Meryl Davis Got Her Bronzed Look in ‘DWTS’ in a ‘Wink’

“Dancing with the Stars” fan and judge favorite Meryl Davis looked tan and healthy when she showed skin in her skimpy salsa dance costume on last Monday’s episode of the ABC reality television show.

Davis, half of the gold-medal ice dancing duo at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, got the bronzed look not by spending hours baking in the California sun, but in a “Wink” – or, rather, at Wink Boutique in Grosse Pointe on Sunday, a day before her live performance from Dance Connection Performing Arts Centre in Los Angeles.

Wink owner Jean Alter-Johnson said she got an email from DWTS officials asking if she could fit Davis in for an airbrush tan when she and her Olympic partner and DWTS rival Charlie White were home in southeast Michigan last weekend to open the Stars on Ice performance at the Joe Louis Sunday afternoon.

Alter-Johnson got the referral from DWTS because her independent shop uses the the airbrush tanning formula and technique most often used by runway and Hollywood stars.

She didn’t have to think twice about accommodating the request, even though it meant opening her shop on a Sunday.

'Local Down-Home Girl'

After all, it’s not often that a small business owner gets to “brush up” against an Olympic gold medalist. In southeast Michigan, Davis and White’s fame on DWTS is one thing, but their prowess on the ice is “the thing,” Alter-Johnson said, her voice swelling with pride.

““People are really excited to have somebody of that caliber in town,” Alter-Johnson said. “She’s more of a gold medal, local, down-home girl who happened to be in the area than a reality TV star.

“That’s the fun part about it,” the shop owner said of the West Bloomfield Township native, who currently lives in Ann Arbor. “She’s the sweetest, nicest person.”

Alter-Johnson’s phone has been ringing ever since.

“Grosse Pointe is a really small community, and people like to promote the locally owned businesses that are in place,” she said. “There just aren’t that many retail business anymore.”

Alter-Johnson opened the boutique a year ago after working in the beauty industry for 30 years. Wink, located at 377 Fisher Road, also also sells handbags, jewelry, men’s cufflinks and offers manicures and pedicures.

The organic, all-natural, paraben-free tanning formula is used on 40 television and movie sets and offers a flawless, natural looking tan. “It’s not all orange looking like the fake tans of yesteryears, or something you’d buy at the drugstore,” she said.

Since she opened the salon a year ago, she’s gotten referrals from many area dermatologists who recommend it as a safer alternative to traditional tanning, Alter-Johson said.

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