Salon owners often inquire about how they can be featured in IST as a Salon of Distinction. Answer: It’s simple! Take either the online or classroom version of our popular Sun is Life® Salon... Read more

Our Salon of Distinction subjects are selected from a mix of salons with staff who have passed the Sun is Life® Training & Certification program either online, or the classroom version a... Read more

This Salon of Distinction subject hails from Bedford. Not Bedford Falls (with a nod to Capra) or Bedrock (sorry, Fred). Nope, it’s Bedford, PA – home of The Glow, owned by recent Sun is Life... Read more

This month’s Sun is Life® Certification graduate, Chloee Pshigoda, got her salon operator training “classroom style” in the session offered by Heartland Tanning at their February “Bootcamp”... Read more

For well over two decades, I’ve had the pleasure to teach accredited indoor tanning salon certification courses to attendees of in-person trade events. A great ride – and I’ve enjoyed every... Read more

This month’s Salon of Distinction comes from Missouri. I took some time to interview Kathy Oberbeck, Owner of Indulgence Tanning & Massage as she was shaking off the late winter chill. A... Read more

I have always said that one of the key factors in the longevity of the indoor tanning industry has been our resilience – the abilities of salon operators all over the country to overcome the... Read more

This month’s Salon of Distinction comes from America’s Heartland: North Dakota. I had the pleasure of meeting Christine Nelson at Heartland Tanning’s event last summer and again at the Four... Read more

Succeeding as a tanning salon in a sunny place like the beautiful SoCal area must be challenging! Salon of Distinction Owner Kandis Langdon chatted with IST about doing business through the... Read more

Aside from being the tanning industry’s premier training and certification program, Sun is Life® offers a fantastic reward to salon operators who educate themselves and their teams, either i... Read more