NHS worker forced to scrub her face with bleach after applying wrong shade of tan

AN NHS worker tried to scrub her face with bleach after she put on the wrong shade of fake tan and went dark brown in an hour. Kelsey Chambers, 19, slapped on a £13 bottle of St Moriz Darker Than Dark lotion in a bid to cheer herself up during lockdown. But she was horrified […]

AN NHS worker tried to scrub her face with bleach after she put on the wrong shade of fake tan and went dark brown in an hour.

Kelsey Chambers, 19, slapped on a £13 bottle of St Moriz Darker Than Dark lotion in a bid to cheer herself up during lockdown.

But she was horrified when she turned a deep shade of brown after just one hour.

Kelsey, who works as a call handler for the NHS, decided the only way to get it off was to run a bath filled with beach.

She said she was left with burns to her skin and now only uses a fraction of the amount she lathered on.

Kelsey, of Newcastle, said: “I bought it off Pretty Little Thing. I always do my tan every three days or something.

“I hate being pale and it makes your outfits look better. I left it on for an hour and that’s what it turned out like.

“When I realised it was that dark I laughed for hours and was shocked. I was not leaving the house looking like that.

“I just had to keep washing it until it looked natural.”

After Kelsey posted the picture on Facebook – alongside the caption “Use darker than dark, they said” – it racked up nearly 4,000 shares.

But the experience has not put Kelsey off. She added: “I still use the fake tan now but don’t use so much and it goes on much better.”

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