Fake Tan Application Fail

We’ve all been there - you see a beauty ‘expert’ online sharing a cheat way to pull off a certain beauty look - and you’re tempted to try.

This is what happened to 17-year-old UK faux glow lover Imogen Silversides, who saw a video of a woman (below) applying streak-free fake tan using a paint roller - and couldn’t resist experimenting with the technique herself.

Okay so after I put on snapchat (add my snapchat amyridler) how I fake tan everyone has thought it was a great idea ...

Posted by Amy Ridler on Thursday, February 4, 2016

But it all went oh so wrong...

Image credit: Imogen Silversides

So how the heck did this major beauty mishap go down?

Speaking to cosmopolitan.co.uk, Imogen admitted it didn’t take her long to realise “[it] was a bad idea and that it had gone wrong”.

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Image credit: Imogen Silversides

“However there was nothing I could do as I had already fake tanned my arms and legs with the roller, so there was no going back at this point!"

Thankfully, Imogen was able to wash most of the tanning lotion off before it had time to dry, (it took “around half an hour to an hour of constant scrubbing in the shower"). But there is a lesson here for us all:

Never apply fake tan with a paint roller. Ever.

Try a mitt such as Bondi Sands Application Mitt, St. Tropez Applicator Mitt or 1000 Hour Self Tan Applicator Mitt.

Have you ever had a fake tan fail? What’s your worst ever beauty mishap?

51 Member Comments

AP1992 7 Apr 2018 9:36 AM

this is rediculous

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Shop A Everyday 25 Feb 2018 2:30 AM

A paint roller, totally now way!!

owlsparks 3 Sep 2016 1:21 PM

Hahah this is hilarious!

Pixie96 22 Aug 2016 9:27 PM

Wow! What a fake tan disaster!

Shop A Everyday 2 May 2016 12:31 AM

I used palmers last week and it worked!!! Yeah
Key = completely DRY skin

sootyblack_14 16 Apr 2016 3:44 PM

OH MY GOODNESS!!! Poor soul!!!!

Shop A Everyday 10 Apr 2016 8:21 PM

Oh wow so dark lol

ray_jay 8 Apr 2016 12:37 PM

Yeah it's the colour choice not the roller ,

ray_jay 8 Apr 2016 12:36 PM

So firstly why did the tan go so dark? It doesn't make sense to me as a tanner. The fake tan would apply through the sponge so it would work- it looks too dark for me to understand

cwingy83 8 Apr 2016 11:39 AM

omg..it's fake tan gone wrong

talk-a-lot 7 Apr 2016 9:04 PM

Good grief I would say that is a lesson learnt the hard way, a paint roller and fake tan don't mix, lol.

Shop A Everyday 13 Mar 2016 9:03 PM

I really do struggle with these, always is blotchy

Petal 9 Mar 2016 11:52 AM

BH, thanks for an article that made me laugh!

hannahmay 1 Mar 2016 8:03 PM

This is like my worst nightmare.

Elefante 1 Mar 2016 1:16 PM

... She looks like a jar of vegemite to me hahaha

Sarah707 27 Feb 2016 6:15 PM

The funny thing is that when my cousin enters in her body building comps she is so pale that her professional tanner rolls it on as well. Though I must says she doesn't put that much product on.