bttspa

yes i totally understand this issue!!!! we have a tanning salon with 12 units and a spray room and do mobile also. i think if you don't have an actual space and clients to back it up then you can't really call yourself a business. anyone can go out and buy the cheapest equipment and the crappiest solution an call themselves a professional. and it totally does ruin this part of the industry!

Paradise Bronze

True, anyone can go buy a machine and solution and go do mobile tans but even salons don't even know how to airbrush tan right. How I know this because clients tell me. I've been mobile airbrush tanning for over 6 years now and have a successful business; I'm certified, licensed, insured, and brand my own products. I find many people here in Southern Cali just buying the equipment and go. Airbrush tanning is an art, you either have it or your don't.

bttspa

exactly! you have to be comfortable doing it! holding the gun, knowing what to do if you splatter etc. i had my boyfriend spray me at home for the first time the other night and he was so awkward holding the gun and kept accidently spraying where he wasn't supposed to. it's not easy like so many people think it is! you do need training and it does take time to get good at it!

Paradise Bronze

And that is why I decided to train people on the proper way of spray tanning .

itsmeamg

I am a mobile business and am not pi***d by your post but I think its not a matter of being a salon or mobile. Its a matter of skills. I am mobile but Ive done my homework and research and worked very hard at perfecting spray tanning and my clients are very pleased. I visited a salon prior to getting into this business and was not happy with my spray tan . Thats what pushed me in perfecting the technique. I get all the usual questions too about turning orange and streaking. I assure them that is not going to happen. I wish you all the best of luck. I hope one day to actually have a salon myself.

Paradise Bronze

Very true. It's all about skills in this business.

luxetan

I've had this problem too- I was spraying a "Girls night out spa party " ( im a spa/salon owner/certified esthetician/certified spray tan tech) and one of the girls snooped through my solutions/products while I was spraying and fb some of my tan clietns the next day telling them that she knows what products i use and they can go halves on a machine and start doing ppl themselves !! the nerve!

Paradise Bronze

Wow! The nerve of them doing such things. My rivals did something like similar like that. They had one of their friend plus 2 other girls book a tan appointment with me just to see what solution I use. I had an afflilate go out to tan them since I couldn't and when they saw another girl, they were mad it wasn't me because they couldnt see what solution I was using. All they had to do is ask and I would tell but they had to be shady about it.

I then find out that 2 of the girls were my rivals and the girl that booked with me now works for my rivals. Thats story gets longer though so I'l stop here.

delany

I dont know how many estheticians and random girls I get a year that only book a spray to see how I do it and then attempt to open on their own.