07: The Health & Beauty of Spray Tanning with Malinda McHenry

“People can pop up a tent and do it in their garage… But it's more important than that because it's respiratory, we're misting a solution into somebody's breathing pathway.” -  Malinda McHenry

 

Welcome to the Bombshell Beauty Rituals Podcast, I’m your host Liz Steffen. You’re listening to a jam-packed episode with a special guest, Malinda McHenry. Being an educator, she discusses the need to set standards and processes in spray tanning and how the misuse of formulas can be hazardous to both the practitioner and the client. She also spills some juicy hacks of proper tan maintenance to apply. Cheers to a beautiful life!

[00:01 - 09:29] The Evolution of Spray Tan in the Beauty Industry

• Getting to know Malinda McHenry
• • Malinda has a phenomenal educator for estheticians
  • Spray tanning is the fourth largest growing segment of the beauty industry
  • • Cementing a relationship with an LLC
• Spray tan extraction system
• • Her husband built a commercial fan with a two-layered filter system
  • The next step was to install UV filters and permanent washable filters
  • It captures about 95% of the airborne particulate and spray
  • • The evolution of tanning sprays

 

[09:30 - 30:18] How Getting a Tan Can Be a Messy Business

• What it takes to run a spray tan business
• • There are certification requirements but no licensure is needed
  • Be wary - most practitioners are not estheticians
  • • All about the level of care
• Spray tan maintenance
• • Certain activities strip off the tan
  • Beware of bad and stinky spray solutions
  • • Effects on the respiratory system
  • More spray doesn’t mean better
• How the formula works
• • The higher the formula percentage, the less gold or yellow color
  • • Test runs for photographs 

 

[30:19 - 01:08:16] Client Safety is the Priority - Setting Standards and Systems

• The significance of industry standards for solutions and systems
• • Not everybody is a candidate for spray tanning
  • • Affecting the immune system
  • Liz shares a client’s horror story about a Brazilian waxing gone wrong
• Liz and Malinda spills some tips
• • Don’t get a Brazilian wax and a spray tan on the same day
  • If your tan doesn't take, that's on you
  • • Enhancing the beauty of colored women
• Getting the ratio right
• • It’s not just about mixing everything together
  • Not all spray tan solutions will stain
  • Check out http://spraygon.com/ for Melinda’s spray products
• Better environment for people
• • Spray tanners should consider the effects on their and their clients’ respiratory system
  • • Measures to take
• A blast from the past

 

[01:08:17 - 01:14:23]  Wrapping Up! 

• Closing words
• Connect with me and Malinda (links below) 

    

 

Key Quotes

 

“You have to be so careful on who you go to for any of your services.”  -  Malinda McHenry

 

“You got to do lighter coats because the pores can only absorb so much… If you see this dark solution on the surface, you've got a lot of solution you just wasted.” -  Malinda McHenry

 

“This was such a respiratory disorder or interruption to everybody's lives and we were really focused on respiratory. It was more important than ever to get the word out to spray tanners to consider what you are doing when you're throwing a cloud of mixture of liquid and particulate into the air.” -  Malinda McHenry

 

A Licensed Cosmetologist, Esthetician and Instructor since 1986. Malinda has been a product educator for Brocato, L’anza, Tressa, Alpha 9 Nails, Vicky Peters Beautiful Nails, SoundSkin Microdermabrasion, Candela lasers, Vivace Micro-Needling with RF, Neurotris Micro Current, Epilyss, Glymed, Image and Lira Clinical Skincare companies.

 

Former co-owner and CEO of ”The Academy of Aesthetic Arts” a licensed accredited beauty college located in Shawnee Kansas from 2004-2014. They graduated 600 plus students with over 90% still working in their fields. In 2009 both Telly Awards and David awards were given for her contribution as a technical video creator with 9 titles on Chemical Peels, Body Treatments and Ultrasound applications for Aesthetic Video Source.

 

Malinda was a contributing author of “The Estheticians Guide to Outstanding Esthetics” released September 2017. Malinda AKA “Esthetic Professor” is a regular guest educator for the AACS & CEA 2009-2019, Face & Body Trade shows 2017-2018 and is Master of Ceremonies at the annual Beauty Business Summit in St. Pete Florida. Malinda is a contributing author for Milady textbooks; Nail Technology, Fundamental Esthetics and Master Educator release dates 2019 and 2020. Malinda currently co-owns Bronzed N Beautiful Spa and Academy of Advanced Aesthetic Arts, a postgraduate training center in Overland Park Kansas.

Connect with Malinda!

Instagram @estheticprofessor

Instagram @spraygon

Facebook www.facebook.com/estheticprofessor

Facebook www.facebook.com/spraygon

www.estheticprofessor.com

www.spraygon.com

 

 

 

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