It’s official - spray tans are apparently making a comeback. 

Often associated with the Celtic Tigers, the number of spray tans options has boomed in recent years. 

Perhaps it is partly driven by concern about the cancer risk from sun bed use, for others spray tans are simply they think they look better. 

On Lunchtime Live, Chelsea Tyler McGrane explained why she has always got spray tans. 

“I love it,” she said. 

“Do you know what it is? It's convenient.

“Especially if I'm going on holiday or I'm going to a wedding, to be able to go and have a professional spray it. 

“You don't have the stress; for me, I have to get my husband to check my back and normally he doesn't do the best job.”

Ms Tyler McGrane continued that professional spray tans also last longer than those done at home. 

“If you do your own tan, it kind of lasts maybe like two days if you're lucky,” she said. 

“But if you do a spray tan, you'd get a full week out of it like so.”

Ms Tyler McGrane added that there is also much more choice than there was in previous years. 

“20 years ago, I can remember the shade scale for a spray tan went from you could choose from either being Fanta Orange or Cheetos Orange,” she said. 

“That was it; like there was no in between - the spray tan formulas have come on now so much.”

Main image: A woman getting a spray tan. Picture by: Alamy.com.