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Our new weekly series Get Right for Summer has one aim: to make sure you're completely beautified before the thermostat hits 90. Whether you need a fresh pedicure or a fake tan, we're here to tell you where to go.
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It's 2014, so we all know that using tanning beds and baking in tanning oil is totally out of the question. But showing up to the Memorial Day barbecue without a little color also isn't an option. Enter spray tans, the perfect solution to scoring a glow without risking your health or orange streaks from a DIY tanning kit.
After the jump, see our list of the best places to get a spray tan in New York City, arranged in order from least to most expensive.
Future Tan Salon & Spa: Try the Mystic Spray Tan, which starts at $35 and goes up to $45 for the darkest shade. 53 Greenwich Avenue, 212-675-9009 [Website]
City Sun Tanning Try the AutoBronzer UV-Free Spray Tan, $39. 50 East 13th Street, 212-353-9700 [Website]
Rosangela Skin Care and Spa Try the St. Tropez formula for $55. 1200 Lexington Avenue, 2nd Floor, 212-861-0826 [Website]
NY Sun Club Try the organic airbrush, $60. Add a pre-exfoliating spray for $10 and a post-color seal for another $10. Locations in Murray Hill and the Upper East Side [Website]
Euphoria Spa: Try the Spray Tan for $75, and add a body polish for $60. 18 Harrison Street , 212-925-5925 [Website]
Brazil Bronze Glow Bar: Try the Brazil Bronze Luxury Express Tan, which develops in just two hours ($75), or the Brazil Bronze Cellulite Anihilator, which uses a special formula to diminish dimples ($80). 580 Broadway, 212-431-0077 [Website]
Gotham Glow Tanning: Try the full body tan for $75, or get a package discount of five sessions for $325. 1123 Broadway, 212-592-0368 [Website]
Louise O'Connor Salon: Try the Suvara Spray Tanning, which is 100% organic and it's custom-blended and mixed by the owner, $88. 33 East 61st Street, 212-935-6261 [Website]
Faux Glow: Try the Organic Full Body Session, $90. 110 East End Avenue, 212-355-8552 [Website]
Acqua Beauty Bar: Try the Body Polish: a deep exfoliation followed by a spray tan, $110. 7 East 14th Street, 212-620-4329 [Website]
Bliss: Try the Scrub & Color, a exfoliating scrub followed by a painted-on application of their sunless tanner, $135. Locations on 49th Street, 57th Street, and Broadway in Soho [Website]
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