Founded in 2002, Brazil Bronze helped introduce spray tanning to a wider audience and now combines a New York City salon with made-in-the-USA sunless tanning formulas for consumers and salon professionals. Owner Bridget Bergin developed signature approaches including the sculpted tan, while the company’s water-based solutions are made with Eco-Cert-approved DHA and ingredients developed in a grade-A pharmaceutical laboratory. Its spray tans have been named Allure’s best-of-the-best for six consecutive years and called “The Perfect Tan” by Vogue.
Spray Tan Certification
INNOVÉ Beauty & WellnessINNOVÉ Beauty & Wellness manufactures and supplies sunless tanning solutions, automated spray booths, handheld spray-tan equipment, skincare treatments, self-tanning products, and accessories. Its brands serve tanning salons, spas, fitness clubs, beauty professionals, and other beauty and wellness businesses through full-body skincare, spray-tanning, education, and technical-support offerings.MACEDONIA, OH
Teka Fine Line Brushes, IncMore than 50 years in the making, Teka Fine Line Brushes is a Brooklyn manufacturer known for making its own professional beauty brushes and supporting custom private-label programs. Its work serves salons and spas that need branded tools made to their specifications, from handle details to packaging.BROOKLYN, NY
Blue Water GirlsFounded by Brooklyn natives Chelsea Pinky, Glynn Pogue and Sade Parham, Blue Water Girls makes glow-enhancing body care centered on its Private Island Glow tan-accelerant serum. Inspired by travel, Caribbean heritage and the post-vacation radiance that sparked questions about their skin, the trio created TSA-friendly formulas that hydrate and celebrate sun-kissed skin while encouraging responsible sun exposure. The products are manufactured and formulated in the United States and are vegan and cruelty-free.BROOKLYN, NY
niccktownsendPhiladelphia brow artist Nicck Townsend pairs a salon practice with a line of professional and consumer beauty products shaped by his signature Brow Harmony method. Townsend became Pennsylvania’s first licensed male esthetician in 2005, opened his salon in July 2015, and has since served clients from across the United States and abroad while teaching beauty professionals nationwide. Since 2016, he has developed 35 consumer products, including a professional brow-and-lash dye line that he says is only the third U.S. company to manufacture dye for both brows and lashes.PHILADELPHIA, PA