How to Get Tan with Dove Tanning Lotion & Maintaining Tan

Hi ladies! Today I will talk to you about how to maintain a tan, and which tanning product I prefer. I am not really about getting in the tanning bed since it increases your chances of skin cancer with 25% already after only one time in the tanning bed! The sun isn't healthy either in big quantities. That's why I am showing you this amazing product. Let's jump right in.

My go to favorite tanning lotion is the one by Dove. It's the No. 1 gradual self tanning product in Scandinavia. The lotion is white-brown and you can apply it easily like a normal lotion. It contains 250 ml. and can hold up to 12 months after opened.

Colors: It comes with two different colors Light - Medium Skin and Medium - Dark Skin. I've been experimenting with both colors, and I'm defiantly all about the medium - dark skin, since your tanning for one reason - TO GET TAN! The lighter one makes me look greenish and it doesn't give you that much color. If you want to get tan you should use the darker one.
For a full coverage (making sure no white spots) apply two layers - that will make you look tanner, and it will last longer. Let the first layer dry and then apply the next.

Scent: When you first smell it and rub it into your skin it smells nice and summer-like. BUT when you wake up it doesn't smell that good anymore, you will defiantly need a shower to wash of the smell.

Applying: Before applying the lotion I recommend you scrub your body (or the areas wanted tanned). That will help the tan last longer. It's very easy to apply and it dries fast unless you apply many layers.
Make sure to not touch your elbows, because dry areas will absorb the lotion way more than your soft skin. After applying wash your hands really good, cause you don't want those yellow looking hands so everyone can she you've been tanning - we want this to look as natural as possible. 
I recommend that you apply 30-40 min. before going to bed, so it can get into your skin (a tanning lotion needs 6-8 hours without sweating or taking a bath, swimming etc.) so it can develop into your skin nicely while you sleep.
When you wake up you should see great results! When you wake up I recommend taking a shower to get rid of the bad tanning scent.

Maintaining:  Maintaining a tan can be done through many different ways, you can drink a lot of water to keep your skin nice and soft, make a carrot smoothie (it helps keeping your tan) and you can invest in some very good lotions.

These two are really good lotions. The Loreal Sublime Body lotion and the Plaisir Body Lotion makes your skin the softest ever! I've honestly never tried any lotions like these two. Plaisir is a bit more high-end and loreal are a good drugstore alternative, if you don't want to go out and buy an expensive lotion.

I've used these lotion for a long time now and I defiantly see a difference between using them while having a tan or without. They make my tan last longer plus my skin gets really soft.

Now you can enjoy your tan!

(My little collection)

DRUGSTORE SHAMPOO ETC.

Hi beautiful! So many people can't afford always going to salons and buy the best products for your hair, so I've gathered some of my best drugstore shampoos together. They are all very affordable and works wonder for your hair.

Let's start from the left. Garnier Respons the mother of pearl & cherry with no parabens. It may look a bit like some grandmother shampoo, but I guarantee you that it isn't! It smells very fresh of flowers and gives you silky soft hair. It says it gives intensive shine, but I don't really agree with that. It does make my hair fuller and softer, but it doesn't look shinier. If your hair is a bit straw-like you should try this out!

Moving on is the Garnier Respons the avocado oil & shea butter also with no parabens. This smells heavenly! You can really smell the avocado oil and the shea butter. It just a really nice refreshing smell. It gives you nutrition and softness, and I couldn't agree more. This is just the best drugstore shampoo I've tried. It leaves my hair the softest ever and just smells wonderful. If you have dry and damaged hair this will work wonders for you, but if your hair is already pretty healthy this wouldn't hurt you either.     

Next is the Loreal ELVITAL Volume Collagen volumising shampoo with no silicone. This is my second favorite shampoo ever! It has a smell I haven't smelled before, it's a really good smell. This is basically a volume shampoo obviously, and it gives me the best volume of all the volume shampoos I've used. So if you want volume you should defiantly try this one out! The bottle says it's for fine hair with no volume. But I have a lot of hair and it's not fine, but it works for me. This shampoo is also really good if you straighten your hair, cause the straightening won't weight down the volume.

Moving on is the Loreal ELVITAL Color-vive for colored/striped hair.
It does 3 things for your colored hair;

• Seals the hair color
• Protects the hair
• Prolongs the shine

It seals the hair color and protects the color from fading 80%. It smells wonder. It also protects against UV rays with it's UVA and UVB filters.
A very good drugstore shampoo if you need to seal your hair color.

Then we have the two Loreal ELVITAL Anti-breakage shampoo and anti-breaking instant miracle strengthening treatment with cement-creamide. Both products are for dry and damaged hair. Specially of you have colored and used a lot of heat tools on your hair these are the products for you. They go hand-in-hand with each other. The shampoo smells great, but not fantastic, but I guess when it's a product that needs to help your hair it's probably also that it's all about and not the smell. The treatment is actually like a conditioner, cause it doesn't need to stay in for 2-3 minutes or what not, but because it's says instant miracle means it instant. So you can just put it in a wash out right away. I recommend using this just as a conditioner, right after you've done your shampoo-routine. I really feel a difference using these two products.

TIP: Wash your hair twice with your shampoo each time you wash it. It will help preventing greasiness and your hair will "last longer", by that I mean you can go more days without washing it. When you wash twice each time you're in the shower your hair can last to 3-4 days without shampooing it again. 
The meaning of this is because when you wash with shampoo the first time, it is only washing away bacteria and greasiness, and after that you wanna shampoo again because that's when the product will go in and go its magic.


Products mentioned:

• Garnier Respons the mother of pearl & cherry 
• Garnier Respons the avocado oil & shea butter  
• Loreal ELVITAL Volume Collagen volumising shampoo
• Loreal ELVITAL Color-vive
• Loreal ELVITAL Anti-breakage shampoo
• Loreal ELVITAL Anti-breakage Instant Mircale Strengthening Treatment    

Have a nice hairday!

TOPSHOP GOLDCHAIN

I went to TOPSHOP today and bought this really nice gold chain. A gold chain can just do so much to your look. It gives you a chic look and I would prefer wearing this to a really nice black or white dress.

I got it on sale and I think it was around $6.5

Go to TOPSHOP's website here.

FAVORITES AT THE MOMENT

My favorites right at the moment are these elegant four things.
Bag bought in Sparkz, but I've seen the bag in many different stores and look-a-likes as well. Sunglasses for the wintertime cause when all the white snowing is falling it can really hurt your eyes while your driving. A statement necklace gold with diamonds - we all love!
Perfume 'COOL WATER' by Davidoff. Really fresh smell like you've just gotten out of the shower, we all love that smell right? :)

Hope you like my favorites ladies and check the post about Olivia Palermo linked below http://melinachristiansen.blogspot.dk/2014/01/olivia-palermo-i-am-not-bitch.html

Have a lovely week in the winter cold!