Career
Beauty Is a Family Affair: Three Generations and Their Careers in Beauty
Beauty is ageless. It's a maxim that applies perfectly to Kathy Knodle.Knodle, who has two daughters and eight grandchildren, enrolled in the esthetics program at Tricoci University of Beauty Culture's Rockford, Ill., campus in ...
by Anne Moratto
CORRECTION: Oil Slick To Magical Peacock
Kasey O'Hara Skrobe (@hairbykaseyoh) The Hair After Salon, Westminster, MD, says she LOVES fashion colors and "making people magical unicorn mermaids! I am fueled by passion and the drive to make it so one day vivid hair ...
TRANSFORMATION: Peacock Curls
Leysa Carrillo (@leysahairandmakeup) a hair and makeup artist based @atelierbysquare, Las Vegas, Nevada, says her client was a level 4 with 3" of regrowth with ends that were previously colored.Here she shares HOW to create a lovely ...
Stylists Introduced to "Farm to Chair” Organic Salon Products from Simply Organic Beauty
On April 11th at Salon Capella in Studio City, CA a salon full of stylists were introduced to Simply Organic Beauty and their new Oway organic hair color, care and styling products. Simply Organic Beauty, one of the world’s ...
by Anne Moratto
The Fabulous New York Makeup Show, May 1 and 2
The fabulous Makeup Show is coming to New York City May 1st and 2nd.Come out and play with the latest products by over 50 professional vendors including Senna Cosmetics, Make Up For Ever, Inglot, Kevyn Aucoin, Cinema Secrets, NARS, Smashbox and ...
10 Ways to Spring Clean your Body!
As a hairdresser, you probably keep a clean scalp and nails, which is a good start toward “spring cleaning” yourself. Professional beauty industry brands offer a variety of cleansers to target specific areas, while Dr. Kally ...
Tips From Readers on Losing the First 10 Pounds
The entry box of our April Healthy Hairdresser Challenge is overflowing! We already have hundreds of entries with great ideas for how to “Lose the First 10” on your way to your weight loss goal or improving your health. The direction ...
5 Ways Clients Can Get Their Hair Longer, Faster
Of course we all know there isn't really a miracle pill clients can take or a special head massage that can make hair grow at rapid-speed, but there are some things that your clients can do to promote quicker hair growth. Dominik Mager, ...
by Jamie Newman
Image: Are You What You Look Like?
If you are what you eat, are you what you look like? Does the image you create, or overlook, influence the quality of your results? Is there need for a professional image, or can you just go from your laundry room to the salon?You are a believer ...
3-WEEK JOURNEY: Dark Red to Platinum
When MODERN posted this photo on our Instagram and Facebook pages, we got LOTS of love (more than 16,000 likes on Instagram in less than three days, and more than 12,000 likes on Facebook in 2 days!)We reached out to color and style ...
QUITE THE JOURNEY: Yellow Ombre To Bombshell Blonde
Brenda Hendricks (@brenda_hendricks_muahbb), a hairstylist & make up artist at SJ Studio Salon and Spa, Oxnard, CA, demonstrated a successful journey to bombshell blonde.Here she shares the HOW TO:"My client came to me after two ...
FORMULA: The Big Reveal
Sami Schneider (@samihairmagic), a Color Specialist at House of Color, Colorado Springs, CO says "I received a message on Facebook from a girl who is expecting and wanted to color her hair pink if she was having a girl and blue if she was ...
5 Reasons Clients Should Gift Moms a Spa Day for Mother's Day
Hold the breakfast in bed and cards. Show mom some love this Mother's Day by having a girls' day at the salon. With Mother's Day less than a month away, what better way to suggest clients bond with their mothers than to invite ...
by Jamie Newman
Healthy Hairdresser: Keep It Interesting
Working out is a personal endeavor. Even if you attend group fitness classes you are there doing the work yourself. No one can work out for you. It might be nice if they could. From many individually wishing to commit to ...
by Ivan Zoot
Intercoiffure Spring Atelier 2016: Review.Renew.Reset
THE EVENT: “Review.Renew.Reset” the INTERCOIFFURE SPRING ATELIER, Boca Raton, Florida. April 2016.THE DETAILS: With a goal to share best business practices among market leaders from the United States and Canada, the Intercoiffure ...
Heart Disease is Affecting Younger People with Preventable Risk Factors
Smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and obstructive pulmonary disease were among the risk factors lowering the average age of patients treated for the most severe and deadly type of heart attack between 1995 and 2014 at the famed ...
TRANSFORMATION: From Box To Balayage Blonde To Platinum
Heather Wyko (@heatherwyko) of Peroxide Beauty and Barbershop, Hermosa Beach, California, says "My client and friend Kelsey used to do her blonde hair at home but started growing it out last September because she wanted to ...