Survey Says… June 29th, 2011
- How often do you wear bronzer?
- Do you use self-tanner?
- How do you get your summer glow?
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How often do you wear bronzer? – Never
Do you use self-tanner? – Nope
How do you get your summer glow? – Coral blush 🙂
How often do you wear bronzer? 3 movement, or under my cheeks!.
Do you use self-tanner? Sally Hansen and a glove.
How do you get your summer glow? Spain and Sally Hansen
How often do you wear bronzer? Almost everyday
Do you use self-tanner? No
How do you get your summer glow? TBS Honey Bronze Bronzing Powder and Tailored Cheek Tint
How often do you wear bronzer? Never.
Do you use self-tanner? Never.
How do you get your summer glow? I don’t – I prefer pale and never tan.
Yep me too! ^_^
Same here! I like to tell people that I get my glow on with sunscreen!
Same here, pale and proud! 🙂
How often do you wear bronzer? every other time i do my MU
Do you use self-tanner? nope
How do you get your summer glow? a shimmer blush
How often do you wear bronzer? Never really , unless I ‘m at home just kind of playing around with different looks .
Do you use self-tanner? Nope , I think it stands out more to be very fair when everyone is trying to get as tan as possible .
How do you get your summer glow? Peachy pink blushes with golden shimmer !
How often do you wear bronzer? everyday when I’m wearing makeup!
Do you use self-tanner? nope
How do you get your summer glow? by a gorgeous blush. for the summer, I love corals and orangey shades (right now I’m loving my ELF blush/contour duo and MAC My Paradise blush)
How often do you wear bronzer? – Everyday!
Do you use self-tanner? – Nope, never
How do you get your summer glow? – Bronzer & shimmery blushers
Never, never, and I don’t (unless you count various blushes). Pale power! 😉
How often do you wear bronzer? never but i’d like to try it (if anyone has a good bronzer for “beginners” feel free to share !)
Do you use self-tanner? No it wouldn’t look natural on me i think cause I’m so pale that I don’t tan, I turn red…
How do you get your summer glow? I tend to go to brighter blushes, and I also really love to wear my smooth merge MSF cause i’m so pale that I feel like it really gives me a summery touch 🙂
I really like TBS Baked to last Bronzer in 02 Warm Glow, but it’s a little shimmery. If you want something reallysimple to work with you can try Honey Bronze Bronzing Powder (they have light shades so you can work in layers and get used to it.
How often do you wear bronzer? 2 days a week or more!
Do you use self-tanner? No
How do you get your summer glow? I use shimmer mists on my body, i also apply glowy bronzer and highlighter on my cheeks & shimmer blushes…
How often do you wear bronzer? Pretty much every day
Do you use self-tanner? nope…turns me orange!
How do you get your summer glow? I used a bronze colored foundation by Lacura since my cheeks are dry so no powder bronzer for me!
Bronzer: every once in a blue moon for contouring but I am really fair so I generally avoid it.
Self tanner: I’ve never tried it.
Summer glow: I don’t I’m very fair but I’m okay with that.
Never,
Never, and
Days at the beach with my daughter 🙂
1. Never
2. No, like being pale it suits me.
3. highlighter, coral blush
How often do you wear bronzer? – Nearly every day in Spring and Summer, not so much in Winter
Do you use self-tanner? – Yes, I do, since I tend to get sunburn easily and try to stay out of the sun most of the time
How do you get your summer glow? – with bronzer and a shimmering coral blush
How often do you wear bronzer? Everyday, but very light handed
Do you use self tanner? Tried it a few times, but I do use Jergens natural glow, subtle but still gives a bit if color
How do you get a summer glow? MAC Strobe Cream and pretty pink blush:)
How often do you wear bronzer? Every now and then, when I’m going for something very light and glowy. I never use powder bronzers bar those that are matte, and they are just for contouring. Cream bronzers give me a much more lighter, dewy, more natural finish.
Do you use self-tanner? Nope, never have and never will (I second that pale power!)
How do you get your summer glow? Chanel Pro Lumiere mixed with a little MUFE HD, a cream bronzer and cream highlighter.
How often do you wear bronzer? Never.
