Skill Level
Basic to Intermediate: This is an online beginner’s course delivered through our Academy’s Virtual Learning Environment.
What is Sunless 101?
Sunless 101 is a detailed look at sunless tanning and will leave you feeling more confident in adding this profitable service to your treatment menu. Whether you are brand new to the industry or if you had spray tanned in the past and want to touch up on your knowledge & technique, we’ll give you the practical tips you need to get started. This is an online course, complete with an in-depth demonstration of the technique, downloadable workbook, an interactive training session and your certificate of completion. The result of which will leave you feeling empowered as a spray tanning consultant, not just a technician with the confidence and knowledge of selecting the right solution for your client and crafting a natural looking sunless tan.
What do I learn?
For customers who are new to spray tanning, we teach you:
- Increase your confidence in delivering a superior, flawless tan
- How to focus on the client experience, not on your technique. Most spray techniques require lots of care and attention. And the most foolproof, easy-to-master and efficient way to spray clients FAST.
- Uncover new opportunities in sunless tanning, a service that’s grown 490% in 5 years!
- Dramatically increase profits by offering a service that is for 100% of your clientele
- Convert more of your existing but “non-tanning” clients into sunless tanners by selling the emotional boost in confidence, not merely the physical result
- Recapture inactive clients with a new service that can deliver wow to any age group
- Discover how to bundle the service for broader appeal, by coupling with any service on your treatment menu
- Begin to unlock the secrets to win clients for life
- Eliminate trail-and-error learning. Don’t settle for teaching yourself techniques that don’t work or don’t work well.
- Grow your loyal customer base by customizing the look perfectly to each client’s body type
- Gain the understanding to apply the perfect product to the right skin type
For customers who are familiar with spray tanning, but switched to Aviva Inspires, we teach you:
- Overcome the “One Size Fits All” approach to improve client retention
- Differentiate your business from “other spray tanning salons”
- The “no-brainer”, flawless spray tanning technique
- How to increase your number of spray tans per week
- Positioning yourself as a Sunless Consultant, and STOMPING your competition
- Discover the all too common mistakes “newbies” make with equipment & solutions (that you may have made as well)
- A jaw-dropping and signature “sun-kissed” technique that is indistinguishable from a real tan
This course really teaches the basics…a flawless, sun-kissed tan for clients. In the Sunless Master Course, the next stage of your learning we then take you from being a competent spray tan consultant into becoming a sunless guru, offering unique and value-added options for your clients such as body contouring, muscle enhancement and added premium services to your menu.
Delivered Online
Although you physically cannot attend our training course at our Academy in Massachusetts, this online learning course is designed to deliver you everything you need to get started. Since you won’t be working with one our instructors to help you master the basic technique, make sure you practice frequently and often the concepts presented in this training and you’ll be ready for droves of new clients!


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