What is a good Step 2 lotion?

[newtanner27]

Hi all love this board, and now that is said i have went to the tanning bed eight times. I have a nice base tan going on. But i want to up the lotion to the next step maybe with a tingle in it. Maybe even with a tingle and bronzer. What would be a good one. And if i use a bronzer is that most of your tan you get are does that just help out some. Thanks

[njchica]

What are you currently using and what brands does your salon sell?

[colorgod]

depends on what kind of tingle and bronzer you would prefer.

[newtanner27]

I was using AG dark tanning accelerator and my cousin just gave me a bottle of EB dark tanning spray. But i think im ready to advance and would like to go tingle. MY salon carries not much so i dont have much of a choice but she carries some AG and EB and SB.

[colorgod]

You would need to start out with a low tingle and advance your way through higher tingles. SB makes a great starter tingle called Zinger.

[colorgod]

Dark Kickin' Ale by EB has a tingle and bronzer. I don't think the tingle in DKA is very high, it says level 5.

[BrOnZeDbOmBsHeLl]

I used Half Baked and I got really great color from it. I got real hot from it which I love. The only thing that I have noticed along w/ other clients is once you get towards the end of the bottle it becomes very runny. It still gives good color but can get a little messy if your not careful. It's kinda fun getting to "shake it up" when you buy the bottle and the hemp seed bracelet is an added bonus!

[colorgod]

Half Baked, what is the scent? I"ve used some of Fiesta Sun's products, I think Half Baked included, but most of them smelled like grape bubblegum to me.

I didn't care for the products I tried.

[newtanner27]

thanks for the good advice i think i might try one of them sometime soon. But i guess i should go ahead and use the bottles i got first.

[BrOnZeDbOmBsHeLl]

the scent...it's been a couple months since I used it. From what I can remember it was kind of a spicy coffee smell, but definetly not grape bubble gum.

[njchica]

You don't have to use a tingle to darken your tan. Swedish Beauty makes an excellent lotion--Swedish Hemp Creme-- which sells for $26 and gives excellent results. I have an awesome dark tan and I rarely use tingle.

[colorgod]

Many of their lotions smell like grape bubble gum. I have the chart here somewhere. I'll have to dig around to found it and review.

[HellaTanBlonde]

Any of the Elements from CT are absolutely amazing...depending on if you like bronzers or not, i've tried the two without and they were great, hot hot tingle though!

[Blondie41280]

Swedish Hemp Creme really gave me that extra boast in color. So did Green Tea and Black Tea. Helix is great also but it def costs more then the others I listed thats why I dont use it all the time.