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Spray tans
A hand-applied spray tan, mixed to your skin in light, medium or dark. Fifteen minutes in the booth, developed overnight, gone in a week or so.
Full body £24, half body £15.
Caerphilly · since 2012
Two ways to a colour. One honest answer.
The skin check comes first. If your skin burns, we will tell you to have a spray.
Spray tan
- UV
- None at all
- Colour
- Develops overnight
- Lasts
- 5 to 10 days
- Who
- Any skin, 16 and over
- From
- £24 full body
Sunbed
- UV
- Yes: a known cancer risk
- Colour
- Builds over sessions
- Lasts
- 1 to 2 weeks
- Who
- 18 and over, not fair skin
- From
- 60p a minute
- Skin check comes firstBefore any sunbed, every time
- Eighteen and over for sunbedsIt is the law, and we ask for ID
- Spray has no UV at allAnd it looks just as good
- Fair skin gets a sprayWe will not sell you a course
What we do
Six things, one honest answer.
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Sunbed courses
Modern stand-up sunbeds in private rooms, for adults who have had our skin check and made the choice knowing the risks. Time-limited for your skin type.
From 60p a minute.
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Party tans
Leanne brings the tent, the fan, and the floor sheets to your house for a hen party, a prom night or a birthday. Spray only, naturally.
£18 a person, minimum four.
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Skincare for your tan
A short shelf: exfoliator for the day before, a light moisturiser for after, sunscreen, and nothing that promises more than it can do.
Exfoliating mitt £6, moisturiser £14, SPF 30 £12.
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Wedding tan plans
A trial four weeks before, the real one two days before, and a shade chosen against your dress in the daylight. For the bride, the party and anyone else.
Bride's plan £50: a trial and the day.
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Tanning lotions and at-home tan
A gradual tan for the shower or bedside, a mousse for the keen and a good mitt. No UV, and no need for an appointment.
Gradual tan £14, mousse £18, mitt £6.
Skin check
Four questions, and we mean the answer.
How you burn, how you tan, your hair, your eyes, and your age. If you are fair, or under eighteen, the answer is a spray. We have no interest in selling sunbed minutes to someone they will harm.
Do it here, then we repeat it in the studio on your first visit, once a year, and whenever something changes.
Check my skinHow we work
Four things you can hold us to.
We will look at your skin
If you burn easily, have red or very fair hair or a lot of moles, we will steer you to a spray and tell you why. We lose some sunbed money that way, and we are fine with that.
UV carries a real risk
The World Health Organization classes UV tanning devices as a cause of cancer, and the risk goes up the earlier and more often you use them. A sunbed is a choice, so you should make it knowing that.
A spray that is not orange
Carys mixes the shade to your skin, and it develops over eight hours. Nobody at work needs to know, and it washes off in a week.
Timed to your event
Tell us the date and we will tell you when to come. Two days too early and it has started to fade, and on the morning itself it will not have developed.
- 2012the year Carys opened on Station Terrace
- 18+the legal minimum age for a sunbed, with ID
- 0 UVin a spray tan, and it looks just the same
- 2 waysto get a colour, and we will tell you which is for you
Weddings
A trial first, then two days before.
Nobody should try a shade for the first time two days before their wedding. The plan is a trial four weeks ahead, a shade agreed against your dress in the daylight, and the real one timed around your wax and your hair.
- The bride’s plan is £50
- Party members from £20
- Or we bring the tent to you
Clients
What people say about us.
I had always avoided spray tans because of a bad orange experience fifteen years ago. Carys looked at my arm, mixed something, and nobody at work noticed anything other than that I looked well. It lasted a full week.
I went in for a course of sunbeds for a holiday. Carys asked about my hair and whether I burn, and then told me straight that I was the wrong skin for it, and booked me in for a spray instead. Not many shops turn away money.
The trial was a shade too dark against my dress, which is exactly why you have a trial. They lightened it and timed the real one for two days before. I looked like myself after a good fortnight in Spain.
Questions people ask
Spray or sunbed?
If you burn easily, have fair or red hair or plenty of moles, a spray. If you want a colour with no UV at all, a spray. If you are an adult with skin that tans, it is your choice, after a skin check and knowing the risks. The skin check is here.
How old do I have to be?
Eighteen for a sunbed, which is the law. Sixteen for a spray, with a parent's written consent.
When should I have a spray for an event?
Usually one or two days before. The timing tool gives you the date for your shade and your event.
Does a tan protect me from the sun?
No. A spray tan gives no protection at all, and a UV tan gives about SPF 2 or 3. Use a sunscreen either way.
Is a sunbed safer than the sun?
No. UV tanning devices are classed by the World Health Organization as a cause of cancer. There is no safe UV tan, only less risky ways of having one.
What should I do before a spray?
Exfoliate the day before and shave or wax at least 24 hours before. Come with clean skin, no deodorant, in loose dark clothes.
Not sure which? Four questions, ten seconds.
The skin check tells you honestly whether a sunbed is right for your skin. A spray always is, and it has no UV in it at all.