Look, we're not here to lecture you about chemistry like some beauty school textbook. But if you're gonna glow, you might as well know what's actually happening to your skin, and why spray tanning is the move when you refuse to let the sun (or society) dictate your timeline.

You've been there. You spray tan, you feel like a bronze goddess for exactly 36 hours, and then you work out once—once—and suddenly you're patchy, streaky, and questioning every decision that led you here.

The spray tan industry has a problem, and we're not tiptoeing around it.

For decades, spray tanning has been designed for one skin tone. One body type. The rest of us? We got to play scientist, mixing shades and crossing our fingers, or we'd leave looking like whoever sprayed us just... didn't give a damn.

So you want to start a spray tan business. Maybe you've been spraying your friends for free and they keep telling you to charge. Maybe you've gotten one too many bad tans and thought, I could do this better. Maybe you're just ready to bet on yourself.

Whatever got you here, understand this: knowing how to spray tan and knowing how to run a business are two totally different games. And the industry isn't going to warn you about that because it profits off you learning the hard way.