Do you use self-tanner? No. I prefer Pasty White Goth Girl over Oompa Loompa Orange. Plus, self-tanners smell like ass.
How do you get your summer glow? MAC Hand-Finish or NARS Albatross + BeneFit Coralista.
– Bronzer – I’ve started wearing it daily. I just bought a new one from Bobbi Brown and I’m still learning to apply just the right amount.
– Self-Tanner – Just on my legs. I would love to find one for my face that didn’t freak me out about breakouts.
– Summer glow. Currently just get it with my usual Orgasm blush and the BB bronzing powder. Would love to find a tinted moisturizer that had more pink undertones than yellow to give me a bit more color though…always hunting……
How often do you wear bronzer? Almost never. I have some but I’m so pale that it looks weird.
Do you use self-tanner? I do, but I’m not sure why I do because I’ve tried many of the lotions and it never makes a shade of difference.
How do you get your summer glow? I don’t! Self tanners don’t work, the sun doesn’t work, and I’m not interested in tanning beds. So I just stay super white.
How often do you wear bronzer? Every day
Do you use self-tanner? No
How do you get your summer glow? with a shimmery blush
How often do you wear bronzer? Every day for contouring
Do you use self-tanner? No!
How do you get your summer glow? Sun + NARS Orgasm + Laguna Bronzer haha
How often do you wear Bronzer? Daily, I use Dior Healthy Glow Summer Powder in 001 Aurora
Do you use self tanner? Nope, with my super fair sensitive skin it is either too orange or breaks me out
How do you get your summer glow? Dior Glow Summer Powder, Nars Laguna Body illuminator, and Nars Super Orgasm Blush!
How often do you wear bronzer? -never
Do you use self-tanner? -sometimes, just on my white leggs
How do you get your summer glow? -i don’t really, sometimes a higlighter/blush color with some glow.
How often do you wear bronzer? – Every time I do my make-up
Do you use self-tanner? – Never tried
How do you get your summer glow? –The Sun and a shimmery bronzer
How often do you wear bronzer? About once a week, when it fits with the rest of my look. I use it for an extra glow, not to seem bronzed though
Do you use self-tanner? Never, love being pale 🙂
How do you get your summer glow? MAC Hipness never fails
How often do you wear bronzer? Almost never, not even as a contour.
Do you use self-tanner? Not really, but I’ve started using the Jergens Natural Glow in the lightest shade on my legs, arms and chest so I can get some wear out of my darker foundations.
How do you get your summer glow? Shimmer in the right places, and bright blushes.
How often do you wear bronzer? Every day.
Do you use self-tanner? Every other day.
How do you get your summer glow? Injections of Melanotan.
* How often do you wear bronzer? Very rarely – almost never.
* Do you use self-tanner? No
* How do you get your summer glow? Coral shimmery blushes
I use tanner bronzer regularly and my glow is fake 😛 Damn my mother and her ginger genes haha
~ Everyday. I’m trying to use up my Smashbox Halo bronzer so I can go back to BB.
~ Never use self-tanner. No matter what the rave is, they always look fake to me and smell awful (even BE). Nothing beats the sun.
~ Sun + Halo bronzer + Bronze Shimmerbrick to highlight = Love. (I’m Korean so I play up the bronzers a little bit more than my non-asian friends)
1) Every day that I wear makeup (so almost every day). It’s good for contouring and fiving a glow
2) yes but only during summer and early fall. I use creams and sprays
3) I use more browns/corals/oranges blushes and yellow-based highlighters.
None. I love pale skin and don’t want to be in the fad that will end soon (making yourself orange)
I support you in this endeavor! Cancer is not sexy…
How often do you wear bronzer?
Almost every time I put on makeup. Especially in Spring and Summer. I fade it out and drop it in Fall through Winter.
Do you use self-tanner?
Yes. I love Jergen’s Natural Glow. I am fair but I use the medium to tan shade. It is good tanner, moisturizing and easy and nearly foolproof to use. It is affordable and not as stanky as many other tanners. 😀
How do you get your summer glow?
