I am very fair and when I tried this product I was very careful in how I put it on. I even used medical gloves and got instructions from the website. It looked fine 30 minutes from the application (it sais it only takesĀ about 10min to dry) and then I went about my day and when I looked again later there were so many spots that were orange and even white spots! I have friends that have used this and it worked fine for them but they are darker complected than I am so I don't recomend it to light skinned people.