Recently, I grew tired of my sunless tanner so I headed down to Boots and scoured the shelves for something new that I could put through its paces. The one that I settled on was the Bondi Sands Aero Tanner because this seemed to be blowing up online. As always, if something is getting popular, I need to give it a try!

For the last few months, I have been using this week in and week out. I have been putting this to the test to make sure that it ticks all of my boxes in terms of what I need from a sunless tanner. Finally, I am ready to share my thoughts with you all.

 

 

The colour.

The first time that I used this Bondi Sands Ultra Dark Foam I noticed how green it was. Stood in my bathroom and I pumped some of this out onto the mitt. For a while, I had to just stand and stare at it for a moment. I completely understand that a green base tanner helps to get the olive look on your skin. This honestly looked like a dirty version of the Hulk had been squeezed out of the bottle. Straight after application, there was a definite green hue to my skin. I would even say that after this dried down and the base layer was showered off, it was still green. I have used many tanners over the years, and this is the greenest thing that I have ever put near my skin. I can actually remember stepping out of the bathroom when I first used it and my husband was in hysterics and wanted to know what had happened to my skin.

I think it is safe to say that generally speaking, I tend to gravitate towards a sunless tanner that is more red-based so that it mimics the appearance of a natural sunburnt glow to the skin.

 

The texture.

The other thing which I guess I just did not understand about this Bondi Sands false tanner was how quickly it dried down on my skin.  I pumped some out onto my mitt and just as I began to apply it to my skin and buff it in, I could feel that it had dried down and I ended up a complete patchy mess. I am a pro tanner if I do say so myself and I have never used anything quite as difficult to use as this product. It made my skin feel quite uncomfortable because I was attempting to buff a dry product into the skin with my mitt and it was just dry. The only thing that I could do to try and rectify this was by going in with even more product, but then I just felt like I had an awful build-up. Each time I tried this initially, it was a rather mild day, so the heat wasn’t playing too much of a factor in the application. All in all, because of how much product I had to go in with in order to get a smooth application, it had a long dry down time.

 

Comparison to other products.

In comparison to some of the other high-end tanners, this just seemed to wash off pretty quickly. Straight after application and after allowing time for it to develop, it did feel very dark indeed. But, after one shower felt like a very light and natural tan. Whereas I wanted something deeper and I just felt like I could not get that from this product. In some areas, like the drier areas of my body, even after using a moisturiser to act as a barrier, this went so dark and was a nightmare to try and get off my skin. For me, when I have other products like the Loving Tan or St Tropez that work incredibly well for me, I cannot imagine that I will find myself reaching for this formula all that much.

 

I really do wish that I could find a positive within this product. I don’t want my first beauty blog post here in my new space to be negative. However, I simply cannot find anything about this product that would make me want to reach for this over other items. Nor would I go out and buy another to have in stock in my cabinet. Leave me a comment down below and let me know if you have tried this Bondi Sands Ultra Dark Foam. I have looked online to see if I maybe had a dud item, there was nothing conclusive. For me, this was a failure and I know that I will be sticking with my Loving Tan moving forward.