Partly from the sun. I know… Baaaad! But I am allergic to chemical sun block and the mineral stuff is so. expensive. I am usually in the sun in the late afternoon and evening. But I still get some colour. And, I use sunless tanner and bronzer. 🙂
How often do you wear bronzer? once a week maybe for a extra glow.
Do you use self-tanner? Never
How do you get your summer glow? SUN!
How often do you use bronzer? Whenever I wear makeup, so most days.
Do you use self-tanner- Yes, I use St. Tropez or Skin Fusion
How do you get your summer glow? MAC Soft and Gentle MSF and Benefit Hoola Bronzer 🙂
How often do you wear bronzer? Couple of times in the summer. Almost never in the winter.
Do you use self-tanner? No, they all look yellow on me. Not orange but YELLOW, often with a green cast. I also use a lot of glycolic acid products, so the color would disappear pretty fast anyway.
How do you get your summer glow? Bronzer, peach/coral blush and a nice highlighter
I wear bronzer everyday of the year with lighter coloring in the winter and a darker one for summer. I self tan and have a membership to a tanning salon for the mystic tan-I love it! I get my summer glow just from self tanning and try to stay away from direct sunlight since I have had precancerous skin cells removed.
How often do you wear bronzer? never
Do you use self-tanner? no
How do you get your summer glow? good ol’ sunshine
How often do you wear bronzer? – I don’t have one… I used to use Too Faced Snow Bunny (which didn’t really bronze) sometimes, but it broke. Also used a random reddish brown one from Revlon (I think) as blush sometimes, dunno what happened to that.
Do you use self-tanner? – No.
How do you get your summer glow? – Um. Highlighter, I guess, that’s how I get my glow all year ’round 😛
How often do you wear bronzer? Occasionally, if I feel it’s necessary for a particular look.
Do you use self-tanner? No, never-the smell grosses me out.
How do you get your summer glow? If I have a glow, it’s from makeup or just my healthy pale skin.
1. Every time i wear makeup
2. yes jergens natural glow and st tropez bronzing mousse
3. tanning, using bronzer, and having bright blonde hair from the sun
How often do you wear bronzer? – next to never
Do use self-tanner? – No
How do you get your summer glow? – a nice blush and a good spf!
Another bronzer blog?
I never use bronzer or self tanner. I dont need summer glow. I am pale..even for a yellow skin tone. No need to glow in the dark.
How often do you wear bronzer?: Never
Do you use self-tanner?: Nope
How do you get your summer glow?: Pale skin forever! Though I do use Guerlain Météorites occasionally.
I wear MAC Refined Golden more often then not because I’m using the mirror in the compact and it happens to be there. I am not a fan of tan.
I have UD Santa Tanita but I’m too lazy to use it
I get my summer glow the same way I get my fall glow.. The intimate way 😉 I’ve never found a cosmetic to replicate that ( sorry NARS)
Okay!!
Bronzer: I typically use bronzer to color-correct my foundation, which is usually a little too light or pink/yellow, and I use a more warm/red bronzer to make my face match my neck.
Self-Tanner: I look better pale. :]
Summer Glow: I’m not really sure what a summer glow looks like. Haha. I guess I would add a liquid highlighter like Armani’s Fluid Sheer #2, but yeah like I said above, I truly look better pale. Haha. But not like sickly pale. Just lighter.
never, never, and I don’t :p
I’m pale as death, and while I used to be self-conscious about it when I was a teen, I now embrace my pale-ness. I can’t even use bronzer to contour as that makes me seem really silly! I use a slightly darker foundation shade.
How often do you wear bronzer?
I wear my Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder in Deep whenever I have my foundation on nowadays.
Do you use self-tanner?
No.
How do you get your summer glow?
By using my Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder in Deep and just going outside a lot.
D. None of the above. I’m pink white, plus I’m Muslim, so everything I cover up is even more casper the friendly ghost b/c the sun never hits it. I figure I’ll have my revenge when I’m 60 and my legs and decollete are smooth as a baby’s butt. then again, they’ll prolly still be covered.
How often do you wear bronzer? 3-4 days a week.
Do you use self-tanner? Yep! Xen-Tan lotions or VersaSpa spray.
