Glamour girl Charlene vows to give up fake tan on ‘Snog Marry Avoid?’
A FAKE tan-obsessed chef from Thurso with a four-and-half-hour make-up routine appeared on national television on Monday night.
Thurso’s own glamour girl, Charlene McPhee (19), was on BBC Three’s reality flagship programme, Snog Marry Avoid?, getting a new, more natural look.
In the programme "beauty addicts" are given a lighter touch before random male members of the public are asked if they would rather snog, marry or avoid them.
Charlene’s £120-a-month fix on fashion and beauty products, which included going through three bottles of fake tan a week, was thrown out of the window by POD – the Personal Overhaul Device – a piece of TV computer wizardry that imparts beauty and fashion advice before giving those taking part a new natural look.
Charlene spoke to www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk about her 15 minutes of fame and her new, fresh-faced style on Tuesday.
"I couldn’t stop laughing when I watched it," she said. "The tears were streaming down my face."
At the end of the show Charlene pledged to stop using fake tan and 70 per cent of the men asked responded that they would either snog or marry her.
Charlene said she had not entirely stuck to her pledge but is staying away from the excesses of her past, which led to a few puzzled faces when she returned to Thurso.
"I was walking past people and going ‘Hi!’ and they were just kind of looking at me," she said. "I was going, ‘yes, it’s me’."
Charlene’s appearance on the programme was quickly the talking point of the Far North on social micro-blogging site Twitter and it also caused a few remarks when the story first appeared on www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk in February.
Speaking after the programme went out, Charlene said she still doesn’t care what others think of her look – past or present.
"It doesn’t put me up nor down what people think," she said.