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Your beauty wish: 'Tanner skin.'
Beauty wish granted: If you're not into rocking your paleness, here are expert tips from Fiona Locke, tanning expert to the stars:

Prep:
Tip 1: Find the right product (like one of these 9 best self-tanning products), then exfoliate, shave and moisturize.

Tip 2: Always apply your sunless tanner in a cool, dry place in front of a full-length mirror.

Tip 3: Place rag towels on the floor to prevent tanning the bottoms of your feet.

Tip 4: Wear latex gloves to avoid tan palms.

Applying spray formulas:
Tip 1: Protect light colored eyebrows and hairlines with moisturizer before spraying and wear a shower cap.

Tip 2: Spray about six inches away from the surface of your skin.

Tip 3: To get your back, spray the air directly behind you in a circular motion and quickly walk backwards into the mist (sounds goofy, but it works).

More of a visual learner? Watch this video for more tips on perfecting spray self-tanner.

Recently we posed this question in a blog post: What Three Wishes Would You Ask Your Natural Beauty Genie For? (Well, If One Actually Existed.) We got an overwhelming amount of responses from you. There were surprisingly lots of feet-related wishes (go figure), but unsurprisingly a ton of perfect-skin requests. As we scrolled through the comments, we were nodding and agreeing right along with you. Some actually even made us tear up (OK, we may have been PMSing, but nonetheless), like this one:

"I would just want to be skinny. Everything else, I'm good with. Someone else can have my other two wishes."

While others made us LOL:
1. Unwanted hair
2. Unwanted hair
3. Unwanted hair

Have your natural beauty wishes granted now.

The bottom line is that no body is perfect and we all have things (definitely more than three) that we wish we could change. One woman sums it up here by saying:

"Reading this article and the comments makes me feel good because, well, everyone has something they're not happy about. There [are] things I would change and wish for and knowing everyone else feels the same just makes me feel better."

Unfortunately, some of your wishes cannot be fixed short of surgery like "a different nose" or " fuller, bigger, perkier boobs (about a C cup)." But believe it or not, the rest of your wishes you can actually grant yourself -- just by following these expert tips and picking up a few hard-working products.

Get your natural beauty wishes granted.
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