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Daily Mail
11 hours ago
- Lifestyle
- Daily Mail
'Obsessed' shoppers can't get enough of this under-£21 face tanning mist - it's already sold out twice (and it's now on sale)
Daily Mail journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. If you make a purchase via links on this page we will earn commission - learn more Summer shoppers looking to avoid common face tanning mistakes have found a solution with one face tanning micromist that gives a 'perfect tan without streaking'. The Coco & Eve Antioxidant Face Tanning Micromist is set to end the endless problems associated with tanning your face (hello streaks, orange stains and missed patches). Selling out twice, it's now back in stock and on sale for 20 per cent off. But hurry, this sale ends soon. Antioxidant Face Tanning Micromist, 75ml If you struggle to fake tan your face or want to keep that healthy summer glow for longer, the bestselling Antioxidant Face Tanning Micromist from Coco & Eve could be your hero product. The micromist technology allows for fast-absorbing, lightweight application for a streak-free glow. Plus, it's loaded with antioxidants, which leave skin hydrated and happy. £20.50 (save £5.50) Shop The Sunny Honey Bali Bronzing Foam from Coco & Eve is so popular that one is sold every 20 seconds, with users claiming it's a 'holiday in a bottle'. Masters of self-tan, the brand has also come up with a game-changing solution to the tricky task of fake tanning your face. Enter the Antioxidant Face Tanning Micromist. Promising to make tanning your face effortless with flawless micromist technology for even application - it's so popular that it's sold out twice already, with 'obsessed' shoppers taking about its 'holy grail' status. And it's not on sale for £20.80 - a saving of over £5. Fake tanning your face is a daunting process, but the secret to a natural-looking bronze face has been discovered by 'obsessed' shoppers - and it's under £21. Using micromist technology, the easy-to-use Antioxidant Face Tanning Micromist allows for fast absorbing, lightweight application for a streak-free glow. Unlike oils and creams, which can be tricky to apply without streaks or patches, this is an ultra-fine mist that evenly disperses over your skin, eliminating the risk and maximising the rewards. And it's even been given the seal of approval from 'serious beginners'. 'I am a serious beginner,' wrote one shopper. 'I was skeptical that I could apply a mist evenly and not look like a bruised fruit - and after trying I want to buy in bulk. Such a beautiful natural glow, evens out your skin tone - would probably use in place of a concealer!'. Hailed a face tanning 'game-changer', the Coco & Eve mist is loaded with Balinese botanicals, passionfruit and HyalurosmoothTM, a hyaluronic acid-like active, which boosts skin's hydration by 40 per cent in only 30 minutes. Whether you're a beginner to fake tan or have tried and tested plenty of brands, the Coco & Eve Antioxidant Face Tanning Micromist sets itself apart from the crowd thanks to its flawless results. Users have reported waking to a 'gorgeous glow', reporting how it's 'super natural' and quickly revives 'lifeless' skin. 'I have found the holy grail' raved one thrilled shopper. 'This is the only face tanner that doesn't leave my skin blotchy and blends so evenly into my neck/chest. I can spray this on my face just for a pick me up - no other fake tanner on my body - and have a makeup free natural looking glow.' Another agreed, adding: 'Tried so many face tanners in the past and they're uneven and patchy and orange, this one is NOT. It's so even and natural I am obsessed. I will be reordering!.' 'It is so light weight and smells amazing. It is so natural and gives off such a nice warm bronze. For the price, it is perfect.'
Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
Feel the burn: Ulrika Jonsson's tan has become a hot topic
It was when I saw on my daughter's Instagram feed a video that suggested changing the name of toasters to 'sunbeds for bread', in which young women admired golden slices of toast as an ideal facial aesthetic, that I knew something very strange had happened in the world of tanning. This isn't just a fad, it's a burning issue. Ulrika Jonsson, the TV presenter, has posted on her Instagram account to address unkind comments about her recent appearance. Jonsson was seen on YouTube with a deep tan, around Yorkshire Tea on the Trump tan tint colour swatch. To achieve this with her fair Scandinavian genotype she has to put in the hours. Not only does Jonsson use sunbeds in winter, she wrote, but she likes the sun on her skin in summer. 'I'm not ashamed to say that I am a sun worshipper,' Jonsson wrote. 'And will no doubt pay the price for that.' Jonsson, 57, was receiving flak for the ageing effect this has on her face. 'I understand that an over-tanned, imperfect and AGEING face offends you,' she wrote. But in terms of her joyful dedication to solar radiation, she was in fact ageing in reverse. Generation Z girls have ditched the safe fake tan of their mothers and joined an ancient and dangerous sun cult whose last-known practitioners died out in the 1980s, embalmed in Hawaiian Tropic. Ulrika Jonsson Sunbed use is on the rise, sunbathing is on the rise, melanomas are on the rise, the whole package holiday. If you need any convincing, ask a teenage or early twentysomething girl what the UV index is. I'll wait. My life had been utterly untroubled by the UV index. In fact I hadn't even noticed when it appeared on the weather forecast in the early 2000s. It was put there to warn the public of the days when the sun's rays were at their most carcinogenic. Now the British UV index is as old as the only people who obsess on it: young women. But in a development that is in some respects quite funny, they have weaponised it for evil. For Gen Z girls, the UV index is an unholy tool in which good is bad and bad is good. TikTok is now full of videos — some deadly serious, some satirical — about the need to intently track the UV index 'like it is the stock market and you are a day trader'. When the UV index reaches a ten, meaning there is a high risk of burning for white skin, the videos show girls cheering and running outdoors in their bikinis. Fake tan is deemed such an inferior substitute that girls apply it while wearing swimwear, carefully taping off the lines of their bikinis to make sure no one would guess they are doing anything the safe way. What does it mean? In the 1960s young people innocently sacrificed their health to big tobacco because smoking was cool. Same as in the 1980s, when I tanned to burn, rotating on my beach towel like a doner kebab. Yet now we know the risks, doing it anyway becomes more interesting. Sunburn is more carcinogenic the younger it hits. Skin cancer is now the third most common cancer among British women aged 15 to 44, according to Cancer Research UK. Melanoma is 2.6 times higher in women aged 20 to 24 than in men in the same age range. A long-term study on nurses published in Cancer Epidemiology in 2014 found that five bad sunburns between the age of 15 and 20 increased risk of melanoma by 80 per cent. Yet the UK's biggest tanning chain, the Tanning Shop, has increased its number of premises by almost 40 per cent since 2018. • The best self-tanners for summer 2025 — and how to apply them You don't need me to tell you all this. The evidence is clear and I'm not your mother. I am, however, a mother to a teenage girl. I am a regretful and reformed factor 50 zealot who creeps around in the shadows. Her friends, meanwhile, live in the light. I remind her that I am the wrinkled ghost — complete with a spooky white sunblock mask — of Christmas future. Her generation remind me of many things. Teenagers are designed to rebel: see the TikTok video of a teenage girl with a huge smile, captioned 'how it feels to tan when there's no rat in my ear telling me I'm going to get skin cancer' (to be clear, I'm the rat). Smoking remained cool for young people in the 1980s even when we had full knowledge of the risks. All the warnings targeted at young people missed the point. It wasn't cool despite the risks, it was cool because of the risks. Telling teens that smoking was dangerous was its best advert. And in a similar vein to big tobacco, we now have big sun: smoking's wizened brown lungs have been swapped out for wizened brown skin. Same for lectures from tan-phobic parents like me: they are all part of tanning's appeal. Tanning, like smoking before it, provides an addictive hit of youthful invincibility, like drugs or fast motorbikes. If you're neither going to die nor get old, why worry about wrinkles? Gen Z's tanning and ever-younger use of anti-ageing treatments such as Botox seems strangely contradictory. Yet in practice it is consistent. It's about looking good now. Those tanorexic elderly nudists with bits like beef jerky are of no relevance to them. • A 2022 study in the journal Genes asked nearly 4,000 white British 25-year-olds about tanning. More than half said they 'liked to tan', with 90 per cent saying their favourite way was outdoors in the sun. Their top three reasons were in descending order 'it makes you happier', 'it gives you more confidence' and 'it makes you look better in photos'. Looking 'thinner with a tan' came in at number five. Only a fifth said they had not had a painful sunburn lasting a day or more in the last two years. In the US mainstream politics is more into sunning itself. Donald Trump has so far remained