Career
Salon job interview tips
Salon owner Joelle Ray offers five lessons for maximizing the interview process to ensure that you choose the best salon for you.
Do's and Don'ts in your first year as a hairstylist
A salon owner shares her wisdom for avoiding the pitfalls of inexperience.
How to keep your salon clients coming back
If your clients aren't coming back, maybe it's because you haven't earned their repeat business. Here's how you can make sure you do.
7 top tips for shiny hair
Help your clients keep their shiny hair at home.
Hair cutting tips: Using clippers
Need a boost of confidence to cut with clippers? Andis's education director provides some pointers.
How to promote yourself as a new hairstylist
Do you think self-promoting makes you less professional? Not at all, says self-promoting "Coach In Your Car" Ted Halone, who begins his driving lesson with teaching hairdressers how to bring attention to themselves and attract new clients along the way.
Spring hairstyles for prom, brides and grooms
While your teen clients are shopping for prom and graduation party fashions and your slightly olders are hitting the bridal fairs, you can be polishing your formal styling skills. Fantastic Sam's has some fantastic ideas to get started.
Picking the right celebrity hairstyle for your salon client
Get knowledgeable about the six major face shapes and find out why, no matter what you do to her hair, you can't always get a client to look like a desired celebrity.
Hair style trend: Pretty pony tails
The styling team at Paul Mitchell offers techniques for creating a selection of ponytails ranging from casual to flirty to elegant.
Retailing tips: The 6 laws of influencing others
Study the 6 laws of influence, and learn to influence your clients to increase their spending with you!
Good customer service: Giving your salon clients what they want
Industry consultant Richard Hanks offers an excellent rule for providing tailored customer service offerings in a world of sameness. Your clients, he points out, are not you.
Styling Tips: Secrets to the perfect perm
Many clients could use a texture service that delivers big, loose curl with long-lasting hold, but it's the tight-curl perms that are known for their staying power. Here's the secret to giving texture clients the fabulous curl that they want!
Making the connection with your salon client
"The most important skill they never taught you in beauty school was how to deal with the many different personalities you come into contact with daily," says the author of the book, As the Chair Turns. Find out what you're already doing that keeps good clients coming back and learn how to get even more to return time and again.
Strategies to book more salon clients
Are you sitting around half the time you're at the salon? Learn how to get clients in your chair so you're earning every hour you're at work.
Tips for selling hair products to your salon customers
If product knowledge classes haven't improved your retail success rate, try role-playing these scripts with other staffers. Specifics are offered whether you're in hair, skin or nails.
Fun facts about nails
Ever wonder whether the nail plate contains more calcium than sodium? Nail down all the facts with this article!
Career Advice: Becoming an independent contractor
A new indie association and an Ohio salon offer options for independent contractors who want to rent a booth in a truly professional environment.