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Want instant results on a diet? Spray tan.

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First things first – Start with a basic b**** spray tan.

We love giving those on the self-improvement path a little encouragement for 10-14 days every time they look in the mirror. Spray tanning will not make you lose weight faster, work harder at the gym, or better at resisting that donut. What it will do… Make you feel great each time you look in the mirror, in turn making you a little less critical and a little more forgiving. These two things, in particular, could game-changer you need and keep you motivated.  The look good – feel-good team, ya we’re very, very much a part of that and hope you will join us. 

If you have never had a spray tan and are unaware of its magical properties, please head over to our booking page and try a Lavish Tan Single Coat Spray Tan.  At Tanning Cabana, we think you should ease into spray tan. Learning about spray tan and how it works will lead to great results. Spray tanning is not as easy as just laying down in a bed and pressing go. Spray tan, like all great things, requires time and effort.  Dieting and working out are major lifestyle changes that will take plenty of effort and time to see results. While you are doing that – take a minute to read your spray tan guide. Then book your spray tan and ask plenty of questions to your tech. 

Once you have had a spray tan and know they are incredible… 

Go ahead and read on about contour advanced tans… after you have the body you dreamed about, push further and define those muscles with a contour tan. 
To book a contour tan, please call our master artist for pricing and availability.  

Blending is my cardio…

Is contour something that Kim Kardashian popularized? Is contour a method of makeup application that is a grandiose illusion? Can you contour without NARS, Hoola bronzer, and a Beauty Blender? The answer to all these questions is yes. Contour has been used for hundreds of years on the stage to show emotion on the faces of actors. It has been a popularized method of makeup application refined and introduced by late makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin. Kevyn Aucoin made a household name celebrity look like another celebrity from the past or even modern-day. Unless a viewer looked twice, one might mistake his makeup on Courtney Love as a photo of Marilyn Monroe. He did this through many tricks, including the illusion of contour. Find his books here. (Seriously- they are bestsellers, check em out.)

Contour is defined as an outline,

Especially one representing or bounding the shape or form of something. In the makeup, world contour is known as defining and minimizing to stand out or reduce the prominence of a feature. Bronzer-defined areas include the sides of the nose, just below the cheekbones, the hairline, and the underside v of the chin. Highlighted areas include the brow bone, mid-forehead, the top of the cheekbones, and the bridge of the nose. The contour gives our eyes depth of field when we look at another’s face. Our eyes pick up on light cast off by the highlighting shimmery makeup and find the definition in the hairline from the bronzer. It can make your face look skinnier, the nose appears straighter, cheekbones higher, and make a double chin seem to disappear.

Sunless Contour Tanning

We have taken contour one step further with semi-permanent status and entire body coverage in the world of sunless tans. In contour tanning, we apply to the face the way you would with makeup: the hairline, the cheekbones, and jawline. When contouring a body, abdominal muscles are defined, arms are strategically shaded to look slimmer, and the sides of the body, including legs, are more saturated to give the illusion of length when looking straight on. Spray tan artists apply the solution with a small airbrush gun allowing for heavy concentration in small areas. These tans are perfect for photoshoots, beach vacations, and wedding nights. A contour tan will boost your confidence in a matter of minutes. We still think you should work out for your health, but leave the definition to the airbrush gun. If you can’t tone it, tan it.

We like to consider ourselves the authority on Minnesota contour tanning since 2013. Even in the dead of winter, you can spot our tans on vacationers, brides, and you know there are so many photoshoots going on while the snowfalls outside now if someone would throw a pool party in January!

Bridal Sprays : How to….

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Minnesota weddings can be stressful…. eliminate all variables with exception to weather.

We mention the first two as they both can make you cry. There is no crying in spray tan or in the white dress with the makeup and hair on. Breath, let go of anything unnecessary to the process. Remember, joyful is a choice and all signs point to yes. If you need a reality check, count your blessings :  I am getting married today to my best friend.

 

Event Coordination

From the start of planning to the day of the event, if you do not have a wedding planner this is the first thing to take care of. If you have a wedding planner, it doesn’t hurt to check in with them periodically to make sure all vendors, guests, and individuals surrounding the wedding are in all in and ready to roll. Consider variables like what might happen to the ice sculpture, what if it rains, bigger question what if it snows. If the event coordination brings up stress – remember at the end of the day, it’s about two people in love.

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When choosing your bridal party think of how they have been in the past. Is anyone chronically late? Should you tell them a different time as to make them early rather than late? Yes. Also keep cost in mind when planning. Regardless of if you are marrying the king of the world, everyone likes to save money. So talk to your bridal party, find group-ons and deals for bigger groups. We offer free tanning for the bride with a party of three or more! This inclusion within the process will strengthen the bond within your party. On the day of, remember as the bride, this is your show and the show must go on. Do not, I repeat, do not stress over someone else being late or not showing up. Your relationship with them is not over and there are many details you have no control over. Focus on being present and how fabulous this day is for you – regardless of anything or anyone else.

Your dress, beauty treatments, the spray tan.

When choosing your dress consider using the toilet in it, wearing it for more than four hours, and if it is a Minnesota wedding what will it look like with a jacket….Did you get a jacket?

