What’s the Difference?

Self-tanner has its moment. A custom spray tan has its main character moment.

Both can give you a beautiful glow, but they are not quite the same thing. One is your at-home touch of bronze. The other is a custom, hand-applied service designed around your skin, your undertone, your plans, and your glow goals.

At Just Glow, we love a good self-tan product when it makes sense. But when you want a polished, even, event-ready glow? That is where a professional spray tan shines.

How Self-Tanning Works

Most sunless tanning products use DHA, a tanning ingredient that reacts with the outer layer of the skin to create a bronzed effect. NUDA uses premium naturally derived DHA in its professional formulas, along with skincare-grade ingredients designed to nourish, hydrate, and support a natural-looking tan.

Translation: the glow happens on the surface of your skin, without UV exposure. And that’s safety we love.

When Self-Tanning Products Make Sense

Our NUDA self-tanning products are great for:

• Maintaining your color between appointments
• Adding a little glow before a casual weekend
• Touching up legs, arms, or face
• Building gradual color at home
• Keeping your vacation glow alive

They are convenient and lovely when you want a soft, flexible glow on your own schedule.

When To Choose A Custom Spray Tan

A professional spray tan at Just Glow Spray Tanning is best for:

• Weddings
• Vacations
• Photoshoots
• Special events
• Date nights
• When you want the most even application possible
• When you do not want to guess your shade
• …and just because!

The biggest difference? A custom spray tan is applied by one of our professionally trained team members who can see your full skin tone, undertones, dry areas, natural color, and desired finish.

We can customize what self-tanner cannot always predict.

Why Just Glow Uses NUDA

NUDA’s professional formulas are clean, vegan, cruelty-free, and made with naturally derived DHA. NUDA also offers different professional solutions designed for different skin tones, depths, and desired results.

For example, NUDA’s Latte solution is designed for very pale or pale complexions and contains 6% DHA with an 8–12 hour development time, while other rapid formulas are made for deeper or faster-developing results in just 4-5 hours.

That means your tan is not pulled from a mystery bottle and hoped for the best. It is selected with intention at our studio.

Our Honest Take

• Use self-tanning products when you want a little everyday glow.
• Book a custom spray tan when you want to feel polished, photographed, celebrated, or simply taken care of.
• Because sometimes you want to bronze at home.
• And sometimes you want to be bronzed like the boutique beauty icon you are.

NUDA Self-Tanning Products We Carry In Studio

At Just Glow, we carry NUDA because their products are vegan, cruelty-free, made with naturally derived DHA, and designed to create a natural-looking tan without UV exposure.

NUDA Self-Tanning Mousse
Your at-home glow hero. NUDA Self Tanning Mousses come in our Bronzefoam and Tonefoam formulas. Tanning mousse gives you an even, buildable bronze and is great for refreshing your color between appointments, adding glow before a weekend, or keeping your vacation tan alive.

Best for: body glow, touch-ups, and between-appointment maintenance.

NUDA CloudFoam
A lightweight, bronzer-free self-tanning mousse that develops into a soft, natural-looking tan. Since it is bronzer-free, it is a great option when you want less transfer and a cleaner self-tanning experience.

Best for: subtle glow, low-transfer tanning, and fragrance-free self-tan lovers.

NUDA CloudMist Face Tan Water
Your face fades faster than your body thanks to cleansing, skincare, and exfoliation. CloudMist helps refresh your facial glow so your face and body stay beautifully balanced.

Best for: face glow, midweek touch-ups, and keeping your spray tan even.

NUDA SilkMilk Gradual Self-Tanning Body Milk
A gradual tanning body milk that builds soft color over time while keeping the skin hydrated. Think of it as your everyday glow lotion.

Best for: beginners, fair skin, subtle color, and daily glow maintenance.

NUDA Tanning Mitt + Exfoliating Mitt Tools

The tanning mitt helps apply self-tanner smoothly and keeps your palms clean. The exfoliating mitt helps remove old tan and dry skin so your next glow applies evenly.

Best for: smooth application, better prep, and avoiding streaks.

The perfect glow plan? Book your custom Just Glow spray tan, then use NUDA at home to maintain, refresh, and extend your color between visits.