We were lucky to catch up with Fabiola Trujillo recently and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Fabiola, thanks for joining us today. Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?
For me spray tanning came from a personal necessity, I always loved to be tanned and my only option back then was tanning beds, I hate them now, they damaged my skin so much and still have to check my skin twice a year for malignant moles. Ironically I found a spray tan article in a magazine where the writer described how she got her spray tan while I was waiting at my dermatologist office waiting to have a melanoma removed from my chest. This beauty/health service has changed my life being able to choose something healthier for my skin than UV rays.
Fabiola, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I studied for full facial specialist and massage therapist in Colombia for two years! I have always been fascinated by beauty treatments and making people feel better about themselves. This spray tanning came to me in 1999 by chance and never stopped. Back then no one knew what this was I just had to hustle my way in into Miami Beach locals and was always aware of how important customer service was and knowledge about this product/service was to show my clients how awesome this new beauty addition could be for them. I didn’t have hours, I worked 24/7. I was there when clients needed me. I remember once I had to meet Kim Kardashian at 1 am at her place in Sobe for a spray tan since she had a photoshoot at 7 am. I made it happen for her 🤎
Spray Tans are like make up for your whole body that last a whole week. It hides stretch marks, cellulite magically goes away when you are tanned, it makes you look leaner and hell it gives such a wonderful confidence.
We just developed a clean tanning line with our name called Sobe Tan Sunless. It is free of alcohols, artificial dyes, fragrances, chemical preservatives, just 6 ingredients, there is nothing like that in the market. It has been an effort of 3 years to make it happen and we are so proud it is finally here. It will be available for spray tan artists, we are launching a self-tanning mousse as well to use at home with the same characteristics.
I have an assistant that has been with me for 15 years and she is the one that does all the spray tans at the moment, of course when a celebrity is in town and in need of a spray tan I am the one that comes to the rescue :)
We have tanned the Kardashian sisters, Jlo, Matt Damon, CardiB and so many more just to say a few names 🤎
Besides from offering spray tans we offer trainings one on one and online for people interested in learning how to spray tan. We are selling the spray tan solution for professionals and the mousse for retail.
All info about this and much more is at our website.
www.sobetan.com
Okay – so how did you figure out the manufacturing part? Did you have prior experience?
We just started to offer our own line of clean tanning to our spray tan services. Like I mentioned before it is a line free of all chemicals that are bad for our health like alcohols, parabens, fragrance, dimethicones, Pegs, phenoxyethanol and so many more. There is nothing like this is the market. It cost us 3 years to more it happen. It is proudly main here in the USA. It took us that long because the cosmetic industry in this country is not regulated, anyone can say whatever they want on their product and they can get away with it. So we are over the moon with this line :)
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
I came with my 2-year-old here to Miami from Ecaudor to make things happen for me. It wasn’t easy I tell you but was worth it. Trying to make it happen in a foreign country with no family in town just the two of us. Now that my son is 26 years old we talk about all the things we went through when we were here together at the beginning and it makes us happy that we stayed and made it happen for us. He is in this clean tanning business with me 🤎
Contact Info:
- Website: www.sobetan.com
- Instagram: sobetan
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/SobeTan?ref=bookmarks
- Twitter: Sobetan
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/SobeTanbyFabiola
- Yelp: https://m.yelp.com/biz/sobe-tan-by-fabiola-miami-beach-8
Image Credits
Juan Fernando Ayora