silent on how he achieves his trademark skin tone. A White House official said in 2019 that it was the result of 'good genes'. But Unhinged, a memoir by the former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, claimed that Trump had a tanning bed in the White House. Robert F Kennedy Jr, America's mahogany health secretary, believes in tanning. He was photographed leaving a Washington DC tanning salon last month. His plan to 'Make America Healthy Again', released in May, is unusual in not mentioning sunburn, one of the major lifestyle factors causing the rise in young people's cancer. Instead, in October Kennedy tweeted that the US Food and Drug Administration's 'aggressive suppression' of 'sunshine' would end under his reign. I'm joking about big sun but, in a way, we do all live in the shadow of big sun — or rather, what feels like an ever hotter sun in our warming planet. 'I'm a solar panel,' one sunbathing young woman joked on social media. This generation of young people are perhaps unique in their gloominess about the long-term future. If measures to cool the planet aren't being taken, why bother taking measures to stop your skin burning? We may all burn one way or another. The Kennedy rhetoric here is appealing: maybe, hopefully, the scientists have it wrong about the dangers of the sun in every way. Or if they don't, if we are all going to fry, why not go down with a beautiful tan that will look great in the photos? 'My name is Christa and I admit it — I'm a lifelong tanorexic' By Christa D'Souza Christa D'Souza CHRISTA D'SOUZA/INSTAGRAM Poor Ulrika. Folks do like to have a go, don't they? It takes a tanorexic to know one and yes, as someone born in 1960, that is what I am. If you were a teen in the Seventies you probably were too. What exacerbated the addiction — because that is probably what it is — is that I was so terribly good at it. Being of mixed heritage (my dad was Indian) I can almost, as it were, get brown under fluorescent light. When I was a teen it was perfectly normal to want one's face to be the same shade of mahogany as one's body. (Hence putting tin foil up one's nostrils and facing the sun on a deckchair for hours.) It could be raining on holiday and I'd be out there by the pool wanting to be darker. You can never be too rich, too thin or too brown; that was the mantra of the Seventies and though I'm not saying I still hold by that, I'm also saying that I suppose it doesn't sound completely nuts. In one way I wish I'd listened to my mother, who told me summer after summer I was ruining my skin (she herself at 82 has peachy skin. In fact a friendly immigration officer in Pakistan once told her she thought I was the mother, rather than the other way round). But in another it's a price I've always been willing to pay. They say you choose your face or your body. Well, it's crystal clear to any observer which way I swing. Absent of a face transplant or some very, very, very expensive surgery I'm always going to look my age (65). Like Ulrika, I was always destined to be the peach kernel rather than the peach, for which I take full responsibility. My children, who both tend to dress like Shackleton on the beach, are always on at me about it. And I've got the whole season to toast slowly: we live part of the year in Greece, which means there's no rush. Soz, but I love the feeling of the sun on my face too much. And though I'll make some token efforts at the beginning of summer to cream up and wear a hat, ten days in I'll be out there bare-backed, just as I was in my teens and twenties. As for the damage I've wreaked over the years from other bad habits … Like I said, poor Ulrika — and she's only 57, miles younger than me! My advice to her is that she does as I do: keep teetotal, attempt to stay in shape and style it out.
Globe and Mail
2 days ago
- Health
- Globe and Mail
Morning Update: Sunscreen skepticism goes viral
Good morning. The TikTok generation is trading sunblock for sunburns, using apps to optimize their summer glow — more on that below, along with the one-year anniversary of Jasper's wildfire and Ozzy Osbourne's musical legacy. But first: The kids are tanning again. They're frying themselves to a Paris Hilton Y2K crisp. They're speeding along the entire process with gels that are basically Vaseline and lotions that are literally beer. (The Cleveland Clinic actually stepped in to warn about the perils of 'beer tanning.') They're using apps with names like Rayz and Beam to track peak UV hours, so they can hustle outside and sharpen their tan lines by laying in the sun. Then they're showing off their handiwork on social media, where the hashtag 'tanlines' has appeared in more than 236 million TikTok posts. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, 70 per cent of Gen Z report actively tanning. Half of them say they returned with a burn, a number that ticks up to 57 per cent in Canada. And while the pursuit of a sun-baked complexion is at least a century old – back when Josephine Baker launched her own tanning oil and Coco Chanel said 'a golden tan is the index of chic' – this generation appears to be worryingly unaware of the risks. Maybe the beer tanning tipped you off: 28 per cent of 18- to 26-year-olds say they don't believe suntans cause skin cancer. And 68 per cent admit they often forgo sunscreen. Real quick: Scientists estimate that exposure to UV radiation is associated with 80 to 90 per cent of all skin cancers. That includes melanoma, which is its most fatal form. Sunscreen isn't a silver bullet – flat-out sun avoidance and sun-protective clothing are the best ways to keep your skin safe. Still, study after study after study have shown that regular sunscreen use reduces your risk of developing skin