ist magazine December 2021

Salon of Distinction

GloTanning SPA & SALON Williston, ND

and winters are long and brutal, and when our tiny town got a tanning bed, it was great! Then, I moved to western Montana to attend cosmetology school and learned more about indoor UV and sunless tan ning. I always knew I wanted to stay in the beauty industry and purchased my salon in August of 2019. Unbeknownst to me, we were headed right into the slow season! Then when the busy season hit, we went right into a COVID shutdown for seven weeks, which at the time, felt like seven years! But we got through it, and even did some remodeling and came out stronger. IST: You just took the Sun is Life classroom training. How important is the training element to your salon? CN: We take ALL the training we can find. The pandemic kept us mostly do ing online learning. We love the Devot ed Creations 5 Star Diamond training program. In June 2021, I was finally able

T his month’s Salon had the pleasure of meeting Chris tine Nelson at Heartland Tanning’s event last summer and again at the Four Seasons salon training class in Missouri last month. Hey, she’s all in on learning more about her business! I wanted to interview her before the snow and cold hits North Dakota, so read on! IST: We always start from the beginning. How did you get started in the tan biz? CN: I started tanning as a teenager. When you grow up in northeast Montana, you don’t always get time to work on that sunkissed look. The summers are short By Joe Schuster of Distinction comes from America’s Heart land: North Dakota. I

Owner Christine Nelson plans to expand her business with another facility.

Owner ............................................ Christine Nelson Years in Business .... 7 (owned almost 2.5 years) Staff ........................................................................ 4 UV Systems .......... Ergoline sunbeds, 2 stand-ups Other Services .................. VersaSpa, Spray-Tan, Infrared Sauna, Teeth-whitening, POLY Red-Light Therapy Lotions ........................ Devoted Creations, Hempz, Designer Skin, Australian Gold Best-Selling Lotions .................... Designer Skin Glamorize & Confessions, Devoted Creations Prismatica & Dark AF Software .......................................... SalonTouch 10 Distribution Partners ........... Heartland Tanning, Four Seasons, Devoted Creations 5 Star Diamond Program

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