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July Cover: The Alternate View
People are loving MODERN'S July cover, with hair created by Hot Tools Artistic Director Detra Smith. Although the cover shows a beautiful smooth and shiny finish, Smith created an alternate version with long, luscious curls.Smith created ...
Moving from a Salon Chair to a Suite
Sola Salon Studio owner Holly Santelli may have named her Park Ridge, Illinois, suite “Serendipity Beauty Parlour,” but finding her best solo-artist life didn’t happen by chance. After a hiatus to have children, the 24-year ...
Relocating and Building a Clientele from Scratch
Would you move to a different state with a goal to be a renter? That’s just what stylist Howie Held did when he moved to California.To succeed, he knew he’d have to hit the ground running. His first step was to take classes and ...
Your Biz—Best Practices and Business Tips for Self-Employed Stylists
When you are responsible for it all in your salon space, you have to remember to take time to “take care of business.”
Creating a Winning Chair Rental Culture
Just because you are “on your own” doesn’t’ mean you are excluded from earning lots of accolades and respect. Rachel Phillips knows this first-hand.Her Glam Salon and Spa in Delmar, Delaware, just became a Costal Style ...
Trending for Summer: 10 Things to Build Biz Now Through Fall
You and your clients are halfway through summer. While vacations and warm-weather styles are still top of mind, back-to-school displays are also surfacing, and fall planning begins, too. How can you be of service and capitalize on all the ...
One-On-One with Instagram Stylist Sensation Larisa Love
Do you have a question for independent stylist, color specialist and Instagram superstar Larisa Love? Here, she answers questions on color line selection, protecting the integrity of hair, and dealing with chronically late clients.
TRANSFORMATION: Faded Fuzz To Balayaged Beauty
Miriam Ortega (@studio410artonhair), owner and hair artist of Studio 410, located in the heart of the "bishop arts district", in Dallas, Texas, had an opportunity with Monica. "She came in with literally orange, ...
BEHIND THE COVER: Color Flair
It was a fun frenzy at the model casting for MODERN’s most recent Artist Session. The two-day photoshoot workshop hosted more than 80 hopeful top beauty models at the Water Street Studio in New York City.Alabama-based artist Detra Smith, ...
DRAMATIC TRANSFORMATION: Uh Oh To WOW!
Sarah, a first time client of Jacqui Neale (@jackss_) at Butterfly Loft Salon (@butterflyloftsalon), Los Angeles, California, had been working toward going platinum blonde, but was tired of the upkeep. Her hair was in really bad shape. Here ...
HOW-TO: Martin Parsons' Conceal, Connect Updo
Are there ageless updos, styles that work for just about any client, of any age? Many silhouettes can be tweaked to be either more modern and sophisticated or younger and less structured. MODERN reached out to the King of Updos, Martin Parsons, ...
How-To: Gatsby-Inspired Bridal Updo
Increasingly often, brides are requesting styles that are more formal for their ceremony but can be transitioned to looser, playful styles for the reception (can you blame them?).Geneva Cowen, artistic director for Sam Villa, created ...
by Lauren Quick
July Healthy Hairdresser Challenge: Because Every Minute Matters
What would you do with an extra 10 minutes every morning? Or 10 more minutes with every client? When faced with illness, health scares or major life milestones, it is common to question how we “wish” we had spent more of our personal ...
Cancer Progress and Support
As the beauty industry excitedly anticipates Rock the Cure, the City of Hope Spirit of Life gala set for July 11 at Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, there’s excitement, too, in the City of Hope labs pursuing that elusive cure ...
HOW-TO: Martin Parsons' Fringed French Twist
Are there ageless updos, styles that work for just about any client, of any age? Many silhouettes can be tweaked to be either more modern and sophisticated or younger and less structured. MODERN reached out to the King of Updos, Martin Parsons, ...
DJ Victory Turns 3 Clients into “Glamour Grams,” Proving There’s No Such Thing as “Age Appropriate”
If you follow MODERN on social, chances are you’ve seen the name DJ Victory, owner of Enzos Salon & Spa in Ohio. She’s known for sporting beautiful pastels in her own hair and for creating avant garde color finishes and inspiring ...
Grown Out Box Ombre To Dimensional Chocolate LOB
Kesley Reynolds (@khbkesley), an independent stylist in Salt Lakes City, UT, says, "This client of mine started out with a botched ombre and we have been working on getting her box color out on the top but her ends are so porous they ...