Worst Celebrity Spray Tans: Photos of the Most Epic Fails

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Gia Giudice

Gia appeared to have got a heavy spray tan and was far darker than her mom Teresa Giudice as they attended the Mafia Mamma film screening in New York on April 11.

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Jennifer Aniston

The actress needed to get her spray tan’s orange hue scrubbed off her feet by an assistant on The Morning Show after she forgot to do a key step before having the tanning cream applied. “Note to self. Hands and feet, you must lotion before a spray tan, otherwise … you end up with a situation,” Jen shared in an October 21 Instagram video, showing her left foot getting a serious wash-down.

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Selena Gomez

Selena went overboard with her spray tan at the 2018 Met Gala, giving her skin an unnatural looking darker hue. It also didn’t help that her white gown accentuated her faux tan. Fans roasted her for it on social media, and the singer was mortified. Selena later posted a video of her shot from behind while running through a parking structure after the event. Next to it, she wrote, “Me when I saw my pictures from MET.”

The singer later discussed her how overly bronzed look happened in a February 2022 interview with Glamour UK. “While I was getting ready for the Met Gala a few years ago, we put on a bit of tanning lotion and it looked beautiful, but as the night went on it kept getting darker and darker,” she said. “When I sat down [inside the event], I saw a photo of myself, and it looked completely orange. And here I am at this prestigious event. My first thought was, ‘I have to get out of here!’”

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Lady Gaga

The singer-actress was looking quite bronzed from her face to her chest while attending the Patron of the Artists Awards in 2018. The look was made more obvious by her light skin on the inside of her forearms and her pale pink gown.

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Al Pacino

Al Pacino is an acting legend, but next to his House of Gucci costar Lady Gaga at the film’s November 16, 2021, premiere, he had an orange hue about him.

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Chrissy Teigen

Mrs. John Legend herself has looked back in horror at her cocoa-colored spray tan she had at the 2008 Grammy Awards. In 2018, she posted it as a throwback photo and wrote, “Grammys 2008. 10 years ago. This tan!!! Lmao.”

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Christina Aguilera

It was impossible not to notice Xtina’s extremely heavy spray tan at the 2004 Women’s Cancer Research gala, when she was seated next to Steven Spielberg and a naturally fair-skinned Nicole Kidman.

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Kim Kardashian

While everything is always a little over the top in Miami, Kim’s spray tan during an August 2018 night on the town with former-pal Larsa Pippen was so dark it looked like it had been triple-applied.

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Zac Efron

When Zac accepted the MTV Movie Award for best shirtless performance in That Awkward Moment in 2014, he made sure not to disappoint the audience by stripping off his blue shirt to show off an ultra-orange spray tan.

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Gigi Hadid

Gigi’s skin looked roasted in 2015 when she attended the MTV Video Music Awards. Apparently, she didn’t have anyone around before she left home to tell her that she’d gone way overboard with her spray tan, which was made all the more noticeable by the yellow outfit she selected.

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Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi and Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley

The Jersey Shore stars love a good spray tan, but both ladies went all out with their dark hues for the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards. JWoww’s fail was accentuated by the pale and dark contrasts on her chest skin.

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Claire Danes

Naturally, Claire Danes wanted to give her fair skin a little more of a glow to go with her glittery golden gown for the 2016 Emmy Awards. Unfortunately, her spray tan looked completely unnatural, as her skin looked slightly burned.

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Charlize Theron

On the biggest night of her professional life, actress Charlize Theron took home the Oscar for Best Actress in 2004. Unfortunately, she decided to give a darker glow to her fair skin to show off her silver sequined gown, and it came off looking incredibly over-bronzed.

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Victoria Beckham

The fashion designer was getting twice-monthly spray tans in 2009 to keep up her bronze glow, but it appears that during one of the sessions, the spray gun was set too high, as she was photographed looking a burnt-orange color while leaving dinner with her designer pal Marc Jacobs.

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Tara Reid

It was impossible not to notice that Tara’s face had such a bronze glow, while her feet were pale white as she wore open-toed sandals to a 2015 doctor’s appointment in Beverly Hills.