Golden HourSpray and sunbed · CaerphillyTanning, Caerphilly

The team

Carys and Leanne, and the tent.

Carys has very fair skin, and has never used a sunbed. Leanne does most of the party nights. Between them, they mix a lot of shades.

A small warm tanning studio reception with a curved sand-coloured desk, a bronze pendant lamp and a tall plant
Carys Bowen, a woman in her forties with shoulder-length auburn hair and a brown tunic, in a warm studio

Carys Bowen

Owner and spray technician

Carys spent ten years as a beauty therapist in Cardiff before opening on Station Terrace in 2012. She has auburn hair and very fair skin and has never used a sunbed, which she regards as good evidence that she understands the question. She wrote the skin check here, and she turns people away from sunbeds most weeks.

Leanne Price, a woman in her late twenties with dark curly hair tied up and a brown tunic, against a sand wall

Leanne Price

Spray and party tans

Leanne started on the front desk at nineteen, trained as a spray technician at twenty-one and now does most of the party nights. She can get the pop-up tent up in a Bargoed front room in under twenty minutes. She has a very good eye for where a shade is going to go wrong, and a very good memory for your name.

  • 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
A consultant in a brown tunic talking to a red-haired woman at a small desk, holding a clipboard

Our rules

Why a tanning shop turns people away.

Sunbeds carry real risk, and the law says that nobody under eighteen may use one. We go further: if your skin burns, we say no. A sunbed for someone with red hair is not a choice we will help with.

You should expect the same anywhere: ID, a skin check, goggles, and a timer. If a salon offers you a sunbed and does none of those things, walk out.

The skin check

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.

Check my skinTime a spray