Absolute Color

Feeling a little pastey these days? Every year about this time, every vestige of my summer tan completely fades and I am left with pastey white skin. Sounds vain, I know, but I spend a good part of my day in workout clothes and shorts, and I don’t like to shine like a beacon in the night. However, I’m not a big fan of tanning beds anymore since several friends who were bed users got skin cancer. So instead, I head to Absolute Color for some fake tanning! They are a small clean little establishment, offering 1 mystic tanning booth and 1 tanning bed. It’s a couple of blocks from my house, so it’s quite convenient, although the price of $ 25 per tan is probably not the best out there — it is $ 20 all day on Saturdays. Their machine is always in working condition, and the facility is clean. I took off a couple of stars because their hours last year were not always reliable, and I would go there when they were supposed to be open and there were already closed. That happened a couple of times, but I guess that’s what happens when you’ve got teenagers running the place! Warning: make sure to listen to the directions that the machine gives you — I almost ended up like Ross in the hysterical «Friends» episode my first time — so listen and turn!