Fake-N-Bake Tanning

Wow, I realized I started this blog with the intention of actually using it and then I forgot about it.  Whoops!  I keep having these ideas of what I could write about and then I never do.  That changes now.  My random thought for today was brought up earlier at work:  the concept of Fake-N-Bake Tanning.

For those of you who aren't "hip to the lingo" and don't know what that means,  it's just a reference to tanning salons, which I completely do not understand.   I'm from California, and while people there DO the whole "fake tan" thing, most people I knew got tan the old fashioned way- going outside (what a concept!). 

While there are a lot of fun things to do in Utah, there aren't any beaches, and I guess... less cool things to do outdoors?  Maybe?  I don't really know.  But for whatever reason, the girls here feel it is necessary to "cheat" and use tanning salons.  Which is... fine, I guess, if you're into the whole "paying-for-skin-cancer-when-you-could-go-sit-outside-for-a-while-and-get-it-for-free" kind of thing.  But there are girls here who fake tan ALL WINTER LONG.

"Excuse me miss I love your tan, but there is a snowstorm going on outside.  However did you manage that?"  Seriously.  Who do you think you're fooling?  I mean, is there really a point to fake tanning if everyone KNOWS it's fake?  That seems a little silly to me.  Oh well!  I guess it's just one of those things I'll never understand.   Fake bake away, ladies!  =)