I just recently got back from spending the semester in London, England and as much as I loved traveling and seeing everything in that area there were two things I drastically missed: American food and the sun. I use to think people exaggerated about how gloomy and grey the London area was. How could a place be so popular and yet so "blah"? Well let me tell you, the grey and gloominess is not an exaggeration.
Towards the end of the semester I was practically the same tone as my white t-shirts because of how little the sun was out (I can honestly think of maybe 6 days when the sun was visible). It was dreadful, especially since I don't particularly tan easily in the first place so I knew it was going to take me all summer to regain some sort of color. When I got home, I thought I could cheat and use some fake tanner to help darken up my tone just a bit. I honestly thought I was super clever and that it would be easy.
For those of you that have never attempted to use a fake tanner, its not easy. I found this out after having bright orange streaks running down my legs, one of half of one of my arms was tanned, and I forgot to wash the lotion off my hands. So my first few days back in the states consisted of me walking around like a badly painted umpa lumpa.
I have now learned better techniques and lotions to use in order to avoid the same mistakes from occurring again, however I think I have decided that I just need to suck it up and gradually earn some color the old fashioned way.
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