- Ebony Foley from Bury turned her face and arms black in the ‘terrible mistake’
- The energy consultant was trying St Moriz Darker Than Dark for the first time
- She told the shop assistant who sold it her she wanted to be ‘nice and brown’
- Her boyfriend, Dean, was left scraping it off her face using a hard bit of sponge
- After scrubbing her face, she refuses to go out in town as her arms remain black
A self-tanning disaster that turned a woman’s face black left her too embarrassed to leave her house for a week.
Ebony Foley claims she refused to go outside after trying St Moriz Darker Than Dark mousse for the first time.
The 20-year-old from Bury, Greater Manchester, reportedly bought it because Boots didn’t have her usual fake tan and caused her boyfriend’s son to burst into tears when her face turned black.
Ebony Foley was left having fake tan scraped off her face with a hard sponge after she accidentally turned her face black
‘My body looked fine but my face turned black instantly. It was well funny,’ the energy consultant told The Sun.
‘My boyfriend Dean was literally scraping it off my face with the hard bit of a sponge. It was coming off like dirt.’
The 20-year-old energy consultant shared the reason she was too embarrassed to leave the house on Facebook with friends
She vowed never to use the tanning solution again after her arms also turned black in the mishap.
‘I use false tan all the time, but this has never happened before,’ she said.
Ebony, from Bury, says she uses false tan products all the time but has never experienced anything like the St Moriz Darker Than Dark mishap
‘I get spray tans all the time but I thought I would do this one myself.
‘It was funny, people were saying I changed race for a couple of hours. Everybody at work was laughing their heads off.
Her boyfriend’s son burst into tears when he saw the result of Ebony’s fake tan disaster and she vowed never to use the product again
‘People at work were saying it was so funny as my name is Ebony.’
Saying she was too scared to leave the house, Ebony opted out of a night drinking with her friends.
‘I was supposed to be going out with the girls for cocktails in Manchester on Saturday but am not bothering now,’ she said. ‘My arms are still black.’