“Love Island USA” star Sydney Paight’s commitment to boyfriend Isaiah Campbell is only rivaled by her devotion to maintaining a faux glow.
In an exclusive interview with Page Six Style, the reality star breaks down the self-tanning routine she employed during her six-week tenure on the Peacock dating show.
“I actually went on a tanning journey in the villa,” says Paight, explaining that it is “hard” for a natural redhead to maintain a bronzed complexion.
The Los Angeles resident relied on Isle of Paradise products during her stay at the Santa Barbara, Calif., villa.
“Thankfully, the self-tanner that I use has a good wear time, like six days. And then it’s, like, OK, you need to scrub it,” she explains. “I just put self-tanner on. And then I would touch it up whenever we had [a day off from filming].”
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Of all the Isle of Paradise products she packed, Paight tells Page Six Style her “favorite” was the Disco Tan Instant Wash-Off Body Bronzer ($24).
“It comes off in the shower, too! So I love that,” she raves, adding that its immediate results worked well with her skin-baring villa wardrobe.
“If you’re putting on a nighttime outfit, it makes your legs look really bronzed.”
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Paight admits her “biggest” fear going into “Love Island USA” wasn’t failing to meet a man, but rather her tan falling flat.
“And I was in there from day one!” she says. “I was like, ‘Damn, it’s going to be hard.’ But I did it!”
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Paight — who placed second with Campbell in the “Love Island USA” Season 4 finale — says the rest of her getting-ready rituals were relatively low maintenance.
“I actually got ready really quick. I would say in a solid hour, I could be ready,” she says, acknowledging that some of her female castmates would take “hours and hours” before emerging from the group dressing room.
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“It’s because they would all talk the whole time they were getting ready,” Paight elaborates. “I would literally just sit myself in a corner and just do it. They’d be like, ‘You’re done?’ I’d be like, ‘Yeah. Don’t talk!’”
The “Love Island USA” Season 4 reunion is available to stream Thursday, Sept. 1, at 9 p.m. ET on Peacock.