It gives me fevah...spring that is!

Now that our one "big" snow is melting away as we speak, my thoughts are moving ahead to the days in front of me...SPRING days! It is warming up outside and will be in the seventies tomorrow - unbeliveable. Spring is my favorite out of all the seasons. As much as I love fall and Christmas, spring is the best, culminating in my favorite holiday - Easter. I think the symbolic nature of this season is what I love the most and how fitting for our Savior's resurrection to be recognized at the same time as the earth's "resurrection" from dead 'ole winter to spring's marvelousness! And also, because I'm shallow, I love spring clothes! Let's just be honest here. At this time every year I am SICK of heavy sweaters, heavy pants, heavy everything. I'm ready for some Rainbow flip flops, fun skirts, and tanned (even if it's fake) skin.

Which brings me to my next topic. Self tanning lotions. For years, I have been a tanning bed member come March 1. I think it's a Southern thing, like big hair and fried chicken. But, because I am getting older, I am becoming more aware of a 'lil thing called WRINKLES and another 'lil thing called CANCER - mainly because my mom (she herself was quite the sun/tanning bed goddess) had a basal cell carcinoma removed from her face earlier this year. If seeing your mama with a large feminine product stuck to her face to stop the bleeding from "minor" surgery isn't deterrant enough, I don't know what is. So I am now on a quest to obtain my "sun kissed" look by various products purchased at my local Rite Aid.

The results are as follows:

Jergens - I think it stinks, first of all. The smell, I mean. It smells like baked skin, kind of like when you get out of a tanning bed. I started using it on Sunday (because I was concerned with the condition of my nonexistent tan when there was snow falling outside) and by Wednesday, I was a distinct shade of orange. Except for my feet, which were white as snow. And my chest, which had broken out to the point that Frick 'n Frack asked me if I had hives. Lovely. Frack suggested L'Oreal, so I went off again to spend more money, which I should be saving.

I bought the L'Oreal bronzing moisturizer and the bronzing body lotion. I also bought a harsh feeling loofah because Frick 'n Frack said the key was to exfoliate, exfoliate, exfoliate! I tried the moisturizer on my face last night, avoiding my eyebrows and hairline. I woke up with my face very tan (I'm sure someone must have noticed or else wondered how I could have jetted to Jamaica right after I got off work last night and arrived only 10 minutes late this morning). However, there is a thin white line around my hairline, which they package TOLD ME TO AVOID. I'm guessing that I could blend it using my bronzer. Which is stupid because isn't that what the moisturizer is for? I haven't tried the body lotion yet - one thing at a time, one thing at a time.

A question that came up during our tanning moisturizer conversation was what to do about your back? Do you just leave it and hope for the best when you put on a bathing suit (horror of horrors - wow, that is a post unto itself)?

All these questions, and spring just right around the corner...