MissConfused
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i just know some of you will be sat reading this chuckling away, so i hope you enjoy the laugh at my expense. meanies!!
yesterday i went to do another set of lashes on a client i had seen before so that i can get my case study done. finally. i asked her about her last treatments from me (spray tanning and lashes - bare in mind they were just for practise and i'm not some kind of professional obviously!) and was asking her about her lashes and she said they lasted for around 2 weeks (there was literally like 30lashes in each eye as that's all i could do in 2.5hours. ugh. cringe. so i'd guess at that being about right then that they'd last that long yeah? but yesterday i managed to get in approx 110 over 2 eyes in 3hours ) then i mentioned how was the tan, thinking to myself how great it would have been for a practise as i'd followed all the steps in the manual, read up lots on here and given my friends tans which they hadn't had a problem with (or had they and not told me??:|) and she went quiet! yes she actually went quiet and then said oh the tan... umm then i had to say 'oh my god! was it bad?' because she was that quiet!! and she was like 'i was orange'! her words were she was orange! what makes it worse is that it was an holiday tan, the first holiday her and her boyfriend had ever been on and they'd been together for like 11 years! so it really was a special holiday. she said it was even that bad that she didn't want to go out to buy her last bits and bobs for her holiday the day after the tan. not even after she had scrubbed herself trying to get rid of the tan. she said kids were staring at her in the street! :'(
i asked her did she have any holiday photos of the tan and she was showingme and from a distance i said ''oh i think that's a great colour' because i thought she looked a good colour and she just wasn't used to being tanned etc and she was like oh you might aswell have a look at the rest of my holiday pics and when i got closer to the computer i realised she did look orange AND she had orange eyebrows!! she never mentioned the eyebrows :|
i did a search on here about orange eyebrows and only managed to find one post that was relevant in 8 pages of posts, which i find amazing surely other people have given clients orange eyebrows? :\
i only put 10% on her though, which from what i read in my tanning manual was pretty much the same as the 8% anyway(?) but i thought while she isn't pale and is going on holiday a little darker would be better. she wasn't pale etc she had dark hair, dark eyebrows and was a good colouring - not olive or dark but certainly not fair kwim? did i do wrong? have i misread something? i've always read it as 8% for pale skin the whole blonde/red hair coloured type of skin, 10% for those who don't have the characteristics as the 8% and aren't olive/tanned already, 12% for those that are an olive or very tanned colouring and 16% is for shows (and girls who live in my area!). is that correct?
when i tanned her she was all covered and she then put on a fluffy dressing gown after i had dried her with the spray gun and i told her not to wash it off for atleast 8hours and the rest of the aftercare aswell as giving her a leaflet when i did the consultation. she didn't get in touch with me about how bad it was which i think was because she felt bad because she knew i was just wanting practise. i read on like the 1 post i found on my search that orange eyebrows was because of the therapist putting on too much but i'm not even sure how i could of put too much on her face. i just spray down the middle, head to side and spray, head to other side and spray. that is right isn't it? :s
from what i read people go orange from too high % (i didn't think 10% was high though? :\) and because the therapist puts too much solution on (she wasn't dripping wet at all and i always always make sure my gun isn't making people soaked.always.plus from what i've read you can only make people as dark as their skin will take so it wouldn't matter if you spray somebody 3 times they will only ever be the same colour, just the guide colour will be darker?)
from what i have said have i been really stupid and like i said misread something? or forgot something really important that i should remember for next time? i'm so confused because i've used a 10% on my friend who again didn't fit in the 8% group and didn't fit in the 12% group and she said she wanted it darker, no mention of being orange. yet i managed to turn somebody in the same group orange. i also sprayed my friend a couple of weeks ago who is also trained in spray tanning also and i put her 8% on and when i asked for feedback she didn't tell me she had orange eyebrows etc etc. and i tanned her the same way, actually i went over her face twice just because i thought i had missed a bit.
anybody any advice at all to add to what i have already mentioned? i'm just so confused as to what i did wrong.
