Professional Spray Tans?

So my baby shower is quickly approaching (next Saturday!) It's outdoors and I plan on getting a sundress to wear. I tried on a few at Macy's the other night and fell in love with one of them but didn't get it because I looked like a ghost in it. I'm soooooo white. I normally do a base tan right about now in the beds and then get sun naturally on my own. However, tanning beds + pregnancy = no no. So I was wondering - has anyone ever gotten a professional spray tan (I'm not even going to attempt to do one myself, the last time I did, I had a huge orange streak running down the back of my leg and my eyebrows were orange!)

Please share opinions and experiences!

I don't have an experience but wanted to give you a heads up about being in the sun while pregnant.  I sat out for about 10 minutes in the pool last summer when I was pregnant and got a mask of pregnancy from hell!  I am still putting stuff on it to make it go away.  Wear sunscreen.  The mask sucks.

Thanks Malena! My shower is outdoors but under a pavallion - so I'm not too worried about being in the sun. Especially because since my bypass - the sun makes me really sick anyways. This is only my second summer after bypass, so I'm trying to figure out how I can through it not being so pastey. But thanks for the input.

I get sprayed and mine always looks great!  My OB knows that I tan year round and suggested the spray when I was pregnant with Skyler.  I was a bit freaked by it at first thinking I would look orange but, it was very nice and pretty.  They did a great job!  I do lay out in my pool to get more color but, it seems to fade the spray tan a lot.  I think it's the chemicals or something.  I will be ready to jump back in the tanning bed once this baby pops out in December! 

Get you some color and rock the sundress girl!!!

Ash :)

Thanks for the input Ash. I'm worried that because I'm sooo white that I will come out looking orange. Did you get the spray tan done by a person or the booth? The only places around here that do the spray tan are done in booths.

A person does mine.  She's a friend of mine and owns a upscale tanning salon here in our town.  She charges me $25. 

I'd be scared to try the booth!  Jennifer is able to spray me in places a booth can't get too

Good luck!

Ash :)

Haha I think that's why I want the booth - because I don't want anyone spraying me! But at the same time, I don't mind not being completely tan - as long as the normal things that show are tan - mainly my arms, legs, chest, back, and face.

I did it a couple of months back. I use to tan and spray tan all the time and really liked it and it looked good. This last time i did it i looked like a Blonde Spanish Person!   It just did not look right, more than likely the place i used though. I think i paid $30 for it.  I suggest doing it a week before the shower.........so it will tone down a bit prior. Good Luck to you!!

That's what I was thinking too. I'm going to be down by the tanning place that does it this weekend (on Sunday.) So I figured that I could get it done Sunday - that would make it 6 days old by the time shower comes around. They say it only lasts 4-5 days but from what people tell me it's more like 6-7.

Interesting...I never thought of trying that...I tan horrible since I am an adult (I used to tan beautiful when I was a child / teen).  I blame it on all those horrible meds I took.  At any rate, the self tanner tells you not to use it if your pregnant, something about the chemicals.  I would have thought spray tanning would be the same.  I'll have to ask my OB, I would love to rock a tan..maybe I would look thinner.