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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CosmoProf Hosts "The Best Of The Best"

CosmoProf, the Texas based distributor, believes in putting the customer at the center of everything it does. According to the release, "Part of that mission is inspiring and keeping the passion alive in each beauty professional. ...

Riawna Capri and Nikki Lee Create Braids Four Ways with TIGI for Festival Season

Celebrity hairstylists and co-owners of Nine Zero One, Riawna Capri and Nikki Lee will be on-site this weekend at Coachella at their luxury beauty salon on wheels, The Beauty Coach, to style attendees' hair with the festival-ready looks that ...

Goldwell, KMS California and Arrojo Host HAIR PLAY In NYC

THE EVENT: HAIR PLAY, an evening of education and inspiration from teams from Goldwell, KMS California and Arrojo.DETAILS: It was quite the night at the Gotham in NYC as dozens of artists and models took to the stage to teach the latest in cut, ...

Hippie Hair: Paul Norton for Joico Goes Far Out at Alice + Olivia

Alice + Olivia by Stacey Bendet presented its Grateful Dead dancing bear capsule collection last night in California. As the perfect kick-off celebration to weekend one of Coachella, which begins tomorrow, celebrity hairstylist and Joico ...

How to Turn Your Front Desk Into a Profit Center

Front desk employees are one of the most valuable aspects of your business. Your front desk should do more than just answer phones, book appointments, and ring-out clients. If that’s all that they do, then they are a cost center: an ...

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New Cosmetology Student Hannah Barnette Starts Her Beauty School Adventure!

Hello everyone! I am Hannah Barnette and I am about to take you through my year-long journey at Aveda Institute in Charlotte, NC. I am very excited to get started! I believe that this is what I really want to do and what interests me. It is ...

Modern Reports: Hair Visions International Transformation Expo 2016

Hair Visions International held its Transformation Expo 2016 March 6-8, 2016, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.The event brought together stylists, owners, distributors and media to learn more about what's coming up for the multifaceted brand ...

Aveda’s Spring/Summer 2016 Color Forecast

Inspired by the fashion runways of New York City, Paris and Milan, along with steady world travel, Ian Michael Black, Aveda global artistic director, hair color, is the expert in color. Here he shares his predictions on the hair color trends ...

The Top 4 Reasons to See a Professional Colorist

At-home hair color may seem convenient, but as noted by Ian Michael Black, Aveda global artistic director, hair color, the results can be unpredictable. It’s always better to invest the time to see a professional colorist.Here Black ...

Modern Reports: Keune's Luxurious Minimalism Launch Party

On April 10, 2016, Keune introduced its sophisticated new trend collection, Luxurious Minimalism, at Atlanta's Foundry at Puritan Mill. The launch party welcomed stylists, salon owners, distributors and media to a chic, all-white affair ...

Healthy Haircutter: A New Blog Series on Taking Care of You So You Can Take Care of Them

In support of Modern Salon's Healthy Hairdresser Initiative, I will now be posting once per week on a fitness and wellness-related topic that is to be of interest to salon professionals.In addition to my cosmetology and barber education, I ...

Mamma Mia! Mother's Day Salon Promotion Ideas

We love these ideas from Sola Salon Studio's Jennie Wolff on promoting some paternal pampering for Mother's Day.  Read more terrific content and learn more about Sola here.Mother’s Day is right around the corner – ...

How-To: Breaking the Base (+video!)

For blondes, base-breaking is typically a necessary part of color maintenance. Highlights can look unnatural next to regrowth, and Pravana has launched its new ChromaSilk Ultra Hi-Lifts to aid in the base-breaking process.Pravana stylist Jamie ...