- Hi guys, I'm Stevie and today
I've got the lovely Savannah here with me and
I thought that I would start a new series
where I bring someone on or and by myself
and tell a story about something embarrassing
or moving or interesting or weird.
And so Sav here is gonna tell us a really weird, wait,
which one of those things would you think this story is?
- Wild and weird.
- Wild and weird. - Embarrassing.
It's probably embarrassing.
- Okay.
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- I feel like anyone who's lived in LA has an incredibly
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and I'm here to tell that story because it's mine.
(both chuckling)
- Well, I feel like it,
LA just like gave me life and filled my soul.
- Drained mine.
- What's the first thing that happened.
- Okay so for those of you who don't know,
there is a huge Facebook group called GNO, Girls Night Out.
Am I allowed to say that? - Yeah.
- And it's got like 20,000 women,
non binary people in there,
maybe more by now, actually,
but this was a couple of years ago
and you can get anything on there.
Like you can buy your furniture,
you can get an apartment.
I got my wedding photographer on there as well.
And someone, who I will not name,
was advertising a free spray tan and I was like,
"great, I'm gonna do that."
- If someone is giving free spray tans,
you'll get a free spray tan.
- You get it, right? - Like, why not?
- Nothing to lose.
You just show up, get a free spray tan, right?
- Also, I just feel like the,
I can already imagine what's gonna go wrong
and I'm probably not correct about what's gonna go wrong,
you know. - We will see.
Is it gonna be a really bad spray tan,
and you have something important to go to.
Were you getting a spray tan before
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- No, you know what?
I was just like scrolling on there and I was like,
I could do with that, you know.
Just look cute.
Just go for it, you know.
- Had nowhere to be, just why not.
- No, SB just,
I just wanted to look cute.
I am like the first person to comment on this post.
So embarrassing like, " I'll get it."
So I do it and she messages me and first red flag,
It's in a warehouse in Silver lake.
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- How am I gonna help?
- You're gonna read the script.
(Sav sighing)
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- Yeah, I'll give it a go.
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- Okay, back to the story.
- So I rock up to this huge warehouse
in my little bag, get out.
There were probably a hundred people in this huge warehouse.
So I'm like wandering around embarrassed like,
" what am I doing?"
- Did you think that,
did you think that they were all there for a free spray tan?
- No, because like,
there were loads of people like carrying equipment.
Like I was like, maybe this is some kind of coworking space
that people are like sharing this warehouse to do things.
I just thought she'd like booked out this space
within the warehouse, right?
And that's where she did the spray tans.
- Did she say why she wanted,
why she was giving away the spray tan for free?
- No but clue was in the post
because she said that she taught spray tans.
She's a teacher.
And I just thought that was like
to do with her credibility as a Tanner.
- No - I teach it so it'll be good,
I swear. - Right.
- Right. - Right.
So I'm wondering around and like,
I see this like dressing room in the middle of the warehouse
and I recognize the woman who's doing spray tans, Right?
Because I saw her on her Facebook.
So I find her, go up to her and second clue,
I had to sign something. - What?
What did you sign?
- I don't remember.
I was like, you know that thing where
you're just so overwhelmed with everything going on-
- Stop. - So I literally just like
signed my life away.
I've got a law degree by the way(Stevie laughing)
and I signed something I have no idea what I was signing.
I was thinking maybe is this like a health and safety thing.
I don't know but I just like put my signature on it.
- That is so British of you.
- Yeah.
Without any thought whatsoever I just did it.
- Oh my God.
- So she takes me into the dressing room and she's like,
" ooh so if you just like,"
obviously if you've had a spray tan you'll know,
you've gotta like put on the little thong,
- I've never seen that.
- and she gave me like a dressing gown.
You've never.
- No, I've always just got spray tans naked.
- Yeah. - Sometimes they're like,
"you can keep your swimsuit on if you want."
I'm like, "I didn't bring it so"
- For the sake of this story
you'll be really glad that I did have the thong.
(Stevie and Sav laughing)
- Like in England, when you go and get massages,
they give you like paper underwear to wear
and I'm like, why?
- We're an embarrassed nation.
- Its Like, " oh, protect your modesty."
- Yeah - Like, what modesty?
- We are repressed.
It's us.
- Just put a sheet of paper over my butt crack like.
- But, so glad I had it.
So she gave me the thong,
the paper thong, she was in a dressing gown
and she was like, "just come out when you are ready."
and so I was like standing in the dressing room,
like, "come out where?"
"Into the warehouse?"
" What the (indistinct)"
I come out, I've got like all my clothes
in the dressing room.
I'm basically naked, right?
