A Guide to a Fake Summer Tan

In fashion, having tanned skin is now the 'in' thing. People, especially women who care more about vanity, are always seeking for good ways and measures on how they can get perfectly golden brown complexion. Fashion experts assert that getting a good tan makes the body appear thinner, healthier and sexier. For most appreciators and observers, a good tanned skin certainly gives a person a better and more ramped up personality.

If you aim to get a tan the easy way, you must look at several easy ways on how to get a fake tan. There are two basic main groups of artificial tanning, namely, the indoor tanning bed tanning and the sunless tanning.

Because the best and cheapest way to get a tan is to bake ones self in the sun, or sunbathing, many people are not able to attain the golden brown skin they desire. There are many setbacks to sunbathing, one of which would be the tediousness of going to beach resorts or an open space park.

If you are sunbathing, there is a need to expose all parts of the skin. Thus, many sunbathers tend to wear skimpier outfits. Another setback is the risk posed to the skin. Sunrays naturally have ultraviolet rays that are identified to cause skin cancer when taken in excess.

Thus, the best way to get a tan is through artificial and alternative means. Faking a summer tan is the most advisable because doing so would the least tedious, the more convenient and the most reliable.

If you are aiming to get a tan the easy way, you must look at several easy ways on how to get a fake skin tan. There are two basic main groups of artificial skin tanning, namely, the indoor tanning and the sunless tanning.

Indoor tanning

Indoor tanning is artificial in the sense that you would be exposed to artificial source of ultraviolet radiation. Instead of getting that from the sun, there are special lamps that have the same spectrum and impact to the skin. Indoor tanning activities are usually done by professionals within an indoor tanning salon. You could and should never tan your self artificially using artificial ultraviolet sources at your home.

There are two main equipment pieces used to get indoor artificial tanning. Tanning salons have tanning beds. Tanning beds are special machines having interiors that are full of U.V.lamps. These lamps are the sources of artificial ultraviolet radiation that tan the skin.

A person is allowed to be inside a tanning bed for only about 20 minutes. Professionals should assist you in using tanning beds because there always be risks of overdoing the activity. If you exceed the tanning limits inside tanning beds, your skin might get damaged.

Tanning booths are also common in tanning salons. Tanning booths function the same as tanning beds, only that tanning booths allow users to stand up. You would be asked to enter a booth full of lamps. Within about 20 minutes, your skin would be exposed to the light produced by those groups of lamps.

In the process, your skin is being exposed to artificial ultraviolet light and there is coloration. Tanning salons usually charge between $4.00 to as much as $15.00 depending on the style of tanning bed rented for the tanning session.

Sunless tanning

The more advisable and recommended measure of artificial tanning is sunless tanning. From the name itself, you can easily infer that sunless tanning procedures do not employ the use of ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Sunless tanning processes also do not use artificial sources of light.

Sunless tanning mainly makes use of lotions, sprays, gels and creams that are made and formulated to react with the skin to produce that golden brown complexion everyone is dying to have.

There are numerous sunless tanning products out in the market. You surely would have a hard time choosing the products to use. In general, there are three different basic and active ingredients in sunless tanning products.

• Dihydroxyacetone (DHA). DHA is the most common and the most reliable active ingredient found in sunless tanning products.
• To begin with, this substance is a form of an abundant colorless sugar. There is a chemical and physical reaction when this sugar mixes with the dead skin cells on the outermost layer of the skin. The result is perfectly golden brown complexion.
• Canthaxanthin. This substance is proven to be the fastest way to tan the skin, though its safety is still massively debated.
• Canthaxanthin is usually found in tanning pills. The substance reacts internally to produce the tan desired in the skin.
•  Tyrosine. Tyrosine has been identified as a tanning accelerator. The substance works by significantly raising the production of melanin, which is responsible for skin tanning.

Whatever method, product or service you choose for fake summer tanning, be reminded that there is no need to bake your skin out in the sun. Getting a tan is now made easier and more convenient.