x
edited to add: on her conultation form she didn't mention being on any medication
i just know some of you will be sat reading this chuckling away, so i hope you enjoy the laugh at my expense. meanies!!
yesterday i went to do another set of lashes on a client i had seen before so that i can get my case study done. finally. i asked her about her last treatments from me (spray tanning and lashes - bare in mind they were just for practise and i'm not some kind of professional obviously!) and was asking her about her lashes and she said they lasted for around 2 weeks (there was literally like 30lashes in each eye as that's all i could do in 2.5hours. ugh. cringe. so i'd guess at that being about right then that they'd last that long yeah? but yesterday i managed to get in approx 110 over 2 eyes in 3hours ) then i mentioned how was the tan, thinking to myself how great it would have been for a practise as i'd followed all the steps in the manual, read up lots on here and given my friends tans which they hadn't had a problem with (or had they and not told me??:|) and she went quiet! yes she actually went quiet and then said oh the tan... umm then i had to say 'oh my god! was it bad?' because she was that quiet!! and she was like 'i was orange'! her words were she was orange! what makes it worse is that it was an holiday tan, the first holiday her and her boyfriend had ever been on and they'd been together for like 11 years! so it really was a special holiday. she said it was even that bad that she didn't want to go out to buy her last bits and bobs for her holiday the day after the tan. not even after she had scrubbed herself trying to get rid of the tan. she said kids were staring at her in the street! :'(
i asked her did she have any holiday photos of the tan and she was showingme and from a distance i said ''oh i think that's a great colour' because i thought she looked a good colour and she just wasn't used to being tanned etc and she was like oh you might aswell have a look at the rest of my holiday pics and when i got closer to the computer i realised she did look orange AND she had orange eyebrows!! she never mentioned the eyebrows :|
i did a search on here about orange eyebrows and only managed to find one post that was relevant in 8 pages of posts, which i find amazing surely other people have given clients orange eyebrows? :\
i only put 10% on her though, which from what i read in my tanning manual was pretty much the same as the 8% anyway(?) but i thought while she isn't pale and is going on holiday a little darker would be better. she wasn't pale etc she had dark hair, dark eyebrows and was a good colouring - not olive or dark but certainly not fair kwim? did i do wrong? have i misread something? i've always read it as 8% for pale skin the whole blonde/red hair coloured type of skin, 10% for those who don't have the characteristics as the 8% and aren't olive/tanned already, 12% for those that are an olive or very tanned colouring and 16% is for shows (and girls who live in my area!). is that correct?
when i tanned her she was all covered and she then put on a fluffy dressing gown after i had dried her with the spray gun and i told her not to wash it off for atleast 8hours and the rest of the aftercare aswell as giving her a leaflet when i did the consultation. she didn't get in touch with me about how bad it was which i think was because she felt bad because she knew i was just wanting practise. i read on like the 1 post i found on my search that orange eyebrows was because of the therapist putting on too much but i'm not even sure how i could of put too much on her face. i just spray down the middle, head to side and spray, head to other side and spray. that is right isn't it? :s
from what i read people go orange from too high % (i didn't think 10% was high though? :\) and because the therapist puts too much solution on (she wasn't dripping wet at all and i always always make sure my gun isn't making people soaked.always.plus from what i've read you can only make people as dark as their skin will take so it wouldn't matter if you spray somebody 3 times they will only ever be the same colour, just the guide colour will be darker?)
from what i have said have i been really stupid and like i said misread something? or forgot something really important that i should remember for next time? i'm so confused because i've used a 10% on my friend who again didn't fit in the 8% group and didn't fit in the 12% group and she said she wanted it darker, no mention of being orange. yet i managed to turn somebody in the same group orange. i also sprayed my friend a couple of weeks ago who is also trained in spray tanning also and i put her 8% on and when i asked for feedback she didn't tell me she had orange eyebrows etc etc. and i tanned her the same way, actually i went over her face twice just because i thought i had missed a bit.
anybody any advice at all to add to what i have already mentioned? i'm just so confused as to what i did wrong.
x
edited to add: on her conultation form she didn't mention being on any medication
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