I think we’ve got ourselves a winner!!

Yes, it’s a bit pricey at $22 for 4.5 oz but the color match is perfect! Application is a breeze since it’s a lotion and I didn’t experience the streaking/patchiness I had with the other three lotion STs when applying it. The scent is reminiscent of the Jergen’s cherry almond lotion and the color guide isn’t horrendously muddy like the Fake Bake and St Tropez. I was actually a bit apprehensive because the color guide wasn’t so dark; I was afraid that I wasn’t applying enough. Because my skin with the color guide wasn’t the color of the box above, it was a bit tough to tell where I had applied it. It blended well into my natural skin color but with just the slightest greenish tinge. I was ready to just write it off and deal with St. Tropez, my second choice.

When I woke up today, there was a noticeable difference. My skin looked golden and wonderfully evenly tanned. I chalked it up to the color guide ( a la my Fake Bake experience) and hopped into the shower. Compared to St. Tropez and Fake Bake, rivers of color guide did not wash off. There were some light brownish/greenish rivulets running towards the drain, but that was it. I even smoothed my hands over my legs to ensure that all the guide was rinsed off.

When I compared my arms to my legs, the color is almost spot on. There is a bit of a ST glow to my legs, but not to the point where you’d think I was a mannequin with snap-on legs.

Finally, finally, I get to return the ST misses to Ulta and get my money back….and pick up another bottle of Faux Tan!

On another note, I think the scent of the Oyin Burnt Sugar pomade is getting to me. I use it to scrunch out the crunch but the heady vanilla scent is attacking my olfactory senses. I don’t think it’s even that it’s summer and scents are more noticeable, it’s just…..a bit funky.

 

I love you KCCC

Today I lugged out the KCKT and KCCC combo. For definite hold, I grabbed the Sally’s Beyond the Zone Spike It gel that is supposed to be a Biosilk Rock Hard Gelee knockoff. I applied a nickel’s worth of leave-in and scrunched in 3 quarters worth of KCCC – side to side and then flipped over. While still flipped over, I scrunched in a dime’s worth of the spike it. The fragrance of the gel didn’t compete with the yummy marshmallow scent of KCCC. It does have protein (ingreds: Water, PVP, Glycerin, Acrylates/Steareth-20 Itaconate Copolymer, Panthenol, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Hydrolyzed Wheat Starch, Polysorbate 20, Propylene Glycol, Triethanolamine, Diazolidinyl Urea, Methylparaben, Disodium EDTA, Fragrance, Limonene) but my hair actually doesn’t feel too dry. There is a little bit of frizz, but not horribly so. My waves look super chunky and defined and overall it reaffirms my love for KCKT and KCCC.

The gel did dry extremely crunchy. For the amount I used, I was surprised by the intense crunchiness.  By the time I got to work, my hair was so stiff that I felt like scrunching the crunch –  a mere 2 hours after fixing my hair. Definitely a first!

I scrunched with Oyin burnt sugar pomade (about 2 half dime sized blobs).

Photos were taken with my little nokia. Not the greatest, I know.