I've got my paper-thong on
and I just sort of like wonder out,
like looking for her because she's not there.
And she comes to find me and she's like,
" cool, okay."
"We're nearly ready, are you ready?"
And I was like, "yeah, I'm ready."
" Why wouldn't I be ready?"
And she takes me around the corner
and there are about 30 people.
Like there were like chairs lined up with 30 people sitting
like an audience, right?
- Are you on a stage?
- Not yet.
- (Stevie laughing)Not yet?
- But I come around the corner
and I see all of these chairs, right
and there is a stage.
I'm like, "This is really weird."
" Are they filming something else?
" Like what's going on?"
And there was a full film crew, like full film crew,
like dozens of people are there carrying equipment,
lining everything up, making sure everything's ready.
It's like, I mean, this is LA.
They film everywhere, right?
This isn't for me.
So- - But did you not even think,
" oh wait, did I sign a film release earlier?"
(Stevie laughing) I just signed.
- Not at all.
I'm in survival mode at this point
'cause I'm trying to piece together
the reality that is, my life,
- Oh my God - and nothing makes sense.
So I was just like
absorbing all this information at the time.
So she says, follow me and she guides me to the stage,
whether it's like, you know,
they have those like black tents that are there and
they're there for spray tanning so-
- Yeah.
- And she has me stand in front of it
and she's like working with the film crew to like
move me into the right place.
Like at that point, I know,
like I know I'm (indistinct), right?
I know. - What?
You never thought I should probably leave?
- No, it's too rude.
- You were there to get your spray tan.
You were like, "I'm getting my spray tan, damn it."
- No, it was just too rude at that point.
If I- - Oh my God, rude?
- She never gave you warning.
She never told you, you were gonna be filmed.
She never told you that there were 30 chairs.
You were gonna be on a stage in a warehouse.
That's rude.
- Yeah, no.
I just, I felt, I didn't want to put anyone out, you know?
(Stevie and Sav chuckling)
- Oh my God.
- So yeah, I'm there and we're ready to start
and she comes up and takes my dressing down off.
So I'm just there in my little, my little thong.
Looking cute.
Horribly embarrassed, just horribly embarrassed.
- And you felt like you were rude
for not assuming that you'd be filmed.
- Right, yeah.
So I don't know if you're familiar with like
the spray tan movements.
You've had a spray tan once so-
- Yeah I have but I think maybe
the audience would like to know what,
- So there are like moves, right?
It's a routine.
You're gonna do the routine.
It is there to make sure that you're like,
gonna get an even tan, - Yeah
and you're getting streaks, whatever.
So like I'm onstage in my thong,
I'm literally, I mean, doing a routine.
Do you wanna do it?
(Stevie and Sav Laughing)
Are you gonna do it?
- Yeah, what do you do?
Okay, so the first thing you go out to the front
and then you have your arms out like this, okay?
- Yeah, like that.
And then you're gonna do that.
All the spray tanners in the comments are gonna be like,
" that's not how you do, actually."
- And then you go like this.
- So you gotta, like, you gotta claw-
- Gotta get the claw.
- [Woman Off camera] Claws out.
You little monsters.
- Pop your hip out.
- Yeah, you gotta pop each hip out so like,
that was a lot for everyone.
- Good thing you had a paper thong on.
- Right, yeah.
- So you're fully topless.
- Yeah, yeah, fully topless but I mean, popin' my hip,
won't do shit for these like,
(Stevie laughing)be fine.
But there's a bit at the end where you have to like,
you know, face the wall because they got to do your back.
And obviously it's got to go evenly down the bum and like
down the legs.
- The bum crack or not crack the line underneath.
- The crease, the crease. - Yeah, the crease.
- So you gotta bend forward.
- And so why was there an audience?
were they learning how to spray tan?
- They were, they'd signed up to a course
and they were learning how to spray tan.
- So it was free for you because she was getting paid a lot.
- Right.
I still don't know.
I'm assuming she was filming it
for her like training program.
I don't know, for some ebook or something.
I don't know, but like somewhere,
- Oh my God, - there were nudes of me.
- Nudes. - Nudes.
- It's you awkwardly walking out and looking like, ah.
- The most embarrassing part of that was like,
sheepishly walking back to the changing room
and getting dressed and just the whole situation
was just like dawning on me, like what had happened
and I felt so violated but also so..
I just wanted to get out there so quickly.
- So what have you learned?
What has that experience taught you?
- I mean, this experience paired with law school
is read something before you sign it.
(Stevie and Sav Laughing)
Like maybe read it.
- I love that you did..
that law school didn't teach you that
but getting a spray tan did.
