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Superficial Question :-)
« on: May 05, 2005, 05:40:37 PM »
I'm pretty fair complected, so over the past couple of years, especially in the summer, I've been periodically going to a sunless tanning booth for color.  Now I KNOW in the UK, it's probably much more accepted to be fair....but my question is whether they have tanning salons and if so, do they have spray on tanning booths?

I'm embarrassed to even ask this because it sounds so silly in comparison to the REAL concerns I should and do have about moving there but this popped into my head the other day and I was like "Oh NO!  One of my beauty vices could be gone too!"

I'm a female through and through, I'm afraid...

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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2005, 05:46:58 PM »
they do.  there is one down the road from me in central london.

they are not everywhere, but they have em.  I have to hit one this weekend for a wedding next week!   8)


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2005, 05:48:09 PM »
they do.  there is one down the road from me in central london.

they are not everywhere, but they have em.  I have to hit one this weekend for a wedding next week!   8)

Thanks, Amy...'bout how much do they cost?


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2005, 05:49:10 PM »
Oh, they're everywhere up here -- the trend is to get as orange as possible, apparently.  ::)  In fact, I almost feel like a weirdo since I'm so pale!

The ones I've seen are by the minute...I think 39p?


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2005, 05:50:32 PM »
I see lots of people who use tanning salons and there several where I live.  It will not be a problem for you.


Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2005, 05:51:36 PM »
Most of the people I see are orange :P


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2005, 05:53:10 PM »
Oh, they're everywhere up here -- the trend is to get as orange as possible, apparently.  ::)  In fact, I almost feel like a weirdo since I'm so pale!

The ones I've seen are by the minute...I think 39p?

But is that the sunless spray-on booth?  Meaning, it's the safe way to tan for us fair skinned girls.   ;)  The one I go to here, you have to get various packages - the more the buy, the less it costs per session - like, 10 sessions (takes 15 min each time you go) for like, $120 I think.  Where-as just a single visit session that you pay for individually costs $25.


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2005, 05:55:12 PM »
In fact, I almost feel like a weirdo since I'm so pale!  

Pale is beautiful!  Embrace the pale!  Orange?!?!!!  Who needs it?! [smiley=puke.gif]

(The other thing I notice over here a lot -- I'm sure it's in America too but never noticed it as much...UGLY overprocessed weirdly coloured dye jobs in hair.  I've never seen so many obviously bottle blondes plus purple, orange, blue, etc etc)
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in...

- from Anthem, by Leonard Cohen (b 1934)


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2005, 05:57:50 PM »
Here's what I'm talking about...this is the type I go to at a nearby salon.  No UV rays, safe, all that stuff.  And no one tells me it looks orange (and if you knew how blunt some of my girlfriends are with me and me with them, then you'd know that this means something.   ;D)

http://www.mystictan.com/home.htm


Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2005, 06:01:02 PM »
Here's what I'm talking about...this is the type I go to at a nearby salon.  No UV rays, safe, all that stuff.  And no one tells me it looks orange (and if you knew how blunt some of my girlfriends are with me and me with them, then you'd know that this means something.   ;D)

http://www.mystictan.com/home.htm

Right the thing Ross tried on Friends!  They don't have it in my town that I have seen.  (But I am outside of London)


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2005, 06:02:11 PM »
Yes they do have decent fake tanning but it is more expensive over here from what I can tell...primarily cause it's not used as much as in the US.


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2005, 06:06:00 PM »
Right the thing Ross tried on Friends!  They don't have it in my town that I have seen.  (But I am outside of London)


You know how many times I've been in that booth and thought of that episode and started to panic right before I had to turn around to spray the back of me?   ;D


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2005, 06:26:28 PM »
Pale is beautiful!  Embrace the pale!  Orange?!?!!!  Who needs it?! [smiley=puke.gif]

(The other thing I notice over here a lot -- I'm sure it's in America too but never noticed it as much...UGLY overprocessed weirdly coloured dye jobs in hair.  I've never seen so many obviously bottle blondes plus purple, orange, blue, etc etc)

I'm with you Carolyn b!!!! I embrace my pale color, unless on vacation, then I am a sunworshipper (but I still rarely get tan or too burned). I just don't see how it's so important. Fake tanners take too much time and are too messy and expensive. I will just go a la natural! Then again, I don't really wear much make up if any, ever, so that might be part of it.
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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2005, 06:29:12 PM »

You know how many times I've been in that booth and thought of that episode and started to panic right before I had to turn around to spray the back of me?   ;D

Yeah, that was a fabulous episode!!!


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Re: Superficial Question :-)
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2005, 06:30:44 PM »
Yeah, that was a fabulous episode!!!

Was that the one where his teeth glowed too or was that a different one?  :)


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