This is what happens when you mix beauty treatments with breastfeeding.

Many of us have fallen foul of a bad fake tan or two, but this little guy's started a bit earlier than most.

And whereas you can easily hide a streaky leg or elbow, he's going to struggle to disguise these orange chops.

The blissfully unsuspecting tot offers a cautionary tale about mixing beauty treatments and breastfeeding, after he was left with a patchy face when his mum fed him following a spray tan.

British mum Gemma Colley shared the tale of her "epic fail" on a Facebook parenting page, and the picture of her now-oddly-hued baby has now been shared across the world.

"From one mum to another, I'd like to let you know about my epic fail of fails," she wrote on the Unmumsy Mum page.

"Yesterday I had a spray tan, a few hours later I breastfed my little boy. Cue 5 o'clock shadow and a very guilty mummy."

In just 11 hours the post has already racked up more than 110,000 likes and 25,000 shares.

Many fellow mums have commented with similar tales of beauty-related fails involving their children.

"I put veet [hair removal cream] on my legs and then proceeded to try and tackle my 1 year old little girl out of the bathroom. The next day I accused her dad of shaving her hair off and then it dawned on me..." replied one.

Luckily this baby's dabble with fake tan was short lived - Colley shared another photo hours later showing his cheeks, chin and nose back to their usual rosy self.

"Photo evidence that tonight's feed was much less orange," she captioned the shot.



"Thanks for all the positive comments. I'm just another mummy trying to shed light on the adventures and misadventures of being a parent."







Nearly back to normal ... Photo: Gemma Colley/Facebook



We need to know her secret because our tangerine streaks seem to cling on for days ... thank god for black tights.

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