So today I went to a tanning salon, because "translucent" is not a color!The friendly, well-tanned woman behind the counter explained all their packages to me. Level One is for pale ghosts like me. Level Two works the color and gives you some more. And so it goes on until you can choose a level where you end up looking like the back of a leather belt. I went with Level One.
Pasty over here was told that his first session would only be 8 minutes, to work the "base tan" and ready my skin. So in I went, under fluorescent lights, and finally knew what a turkey feels like in an over. Eight minutes later, the buzzer went off and I was done. I looked in the mirror. Nothing. Same ol' pasty.
The leather strip behind the counter told me to come back on Monday for another 8 minutes.
And tonight, now the color is coming through. A nice pinkish red. Yes, I look like a tomato. Okay, not AS red, but still. Maybe I'm just so used being the color of a sheet of paper that any color would show on me.
As long as I get to have some color for the summer, I'll be happy.
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