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Hair Extensions
How to Add Creative Color Using Extensions
Meg Stringham (@stylingwithmeg) proves vibrant hues don't necessarily mean breaking out the bowl and brush. She created a pale-blonde and blush color effect using Hotheads Hair Extension's Colormelts tape-in extensions.
Career
ASSISTANTS - What Every Potential Assistant Should Know
Arik Efros, owner of the Eva Scrivo Salons and Academy, shares his top five tips for salon owners and assistants when looking for the perfect fit.
Hair Color Trends
MAKEOVER: Faded Balayage To Pink Melt
Get the details for this lovely makeover by Giovanna Drew-Eastman.
Expert Advice
5 Tips for a Successful Consultation from Lisa Walker @lisalovesbalayage
Hair colorist Lisa Walker, @lisalovesbalayage, draws an audience with her outgoing personality and mad color skills--her Instagram name says it all. The artist is also traveling the country with her Balayage Bootcamp and teaching other artists her techniques and tips. Here, Walker shares five tips for a successful consultation.
Stylist Spotlight
Sam Villa Shares Tips To Social Media Success
Sam Villa is an industry icon. Throughout his four decades in the industry, Villa has mastered many things, including social media. Here he shares his thoughts about these platforms and includes his tips for success.
Celebrity Style
How to Work with Celebrity Clientele
Success doesn't happen overnight. Before working with the likes of Gigi Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski and Salma Hayek, celebrity stylist Jennifer Yepez did her homework.
Hair Extensions
7 Ways to Style Hair to Give the Illusion of Thickness
Voluminous. Texturized. Thick. These are words guests facing hair loss or thinning likely thought they would never use to describe their hair again. And applying extensions is just part of the program.
Expert Advice
10 Ways to Keep Your Salon Client Coming Back
So, you work in a cool salon, keep up with trendy styles and dress the part. And, you think this is the big reason clients keep coming back to see you? Maybe for a first visit, but to retain clients, it’s the little things that count.
Hair Extensions
What to Consider When Pricing Extension Services
Pricing your extension services is based on many factors—the type of method you are doing, how much experience you have, your location, and how many other stylists in your area offer that method.
Hair Extensions
To Stock or Not to Stock? Extension Specialists Share How They Manage Inventory
Extension inventory is dependent of the nature of your business. Industry experts share their tips.
Hair Color
MAKEOVER: Faded and Dull To Powerful Pink
Brent and Carlyn Basore share the details for this lovely makeover.
Manufacturers & Distributors
Protection Program: Alfaparf Milano Relaunches Semi Di Lino Line
Alfaparf Milano’s Semi Di Lino relaunch focuses on protecting hair from pollutants.
Hair Extensions
How to Market Your Extension Business
Nikki Lee and Riawna Capri built their extension business before the category became as prevalant and widely accepted, and they credit it as what allowed them to open their salon, Nine Zero One in West Hollywood, California.
Hair Extensions
How to Choose the Right Hair Extensions
Your client has made it past the consultation and is ready for an extension service! But with so many extension options on the market, how do you choose which is right for your clientele, salon and needs?
Stylist Spotlight
How One Stylist Built Her Instagram Engagement and Following
MODERN’s had a relationship with DeLuca for at least 10 years—but only recently did we start encouraging her (okay, maybe a little strong-arming, but she needed it) to focus on her @hairbykatied Instagram page and get more eyes on her much-deserving work. Here's what she did to boost her following, engagement and, as a result, clientele.
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