Spray Tans in Tulsa

Custom Airbrush Spray Tans in Tulsa

SpaHub is a Tulsa spray tan studio at 6539 E 31st St in midtown. We’re fifteen minutes from most parts of the metro — Brookside, Cherry Street, Riverside, Owen Park, Pearl District, downtown, plus Broken Arrow, Bixby, Jenks, Owasso, Sand Springs, Sapulpa, and Catoosa. Free parking, walk-in friendly when we have openings, and a dedicated spray tan room with a real ventilation system instead of the cardboard-pop-up booth situation. The studio temperature is kept warm so you’re not standing there shivering in a paper thong waiting for the solution to dry.

Every spray tan at SpaHub is custom airbrushed by a licensed esthetician — not stamped on by a stand-up booth. The difference matters. Booths spray a single shade at a single distance, so they highlight every uneven texture on your skin and miss the curves entirely. We hand-spray, which means we adjust shade and depth across your body, contour where it makes sense (under the bust, hip dips, abs, collarbones), and lighten the inside of the wrists, palms, and bottoms of feet so they don’t turn orange. The result reads as a real tan, not a costume.

The Solution We Use

We custom-mix our solutions to your undertone before you walk into the booth. Cool, warm, neutral, olive — we have shades for all of them. The active ingredient is DHA (dihydroxyacetone), a sugar-derived compound that reacts with the amino acids in your top skin layer to produce real melanin-like pigment. It’s the same active used in every legitimate sunless tanner, but quality varies massively between brands. Ours is paraben-free, gluten-free, and vegan, blended in small batches to keep the formula fresh. Cheap solutions oxidize on the bottle shelf and end up giving you that orange-tinted, fast-fading tan everyone associates with bad spray tans. That’s not what you’re getting here.

Standard vs. Rapid Spray Tan

The standard Spray Tan develops over eight to twelve hours — you spray, you sleep in it, you shower the next morning. This is the right choice if you have time to plan and want the most natural-looking gradual development. The Rapid Spray Tan is a higher-DHA-concentrate formula designed to develop in as little as one to four hours. The exact rinse-off time depends on the depth of color you’re going for — we’ll tell you a specific window at the appointment. Rapid is the right choice when you’re booking the same day as an event and don’t want to sleep in the solution.

Monthly Package

The Monthly Spray Tan Package is one weekly visit for an entire month — four tans for the price most studios charge for two and a half. This is built for clients who like a consistent year-round glow: realtors who shoot listing photos every weekend, fitness competitors building toward a stage date, brides leading up to engagement shoots, and anyone who’s decided the maintenance is worth it. Spray tans look best when they’re refreshed before the previous one fully fades, so weekly visits give you a smoother, more even color than scattered one-offs.

How to Prep

The most important prep step is exfoliation. The night before your appointment, shower, exfoliate everywhere with a mitt or scrub, and shave or wax. Pay extra attention to elbows, knees, ankles, and hands — those are the spots where solution grabs unevenly if there’s any dead skin or buildup. The morning of your appointment: no lotion, no deodorant, no perfume, no oils, no makeup on the body. These products create a barrier that the solution can’t penetrate, and you’ll end up with patchy spots wherever they sat on your skin. If you forgot, we have a pre-tan prep wipe at the studio.

What to Wear (and Bring)

Bring loose, dark clothing to leave in — loose so the developing solution doesn’t rub off, dark because some bronzer transfer is normal in the first few hours. A maxi dress, oversized t-shirt and sweatpants, or a button-down shirt are all fine. Avoid jeans, leggings, or anything tight on the legs. Bring flip-flops or sandals; closed-toe shoes will leave a line on the top of your foot. Inside the booth you can wear a disposable thong (we provide), your own underwear that you don’t mind staining, or nothing — your call.

Aftercare

Don’t shower, sweat, or get wet until your rinse-off time. After the first rinse, water will run brown for a few minutes — that’s the bronzer guide rinsing off, not your tan. The actual color is locked into your skin underneath. To stretch the tan: moisturize daily (preferably with a tan-extender), pat dry instead of rubbing, avoid long hot showers, skip exfoliating products, and stay out of chlorinated pools and hot tubs. Most tans hold for seven to ten days at full color before they start fading evenly.

Tulsa Events We Get Booked For

Wedding parties, prom and homecoming, fitness shows and bikini competitions, photoshoots, vacation prep, reunions, and that one weekend you decided you wanted to feel good in the dress. Group bookings are welcome — let us know in the booking notes if you’re bringing the bridal party or a friend group and we’ll block the time so nobody is rushed.