X Factor

Alyson — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:29:43 +0000

It took quite a long time to get from Belfast to the X factor studios in Wembley. About 6 hours in total, and a plane, a train, a tube, a train and a taxi. But boy was it worth it when I got there.! We were there to give everyone but the Twins a lovely natural odorless (of course) tan. We set up in their little green room, and were basically there to tan anyone who wanted (except the twins of course!). The guys are just lovely, and having properly met them all now I will be even more devastated than usual when someone leaves tonight. Joe Mcelderry is just so talented. He sings endlessly in the corridors with a range that must be almost 4 octaves. And always in perfect pitch. He just loved his tan - total transformation. As for Lloyd Daniels, even Simon Cowell said he looked great this week. and its true. He did. The tan made his eyes brighter, his teeth whiter. He really did suddenly grow up and look quite sexy even, in a kind of surfer popstar way. Ollie is such a gentle young man. He wouldn’t take his bracelets off cos he has been wearing them since the start of the competition, so he ended up with tan lines!! yikes!! Holly Willoughby noticed on the xtra factor last night. But anyway, I guess if he had got the tan on holidays it would have been exactly the same. Just added to the reality of it all. Danyl was really sweet, very smart and intelligent and not at all cocky - i just don’t know where that has come from. Honestly. He even sang a song for my daughter Caitlyn on my mobile - she fainted with excitement when she saw it!!. And then of course the wonderful Stacey. Such a lovely, beautiful, funny kind girl. She wanted to be really dark. So we sprayed twice with Hawaii, because I could she had good olive undertones that would tan quite dark anyway. I think she would have tanned twice with Brazil if we had let her!! But didnt she look fabulous? So warm and sexy and grown up. A real star. And I was so delighted with those long bronzed legs. Meanwhile I wonder if John and edward will be looking for a tna again this week when we’re over. I think they would look really good if they were warmed up a bit. don’t you?

X Factor

Alyson — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:16:27 +0000

Pure Beauty Awards

Alyson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:34:49 +0000

It has been so manic these last few days I forgot to post the blog - although of course you know that I am very bad at this whole blogging thing. life just takes over and generally I am a taxi/cook/cleaner/taxi from 5.30 to 10 (and that’s just when i’m not working late) - anyway, this all means that I didnt shout about our latest achievement - we have been shortlisted for the Pure beauty awards. 24ct and Rich. Both of them. How cool is that. Now we just need everyone who loves us to vote for us. so please please vote. You have to do the whole form including our section, or they wont accept it, so i know it is alot to ask. but please please. here is the link. http://www.purebeauty.co.uk/index.php?page=Pure%20Beauty%20Awards%20Voting%20Form

thank you thank you thank you all!

Fashion TV

Alyson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:27:08 +0000

well my goodness!. we have been asked to tan up the models for one of the swimwear shows at London fashion week!. How exciting is that. So of course there was mayhem in the office this afternoon. Much squealing, and giggling to start. Then some serious logistics to get sorted. How many girls, what shade of tan, how many spray tan technicians, how much time etc etc. Flights, tubes, hotels. How skinny will the models be? How huge will we all feel as a result? How glad are we that tan makes you look thinner.

some people!!

Alyson — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:08:43 +0000

honestly, everyone is trying to get their hands on our new spray tan, and they are prepared to do it by fair means or foul it would seem!

there have been all kinds of incidents. One salon had product sent to an address several miles from their actual establishment, because they were concerned that we might not let them take it in as they were within half a mile of the next salon!. Now I am flattered at the effort, but really, do you think we could deny anyone our tan perfection? I think not!! Every woman who wants to be bronzed and beautiful really does need to get Rich. Honestly! Having the product sent to another address!! We are talking tans here, not education!

Tan Your Man

Alyson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:56:20 +0000

We had the best time ever spray tanning the greatest group of sports men in the country the other week in Liffey Valley. They were such good fun. We had Avril Kelly from RTE’s the cafe, and even Mark Pollock the famous adventure sports man just back from the South Pole - with frost bite scars to prove it! Every guy donated his body for stripping (by Avril) and tanning (by the girls from Midas Touch, and Rich Silken Chocolate spray tan) to raise awareness of skin cancer and raise money for Cancer Research. We also had the fabulous Long John Jump Band to entertain the crowds, and boy it was a great day. Thanks to everyone. You were all brilliant!! Check it out on You Tube. Under Tan Your Man or Vita Liberata.

