Matrix Uses its Imagination
To kick off the event, the six winners of Matrix’s Spread the Love competition were greeted by their mentors, Matrix Artistic Designers Nicholas French, Brian and Sandra Smith, Patrick McIvor, Daniel Roldan, Ammon Carver, Chrystofer Benson and Nick Stenson. Before their departure on their six-month tour across the nation, they received computers, cameras and phones to document their journey. They also received a blogging tutorial from MODERN’s Executive Editor of Social Media and Video Alison Shipley. Shipley hosted blogger training workshops for the 100-plus Spread the Love salon owners and stylists, along with the winners.
The Rusk AntiCurl Gain Control Makeover Competition
Transform one of your clients with the Rusk AntiCurl + Kerashine Conditioning smoothing service, and you can get a chance to win cash and other prizes valued at $10,000!
Farouk Partners with Trump's Celebrity Apprentice
Farouk Shami, Farouk Systems Founder and Chairman, will appear as a guest judge during a special task in Episode 9 of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice. The episode will air May 1st.
Shark Fin Shears Announces Winner
Shark Fin Shear Company just announced the winners of their free giveaway drawing. The drawing was held at the AACS Annual Convention & Expo, October 29-November 2, 2010 at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld.
Pravana's Keratin Glazing Service
Pravana Naturceuticals has introduced Keratin Glazing—which creates shinier, smoother, healthier looking blowouts. Each Keratin Glazing service is a fast-acting application that resurfaces the hair, strand-by-strand, with pure keratin based proteins, making it stronger and more resilient, with luster and vibrancy.
Want a Free Botanical Blowout Today?
Sedu is giving away FREE blowouts at Ulta nationwide this Wednesday and Thursday!
Betty White and Dolly Parton Join JPMS Fundraising
For the eighth consecutive year, the nationwide network of Paul Mitchell beauty schools will spend the months of February through April raising money for charitable organizations. In 2010, the schools raised an all-time high of $1.2 million, bringing their seven-year total to over $4.6 million.This year they plan to raise $1.5 million for seven organizations: Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, Andrew Gomez Dream Foundation, Food 4 Africa, Fran Drescher’s Cancer Schmancer Foundation, and newcomers Morris Animal Foundation, represented by Betty White, and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
Hair Dryer with Flair
The new Andis VIVID hair dryer sports a modern blend of bright colors on black and is equipped with a hyper DC motor that generates 40 percent more airflow to save drying time!
Stylist Launches new Rotation Shears
Boston stylist and event planner Carmelo Zammitto is a hair cutter who likes to design his own shears.
New Aveda Be Curly Style-Prep and System
Launched in 2007, the Be Curly System was developed for guests in need of a hair care ritual that could enhance, intensify and define waves and curls. The Be Curly four-step system includes: Be Curly Shampoo, Be Curly Conditioner, Be Curly Curl Enhancer, and now, the new Be Curly Style-Prep!
We Want To Celebrate You!
MODERN SALON and Beauty Systems Group/Cosmoprof© want to celebrate the salons who work hard to create effective holiday merchandising displays, marketing pieces, promotions and events. Please e-mail or send photos of your strategically festive atmosphere, along with a description of the events, promotions and programs your salon presents this holiday season to MODERN. Your salon may be showcased in either an upcoming issue or online throughout 2011, or even celebrated in a feature in next year’s special Holiday edition! Images must be hi-res (300 dpi or more). Please e-mail to Joyce Alverio (jalverio@vancepublishing.com) and put BSG Holiday Salon in the subject line. Also include your name, salon name and contact phone number.
America's Beauty Show Update
Start getting ready, because America's Beauty Show will be here before you know it! The show is set for March 12-14th at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago. Take a look at some of the highlights the show will have to offer this year.
Winner of the 2010 N.F. Cimaglia Award
Milady, part of Cengage Learning and a leading provider of beauty and wellness learning solutions, and the American Association of Cosmetology Schools (AACS), today announced that Dorothy McKinley-Soressi was awarded the 2010 N.F. Cimaglia Award on October 30.
BIO IONIC Makes Distribution Switch to L'Oreal Owned "Salon Centric"
BIO IONIC is moving distribution from Beauty Systems Group to Salon Centric, a division of L’Oreal USA, effective January 1, 2011. Until then, stylists can continue to buy Bio Ionic products form their current distributor.
Liquicolor Permanente: Reinventing Color
Clairol Professional has reinvented the venerable Miss Clairol brand with Liquicolor Permanente, for color that provides as much as 84 percent more conditioning properties than leading professional cream colors. Liquicolor Permanente contains Soy4plex technology for rich, healthy-looking hair color. The new formulation will deliver the same consistent, easy-to-use color that has always been delivered by Miss Clairol, but with improved condition from the proprietary Soy4plex.
A Week of Beauty
THE EVENT: The Professional Beauty Association’s annual Beauty Week held at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, held in conjunction with Cosmoprof North America. THE DETAILS: Thousands of industry manufacturers, distributors and salon professionals walked Cosmoprof North America’s show floor, checked out new product launches and brands, attended business-building seminars, and got inspiration and education.
Redken's 50th Anniversary
Redken is kicking off its 50-year anniversary with a Cut-A-Thon at the Redken Exchange in New York City on September 30. All donations go to City of Hope, a biomedical research and treatment center dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Redken is encouraging all Redken salons throughout the U.S. to host their own cut-a-thons to celebrate and connect with their communities. Visit Redken.com.