Game Changer: Cold Caps for Chemotherapy Patients
Whether you’re the patient or the hairdresser, hair loss during chemotherapy has always been a big concern. As the hairdresser, you may have fitted wigs, shaved a client’s head to minimize the emotional trauma of watching the hair ...
From the Healthy Hairdresser Challenge: Georgia Stylist Shares Her Hands-Up Memories
Responding to the August Healthy Hairdresser Challenge, Sherry Tollerson, a stylist in Evans, Georgia, told us about not just one person who gave her career a “hands up,” but a series of salon pros who helped Tollerson to achieve ...
August is National Breastfeeding Month
Free WiFi and nursing rooms—those seem to be the current hot-button amenities for public places to offer. What about your salon? Do new moms on the salon team have a comfortable place to nurse or pump? What breastfeeding experiences have ...
This is Your Body on Soda
When we saw this graphic posted in a blog by Niraj Naik, known as the “Renegade Pharmacist,” we had to share it with our Healthy Hairdresser Coke drinkers. Naik created this to illustrate the damage a single 12-ounce serving of ...
Take a 30-Day Personal Fulfillment Journey with David Wagner
As an evolving Healthy Hairdresser yourself, you know that you must ensure your own wellbeing in order to stay healthy and strong enough to assist clients in their quest for health, peace and beauty. This approach is key to an initiative just ...
August Healthy Hairdresser Challenge: Share Your Hands-Up Experience
”Take a deep breath. You can do this. You have the talent. Here, let me show you how I do it. Let me know if you need more help. Let’s take a class together. Here’s how I talk to my client…”If any of that ...
Breathe Easy: Listen to Your Lungs
Standing at your station all day is tough enough. When you can’t catch your breath or you cough through your consultations, it can be miserable.Summer is high-season for allergies and asthma, but any nagging symptoms require attention no ...
Sit, Walk, Stand: Fight Bad Posture with Massage
“Small tweaks can make all the difference,” says Sulyn Silbar, an orthopedic massage therapist and posture and fitness expert who works with clients experiencing chronic body pain and low energy caused by poor posture and faulty ...
Salon Pro Faces Weight Loss Backlash
Making the rounds online is a 24-year-old hair and makeup professional’s transformation story that has resonated with a lot of people. Simone Anderson, who lives and works in New Zealand, was proud of herself for losing 182 pounds in just ...
Managing Stress at the Salon
Stress on the job has been shown in study after study to be a major source of health problems. Salon professionals have always been fortunate that a major reason people report feeling stress on the job—a fear of being fired or laid ...
5 Reasons to Get More Sleep
Thanks to our Healthy Hairdresser friend Ivan Zoot for his social media posting of an article from Ace Fitness that drives home the reasons we need to be strict with ourselves about the shuteye. From the article, we can identify five problems ...
July Challenge Participants Share How They’d Spend Their “Extra 10 Minutes”!
Our Healthy Hairdresser Challenge this month has been a lot of fun! Participants are asked to tell us how they would spend an extra 10 minutes a day. Sponsored by Kenra, the Challenge highlights the time-saving benefits of the brand’s ...
15 Weird but Wonderful Foods
Does “eating well” mean “eating boring”? It’s easy to feel that you can’t look at one more kale salad, the novelty of grilled salmon wore off long ago and kiwi and pomegranate are best appreciated in a ...
5 Tips for a Healthier Summertime You
Summer is a good season to review your approach to diet and exercise. With so many fresh fruits and vegetables available, you can try more options for getting your antioxidants. The warm weather also removes the indoor limits of a ...
Your Next Step: Vigorous Exercise
Two new studies reported in The New York Times indicate that living longer is associated with perhaps more exercise than we think. The combined findings of the two studies are leading to some conclusions:As we’ve been told, any exercise is ...
Is “Work/Life Balance” Good Advice for Hairdressers?
We read so much about making time for “life” in a society where work can spread into a 24/7 habit. It makes sense—what’s the point of making money if you never have time to spend it? These days even “social” ...
Into the Woods: 10 Tips for Safe Summer Camping
Do you love camping? Or are you braving it for the first time? Either way, bring a pillow for comfort, get your Spotify ready and head out into the wild outdoors with these 10 safety tips based on information from the U.S. Forest ...