cancer. But that message doesn't tend to accompany those #tanlines Tiktoks. Timothy Caulfield, a professor of health law and science policy at the University of Alberta, told The Globe that what's playing out on social media instead is nothing short of an 'anti-sunscreen movement.' He chalks that up to the power of online influencers such as American podcaster Joe Rogan, who has floated the idea that sunscreen can damage the brain. (It can't.) Wellness bro Andrew Huberman said on his show that the chemicals in sunscreen may be endocrine disruptors. (They're not.) Trad-couple influencers Nara and Lucky Blue Smith whipped up their own sunscreen from coconut oil and shea butter. The process – which you really should not try at home – has been viewed on TikTok nearly 22 million times. To the most bullish sunscreen truthers, the sun is all-natural and SPF is synthetic, peddled by Big Pharma to keep you sick. It's an easy theory that fits tidily into the whole Make America Healthy Again movement, where measles are treated with cod liver oil, not vaccines, and milk is best when it's raw, not pasteurized, and bone marrow is a daily menu staple. Sometimes, MAHA worlds collide: A brand called Primally Pure is now hawking a sunscreen alternative made from beef tallow. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – who sports a serious bronze himself – posted last year that the war on sunshine (and anything else that 'can't be patented by Pharma') was about to end. It's all having an impact on young adults. The Orlando Health Cancer Institute found that 14 per cent of them felt it was more harmful to wear sunscreen every day than to go without. Nearly 30 per cent of Gen Z said getting a tan was more important than preventing skin cancer anyway. In his inaugural address last January, U.S. President Donald Trump – another tanning enthusiast – promised to usher in a new golden age. This might not exactly be the hue he was aiming for, but it's looking increasingly like the one he'll get. One year ago, a 50-metre-high wildfire overtook Jasper, displacing the entire town and destroying at least a third of its buildings. Read more here about the long road to recovery – and how residents are working to rebuild their community. At home: A cybersecurity breach at the $4-billion hedge fund manager Waratah, which handles money for wealthy Canadians, may have exposed names, social insurance numbers and account sizes. Abroad: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers home early for the summer to avoid a vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. Music: Just weeks after playing the final Black Sabbath concert, heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76. Sports: Canadian soccer phenom Olivia Smith is the first female player to fetch a £1-million transfer fee after signing with Arsenal of England's Women's Super League. Pop: It was a banner second quarter for Coca-Cola, which beat profit estimates and is about to put cane sugar back in its drinks.
Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
Feel the burn: Ulrika's tan has become a hot topic
I t was when I saw on my daughter's Instagram feed a video that suggested changing the name of toasters to 'sunbeds for bread', in which young women admired golden slices of toast as an ideal facial aesthetic, that I knew something very strange had happened in the world of tanning. This isn't just a fad, it's a burning issue. Ulrika Jonsson, the TV presenter, has posted on her Instagram account to address unkind comments about her recent appearance. Jonsson was seen on YouTube with a deep tan, around Yorkshire Tea on the Trump tan tint colour swatch. To achieve this with her fair Scandinavian genotype she has to put in the hours. Not only does Jonsson use sunbeds in winter, she wrote, but she likes the sun on her skin in summer. 'I'm not ashamed to say that I am a sun worshipper,' Jonsson wrote. 'And will no doubt pay the price for that.'
CBS News
3 days ago
- Health
- CBS News
TikTok trend tracking UV index for tanning is "alarming," dermatologist says
On sunny or even cloudy days, the UV index can be a good thing to check. "It's five, moderate. But you're still supposed to use sun protection it says," explained Claira Wright, a University of Minnesota sophomore as she checked her phone. But many Gen Z-ers aren't using the index to avoid peak UV hours — they're tracking them for tanning. "It's incredibly alarming. They're using it to optimize the amount of time they need to spend sun tanning and getting as dark as possible," said Dr. Cynthia Nicholson, a pediatric dermatologist with M Health Fairview. A recent survey by the American Academy of Dermatology says 67% of Americans report getting tan or darker skin in 2024, up from 54% in 2020. "We know that the early sun exposure that you get early in life, even before 20 or so, increases our risk quite dramatically of developing a skin cancer," said Nicholson. The UV index measures the intensity of ultraviolet radiation from the sun on a scale of 0 to 11. The higher the number, the higher the risk of UV exposure, Nicholson says. When the UV index is low, she says it's still a good idea to wear sunscreen. Between 3 and 7, sunglasses, hats, and a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher are needed to help protect you. At the very high or extreme levels, more action is needed. "If you're looking at nine to 11-plus you really shouldn't even be outside," said Nicholson. Wright's friends often tan when the UV level is nine or higher. "And I usually go with my friends. Some of my friends don't use SPF but I'm always the one using SPF," said Wright. While social media trends eventually disappear, the effects of sun damage can last a lifetime.
