Your friends have suggested that you go with them to a ski resort for a crazy week-end, but you have politely declined the invitation, for you harbour a dark secret: you don’t know how to ski! So, of course, for you, a ski holiday means mega shame and super embarrassment. Don’t be so sure: it is possible to look good when you don’t know how to ski, and we can prove it!
Count on style!
OK, so you don’t know how to ski, but apart from you, who else knows? Obviously, if you arrive with a pair of woollen mittens and a pair of jeans, you will immediately be found out as a mega beginner and your image is likely to take a dive. Before departure, two essentials steps: get the equipment and the training! Study Luc Alphand’s look in depth and hurry up and get hold of the perfect skier’s outfit (hand warmers and lip salve included)! If you have look like an expert, you will be taken for an expert; it’s as simple as that! Second step: the training. At home, force yourself to wear your ski boots for 10 consecutive days. With pyjamas, or in front of the TV, they must feel like real slippers, if you want to keep up the pretence all the way to the slopes!
Fool them all!
The key to your survival: organisation! Obviously, if you want to continue to look good, you can’t ski in front of or with your friends! What do you do to prevent them coming across you just as you are doing the splits when you are simply trying to brake while snowploughing? Nothing simpler: when your friends go off to ski, you are recovering from the previous evening; when they arrive on the slopes, you get an urgent phone call from your mother; when they decide to take the chair lift, you discover that you need a bite to eat; when they charge down a red run, you set off, officially to test a black run, although you are really trying to conquer a green run. Some well chosen photos, posted on Facebook will be the final touch in convincing your mates that you are an expert skier!
