Missing your natural summer glow right about now? A paler complexion is something most of us just have to grin and bear in the wintertime. Others prefer to escape to sunny locales when temperatures drop. And then there are those who use a cheat code to achieve a sun-kissed glow — like Kelly Ripa, for instance, who maintains a bronzed look year-round using Tan Luxe’s The Face Self-Tan Drops.
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A few drops each day of this customizable self-tanner is all it takes to gradually become golden.
Ripa may have discovered these tanning drops, but she’s not gatekeeping her beauty secret. In fact, she shared the love openly on Live with Kelly and Ryan. “You put [the drops] in your moisturizer, and then you put it on, and your tan develops gradually,” she said of this liquid gold.
Tan Luxe’s face-tanning drops are packed with a nourishing blend of raspberry seed oil, aloe vera, vitamin E and caffeine. The serum not only enhances your skin tone, but also aims to firm and tone your skin. And it’s easy to use: Just add the drops to your daily moisturizer and you’ve got yourself an instant self-tanner that you can customize to go as light or dark as you’d like. Choose from two colors: Light/Medium and Medium/Dark.
Ripa’s far from the formula’s only fan, of course. Thousands of Amazon shoppers swear by Tan-Luxe too.
One writes: “This stuff is amazing. Yes, a bit expensive, but WORTH IT. It lasts forever. My favorite thing is how natural it looks. I’ll add five drops into my facial moisturizer, mix it up, put it on my face and leave it be overnight. The next day my whole face is tanned and yet somehow, it blends seamlessly into my chest without using any tanner there! NO streaks at all.”
Another reviewer said, “I’ve used other tanning drops that broke me out on the face, but these have been great and I’ve had no breakouts or issues from them, using it for two years now. I have a fairly light skin tone, so using about two drops in my lotion usually works well for me. Doesn’t leave an orange cast and looks really natural!”
And one shopper confirmed there’s no reason to worry about color transfer or anything else off-putting. “It does not have any strong smell, it does not stain sheets/pillows in my experience.”
Ripa did have a word of warning for those who like to go a little heavy-handed with their tanner: Don’t. After going on a “deep dive” of Tan Luxe’s other tanning products, she got a little too overzealous and used them all at once.
“If you start putting on all these things at once, you can develop tans on parts of your body moreso than other parts,” she shared. “If you look at me without the makeup on, in a certain light, I kind of look like a Rorschach test,” Ripa joked.
Moral of the story: Don’t go crazy, use one product at a time — and prepare for plenty of compliments.
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If you want your body to match your bronzy face, just mix a few drops into your body lotion for a gradual glow-up.
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The reviews quoted above reflect the most recent versions at the time of publication.
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