If you have never had a particular treatment, do not wait until the event to try it. Try it a few weeks or even months before. This way your spray tan will be perfect, your nail length will be manageable, and you will know if that updo will hold throughout the hot humid summer day!

The month before the event give your bridesmaids a call about possible group beauty treatments. If someone doesn’t get back to you about it move on. If they are the clincher in the group (as in you need one more party to get the deal) book it anyway and bring someone else the day of if you need be. Cost is a big factor for people and sometimes they just won’t be able to jump on board, help them out or bring another person to take their place. Don’t think that one individual is the end of the world. Marriage is a celebration of love between two people, we hope that that love radiates into your other relationships with those celebrating with you.

Below is a timeline of beauty treatments including airbrush tanning- some procedures are flexible, while others – not so much. Please ask your beauty professionals as each stylist or artist may have a different time line or way of getting the best results.

The bridal beauty timeline

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  1. Hair color or perm: this process takes time and can be scheduled days ahead of time if needed.
  2. Haircut : this is quick and easy but choosing what you want can take time, remember to trim small lengths and more can be cut if you desire. It’s easy to cut off and very hard to grow or extension back.
  3. Waxing: body and face waxing lasts some time, so if you can schedule it about 4-5 days before the wedding chances are the inflammation associated with it will go down and will look and feel better the day of the wedding. This process also needs to be done before spray tanning 🙂
  4. Lashes: lashes need to be done before a spray tan but can be done almost anytime as they last for quite some time. No more than 7 days before to insure a fresh full luscious set.
  5. Manicure / Pedicure: nails should be done the day before spray tan to get the entire treatment of a manicure or pedicure. Your nail tech will soak your hands and feet to make your cuticles softer for the process. As we know water is the mortal enemy of a spray tan. Also getting it done before coats the nails, protecting them from spray tan solution from soaking in.
  6. Spray Tan: should always be your last beauty procedure. If your event is on Saturday, plan for a Thursday night tan. Wake up and shower on Friday and be gorgeously tan for the grooms dinner. Planning for Thursday spray tan also gives you a small window to fix anything, heaven forbid you sit on a wet lawn chair with a glass of wine after your spray tan.

For your hair and makeup appointments the day of pack a button up shirt for you and inform your bridesmaids to do the same. Button down shirts don’t go over your head, saving your fabulous hair styling! Hair and makeup appointments for the day of are great if you can find stylists and artists to come out on site. It makes all the difference in your stress level.

Massage and other spa treatments: if you think you need a relaxing moment before the big show, have a glass of champagne. Saving the pampering treatments for after the wedding will save you time for event details as well as give you a bonding experience with your new life partner.

Remember to enjoy your beauty treatments, chances are the stylist or technician loves giving brides the look they desire for one of the most memorable days of their life. If a particular stylist doesn’t seem comfortable with bridal sessions, ask for a referral. Save the stress for you and them.

How Spray Tans work : The Science Behind

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Spray tan has come a long way since its invention in the 1950s, We promise.  This is a quick read about how spray tan works from the Master spray tan Artist at Tanning Cabana. 

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DHA or Dihydroxyacetone – the active spray tan ingredient.

DHA is the active ingredient in spray tan solution. DHA was first discovered in the 1920s and was proposed as a sugar substitute for people with diabetes by Proctor & Gamble. Later, Eva Wittgenstein was experimenting with feeding a DHA solution to children with a metabolic disorder. Sometimes children would spit up on her, leaving brown patches only on her skin, not her clothes. This was one of the first things week noticed in our studios. The hot white towels we used under each client to keep their feet warm – did not stain. DHA only reacts with skin, not clothing.

 

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A spray tan is not a paint or a dye.

How it works is due to the Maillard reaction. It’s not a paint or a dye but a chemical reaction leading to the change in skin tone. The active ingredient in spray tan is sugar that reacts with an amino acid in your skin. It is not a paint or a dye; once the tan has developed, it will only come off as your skin sloughs or exfoliates off. What you see in the salon immediately is a bronzer indicator, showing where the solution has been sprayed or not sprayed. Bronzer can rub off. A set tan will not sweat or rub off.

The first sunless tanner was “QT” by Coppertone and was introduced in the 1960s.


A Sunless Revolution, spray tan keeps improving.

Starting in the 1980s, bodybuilders began using DHA-based sunless tanners to enhance their tans from UV beds. This is actually very dangerous as DHA can increase your UV uptake by 100%. When you are spray tanning for vacation, we recommend an aerosol SPF 30 sunscreen after showering and applying coconut oil. Did you know coconut oil has a natural SPF of 4? That is another blog post entirely.

DHA is derived from plant sources such as sugar beets and sugar cane by the fermentation of glycerin and in our signature solution from apples. Alongside the DHA, spray tan solution contains bronzers. These bronzers are almost always natural, including black walnut shells and cocoa powder. These bronzers are the agents that can potentially stain clothing when you get a spray tan. It is best to wear loose dark clothing after your appointment.

In the late 1990s, Estee Lauder noted in a patent, DHA in cream form will stay on the skin’s surface, pooling or clumping together. This results in a less than natural-looking tan. At this point, atomized droplets were launched as the way to apply DHA to the skin. When sprayed on like spray paint, the DHA could reach more cells resulting in a much more natural-looking tan. Creams are great for touch up and increasing the longevity of your tan.