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Every year, the MODERN SALON team gets more and more excited for Premiere Orlando's professional beauty show. We love bringing together our team from across the country for three days of education, new product launches, trend scouting and ...

Every year, the MODERN SALON team gets more and more excited for Premiere Orlando's professional beauty show. We love bringing together our team from across the country for three days of education, new product launches, trend scouting and inspiration--not to mention the chance to mix/mingle/interview the industry's finest stylists and educators. We'll be armed with all the tools to get you coverage live from the showfloor, mainstage, classrooms AND workshops. So before you miss out, make sure to follow @modernsalon on Periscope, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Our favorite part of the show is spending time with stylists learning new techniques, trends and money-making looks to inspire them when they return back to their salons. With more than 440 professional education classes offered at Premiere Orlando, it truly is an education destination. The classrooms and workshops this year are packed with highlights: here are some we're really looking forward to:
Don't Miss This: Look & Learn Workshops at Premiere Orlando 2016: From cut, color, texture, nails, makeup and everything in between, Premiere Orlando is offering a wide range of workshops to make sure you can get the education you're seeking.
Getting Down to Business: Salon Management Classes at Premiere Orlando 2016: This year will feature 33 classroom presentations on salon business and personal development with pertinent information for salon owner, managers and stylists. Topics covered include building clientele, social media marketing, increasing retail revenue, putting technology to work in your business and more.
5 Premiere Orlando Extension Classes to Increase Your Revenue and Clientele With more than 20 classes and workshops focused on extensions, there is not excuse not to amp up your knowledge of extensions to boost your profits and diversify your clientele.
5 Premiere Orlando Classes That Will Get Curly Clients Back in the Salon: In the last few years, a significant gap has appeared in the professional beauty industry: clients with textured hair turned away from the salon and began visiting blogs and YouTube channels for answers on maintaining their curls. Fortunately, curl experts and educators are now entering the scene, ready to teach stylists how to offer texture services.
Hands-On: Nail Classes at Premiere Orlando 2016: The show is packed with continuing education for nail artists, with classes taught by experts from some of your favorite brands such as CND, Essie, ORLY, Morgan Taylor and Zoya. Check out this story for details on how to create the latest trends and techniques your clients care about.
Men's Zone: Barbering Education at Premiere Orlando 2016: The men's market continues to receive a lot of attention from the cosmetology community, and many barbers make their way to Orlando specifically for barber classes and competitions. Not including the hands-on workshops, there are a whopping 59 barbering classes at the show this year, so fitting a few into your schedule should be no problem.
Don't Miss: Trichology and Haircutting Classes at Premiere Orlando: We can already predict that Trichology and haircutting will be hot topics at the show. Here are just a few classes covering these topics that caught our eye!
Premiere Orlando is offering four opportunities for licensed salon professionals to show off their skills and make a name for themselves! From hair to nails to TWO NEW competition categories in barbering and makeup this year, this show covers a category for everyone. Need more convincing as to why you should enter? Here are 5 reasons why you should enter a competition at Premiere Orlando. (We also list more information about each competition.)

Enter the 2016 Premiere Orlando Barber Challenge - a new competition this year!

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