Alyson

Meeting the Cast of Hollyoaks

Alyson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:26:28 +0000

Well it was very very exciting. There I was rubbing shoulders with BB exs, and Hollyoaks stars at the opening of the new Lipsy store in Liverpool. Gave them some products, which they love - of course!- so all good. Then went straight down to London and spray tanned journalists all afternoon in the blinding heat. They were thrilled, but we were dripping by the end of it. Hasn’t the heat been intense? Got back home for 2 cooling days on the beautiful Strangford Lough, and then off to Barcelona to shoot a TV ad for Rich Silken choclate. It was 38 degrees. Now I love Barcelona, but even my adoration of the place couldn’t stop me melting as I sat in the shade!. Thank goodness, and I mean this, that I had my own Rich with me, cos I would have come home white as a sheet if I had been depending on the Sun. It was just too too hot. Having said that it was a good excuse to have some lovely lunches in the shade - which is always an upside. Now we are back to cloudy Belfast and I have the Uggs back on my feet. Oh well! Sure wouldn’t we be bored if all we did was chill in the shade and watch the world go by?? don’t think so!!

Alyson

my first blog comment!

Alyson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:11:00 +0000

Thank you Barbara. It means so much to have someone notice and comment when they enjoy the products. I tried to reply, but I’m so un techy that I couldn’t make a reply up load on my own blog!. anyway, perhaps I should really stick to what I do best. we are such a small, family run, company, that every customer - every single one of you, is truly important to us. there have many of you have already re-ordered and as we have watched them come in we have squealed with delight at those who have ordered twice - or sometimes even more than that!

Thank you all so much for your support. Business can be a very hard task master, as you will know from the news, and of course we have not been immune to the vagaries of currency, interest rates tough retail conditions and the like, but comments like yours Barbara make all the difference.

cheers

xxxA

The highlight of Christmas.

Alyson — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:23:43 +0000

It seems too soon to get back to work. I hardly feel that I’ve stopped. Had that dreadful dreadful flu. Two weeks so far and not gone yet.

So the highlight of Christmas? Boxing Day! We literally didn’t move. Got hooked into a documentary about Cecil B De Mille and then snoozed our way through 4 hours of the Ten Commandments. My kids could only manage short sections without cringing at the actors, the makeup, the set and the effects. But I didn’t care. It brought me back to my childhood. Sunday afternoons in front of the fire, in our tiny ‘TV’ room. I think that terminology was a peculiarly 60’s thing in Dungiven (yes, I do come from the same village as Eioghan!) when TV’s were new and exciting things and the era of colour was still a great wonderment to us all. And now I’m waiting for a re run of Joan Of Arc with Ingrid Bergman. I wonder how bad the effects are on that one. I hope the acting is still as good as I remember from when I was six. Was it is Back and White? I just remember it as being phenomenal. Made me want to be an actress. And a heroine!

Yes, boxing day was the highlight of Christmas.

xxxA

Miracles

Alyson — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:46:20 +0000

Well it really seems that miracles do actually happen. Cherith is sitting behind me in the office furiously writing orders for our new tans, and muttering ‘its so soft, its so incredible’ as she strokes her own skin.

We have been developing this tan for over a year now, and we knew that it was good, we just didn’t know how much people would really want this product.

Last week Cherith and I took ourselves down to the Ireland AM studios in Dublin to tell the nation about our new Rich and 24ct tans. Poor Cherith had been banned from using any tans for over a week and was as depressed as she was milky white. (Cherith really doesn’t like being white!) It wasn’t a complicated item. We simply took a picture of Cherith before we tanned her. And then we took another afterwards. The effect was, of course, dramatic. And ever since it has been insane back at base.

Hundreds and hundreds of orders. Internet, phone, outlets…. It hasn’t let up yet. Which is why, although this is my very first blog, I’m going to have to get off here and go back to taking orders.

But you know what? It isn’t a chore at all. I’m just so pleased the word is out and there will be hundreds of bronzed beauties all over Ireland as a result.

xxx A