As a professional in the spray tanning industry, it is not only your responsibility to provide clients with a gorgeous glow but also to address their concerns about turning orange. By educating them on the reasons behind potential orange tones, you can alleviate their worries and ensure a positive experience. Let's delve into the factors that can contribute to an undesirable orange hue in spray tans and how to prevent them.
Reasons for Orange Spray Tans: Spray tans may result in an orange appearance due to a few common factors. It's crucial to understand these reasons to effectively address client concerns and ensure satisfactory outcomes.
Over Saturation of Product: When applying a spray tan, your goal is to create light, even coats of solution across the entire body. Over-saturating the skin with excessive product can lead to an orange tint. This may occur if you perform too many heavy passes or if your spray gun is set to dispense too much solution at once. To prevent this issue, ensure that your spray gun is adjusted properly, allowing for a moderate and consistent application. Additionally, maintain a distance of about 6 inches from the body while spraying.
Spraying Too Dark: One of the benefits of providing a luxury spray tan service is the ability to customize the tan for each client. However, if a solution is selected that is too dark for a client's skin tone, it can result in an unnatural and orange appearance. During the pre-consultation, take the time to understand the client's tan goals and match them with an appropriate solution that will yield a natural-looking result. For fair-skinned clients, choosing a solution that creates a high contrast may lead to an orange outcome. Educate clients about the potential consequences of choosing a shade that doesn't suit their skin tone and recommend a more suitable option.
Dry Skin: Dry skin can also contribute to an orange spray tan, especially in certain areas prone to dryness, such as the elbows, knees, hands, and feet. Dry patches can absorb more tanning solution, leading to an uneven and orange appearance. Emphasize the importance of moisturizing and hydration to your clients before their spray tan session. Encourage them to apply barrier cream on dry areas and provide prep spray for clients with overall dry skin. These measures can help prevent over-saturation and maintain a natural-looking tan.
Conclusion: While orange spray tans can be a concern for clients, understanding the reasons behind this occurrence and taking preventive measures can greatly enhance their experience. By educating clients about factors like selecting inappropriate shades, and dry skin, you can ensure their spray tans result in a beautiful and natural glow.
As a professional, your expertise and guidance play a vital role in helping clients achieve their desired tanning outcomes while avoiding any unwanted orange tones.
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Imagine you are half way through a spray tan and the gun splutters and stops
do you...................
Do you know what to do?
No prizes for getting that right but you would be suprised how many trained therapist can get this wrong.
A blocked needle comes about when a small piece of debris gets pushed in to the nozzle...... & it happens. So get over it.
Doesn't matter what airbrush you use, what solution you run through it or how old the machine is..... it happens!
Regular use helps to keep an airbrush running smoothly, if it is sat for too long without use tan has chance to coagulate.
In fact new airbrushes are many times more likely to block as small plastic shavings (left over from the manufacturing process) get sucked in to the nozzle.
Alternatively watch this video now; so that when it happens (because it most certainly will) you won't need to refund the client.
Or even better have more than one gun!
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During consultation it is important to assess and suggest the correct solution for the skin type. If someone wants to disregard this advice and go for a dark tan, please advise them that it is not going to wear off well if they are pale.
10% Spray Tan Solution
A medium-strength solution that can be adapted for most colourings simply by applying slightly more or less tan according to the desired result.
12% Spray Tan Solution
The most commonly used DHA solution and the one most often preferred by salons . This is a medium/dark solution that can be adapted for most uses making it a good solution to choose when starting in business. Use distilled water to Dilute 50/50 with distilled water for a 6% great for a redhead.
16% Spray Tan Solution
This solution is suitable for DHA resistive clients and those with the darkest skin tones. It is a particularly intense product, should be used with caution and by professionals only. This is recommended for clients with either a deep base tan or a dark natural skin colour. Dilute 50/50 for a 8% great for a pale blonde
20% Spray Tan Solution
This is great for dancers, body builders and tanorexics but will be more drying to the skin, reducing the tan’s longevity. To counteract this, ensure that the tan contains plenty of moisturising ingredients and recommend an effective moisturiser for the client to use for aftercare.
Other variations in tanning results
Spray tan will make the client a few shades darker than the base skin colour, so dark skins will always end up darker than light skins. Even on the same client the degree of tan will vary due to differing oil and acid levels in the skin and also to different base colours on different body parts. Air pressure and humidity can also affect the final result.
If children are to be tanned always chose alcohol free, parabens free and perfume free products and keep the DHA as low as possible, to avoid sensitising a delicate skin.
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The end attachments just screw onto the hose - but with an anticlockwise turn
What's happening is that the hose is manufactured in very long lengths - 1000s of metres long - it's cut to size then the end pieces are attached using an anti-clockwise turn.
To attach the end piece:
Remove the end piece from the motor or from the airgun
Hold the hose in your left hand, the end piece in your right hand
Push the hose into the end piece
Turn your right hand towards you - in an anticlockwise turn
This does work, the hose is like a giant screw that screws into the end-piece.
1. Using the compressor too close to the tanning area causing the powerful motors to suck tan from the air and deposit it all over your floor.
2. The therapist has tipped the airbrush backward during the treatment causing tan to pour back into the motor
3. The airbrush has not been stored in the upright position.
4. The filter has not been cleaned
Avoid this by
1. Choosing a machine with a long pipe
2. Positioning the machine well behind the tanning area
3. If your machine has a removable filter keep it clean
4. Using a good extractor.
If this has already happened you could try
1.Washing and drying or changing the removable filter( not all machines have one)
and
2. Drying out the tan which is already inside the unit
a. Place the compressor on a tray - something you don’t mind getting dirty
b. Switch it on and leave the power running for 5-7 minutes
c. repeat until dried out
Please note- getting tan into the motor may void your warranty, as many manufacturers would consider this misuse, however it is unlikely to damage your compressor as the components inside are cased in plastic.
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When you pull the airbrush trigger back the needle doesn't spring back.
Youve got yourself a "sticky trigger"!
Watch the video for a quick fix solution.
Sometimes the steel can get twisted in it's channel, try shaking it: stand facing the door of the tent, hold it firmly at each side and shake it, then put the tent down.
This should realign the wire in its casing.
This does (sometimes) happen when you first get the tent out the bag.
Here a video of Richard dealing with a recent 'lopsided' return.
To be honest even he thought it must be faulty but it clicked in at the last minute.
The bend looks like it is all over but it actually stems from just one area where the steel band is twisted usually it is along the bottom (as in this case). You just need to twist it and shake it and suddenly it will click back in.
As you will see from the video he ended up being quite rough but they do always click in. ;-)
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