I Am Golden

For the record I am not a fake tan fan. For years I have hated the stuff, I hate the smell, the horrible orange tones, the patchy bits...and I love natural, porcelain beautiful skin. Especially as a makeup artist, there is nothing worse than when you arrive to a job and the model is covered in bad tan. Gggrr....

But I suppose I must give the fake tan people a chance! I must have faith that while I have been evangelically boycotting their products they have perhaps been slaving away improving them...

The last gradual tanner I tried was Johnsons Holiday Skin and my verdict was that while it was a great concept it didn't really deliver so well...the smell, oh dear God, the smell!

So, I know I am late to the St Tropez Everyday party, as it's been around a while but their latest claim that it has an ingredient that reduces the smell by 70% caught my imagination.

I tried it last week, and I have to eat humble pie. While I feel a bit of a fake; I don't look like one and more importantly, I don't smell like one! I used the light-medium shade and I think this is definitely dark enough for celtic complexions, I fear the medium-dark may be a step too far.

I like that it is genuinely quite moisturising so my skin looks nourished as well as slightly golden and not orange at all.

Dear readers, I'm converted.