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‎"Darque Immersion supports our local Tampa Bay Ray's!" Not as big as "20,000 Free Tickets" but we want you to look your best! Stop in today and receive a FREE Tanning Session or a Mystic Sunless upgrade! Go Rays!!

Putting Your Best Face Forward

Did you know that your everyday tanning lotion isn’t meant for your face? Especially Tingle lotion. Lotion for your body can clog your pores and even cause you to break out. Darque Immersion carries lotions that are specially formulated for your face. These lotions can do many things that range from accelerate the tanning process to even treating blemishes. Our St. Petersburg tanning location offers four great choices.

“Amazing Face” is a facial bronzer with UVB inhibitors that will accelerate the tanning process as well as add a touch of sunless color to your face to give you a radiant glow.



“Saving Face” is a hypoallergenic facial accelerator that will give your face that nice dark natural looking tan to go with your already radiantly tanned body! This is a great lotion to use when you’re using a Tingle everywhere else.

“Vanishing Act” is a dark tanning facial bronzer with blemish treatment for clear skin. Why not give yourself the best looking skin possible while giving yourself a radiant glow at the same time?!

“Privilege” is a dark tanning facial bronzer that contains a magical silicone emulsion that will further enhance your deep dark tan as well as reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

So make sure to ask your favorite Darque Girl, or Guy about facial lotion today! - Joey

Preparing for Sunless

Preparing your skin for a sunless tan will not only enhance your results but also make it last longer!

Sunless tanning products contain the active ingredient, dihydroxyacetone, or DHA. DHA reacts with the skins outer layer to temporarily darken your skin and give the appearance of a tan. DHA does not wash off; however, in the days following a sunless tan, dead skin cells are sloughed off, fading your tan gradually. Your body gains a thin layer of dead skin every day. However light and unseen this layer may be, it will prevent the spray tan from reaching your fresh skin, so you’ll want to be sure that your skin is perfectly prepaired!

Start preparing your body several days or even a week in advance. Skin that is used to a regular routine of exfoliation and moisturizer is more likely to have a beautiful sunless tan!

Get out your new exfoliation scrub and hop in the shower or bath. Use your exfoliant with a wash cloth or bath puff and scrub, scrub, scrub! This will remove the top layers of dead skin cells by exposing a fresh, new layer of skin that can readily absorb the sunless tanning product. Give drier body parts like elbows, knees, ankles, hands and feet extra attention. If you need to shave or wax your legs definitely do so before your sunless tan. If you will be sprayed with the solution containing a bronzer it is best to shave or wax one or two days before, as the bronzer gets into the newly created pores and can give you a "spotty" look. If the solution is clear that is unlikely to happen.



Keep your skin supple and moist by moisturizing every day after you exfoliate. This will help the sunless spray to evenly adhere. On the day you receive your sunless spray your skin must be free of lotions, makeup, perfumes, deodorant or anything else that could leave a residue on the skin.

Now, you are ready for your sunless spray tan! Here’s to a beautiful, golden glow!

Sunless Prep Tip

Shave with a new blade either the night before if you have an AM session or the morning of if you have an afternoon or evening session. That way it shaves close and you will not have to shave as soon, also stay away from those womens shave creams..caustic to a sunless tan while you have it on your skin!

Hydrate with Hempz Hydrosilk

The elements of day to day life can take a lot out of your skin so it is important to restore moisture to your skin. Not only is hydrated skin is the key to a healthier, younger looking skin, but hydrated skin is also the key to a longer lasting tan. At Darque Immersion Tanning, we always encourage our clients to use a daily moisturizer in order to keep their skin hydrated and healthy, however some moisturizers just don't do the trick. My favorite daily moisturizer is Hempz Hydrosilk Herbal Moisturizer by Supre. Hydrosilk is a unique blend of herbal oils and extracts as well as a unique mixture of cosmetic silicone, silk amino acids, shea butter and exotic oils. The mixture of all these ingredients make Hydrosilk amazing. This moisturizer will leave your skin silky soft and nourished all day while providing age-defying benefits and cell regeneration. Stop into Darque Immersion Tanning and pick up a bottle of Hempz Hydrosilk Herbal Moisturizer, I'm sure you will love it!

Sunless Tanning Tip

Sometimes the most difficult part to tan in your body is your shoulders. You might have spray tanned your whole body but the part that drives you nuts is your shoulders. If this is your case, then don’t worry about it, a lot of people suffer the same thing and the solutions are simple.




The best thing to do is try our Sungate or Icon bed that has shoulder tanners, or use Mytsic Tan sunless home kit to touch up shoulder area. If you do the bed, when you’re half way through your tan you should move to the bottom and rest your arms comfortably over your head. This will help your shoulders get tanned as well as the rest of your body and it will prevent white lines from showing down your sides.

Self Tan for Men

Home of the best sunless tanning products, spray tans, and tanning lotions. Darque Immersion Tanning also offers sunless products for men! Guys say Self-Tanner. It’s a slightly thorny issue when it comes to men because it’s often grouped together with cosmetics and other such girly products. However, cast your eye over most grooming lines nowadays and you’ll see that there’s a huge demand for male self-tanning products. Why? Most men like to have a healthy tan to their skin!! Now, more than ever, there are fantastic products out there that’ll give you a very natural looking tan with minimal effort guys.



The truth is that nowadays more men are benefiting from self tan than you’d think; it’s just that you only notice the bad ones. Done properly, a self-tanned complexion can instantly make your skin look naturally fresher and healthier. Heres a TIP I always provide my sunless clients at Darque Immersion, Use the product the night before you want a tan, never on the day! Make sure to Exfoliate and shave your skin before spraying or applying the tanner in order to get an even application.

Get some light!

Light is essential to all life on earth. There are various physiological and psychological reasons why exposure to light is desirable and necessary. There's a growing body of scientific evidence showing people actually require light exposure to function effectively. Light exposure causes the brain to suppress the release of the hormone melatonin that acts as a depressant in the body and exposure to light produces various health benefits, such as the production of the very necesssary Vitamin D3 in the prevention of bone diseases (such as osteoporosis) and in the improvement of symptoms of psoriasis.

People who are exposed to longer hours of bright light feel happier and are able to enjoy life. Potential health benefits include but are not limited to: production of Vitamin D, decreased risks of breast and colon cancer, and reduced risk of sunburn. The psychological benefits of tanning are also well researched. Sunlight deprivation has been linked to some mental disorders. There are numerous reasons, physical and psychological, why exposure to ultraviolet light is desirable. FDA regulations at the present time prevent the indoor tanning industry from making any medical representations or claims related to indoor tanning exposure. And of course, people know that a great tan looks good, feels good, and can add to personal confidence and attractiveness.