Tans By Steph

Monday Mantra:
Do more things that make you glow ✨

An at home routine greatly affects the quality and longevity of your glow. As an artist, I look at the skin as the canvas, and the products as the medium. How your skin is primed, what is applied, and how it is cared for matters.
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I desire to educate far beyond just the surface, to help my clients understand what they are putting on their skin, the importance of ingredients, and why that doesn’t end with your spray tan. With quality always in mind, I’ve curated a line up that I believe in, and feel confident endorsing for all skin types and tones. I like to keep it simple, clean, and well sourced. I like supporting companies that support women, minorities, and the earth. I like when you look good, feel good, and do good. Because we all need more of that energy.


All of these featured products and more are available at your next glow session or by special order.

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Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there - Rumi
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As a witness to many who are days away from matrimony, I feel that my job as an artist is sacred. It can be a challenge to define in words what is felt in a room amongst close friends and kin. The buzz of love is palpable, and a sprinkle of anticipation lingers in the air as the timeline to the alter dwindles.

I’m often asked if I encounter challenging brides, or if this work is stressful. To which, I smile and say: never! To be in the presence of wonderful humans making a beautiful commitment from a place of love could never be stressful. Being part of such a profound act is nothing but expansive: Love always multiplies, it always creates, and it always wins.

Dalal and Nate are easily two of the most loving people I’ve ever met. Prior to her wedding day glow, we worked intermittently together for over a year, building our relationship, perfecting the process specifically for her. We shared stories and laughter, hopes and dreams, and let me tell you: this woman KNEW what she wanted out of love and life. At every turn, she is a walking talking example of love, generosity and strength. Trust me when I tell you, having the opportunity to work with women like Dalal makes this one of the most rewarding and easy career choices.

Thank you to everyone who has entrusted me with their wedding day glow. May we all share more love, and more reasons to celebrate it in 2023.

I love this photo of myself.

It was taken last year, but when I initially saw it, I did not have the same affinity for it. I picked it apart. It didn’t feel “polished” or “professional”, and the energy coming through felt “too casual” for the successful female entrepreneur I wanted to be seen as. I mean, I intentionally rocked the proverbial boat by forgoing shoes and a bra at a professional branding shoot, and then decided I hated it. Who does that?! Well, I guess I do. And deep down, I recognized this was my most comfortable, natural, authentic state, yet I still tried to stifle this part of my truth.

We all have a varying degree of truth we desperately want to allow to be seen, and as I recently looked at this photograph again, I was struck with new awareness:

We can’t outrun our authenticity. We can only hide from it. And hiding prolongs our suffering and our success. Being authentically you, attracts all the right situations to you, people to your table, and “success” to your human experience. Authenticity invites in an energy of receiving. It’s a proclamation to the universe that says you trust it (and yourself) enough to show up in the ways you’ve always dreamed of.

My success doesn’t need to look like anyone else’s success to still be true. Likewise, your success is as unique as you are. So let this serve as a reminder today, that the world needs your unique and authentic self; societal pressures and restrictive undergarments optional.


Biggest kudos to the AMAZING for always capturing my vision and encouraging beauty and authenticity through her work; even if it takes me a year to appreciate what I asked for 😆

Showing up for other women has always helped me to show up for myself. There is an intense synergistic affect that happens when we come together to support one another; a special kind of magic.

It bolsters projects, careers, morale, and wisdom. It reminds us of our power, importance, and belonging. Witnessing women building and creating helps us all, whether we are consciously aware of it or not. Bringing my craft, my art, to that process is as much a reminder as it is a joy:

Where women are empowered, so are you.
So are we all.