How do you get your summer glow? Guerlain bronzer and Meteorites Perles Illuminating Powder with NARS Orgasm blush.
How often do you wear bronzer? in the summer every day
Do you use self-tanner? yes, like once aweek
How do you get your summer glow? la roche posay anthelios xl spf50 tinted cream + mac springsheen blush
How often do you wear bronzer: almost never
Do you use a self-tanner: I’ve tried them but always leave off using them!
How do you get a summer glow? Mostly I don’t or I swipe on a bit of By Candlelight (MAC)…that’s enough glow for me
How often do you wear bronzer? In the winter, maybe once a week, but in the summer I wear it every day I apply makeup, so maybe 5-6 times a week.
Do you use self-tanner? Yes! I love it!
How do you get your summer glow? I use Clarins self-tanners on my face and body, and then MAC, NARS, Too Faced, Dior and Guerlain bronzers usually seperately, but sometimes all on different body parts in different shades to really amp up a look! AND I proudly can say I never look orange!
How often do you wear bronzer? Every day. It’s part of my daily routine.
Do you use self-tanner? Yes.
How do you get your summer glow? I use a foundation for a radiant finish and bronzer.
How often do you wear bronzer? – Nearly every day at the moment.
Do you use self-tanner? Sometimes. When I do I use St Moriz tanning mousse, which is an exact dupe of St Tropez for a tenth of the price
How do you get your summer glow? A peach or orangey blush. My favourite is Sleek’s Pan Tao blush.
How often do you wear bronzer?
– Never!
Do you use self-tanner?
– No.
How do you get your summer glow?
– I don´t! I am not a fan of a tanned look…
How often do you use bronzer? I wear “bronzer”(ie. a darker matte color) for contouring everyday.
Do you use self-tanner? Don’t need to.
How do you get your summer glow? Keeping my skin moisturized, wearing SPF, and applying NARS Luster. Living in a tropical paradise also helps! 🙂
How often do you wear bronzer? Rarely. I used to wear it more, but not so much these days.
Do you use a self-tanner? I used to…once in a blue moon. I only turn one slightly less pale shade of pale.
How do you get yours summer glow? Highlighters and shimmery blushes. Lots of pinks o my lips and cheeks.
How often do you wear bronzer? Pretty much whenever I wear makeup during the summer
Do you use self-tanner? Absolutely! Fake Bake Original FTW!
How do you get your summer glow? MAC studiocare pressed powder in Gold-Go-Lightly, MAC Lustre drops in Sun Rush, Meow Cosmetics blush in Soka, and self-tanner.
How often do you wear bronzer? Never.
Do you use self-tanner? I used to in middle school, but not anymore.
How do you get your summer glow? I don’t, really. My blush adds a pop of life to my pale skin. XD
I never wear bronzer.
I have never used self tanner.
The only glow I get is from my porcelain skin with a little bit of MAC’s Strobe Cream under my foundation.
How often do you wear bronzer? – Never, because I think it always looks too dark. I prefer to use bronzer as a blush.
Do you use self-tanner? – Only on my legs, since I wear pants most of the time, the color on my legs versus the color on my arms looks like it belongs to two different people.
How do you get your summer glow? – I don’t think that I need it, I have a nice natural color.
How often do you wear bronzer? – everyday, sometimes two different kinds, Tan de Chanel cream bronzer all over and a slightly shimmery one like Nars laguna on the high places of my face
Do you use self-tanner? – YES!
How do you get your summer glow? – Self tanner, highlighting with highbeam, using more cream products on my face like cream bronzers, and blushes, also using a body tint or makeup on my legs.
Dont use self-tanner, I dont tan easily or want to. Prefer fair skin.
Thought I could never wear bronzer, all too brownish, till I found Dior Aurora. I have cool undertones, its peachy. I can apply it lightly all-over and as a blush to give some summer glow:)
How often do you wear bronzer? Almost every day, but just in summer.
Do you use self-tanner? Only on my legs as they are the paaaalest part of my body.
How do you get your summer glow? Matte bronzer on my cheeks, temples, bridge of the nose and chin. A glowy blush on the apples of my cheeks or on my whole cheeks.