3 Simple Steps for Safe Cookouts
Whether you’re grilling onsite at the salon or at home in the evening or on your day off, you don’t want your team, family or guests to get sick from the food! Remember that warm temperatures are friendly to bacteria.“Food ...
10 Ways to Manage Anger
We know that anger doesn’t literally make our “blood boil” or make us “see red,” but when you’re angry it does affect your body. Physical reactions range from a rise in blood pressure and a faster heartbeat to ...
Healthy Hairdresser’s June Challenge Discovers Salon Teams Working Together on Health!
In response to “A Team Effort,” the Healthy Hairdresser Challenge throughout June, we’re excited about the responses detailing salon-wide efforts to get the whole team healthy! These efforts range from informal support to ...
Grief and Emotional Healing
Current events in the news have Americans caught between the need to grieve and the mandate to keep moving forward. Whether your loss is very personal or shared with a community, it’s important to take measures to make sure you’re ...
Salon Break: Summertime is Family Vacation Time
Taking time away from the salon this summer to spend time with your family? You may agree with a recent Groupon survey finding that parents believe their kids are 18 times more likely to benefit from an experience than a toy. Don’t follow ...
Guys, Be Careful with Alcohol
While excessive drinking is dangerous for everyone, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) cautions men especially to watch their alcohol habits because men are greater risk-takers in general. For example, they are more likely to drive fast or ...
Take the June Healthy Hairdresser Challenge: How Do You Encourage Team Involvement?
Almost everything in the salon works better when the entire team focuses on one goal, one great result. Striving to improve your personal health inside and out of the salon is no exception. There can be great bene?t when you and your colleagues ...
Healthy Hairdresser Hero: Julie Vargas
Body, spirit and business are all linked, says Julie Vargas, senior director of career opportunities at Sport Clips, June’s Healthy Hairdresser sponsor.“When I cut carbs, I made it a permanent way of living,” Vargas says. ...
Men's Health: Getting Men to Prioritize Preventative Care
Although women have been outliving men for centuries both in the U.S. and globally, men continue to lag behind women in taking advantage of routine preventative care as well as in seeking immediate medical attention when pain or illness ...
June 10 is Herbs and Spices Day
Salt, sugar, butter and ketchup aren’t the only things you can add to food! Cooking with herbs and spices gives you a healthy way to make your meals tasty.Herbs come from shrubs and can be used fresh or dried. Parsley, chives, marjoram, ...
5 Easy Stretches For Hairdressers to Do Throughout the Salon Day
As the Senior Artistic Director for The Salon By InStyle inside JCPenney, Nick Stenson helps set the course for salon direction as well as directing, training and advising the 14,000 JCP stylists and managers at over 900 salons across the ...
Splinter Removal: A Step-by-Step!
Sometimes it’s the smallest mishaps that make the most trouble. Everyone has had a nasty splinter! During a busy day at the salon or at home it’s tempting to ignore the little thing, but you’re better off dealing with it right ...
Boost Your Immune System
We worry in the winter about getting sick, but in spring and summer clients are out and about more and may be bringing in all sorts of germs. Living a generally healthy lifestyle helps your body fight infection if it tries to attack.“I ...
Vigorous Exercise: Can 1 Minute Be Enough?
Health blogs have been lighting up with the results from a new study that found just 1 minute of tough exercise may equal a moderate 45-minute workout. Although it’s not quite as simple as it sounds, the approach is an extreme application ...
Update: Vein Pain Gets Social Media Reactions
Last week’s Healthy Hairdresser report on leg veins resonated with MODERN SALON’s Facebook fans. It seems that a lot of you are suffering with varicose and spider veins. “Big and ugly” was how one hairdresser commenting ...
Challenge Participants Make One Simple Change
Our May Healthy Hairdresser Challenge asks you to commit to “one simple change” that will improve your body, spirit or business. Everyone who takes the May Challenge is eligible to win a gift package of a full set of salon products ...
A 12-Step Series of Small Changes to Improve Health
Throughout May, the Healthy Hairdresser Challenge is asking participants to share “one simple change” you intend to make in order to improve your body, spirit or business. Everyone who takes the May Challenge is eligible to win a ...