To be perfectly frank, the way the sun tends to appear and then disappear during a typical Irish summer is a mighty pain in the arse. One day it's all sunshine and people muttering "Jaysis, how would you do anything in this heat, hah?" (with heat being pronounced "hate" - this conversation happens in Wexford in my head) and a full body tan is a great idea; the next day it's overcast and rotten and you wouldn't be getting your legs out unless you had some kind of death-by-freezing wish.
It's hard to be bothered applying an all-over tan, hanging around while it dries, destroying your bed clothes if you haven't a Tan-gro to hand, and listening to the other half whinge about the bang of stale biscuits off you while it develops if there's a chance you won't get to show it off.
My solution is usually not to bother, and instead whip out some instant colour on the mornings that the sun does decide to put in an appearance. I still wouldn't recommend it for anywhere other than legs, now, but Airbrush Legs, €13.89, is feckin' brill for last minute tan top-ups, and great for camouflaging broken veins (blub!) and bruises (my bed has hard corners and eh apparently I have no concept of where my body is in space.)
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The instructions say just to apply it with your hand, but I prefer to use a tanning mitt - it makes blending a cinch and clean-up is so much simpler.
Airbrush Legs isn't bombproof, like - at the end of the day, it is a wash-off tan - but I have woken up with it still looking perfect on my legs rather than all over the sheets. Also, I recently wore it with a cream skirt and while there was a bit of transfer inside the bottom of the hemline, it wasn't as terrible as I expected and there was no evidence of it at all on the outside of the skirt.
Result!
