This depends on your Individual and Unique Skin Type. Based on your skin type, our professional attendants will provide a recommend for the tanning time that is best for your skin. Your tanning time also depends on the tanning beds that best fit your tanning needs.

If you do well your first time in the tanning bed and do not experience any redness, most of our clients are able to increase their time by 2-3 minutes each time thereafter until reaching the maximum tan time for that particular bed.

You may tan every day if you wish, as long as you wait 24 hours between each tan. This is a manufacturer's recommendation to prevent overexposure, and it includes outdoor tanning as well.

We keep a detailed record of your tanning history, and we will advise you if you have not waited the full 24 hours.

Yes, your eyes are very sensitive to UV light and should not be exposed while tanning. Sunglasses, towels, cotton balls, and closing your eyes are not adequate protection in a tanning unit.

UV-light is responsible for both short and long-term injury to the eyes and can easily be avoided by properly using FDA-certified eyewear.

The purpose of using a tanning accelerator/lotion is to keep your skin moisturized and to provide you with maximum tanning results. Dry skin reflects UV light, so if you are not using an indoor tanning accelerator, you can lose up to 50% of your tanning session.

Can I just use a regular moisturizer or a tanning lotion purchased from a drugstore?

To lock in moisture and enhance your tanning results, you should always moisturize your skin following each tanning session. We recommend our moisturizers over any drugstore-bought moisturizer, for the added benefit of enhanced tanning ingredients.

Will using a tanning lotion increase my chance of burning?

Since tanning lotions are designed to be used for indoor tanning, they do not include an SPF. Using tanning lotion indoors, in a controlled environment, allows you to maximize your tanning results while minimizing your chances of overexposure.

What makes an accelerator tan you faster?

The indoor tanning lotions that we offer help your skin to absorb UV light, as well as fight free-radical damage and fine lines. Our lotions contain high quality ingredients, vitamins and nutrients that are needed for healthy skin. REMEMBER - healthy skin tans faster, tans darker and stays tan longer.

The mystic Tan booth utilizes a spray on process designed to deliver a customized sunless tanning application to each individual based on their body size, skin type and desired color. For each individual profile, three tanning level options are available to produce optimal results.

Inside the Mystic Tan room the tanner simply disrobes and enters the booth. With the push of a button the session begins with a fine mist of Aloe Vera enriched sunless-tanning solution being sprayed through out patented MagneTan nozzles.

The MagneTan technology ensures uniform coverage over the entire body, which our propietary sunless tanning solution instantly transforms into a quick natural-looking tan that continues to darken throughout the day.

20 million tans can’t be wrong. That’s how many successful Mystic Tan™s there have been in just a few years. Before Mystic Tan™, most self-tanners were creams and lotions applied by hand. That meant inconsistent coverage. Too much lotion applied in one place left the skin looking orange. Not enough lotion left unattractive streaks. Hand held spray-on applicators tend to run and also cause streaking.

Our MagneTan technology ensures that a uniform micro-spray of Mystic Tan™ Tanning Myst covers the entire body in the exact amount required to produce a natural-looking tan.

Most people wear nothing. The room is completely private and if you would like to tan in the nude it is perfectly acceptable.

However, if you’d be more comfortable wearing a bathing suit or underwear, be aware that the Tanning Myst may stain it. The Insta-Color Bronzer™ we use in our BronzMyst™ is water-soluble and should wash out.

We recommend that you wait a minimum of 4 hours after tanning to give the DHA enough time to fully set. If you shower earlier you may diminish the intensity of the tan.

When you do shower the initial tan created by the water-soluble bronzer will wash off, but the DHA will remain and create your longer lasting tan.

What about swimming after a Mystic Tan tanning session?

You should not swim for a minimum of 4 hours after tanning in the Mystic Tan booth. Swimming in chlorinated water at any time can bleach the Mystic Tan and possibly cause streaking.

Many clients wear a disposable shower cap, provided by our salon, to keep the Tanning Myst from getting into their hair. Other clients tan without covering their hair.

The Mystic Tan™ Tanning Myst does not penetrate the hair follicle. The Insta-Color Bronzer we use in our BronzMyst™ is water-soluble and will easily wash out.

No. All of the components of the Mystic Tan tanning solution have been used in cosmetics and food products for decades and have proven to be safe for use on the skin.

If you have had previous allergic reactions to self tanning lotions or cosmetics you may want to do a "patch test" by putting a small amount of the Mystic Tan solution on a small area of skin to test for posssible reactions.

While no one should purposely inhale or ingest the Mystic Tan™ Myst, it is known that DHA (the active tanning ingredient) is a non-hazardous compound that causes no adverse reaction in moderate quantities when applied topically or even ingested.

DHA has been used as a diet supplement in sports nutrition and is non-carcinogenic. Testing has further shown that DHA is less toxic than aspirin, caffeine and even common table salt. Based on our research, the maximum amount of DHA that could accidentally be ingested or breathed during a one minute Mystic Tan™ sunless tanning session would be .05 milligrams (equivalent to less than one grain of common table salt). Ingesting this minimal amount of DHA should pose no health risk to the consumer.

Yes. There is nothing in the Mystic Tan tanning solution that would prevent your from tanning in tanning beds or in the sun. In fact, a number of clients have found that tanning with UV rays and the Mystic Tan tanning solution actually gives them a better overall tan.

If you do plan to use a tanning bed and the Mystic Tan booth in the same day we recommend that you tan in the tanning bed first. Remember however, that the Mystic Tan tan does not give you any protection from UV rays.