Career
Got Dandruff? 10 Things About Dandruff EVERY Stylist Needs to Know
It’s easy to spot – the white, oily looking flakes of dead skin that dot your clients hair and shoulders and contribute to an itchy scalp. It’s a common scalp condition that plagues teens, adults and worsens during the fall and ...
6 Tips on Caring For and Maintaining the Perfect Mustache
The month of November is about bringing back the mustache, doing it for a serious cause while having fun growing it out at the same time. If your clients are supporting men’s health in November by growing out their “stache” for 30 days, help them achieve the best looking one they can with these tips from Kenny Duncan, Andis educator and salon owner of Main Attraction Unisex Salon in Philadelphia, PA.
5 Common Hair Color Problems Only Blondes Can Understand
Blonde clients require a particular regimen of maintenance to keep their color looking bright and brilliant. Yet, often colorists hear clients express concerns about brassiness, or dull, muddy tones. Tom Porter, founder and president of Malibu ...
Ashley Jael: Coping with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
She was only nine years old, which is young to get a double-whammy diagnosis of fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), but California hairdresser Ashley Jael now looks back on her nearly 20 years of coping with both diseases as a mixed ...
Shocking Pink: Spotlight on Young Women with Breast Cancer
Although aging is a major risk factor in developing breast cancer, about 11 percent of all new breast cancers are found in women under 45, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Happier Life: Oprah’s 8 Little Changes
She may have left her high-profile talk show, but Oprah still supplies a lot of advice through her OWN network, her website and her magazine. Healthy Hairdresser peeked at her eight suggestions for improving your daily routine and living more ...
Lessons from Ebola
The height of the furor in the news media over the Ebola virus has thankfully died down. No, we do not all have it. No, thousands did not die from it here in America. Thankfully, and despite the best efforts of the 24 hour news ...
by Anne Moratto
The Road You Choose
There are many industry paths you can take, but in the salon, the five primary ones are hairstylist, colorist, esthetician, nail technician and makeup artist. Each requires different technical skills and offers variations—or even ...
Turning Back the Clock
Each day, 10,000 women celebrate their 40th birthday, according to Sue Hanson, co-founder of Evolve. “And 40 percent of those women are going to struggle with hair loss,” she says. Here’s how the brand is working to solve that ...
Warrior Princess
The Dallas team at Clive and Co. was recently inspired by the Kimbell Art Museum exhibit, “Samurai: Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection.” The intriguing ancient history of the Samurai warriors, with their ...
Color Me Beautiful
The results for Pravana’s Show Us Your Vivids Contest are in! Stylists from across the country were asked to enter their most creative color creations for a chance to win an editorial photoshoot in Los Angeles with a customized Pravana ...
Yours Naturally
JASON MICCOLO JOHNSON, award-winning photographer of some of the world’s most recognizable portraits including Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Princess Diana and Oprah Winfrey, celebrates the beauty of women with natural ...
The Sublime
For Keune’s Fall/Winter 2014 Collection, hair returns to a softer, more natural state with powerful volume and deep, rich tints says Keune International Creative Artistic Director Ilham Mestour. “For me, the magic word is ...
Life, Style
The consultation is more important than ever with the modern man. It’s up to the salon professional to help guide the client so he looks perfect from visit to visit.
Va-Voom
Many stylists, no matter how many areas of beauty they feel they have mastered, often find themselves in a similar rut, artistically or financially, with their current business and begin seeking out the next big niche to pursue in their work. ...
Mellow Yellow
The inspiration for this collection was derived from a single moment. It was late April, when the Chicago winter gray was lingering but finally showing signs of spring life. Stylist Timmy Willy, a recent Matrix Spread the Love ambassador, saw a ...
Prismatic Collection
For colorists, inspiration comes from the simplest things—like watching how light bursts into a rainbow of color when refracted through a piece of glass. The Prismatic Collection is the result of what happens when a colorist gets ...