Self Tanning Trial.

First off let me say I don't really care to much about being tan.  I am super pale with olive skin tone and am comfortable with my blindingly white skin. I did happen to read an article though, that had someone touting about the awesomeness of Jergen's 3 Days to Glow self tanning moisturizer and then the next day I happened to find a couple of coupons for it.  It was like fate telling me that this was my chance to wear my shorts and skirts without having garish looking legs.  So here I find myself conducting a self tanning trial on my legs.

 I also bought the regular Natural Glow because they suggest using that twice a week for upkeep after the 3 days.

 

 Waking up today to find all the drier patches of skin darker while other areas look like I missed them completely, but you know I think I'd remember skipping over my entire shin area.  This is just day one, and it's only on my legs so I'm not worried.  I do own pants after all to hide the hideous discoloration.

 Some water hit my legs while I was washing my hands let me tell you if any water gets on the freshly colored skin, or within the 3 hour window they mention it will leave streaky marks.  Don't think one or 2 little drops of water won't make a difference. Also this picture is a very weird angle of my thighs, they aren't this short and squat as seen below.

 My ankles and feet look just disgusting, I wasn't going to do them but then I thought it might look weird to have super white feet and tan legs.

And here you can see the overall color difference with just one application. My pasty white arm and my new uneven tannish leg.

I put on a 2nd coat today, focusing on the whiter areas. We'll see if I even out any by the end of the three day run.  Expect a final update in a few days.

Green Thumb! A mini update.

It's true, I have a very green thumb and plants and flowers just seem to really like me. Here's a little update on my plants.  It may not be the most exciting stuff but I'm pretty excited about it.

4/5/13

This poor strawberry plant.  I didn't think it was going to make it. A year of being just pathetic and then one sunny day happened and bam!

 5/3/13

The leaves started to get bigger and new leaves started shooting up.

 6/15/13

 It continues to grow little by little.  We've kind of hit a plateau since we haven't had many consecutive warm summery days but hopefully that will change and we can get some more warm sunshine poking through the windows to help this little guy have another growth spurt.

Our little Jade plant clipping is just doing phenomenally well.  From meager beginnings with the teeniest tiniest sprouts

 To lots of little leaves

To a whole  mini plant with new teenier tinier shoots!

 All of our succulents are doing really well although I may need to move my rosey looking one into the window that gets more sun as it is starting to stretch out a little. The one on the right has a small mini shoot growing near the base also he's grown quite large and thick. They are going to need to be transplanted soon.