It’s actually dripping solution right now.
My hands already have spots on it.
I don’t like wearing the gloves because my hands sweat,
so I kind of just bite the bullet and let it stain my hand.
It's been a damn long winter.
I'm ready to just look good for the summer.
You know, it’s a cool time in New York
to go around and show off that bod.
Today, the spray tan.
[One Star Reviews]
Alright, so I’m just going to dig a little deeper
and see what I can find here.
GlowJob.
That's a good one.
Alright, so I’m seeing a place called Sizzle Tans.
It’s at a pretty low score.
“They do not care about their customers in any way, shape or form.”
“This ‘manager’ is miserable, not clean, and blah.
And so are all the girls that work here.”
“The tan came out all wrong, I looked diseased.
I had to cancel my plans for the night...”
“My comment is on their unsavory practice
and schemes of getting between you and your money.”
“It seems they want to make it so inconvenient to freeze or cancel
so that you don’t do it.”
“This was the worst spray tan I’ve ever had. My feet were a mess.”
“This place is a scam!”
“I was orange.”
But I feel like that, sometimes, is where you want to be,
so I guess it’s a gray area.
Or I guess you could say it’s an orange area.
Apparently at one point,
this was kind of the spot to go to get your tan on.
But at this point, not so much.
Now all there’s left to do is go get sprayed with weird chemicals.
Let's do this.
So I'm exiting the city right now.
It's pouring rain.
It's a great day to just go sit inside and get tanned.
I looked diseased.
I had to cancel my plans for the night.
I was orange.
Alright, so we’ve entered New Jersey,
and just as I suspected, the sun has come out and I am ready for my tan.
[Sizzle Tans]
-Hi, how are you? -Hi, how are you?
-Good. -I’m Taji.
-I’m Ali, nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you.
I’m getting a spray tan today.
This is kind of cool. Do people usually do this?
Yes. It’ll show you how much tan you have.
-So it’s your first spray tan? -Yes.
Are you nervous?
-Don’t be. -Not really.
-No? -No.
-We got this? -It’ll go good.
-Thank you. -You’re welcome.
So we’re going to be in here.
This is so cool.
So I guess I just stand on that barefoot.
-Yes. -Cool.
Oh my God, I think I got one that’s too small.
Why do they even put this here?
Just place your foot right on top of it.
This is so cool.
Alrighty.
Are there any sort of side effects of getting this sprayed all over me?
No, not at all. There’s no reactions
unless you have certain allergies.
Some people would ask us if we have nuts in them,
which I don’t think there’s nuts in our products.
I'm cool with nuts.
OK, then you’re fine.
Well, thank you. I feel very safe right now.
You’re welcome.
We’d like to cover our ass here, for sure, in every possible way.
No pun intended.
Well, there was no turning back,
I was about to change color.
There was nothing to do but prepare for the spray.
We give you nose plugs to place up your nose.
-Like this? -Yeah.
A lip balm so it doesn’t stay on your lips.
So **** nice.
Eyewear to cover your eyes so no solution gets in your eyes.
And then we’ll give you a shower cap, too, so it doesn’t get in your hair.
That looks nice.
Thank you.
Well, it's actually dripping solution right now.
I don’t know what just happened.
As I stood there more naked than usual,
things were stalled, as the tanning solution began to leak
all over Ali’s hands.
Is that going to stain your hand?
-Yeah. -Oh, man.
I began to grow quite nervous,
and I needed to take a quick bathroom break.
Will I be able to get there without being seen?
Sorry, I just got nervous and now I have to pee.
It’s the seal or something. It’s dripping out of my hands.
Take the stuff out of that and I’ll put it in the other one.
Take that one.
Leave that. I’ll take this.
At this point, I just want to get sprayed.
-I’m very eager. -OK.
So that’s the first coat.
While the first coat was setting in,
I saw this is my opportunity
to get to the bottom of some of these negative reviews.
This so far has been a very positive experience,
with the spray and all and the customer service.
So I guess just what I’m wondering is,
why, when I was glancing, are there a lot of negative responses?
When people wear yoga pants, it moves all the solution.
Or they didn’t get sprayed enough.
That’s possibly it, too, as well.
How do you deal with the negative--?
I do have the ability to just throw the cup at them,
but I don’t do that.
I let people say what they want to say.
And I kind of just step back a little bit,
realize that I’m not my job,
and I can’t speak back to it the way that some people would.
We’re here spraying people, and they just think we’re robots.
Like now, in person.
Sorry, what were you saying, you’re a person?
Yeah, I’m a person. Some people think we’re just robots.
-Not a robot? -No, Absolutely not.
I'm really nervous.
You seem a little nervous, but you still are cool.
I’m sweating up a storm right now.
I can’t really see you, but I can imagine.
-You seem very cool. -Thanks.
We're back on air.
Do you get it?
Sorry.
So, I’m fully tanned right now.
All off?
All off.
Other than your pants.
On my way out, I was able to catch up with the owner of Sizzle Tans.
Is it true that some of the Jersey Shore housewives
have come here before?
They have tanned here in the past, actually,
so we’ve seen a lot of the Jersey Shore cast,
more specifically, Joe Gorga.
I checked out the reviews before I came in,
and there are some people that are saying
they’ve maybe gotten ripped off,
they have had a bad experience.
I’m just wondering do you know why they might be--
You know, every customer is different,
but we try our best to make every customer happy.
Sometimes I think it's just the volume of people that we see.
Some people were saying something about the membership thing.
Yeah, I think the membership program in the old days
might have been a little bit stricter.
Now we’ve changed up the membership program
just to be easier to buy a membership,
easier to cancel the membership.
And I think since then, you know, things have got a lot smoother...
and a lot less complaints.
Awesome.
You surprised me with the membership question.
Nice.
Well, thank you again.
Now that I’m fully dressed and looking in the mirror,
I feel even cooler.
Oh yeah, you’re really tan.
What should I say instead of cooler?
-More tan. -More tan.
I feel cooler is the opposite.
-Yeah. -More tan.
Yeah, I'm feeling very tan. Thank you.
You're welcome.
-I appreciate it. -No problem.
-I’ll just be on my way now. -Have a nice one.
With my cool tan look.
-Thank you. -Have a nice day.
Thanks, you too.
I was certainly out of my comfort zone when entering Sizzle Tans.
I had never had a spray tan before
and did not know what to expect,
especially after reading some of the past reviews.
However, after chatting with the staff,
I began to feel more and more at ease.
Things got better and better the more time we spent together.
I was even able to address some of the negative reviews.
It turns out that tanning is a tricky process
that takes a deal of preparation as well as after care.
When I spoke with the owner,
he explained that many of the past negative reviews
have been taken into account and their ways have been rectified,
especially when it comes to those membership frictions.
I’m not sure on how my tanning experience and results
could possibly be any better,
so I’m going with the full five stars on this one.
I guess you could say
it’s a pretty sticky situation when it comes to tanning.
It what you imagined it was going to be?
Like, the way it feels?
Just the whole process.
I didn’t think it was going to feel this cool.
-Yeah, I know what you mean. -I like it.
Well, I’m just going to hang out.
Awesome.