Shit Product? Or Nah?

Equate Beauty (Walmart's brand) Self Tan Foaming Mousse Comparable to St. Tropez Self Tan Bronzing Mousse. The claims written on the bottle are, "for an all over even tan," "golden color, never orange" and "instant color." You get 4 fl oz and I paid $7.99 for this product in store. Walmart also offers a lotion version of this and a product that was for legs and seemed that it was their comparison to Sally Hansen's Airbrush Legs. They were all under $10.

Let me start this first impression by saying I'm not a brand snob, if something works for me I don't care where it came from. Although I typically use Million Dollar Tan Cabana Tan Extreme (Ya Ya,YouTube beauty guru's made me buy it) which is a lotion and comes out white and the color develops over the next few hours. I love that shit, but you have to order it online and it's about $35 for a bottle. Haute Look does feature it quite a bit and you can score it there for about $23 and that's when I'll get it. So when I learned about this product, I was actually pretty excited. It's cheap and I can buy it in Walmart. I have never encountered any other drug store self tanner that came in mousse form before this product. I don't even like self tan that comes in mousse form but I thought for $7.99 I'll give it a try. I take a shower and exfoliate my right arm, I didn't tan my left so I could compare the color. My hopes are still extremely high at this point by the way. I pump the mousse into my hand and it's a very dark, greenish gray mousse. I pumped out quite a bit so I dot it on my upper arm and started working on my lower half. Once I start rubbing this into my skin the hopes I once held for this product are violently shot down, this was such a dry formula it made the hair on my arms brown and was so hard to rub in. I moved on to the blob I left on my upper arm (I'll admit, looking back I shouldn't have left that blob sit there for 15+ seconds) I start to rub that blob in but there is a blob stain on my arm. My skin is now incredibly dry, the hair on my arm looks brown but my skin looks gray ish, and my hand looks like this (I didn't have the glove to apply it, I thought about going to Sephora to pick up the St. Tropez one, but that won't make this product any better I guarantee it).

This one was taken inside after two applications

Taken outside after a THIRD application of this shit. Yeah I'm nuts.

Here is what the tan looked like after I applied two layers...

This is about 20 minutes after I applied it and the color wasn't so horrifying anymore, it did turn into a golden tan and like the bottle said, it wasn't orange. But my skin felt really dry. I bent my arm at the elbow after I thought my arm was dry and I had a huge white spot there from the product rubbing off. So why the hell not try a third layer...

Here is me applying a third application

You can see the mousse is a green color which does prevent the tan from being orange on the skin and St. Tropez has a green tint to it as well. 

This is after the third application, not much of a difference from the second. And really, the color doesn't look that bad.

I went inside to scrub the tan off my hand and looked at my arm in the mirror for a few minutes and it started looking so bad, my skin looked dirty. The inside of my arm looked so bad and I was completely over it but on the bottle it says to wait at least 4 hours before showering, then shower for that golden tan you desire. Okay I thought, I'll wait and take a shower and perhaps it will get better. P.S. IT DOESN'T GET BETTER. I took a shower 5 hours later just to play it safe and the second my arm got wet it all washed off, with no effort at all which confused me because it didn't come off my palm as easily earlier. Just washed right off. Once I got out and dried off you would have no idea I even had it on except what I discovered the next day. I don't have sensitive skin on my arms, I don't get rashes at all from anything. So when I read, "Warning: We recommend a patch test is carried out at least 24 hours prior to use. If there are any adverse reactions, do not continue to use" I didn't think anything of it because I thought there was no way in hell that would happen to me. But the next day I discover this:

My arm broke out in a rash. I got a rash from this. It warned me though, I'll give them that but I have pretty tough skin.  

List of ingredients, I don't know what 99% of that is but it didn't agree with my skin. The rash is starting to fade, almost 48 hours after I washed it off. I got online to read some reviews of this to see if anyone else developed a rash but they hadn't. There aren't many reviews on Walmart's website but they are all negative except one person raved about this...wut. I looked on Amazon as well, not many reviews but all negative.

The moral of this blog is that this product is shit. Yeah it's cheap, yeah you don't turn the color of an orange but it doesn't withstand water after 5 hours and if you so much as bend your arm and get a little sweaty in there it's going to come off. It's not worth it, I don't know how this product could work for anyone. Save your $7.99 and skip this the next time you're in Walmart.