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Work on your tan

Jennifer Aniston goes to Dante Fitzpatrick for a quick, natural-looking glow. (Getty Image)

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Jennifer Aniston goes to Dante Fitzpatrick for a quick, natural-looking glow. (Getty Images)

Twice a month, Sharon Richter has a special visitor at her office on 57th Street and Seventh Avenue. Richter’s a registered dietitian, but this person isn’t a client — and she isn’t there to seek nutritional advice.

Tamar Vezirian from Gotham Glow is there to give Richter a spray tan.

Vezirian comes fully armed with her mobile air-brushing contraption — which looks a lot like a hair dryer — and a pop-up tent to keep any errant spray from hitting the furniture or walls.

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She then air-brushes Richter right there in her office, which is in a suite she shares with numerous therapists. “I have a crazy schedule, and it’s great because she can come to my office for 15 minutes in between my clients,” says Richter, who turned to spray tanning after having suspicious birthmarks removed.

“Nobody on my floor has any idea. It’s my little secret,” she adds.

The 35-year-old Upper West Side resident, who has appeared on Fox News and the “Today” show to talk about nutrition, says the office call, which runs her $115, also gives her ego a healthy glow.

“I feel like I’m kind of a big shot. I have a person come to me,” Richter says with a laugh. “I don’t color my hair, I don’t get manicures and I don’t wear makeup. But the spray tanning makes me feel good about myself.”

Richter is one of many professional New Yorkers — starved for time, obsessed with convenience aaa;kjareallylong — asking their secretaries to leave 15 minutes open after the 2 p.m. conference for a vanity-laden meeting with their air-brushing artist. And while an in-office spray tan might sound like an employee benefit offered at Ed Hardy, Vezirian — who bronzes Bravo reality stars Patti Stanger and Jill Zarin — says many of her workplace clients are normal, suit-wearing, whiskey- swilling dudes.

“It’s all mostly straight, corporate finance guys who maybe are very fair and can’t go into the sun,” says Vezirian. “People are so busy, they can call me at midnight or 1 a.m. the day before they’re leaving town for vacation.”

Dante Fitzpatrick, a spray-tanning artist at Beach Bum Tanning, charges $100 for his services (and $50 for any additional clients at the same location.)

He says he has a very healthy list of corner-office clients, but “career” tanners aren’t limited to the company brass. “It started with executives who have private bathrooms,” says Fitzpatrick, who also gives Jennifer Aniston, Ed Westwick, Lady Gaga and the cast of “Jersey Shore” their golden finish.

“Then we got a tent to make it easier for people who don’t have a huge corner office, and the response has been overwhelming. I think people feel more important when someone comes to them.”

Beach Bum’s maestro of mock melanin says the idea began about six years ago, when Vogue began calling Beach Bum to air-brush the models on the set of fashion shoots, because it was cheaper and quicker than applying body makeup.

Soon, editors at big fashion magazines like Allure, Vogue and InStyle began calling to book appointments for themselves, so they could get some color before a cocktail party.

“They didn’t have time to come into the salon, so we said, why don’t we just go to them?” says Fitzpatrick, who can mix up to 150 colors with his organic solution, made from crushed walnut-shell extract.

Vanessa Vellucci from La Viva Glam Mobile Tan caters mostly to offices full of female publicists who bring her in the night before a big event they’re producing. (It’s $100 for a visit, and rates decrease with additional clients.)

“It’s typically when you have a lot of women publicists who are logging hours around the clock to plan an event,” says Vellucci. “They’re working really late, so I’ll just spray them in a conference room, and they’re tan for the event.”

Last year, Vellucci air-brushed Alexa Susser, a 29-year-old talent booker at Flatiron firm Flying Television, the day before her trip to the South of France, and has since come in to tan six of Susser’s colleagues at work.

But shy types needn’t worry. Vellucci air-brushed each girl privately in the company’s conference room.

“It’s great because it dries instantly, so you can put your clothes back on,” says Susser. Fitzpatrick says the mobile business has taken off rapidly, with Beach Bum now employing 20 traveling tanners.

“Probably 30 percent of my business is mobile. It’s doubled since last year,” says Fitzpatrick, who also caters to those clients who want to tan in the privacy of their own homes.

Two weeks ago, he got a frantic phone call from Seth MacFarlane’s assistant at 1 am. The “Family Guy” creator — who spray-tans every week in LA — was looking for someone in New York to give him his bronzing fix. “His assistant said he desperately needed a spray tan,” says Fitzpatrick. “He was staying at the St. Regis, and I went and air-brushed him in his bathtub at 1 a.m.”

Fitzpatrick declines to say how much a house call at such an ungodly hour costs, but he says MacFarlane was generous. “Seth gave me a huge tip,” he says.

Fitzpatrick also hits model Sabrina Davi’s townhouse on Central Park West to dole out her weekly tinting. “It’s like your fun neighborhood tanning delivery,” says Davi, a 28-year-old who posed in Playboy last year.

“I don’t mind paying more to get the extra service. I can continue working from home. I don’t have to take a break from my day.”

Both Vezirian and Fitzpatrick have been summoned to some unconventional locales for their demanding clients.

Vezirian says she once spraytanned a famous actress, who shall remain nameless, in the bathroom of a Manhattan restaurant. “I was supposed to be tanning her in her hotel, and she was all over the place but needed it done,” says an unfazed Vezirian. “I popped the tent in the bathroom and in five minutes, I was in and out.”

Fitzpatrick’s strangest off-site air-brushing client wasn’t as demanding as Vezirian’s.

Actually, she was dead.

“I had to spray someone in the basement of a funeral home in Manhattan,” says Fitzpatrick with a smirk. “I had to air-brush a corpse because she had always tanned, and that was her thing.”