Avoid self-tan streaks

That photo is giving me the creeps!

never tried fake tanning before, hopefully i'll never have a faux pas...BUT that's probably just a dream

Haha that pic is hilarious! My worst tanning story is I didn't blend my tan into my feet properly and it looked a bit messy. Not a nightmare story ... but still a little uncomfortable as I noticed people looking at my feet! :S

oh goodness, i once applied tan on one of my leg, and then the tan lotion runs out, i went to work with 2 colours on my legs

I am way too scared to self tan myself! I just know that I will come out looking like a clown! haha

yet to try fake tans lol

Gradual tanner did it too me! Too scared to go for a full on spray or lotion faux tan I did gradual moisturiser. It worked great over two weeks straight I looked naturally tanned and gorgeous.... except I didn't do any on my face so I had a natural looking faux tan tfrom feet to neck with a white face. Not the look I was wanting especially as I did it all to look good for my cousins wedding. Learn't my lesson :)

omg it was last weekend at steroesonic, it was so bad it was running down the back of my legs i had a spray tan for the first time and must not have washed it off will enough and with the hot weather and sweating and pouring water on myself to cool down omg never again the chick told me it would be fine, glad id had a few drinks and tried not to think about it too much X

My sister in-law & I (as teenagers) always had the dirty look knees & elbows. Once Faye thought she'd put it on her face so that she didn't have to wear foundation at the beach, Big mistake she was a bit heavy handed & looked like she hadn't washed her face in a month!!

nothing disastrous just unsightly orange hands, feet and knees and stripey legs, the usual fake tan related faux pas.

I am slightly olive but at the wedding of my Balinese friend I ended up looking as dark as she was. Next time I go for a fake tan I will go for a milder shade.

I have never been game to try using a fake tan because I have seen too many bad results. Maybe one day I will become brave enough to give it a go.

yes..... using it for the first time, i didn't realise it took a while before the colour came through. So 3 layers later, on just the bottom half of my legs, I had a very dark and unusually orange complexion.

I've never really had a fake tan disaster thank goodness but it is hilarious to see what some girls do and go to beach like!

Only a few weekends ago, I went to a concert and had a beautiful dress on. I looked in the mirror and my white legs seemed to be taking all the focus! It called for desperate measures, so I grabbed my GRADUAL tan and lathered it on as much as I could. We left home 5 mins after I applied the cream so I thought I looked fantastic, until later in the night when I looked down and discovered I was like a zebra -with white and brown stripes everywhere!

my worst faux pas would have to be the colour going on to the collar, cuffs and hem of my white miniskirt, top and jacket, if only it was just knee and ankles overkill

Well, a couple of years ago I thought I would give myself a nice spray tan from a bottle, for summer. It was touch dry in about 2 mins. Hubby called me in to watch something on tv and as my legs seemed dry, I sat down for about 10 mins. Later that day hubby mentioned my leg tan looked funny. Unfortunately I didn't realise I had crossed my legs and one of them had been pressed against the dark brown couch. It took a few summer weeks before my uneven leg tan faded away....Hmmm.

Back in the 80s, tanning pills were all the rage, I took a whole 'course' of them and one day while holding my hand out for change, I noticed my hands got a lengthy puzzled look from the shopgirl - I looked at my hands, I mean 'really looked' at my hands and realised they were APRICOT coloured and as I walked off I realised so were my feet! How I didn't notice this as it was happening is still a mystery. What's worse is that it took weeks for the apricot to wear away naturally - there was no scrubbing away the evidence. Very grateful for today's methods :)

Yummm Daisy, always a fav! Might check out that Hugo Boss one :) Thanks for the Christmas ideas!

Wow! I am always always tanning, I am white and cant tan any other way then from a can. i think the worst one was when I used a spray on one for the night and it ended up pouring down raining, and looking very bad, I must say it really drops my confidence having blotchy skin like that. I like to have a spray tan, or really good exfoliate and apply the night before. Although it mostly always can get a bit patchy around the ankles which is frustrating too! I really need one of these mits now, as its my boyfriends 21st this weekend and I need to get rid of my tan from last weekend and get a nice new one without it going streaky and uneven... this product sounds great!

A few weeks ago, I tried a tan in a can... I had tanned and a few hours later I remembered that I needed to shave my legs, unfortunately the tan hadn't completely set and so after I had finished shaving I had a really bad reverse sock tan line, my feet were so brown and legs all white. Not a good look, it would have been fine except we all decided to go swimming... I got asked why I was wearing socks in the water, did not feel cool at all.

Ruining all of my new sheets that my Mum just spent HEAPS of money on! Whoops...

i love this photo- it really is a classic, as for my faux tan experiences -BELLY BUTTON, thats right i will never forget to put tan into my belly button again, my flawless bronzed abs dont quite look so great when there is a gapping big white dot in the middle of it!

Not noticing the big orange streak running down the back of my leg from the leaky tan in a can... Umm ahh a few hours later at the beach I found out - the laughter and whispers behind me as I walked past. Not one of my proudest moments.