Start Your Own Spray Tanning Business

This is by far the most popular route many of our spray tan technicians choose after they complete their course. In fact, mobile spray tanning is the fastest growing market within the handheld spray tanning industry. By offering your clients the convenience of traveling directly to their door you can save them the “trip” and can charge a higher premium. Most spray technicians start out with friends, family and quickly increase their customer base through spray tan parties, corporate events, wedding expos and referrals. It’s easy to get started since you don’t have the any overhead including rent or utilities. A small investment into equipment and training now and you’ll be on your way to starting a new career.

If you already own a tanning spa, beauty salon, health club or day spa you can commission a spray tan technician to take your services mobile. By expanding your marketing area and providing a sunless tanning service, you will reach new customers. The mobile spray tan industry is huge for wedding and formal expos, fairs, recitals, gatherings and body building events. This can also be a great way to showcase your current services and products. If your customers can’t come to you then go to them.

Traditional tanning salons in San Diego, California are switching from UV tanning beds to spray tanning at a growing pace. The reason behind the switch is that spray tanning provides faster, safer and better overall results when compared to tanning beds. If you own a tanning salon, spray tanning is an affordable option that will open your business up to a whole new type of client. Certified spray tanning technicians can fulfill these positions or rent space from a salon owner.

Spa and sunless tanning go together like cookies and milk. Offering customers spray tanning can offer peace and relaxation, knowing that your body is not being subjected to harsh UV light. Using only the best performing sunless solutions on the market can make for a truly amazing experience. When people visit a spa they want to look and feel their very best. By offering clients a natural alternative to UV tanning will help generate additional revenue for your business.

If you’re already doing makeup and hair, spray tanning can be an easy up sale. Sunless Spray Tanning has become the single fastest growing sector in the beauty industry. People that visit a cosmetologist want to look their absolute best, and what’s better than the perfect tan? You can also strengthen your business through skin/tan care product sales. Beauty salons are also a great place to offer spray tanning as an additional service. This will ensure your customers look their absolute best when they leave.

It’s not uncommon to see a tanning bed at a health or fitness club. The reason is club members often desire that finishing touch to their sculpted physical appearance. Sunless spray tanning is a great way to keep members at your health club and attract new customers. Studies have shown that spray tanning services can add up to an addition 30 percent of revenue when added to an existing gym membership. You can further extend sales through sunless care and maintenance products.

Having the right tan for a competition where judges base you on your physical appearance can be the difference from winning or losing. Spray tanning can enhance your client’s features and hide blemishes to give them the edge over their competitors. San Diego is full of different types of competitive events including bodybuilding, modeling, fitness, bikini and more. These contests require perfection where normal tanning methods just won’t cut it. Becoming a certified spray tan technician means you can perform spray tanning right at the event. These events often have hundreds of competitors in different classes. Attending one competition can often add up to month’s salary in just one day!

Doesn’t everybody want to look their best on that big day! Many times it’s not just the bride getting treated to a spray tan, but the whole wedding party. It’s important that everyone is corresponding with one another for perfect pictures and lasting memories. Sometimes this even means the groom will be getting a sunless tan. Weddings are not the only life event that requires a perfect tan in groups. Maybe it's for the bachelorette party, girl’s night out, or “just because”, hosting a spray tanning party can be exciting and rewarding. You can further entice larger groups of people by offering discounts and other promotions.