- Yeah no, it was mainly a spray tan.
Yeah.
- Oh my God.
Also, nothing good ever happens in Silver Lake.
- So true.
But you have to have that experience to really know that.
Yeah.
- It's just so unrelatable to me.
Like there, I just feel like if I was mortified, I mean,
I guess like there's like the freeze response, right?
Like I feel like maybe you were in a freeze response
where you're just like, "yes."
Or maybe fan, maybe you were fanning where you're just like,
"yes, I'll do whatever you say 'cause"
"I'm absolutely in shock right now."
- I think they was shock but I honestly think that
that's something like, so truly like
it's so embarrassing to put people out as British.
Like as a British person.
- Yeah. - But I was just like,
"I cannot leave all these people hanging."
" The show can't go on without me."
Like I was the show.(Stevie laughing)
They couldn't have gone on without me.
All these people,
- You were so important.
You were pivotal to this class.
- I was so integral.
I just wish I'd known about it before.
- You were the only person there.
You were the only person that got a free spray tan.
- The only one.
- Everyone else knew.
Everyone was just like (indistinct) off.
- There were literally people in the audience taking notes.
They were literally taking notes as I was bending over like,
- They were like, "oh okay, interesting."
- Yeah
- I mean, it's better than just like walking out
to a room full of perverts at least.
At least they weren't there for like a fetish reason.
They were actually there to learn.
- Yeah, there was like some safety
in the fact that it was all women, who-
- Really? - who had come to learn.
Film crew, all men.
So another story but yeah.
- So would you ever do it again?
- No.
- The fact that it was mortifying
because you didn't know what was happening?
- Yeah, yeah.
- So would you choose,
like if you could go back in time and if they were like,
" oh yeah, this is gonna be filmed."
Do you think you would have done it?
(Sav Chuckling)
- I don't know what to say.
- [Lady off Camera] You definitely would not.
You'd go, I'll just pay you $15, thanks.
- You'd pay (indistinct) spray tan only $15.
- Someone's never had a spray tan.
- [Lady Off Camera] I have had plenty in my high school days
thank you very much.
They are in Blackpool.
- In Blackpool in the 2000's, only 2000's
- I'd love to think that I would've gone through with it
because I felt like it could have been
a really empowering experience if it was consensual.
- Yeah, yeah.
- It was fully, fully non consensual.
- Sure, sure.
- [Lady off camera] I don't think anyone doing the moves
that are required for spray tan can be empowering.
(Stevie and Sav chuckling)
The word empowering and spray tans do not coincide-
- I don't know, don't.
Listen, there's no Lady Gaga slander
allowed in my channel, all right? (all laughing)
Would you ever pose for like an art class
where people are painting you naked?
- I'd love to think so but like,
I just feel like its too much
I'm too British and I'm too awkward.
Also, it's like such an extended period of time
to be like naked and like sprawled out.
- Yeah.
- It's another thing if you're like naked and you're like,
" oh, here I am."
And then I'm off.
- Yeah. - It's a lot.
- Would you?
- Yeah, definitely.
I would love to do that.
maybe I could get a career in that in England
where everybody's too shy to do it.
- I don't know why I asked, I knew.
- The reason I'm asking these specific questions is because
when something happens to me, I'm like,
"okay, what part of it was non consensual?"
What could I do to like retrain my brain,
to like, look, this is the thing that happened
that's not a traumatic experience because
I chose it to like reclaim that, right?
But obviously everyone's different.
- Right, Yeah.
I probably just-
- You you are like, "I'll never get a spray tan again."
- Right, that was the last time.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Oh my God.
That's so trauma, - That's so sad.
- I mean, whatever.
Spray tans, who cares, but like, oh.
- Yeah. - You're very traumatized.
- Maybe this needs to come full circle
and I need to like go and get a spray tan.
Like that's the..
- yeah.
- [Lady Off camera] And filming yourself.
- Filming my self. ( all laughing)
Just doing Instagram live and I'll just film it there.
- [Lady Of camera] Or maybe yo need to become
a spray tan artists.
- Maybe.
- I Wonder how many Girls Night Out crazy stories
there are.
- There must be so many.
- Yeah 'cause there's lots of posts,
like people post about things that happened-
- People get in fights on there.
- I wonder if she's still on there, the tanner.
Maybe I'll look her up.
- Oh, I miss LA.
- I don't.
- You don't.
- No, no.
I just, I love my seasons.
I love the repression here.(Stevie and Sav laughing)
It feels authentic.
- Feels familiar to you.
- Yeah.
- Thank you so much for coming to my channel
and telling a story.
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