go and so I went and had a look in Boots to see what they had. First of all, I was really surprised at the number of options you have for self-tan nowadays; whenever I think of fake tan I always think of thick, orange mousses that just leave you looking like a streaky mess, and although there are still mousses around, a lot of companies have brought out mists, lotions and even in-shower tanning products. I decided to stick to what I knew and went for the St Moritz Fast Tan mist and since there was a 3 for 2 offer on, I also picked up the No.7 Naturally Sunkissed Gradual Facial Tan and a Boots' own brand tanning mitt as the mist said to use one to rub it in. I think the whole lot came to about £21 in the offer, which I think is pretty reasonable given the quality of what I've bought! Being the really organised person that I am, I forgot to take before and after pictures of these so you'll just have to take my word on this particular post!

St Moriz Fast Tan Mist

I'm pretty blown away with how easy this was to use! I would definitely recommend using this while standing in the bath or shower, as it does go all over the place and at least tiles are easy to wipe down! I would also say to get an old towel to stand on as the bottom of my feet ended up with a lot of product on them and you don't really want to walk that into your carpet! All you do with this is exfoliate your whole body and moisturise your knees, elbows and heels (I would give it 10 minutes or so to sink into your skin), spray it onto your skin and then use a tanning mitt to blend it in using circular motions. The mitt itself was really nice to use, especially given it was only about £3. You then leave the tan on for 1-6 hours, depending on how deep you want your tan to be. I left mine on for about an hour before I rinsed it off in the shower as I didn't want it to be too dark. I think next time I might leave it for another half an hour as the colour didn't take to my legs as well as I'd have liked. One thing I will say about this is that it does then develop a lot after you've rinsed it off; when I first showered it didn't really look like it had done much but when I woke up the next day you could really see the difference! I had a couple of patches that hadn't blended all that well, but I think that's more down to my application rather than the product itself. It's also lasted really well - it's been a week since I applied it and although the colour has faded a lot, you can still see a bit of tan there so I'm really happy with this product!

No.7 Naturally Sunkissed Gradual Facial Tan

As I didn't really want to go spraying the mist onto my face, I had a quick look in Boots to see if they had any tanning products for your face. This caught my eye as I've used gradual tan moisturisers on my body before and I like the fact that they don't give you too much of an intense colour. I started using this about 3 days before I actually applied the fake tan so it could have a chance to develop. I have to say, I haven't seen a huge amount of difference in regards to my face being more tanned. However, as a moisturiser it is such a lovely product - my skin feels absolutely amazing after using this so I think I will just keep this product as a summer moisturiser as it feels so good! 
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