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Hairdressers’ “Healthy Holiday Moments” Will Inspire You!
Many of you have been taking our November Healthy Hairdresser Challenge, and we’re inspired by your responses and want to share! If you haven’t already, all this month you can Take the Challenge to be eligible to be entered to win ...
Workshop: 5 Ways Renters Can Get the Latest Education from CosmoProf
With nearly 1,000 stores, 190 classrooms, six Learning Centers and a new series of “Best-of-the Best” Events, CosmoProf Offers Hundreds of Affordable Ways for all salon professionals—including Solo Artists—to Access ...
13 Things You Wish Your Clients Knew
Fuel Hair's Fuel for Thought blog, is packed with articles and advice for stylists and colorists. Recently, they posted these "13 Things You Wish Your Clients Knew" and we just had to share! Just for fun, Fuel Hair put together ...
2015 Excellence in Education Spotlight: Empire Education Group's Community Involvement
MODERN SALON's Excellence in Education annual recognition program celebrates leading cosmetology schools, highlighting innovative programs and best practices in eight categories and two divisions (single location and multi-unit schools).The ...
by Lauren Quick
Beauty Schools' Community Involvement in the 2015 Excellence in Education Program
Every year, MODERN SALON Media pays tribute to great work being done by leading cosmetology schools via its Excellence in Education recognition program. Hundreds of applications are submitted by individual and multi-unit schools ...
by Lauren Quick
TRANSFORMATION: Summer to Winter Blonde
Allie Villa (@allievilla) of Mimi's Salon (@mimissalon), Belmar NJ, says "My client Marta always likes to go very blonde during the summer so we keep her very close to platinum usually, but for the fall she wanted a rooted, warm blonde ...
Toning Down The Drama
Danielle Astle (@daniellehotseatsalon) of the Hot Seat salon, San Diego, California, says her new client came to her because she was tired of her ombre, finding it too yellow and too dramatic! "She wanted something more subtle that would ...
TRANSFORMATION: Warm To Ashy Dimensional LOB
Saretta Bowerman (@hairbysaretta), owner of Blue Water Salon in Naples, FL, says "Blondes have become my favorite thing and I’m currently obsessed with rooty cool shades. Each blonde has its own story, hair history, and specific ...
Going For a Manageable Change
Sierra De Jong (@sierra_haircolorist), a certified colorist and a L'anza Healing Artist based in Bozeman, Montana, says "My client had never had short hair before and was looking for a manageable change. She had a vision of the haircut ...
COLOR CORRECTION: Broken Blonde To Hot Rose
"My guest came to me a double process platinum blonde with a lot of breakage," says Samantha Daly (@@bottleblonde76), a master stylist and Artistic Director at Cutting Loose Salon, Sarasota, Florida. "She was a former client of ...
Eufora Strong
THE EVENT: The Eufora family gathered in San Diego, CA on November 1-2, 2015, for the brand’s salon business summit, Vision Quest. On the Friday before, tragedy struck when Eufora founder Don Bewley passed away suddenly. His ...
by Anne Moratto
COLOR CORRECTION: Going For Tears Of Joy
Cirrus Blaafjell (@CirrusBlaafjell) of Salon Alta in the heart of San Francisco specializes in low maintenance, lived in hair color. "I like for my clients to not have to come but every 3-6 months," she says. "I find hair painting ...
Healthy Holiday Moments: Take the November Healthy Hairdresser Challenge!
It’s a fact—salon pros give, give, give ... all holiday season long! Your busiest, most wonderful time of the year is also the most stressful.That’s why this month’s Healthy Hairdresser Challenge ...
Masters of the Universe
This month, I had the amazing honor of acting as the host for Goldwell’s Global Color Zoom in Las Vegas, in early Oct 2015. This was both an honor and a privilege as I had access to some of the most important hairdressers in the world. You ...
TRANSFORMATION: Mushy Box To Tasteful and Healthy Sombre
Maggie Ly from David's Hair and Nail, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, specializes in haircolor and color corrections. "My guest had her hair lightened before somewhere else then gave up maintaining her color," says Ly about this ...
Box Ombre Fail To Fresh, Modern Red
Destini Oddo (@Desert_rayne) a cosmetology student at Capitol School of Hairstyling and Esthetics in Omaha, Nebraska, caught our eye with this gorgeous makeover. "My client Amber came to see me because she was extremely unhappy with her ...
TRANSFORMATION: Grown Out Fashion To Smokin' Blonde
Maggie Ly (@HairstyLust)) of Davids Hair and Nails, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada loves to work with long hair. "I work with long hair, mostly Asian hair," she says. "Many of my clients come to me looking for hairstyles that are ...