It Sprayed Me Before I Even Got To 3 Mississippi
As I was admiring myself in the dress I bought this weekend for the wedding we’re attending next weekend, I told CU I thought it looked really good…except for my pasty white skin. You see, the dress is sleeveless…and, it’s May. What this means is I have pasty white skin and absolutely no item of sleeveless clothing is complimentary to pasty white skin.
I then told CU I really needed a tan…and he suggested I go and get a spray-on tan before we go to Chicago. You see, I knew there was a reason I married that man…he comes up with brilliant ideas which probably seem really obvious to him, but sometimes I’m a little slow on the uptake. Either that, or I was scarred by that episode of Friends where Ross goes to get a spray-on tan and instead of a 2, he gets 4 rounds of 2 for…an…eight?
Anyway…have any of you ever done the spray-on tan thing? Any tips? How long does it usually last? I don’t want to look like I’ve just come back from three weeks in the islands…
And, I’m sorry, but did Edie hang herself on Desperate Housewives last night?
Allen
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7 Responses to “It Sprayed Me Before I Even Got To 3 Mississippi”
By Ty on May 21, 2007 | Reply
I do mystic tans all the time. The most important thing is that the person who shows you around the mystic tan stuff takes their time and tells you everything you need to know. So try and go at an odd time when they shouldn’t be super busy the first time, maybe 2 or 3 in the afternoon or in the morning?
Key pointers:
They may offer you a shower cap-type hair net. Use it. No need to get tanner in your hair!
They may offer you booties sort of like the hair net. DON’T use them. Unless you want a sock tan that is!
There will be thick lotion of some sort that you are supposed to put on your hands to keep them from turning orange. DO use this. Here is the key to this, put it on SUPER thick. glop it on. Particularly around your cuticles and in between your fingers, and if you have acrylic nails, on the nail, and under the nail, and be sure to follow the natural tan line on the side of your thumb, and get a lot on your thumb pad (it’s one place I sometimes forget). You will want the lotion on the back of your hands and palms too, but it doesn’t have to be all gloppy thick there. And when you get to your wrist, Just sort of let it fade a tiny bit out onto it. Sort of make it really thin there. You don’t want an orange wrist, but you don’t want a line either.
You will do the same thing on your feet (even though they don’t want you to, I assume for slippery liability issues). Be sure to glop it on around your toes and between your toes, and go up to the pointy bones on either side of your foot. It doesn’t need to be glopped on there, but those bones will pick up a little extra tanner.
That is the most complicated part. Getting all that lotion on. But it’s worth getting right!
Also, if you can, exfoliate before you go. Your whole body. It really helps make it smooth.
Depending on the place you go, there may be bronzer in the tanning solution. Sometimes you can have them turn it off, but if you don’t, be aware that you may have a sort of drip of bronzer run down the back of each leg. (No idea why it is just there, but it is.) It’s not a big deal. It’s just bronzer. Not tanner. It will come off when you shower (but you must wait 4 hours before getting wet or sweaty!) But you might worry if that happened and didn’t know that. But to try to prevent that, get out of the booth as quickly as you can, and towel off starting with your legs.
And as for how long will it last? About 4 days to a week. If I were you, if you have time, I’d go about 5 or 6 days before the wedding, and then again the day before. That way, you can get used to it first, and if you mess something up, you will have 4 days to exfoliate it out.
I think you will like it. Let me know if you have any questions.
By Ty on May 21, 2007 | Reply
Holy Toledo, that was long!!! Sorry.
By Adelle on May 21, 2007 | Reply
The Edie thing did seem a bit extreme, didn’t it?!
By WG on May 21, 2007 | Reply
If you do have one, let me know how it turns out. I have been pondering a spray on tan.
By Karen on May 21, 2007 | Reply
I got a Mystic Tan once and it worked well-enough, but I hated the feeling of it.
I should warn you though, I got a big brown stain in my cleavage. I don’t know if it all kind of settled there or what. But I had to exfoliate the hell out of it to make it go away. My friends still make fun of me. I’ve never heard of this happeneing to anyone else though.
By Becky on May 21, 2007 | Reply
I haven’t done it before, but I’ve heard those mystic tans are more consistent than if you do it yourself b/c you will inevitably be “uneven” somewhere with your own hands.
As for Edie, I think she really hung herself, I just wonder if someone will see her just in the nick of time. I loved the Bree/Danielle twist.
By Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith on May 24, 2007 | Reply
OMG, I thought you had stopped blogging a couple of years ago!
Found your site when blingo (yah, i’m still using it and should’ve won you a bit of stuff over the past year or so) returned your new blog when i was searching for “Tammy Nakamura”
(soundchecks from my favorite radio show had an interview with her after her appearance on wifeswap/trading spouses)
Glad to know you’re still blogging, i’ll check the site out tomorrow. at work, heh.