Back From the Beach Spray Tan

Cha Cha is amazing! I have been going to her for years for spray tans! I would never go to anyone else! She custom sprays and always makes my body look amazing! Her tans are not orange colored like most spray tans. She is always great to talk to and catch up with. I love back from the beach and have recommended it to everyone I know and recommend it to any of you Unilocalers! FIVE STARS!

Chacha is fantastic at what she does. She’s flexible with her scheduling and is always willing to work with you on whatever concern you may have with your service. The tanning area is in the back of the Winter Park Health and Fitness gym, and it is a very convenient and comfortable location. I would definitely recommend her to anyone who needs tanning or personal training. :-)

I love a good airbrush tan, I’ve been doing it for special occassions/​beach trips for years. I saw a groupon for this establishment and thought I would give it a try. I purchased the $ 129 unlimited for 6 months. MISTAKE!!! The owner/​technician is very nice, however I do not appreciate her hidden charge. When I showed up for my tan she said I had to pay her $ 5 each time i was going to tan. (This is NOT in the fine print of the groupon deal). I went ahead and paid since I had taken time off of work to come in and didn’t want to argue with her. Since I am fair skinned I told her I wanted a light tan. She seemed to know what she was doing with all the poses and the second pass spray. What I ended up was a HOT MESS!!! So embarassing! My lower legs were a good 2 – 3 shades lighter, severe streaking on my ankles, feet, arms. If I had never tanned before and didn’t know how to prep and after care I would maybe assume I did something wrong, but I am experieneced in tanning so it’s a no. I decided to call Groupon and ask for a refund based on this $ 5 hidden fee each time I was told i would have to pan. Groupon stated she was not allowed to do that and refunded me completely.
****Please don’t waste your money here! Go if you want to look like a HOT MESS and get ripped off with her «money saving» groupons

Gorgeous tan, at first…
+ Stars — Easy to find. Plenty of parking, as the Winter Park Fitness club houses this wee spray tan facility
+ Stars — Very sweet tanning lady. Charlie the owner is lovely, very kind.
+ Stars — Great price ($ 25)
But…
I have had many a spray tan. I am addicted to it, going maybe once a month back in LA. And I have to say, that though this tan looked pretty great to start, it faded weird.
The whole process of getting a custom airbrush tan like this is pretty personal. You are in your underwear (wear a tiny thong, and not your favorite — black is good — as they will get stained otherwise), topless (if you want, but if not, you will have strap lines). You get sprayed from head to toe and every spot you forgot you had, front to back and then again (2x). Then you are blown dry with a blow dryer.
What I didn’t like so very much about this experience was not a big deal: it was a little cold in the room for me. Ok, no biggie. But the way the tan aged/​faded was not good. I had some patchy coloration, and the hands and feet stayed noticeably darker. So I had to loofah them a bit. But then, about 4 days later, I notice some patchy fading on my thighs, near the groin but not where my legs touched. Also, I have had most of my tans last 3 weeks at least. This one was pretty much gone by 2 weeks. That didn’t bum me out though, as I was spending time in the sun by that point — but the patchy fading that I had to fix on my own, well… It was just kind of odd.
I really liked Charlie, though, and I thought she was very skilled, so I wonder if it was the product?
Anyhow, I would go back again as she was a sweetheart and the tan did look great at first.
General Airbrush Tanning Rules (FYI):
1) Exfoliate well the day you are going, get all that dry skin off — try a shower scrub with sugar
2) Come to the tan in flip flops, a g-​string under everything, super loose clothes in DARK color (prob not time to wear your «fav» outfit)
3) Moisturize your hands, feet, elbows, knees very well before you go
4) Shower before but DO NOT take a shower for at least 10 hours after the tan