Review: Azure Extreme Dark Violet Base
brand background: Australian-based Azure Tan (@azuretan.au) is a vegan sunless brand made up of professional solutions, self tanners, and skincare products. All of Azure’s products are made with powerful natural ingredients that delivers not only gorgeous tans but healthy, well-cared-for complexions. It’s a true sunless skincare brand with a major emphasis on skincare.
solution applied: A one hour rapid violet solution.
professional solution price: $49 for a liter on AzureTan.com.au.
texture: A fine solution.
gun setting: The liquid is fine in weight and requires a lower gun setting for best results.
scent: A beachy fresh air scent.
product call-outs: Vegan, cruelty-free, and made without parabens, sulphates, mineral oils, formaldehyde, styrene & styrene oxide, or phthalates.
key ingredients: Hyaluronic Acid, Ceramide Complex, and B5 to hydrate, improve moisture retention, and combat fine lines.
dry time: Less than two minutes.
skin type applied to: Fitzpatrick Type 3 with reddish undertones.
Azure Violet Base Extreme Dark Spray Tan Solution
(hot) take on the tan: Azure’s 1 Hour Extreme Dark Violet Base is a true color correcting spray tan solution that neutralizes yellow and golden undertones for a rich brown tan. Unlike many other color correcting solutions, Azure’s Violet Base neutralizes yellowish tones long after the color guide is rinsed off. And while the result is a cooler brown tan, it’s not an overwhelmingly cool shade so it can be used on a wide range of skin tones.
Another thing that sets Azure’s Violet Base apart from other solutions? It gets surprisingly dark for a rapid solution. Everyone loves rapids for their convenience, but it’s commonly known that if you want a very deep, dark shade then you should opt for overnight solutions. Well, Azure is here to debunk that thought. I let the solution develop for exactly three hours before first rinse and 24 hours later I was left with one of the darkest tans I’ve ever gotten from a bottle.
What’s more is thanks to all of its hydrating properties, the tan lasted for a solid eight days before evenly fading.