It started out with my thrifty campaign. I found a free coupon for a free "sunless tan". Oh how that sounds so nice. Sunless, as in...no cancer or UV rays. Well guess what...sunless isn't what it's cracked out to be, at least for me it wasn't.
So I went to Palm Beach Tan in American Fork, the closest place that offered the "sunless" (just call it a spray tan!) tan. I got there about 12pm. I was excited because there was only one person in front of me. Right after I'd checked in about 5 more girls showed up with coupons; I'd beaten the rush.
The girl who checked me in was nice and helped explain things to me. She told me she'd just used this one machine (Mystic) and used the light color two days before. I thought her tan looked great and was excited to hopefully come out with the same results. All the other girls behind me had too pale of skin to use the Mystic machine, they got to go use the Versa.
"The machine will talk to you. Put your feet on 1 and 3, then 2 and 4; it will walk you through it step by step. Then there will be a really short drying cycle. You turn around and do 1 and 3 and 2 and 4 again. Another short dry cycle and you're done." That seems simple enough. Well after spraying the front half of my body the machine stopped talking, did a 15 minute plus dry cycle, and then shut off. Hello? What about my bum? The whitest part of me?
I had to stand there and dry for about 20 minutes and then get dressed and let them know that it didn't do my backside. I waited while they tried to reprogram/fix the machine. By now it's 1:15pm. Finally, they tell me that they'll just have to put me in the other machine. First though, I need to wash my whole body with wet wipes to try and stop the light color from processing on only one side, and then they were going to give me a medium color to even me out. The Versa, although not as enjoyable feeling (it was more like a spray versus the mist feeling of the Mystic), thankfully only took about 3 minutes. THREE MINUTES! Why didn't they put me in there to begin with?! Ug. So... after all that, now about 1:45, I come out frustrated, tired, and late to go to Sian's house. Don't worry though, my color only increased to make me look like a tall Umpa Lumpa, and after checking it out in the bathroom mirror I noticed major splotches across my whole body.
After going home and scrubbing my whole body/showering it ended up being a little bit better. I didn't look so much like an umpa, and a lot of the splotches got washed off. But seriously, not all of them.
Keep in mind as well, that I got this tan for Tim's and my 1 year anniversary and by the time that actually came around (my tan had substantially faded). All in all, I really wasn't a fan of the experience, mainly because my experience was AWEFUL! But...no one could predict the machine breaking. Moral: You get what you pay for (at least I didn't have to pay for it).
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