Another Week. Another Tanning product for
the ‘Tans for Women Of Colour’ Project.
First off I want to thank everyone for all
the positive response we had have so far for the #TFWOC Blogger Project.
If you are joining the show a bit late, The TFWOC involves 11 lovely olive,
brown or black skinned bloggers who are showing everyone that dark-skinned
girls CAN tan
and FYI the results are absolutely amazing!
Last Week we kicked things off with reviews
of Abi O’s Beau Bronz and I am going to post up a summary of all the posts
later on today so you can scan through all the different reviews in one place,
and this week we have a Cruelty Free High-street/Drugstore Tan from Gosh
Cosmetics.
Containing Day Moist CLR and organic
Gojiberry, the Gosh Instant Tan Gel in Dark (rep. £7.69) is a Wash Off, DHA free Tan with
Sugar beet extract and corn starch. As DHA is the main ingredient used to tan
the skin, I was quite interested to see the effects this tan would have on my
dark skin.
I'm always a sucker for gold and black packaging so that won me off aesthetically. Even though it is shaped a bit like an aerosol can, this comes in comes with a doe foot applicator and comes out with a very dark brown (almost black) formula on my tanning mitt (Yes, i have a Tanning mitt now. After a twitter discussion with Sophia of Tattoed Tealady on twitter and how this was difficult to take off, I went to Superdrug and grabbed a Tanning mitt)
I'm always a sucker for gold and black packaging so that won me off aesthetically. Even though it is shaped a bit like an aerosol can, this comes in comes with a doe foot applicator and comes out with a very dark brown (almost black) formula on my tanning mitt (Yes, i have a Tanning mitt now. After a twitter discussion with Sophia of Tattoed Tealady on twitter and how this was difficult to take off, I went to Superdrug and grabbed a Tanning mitt)
Initially I was impressed. I love the shade
of brown my arm went and I thought it had a light soapy fragrance, which wasn’t
too bad as far as fragrances go. I showed my swatched arm to my sis and she
remarked on how glowy and healthy my swatched arm looked compared to my
unswatched arm which honestly when doing a tan project on dark skin is what you
want to hear so initially I was pleased as punch . . . until the tingling . . .and then the burning . . .then the nausea
happened
I don’t know what the hell happened because
I’ve talked to the other girls who have reviewed the Gosh Instant Tan Gel so
far and no one got the symptoms I had but then I am allergic to certain sugars (honey,
watermelon, ragweed etc. etc.) so I might have just reacted to the Sugar
beet root extract so if you have sensitive skin like me I wouldn’t really
recommend this product for you are you might be playing with sugar-flavored
fire.
Regardless I was not very impressed with
this product because after the 30 odd minutes of fanning my arm and the
burning/tingling feeling subsided (FINALLY!), the tan only lasted 2/3 hours
before it completely faded away! I made the mistake of tanning too far up my
arms into my wrist and tanned the bottom of my palm a bit orangey brown and
after 3 hours the tan on my palm wasn’t even visible and seeing as this is
meant to last 6/8 hours, I think anyone buying this to use on a night out will
be very unimpressed.
Overall I loved the two hours of colour and
the shade this product gave me but ladies with sensitive skin I wouldn’t
recommend this at all. I didn’t have a positive experience with this product
and I doubt you would either. I’m not normally one to give a negative review for a product unless it is absolutely crap but all I have to say is Tingling
. . .Burning.
. Spent the
rest of the day in bed with a raging headache.
If anyone is interested in trying out this product for
themselves as maybe my slight allergic reaction to it, doesn’t paint it in the
best light. Leave a comment below and I’ll pop it in the post to you.