"As a former school owner, I feel for the student who asks for a job at our salon without the interviewing, technical or social skills needed for the job. Although I felt badly, I was powerless--until now."
I walked the aisles and classrooms of ABS 2015, feeling proud of the number of Latino professional participating —including emerging Latino beauty companies and executives. How could I tell? I made my rounds with TV hairdresser star, Leo ...
Carlos Valenzuela returns with another blog post on time management and honesty. "Mi papa (a cattleman in 1950’s Mexico) would say, 'If you are not fifteen minutos antes, you are tarde.'"
In my forty-plus years as a beauty professional, I have reinvented my beauty career multiple times. Three weeks ago, after more than a six-year absence, I returned to working behind the chair, after all, isn’t it all about the salon? The ...
Creativity is learned, can be diminished or enhanced, is addictive, and so satisfactory it may well be the key to happiness, and just like your cat, creativity must be stroked or it will run away at first chance.
Salon professionals will leave the industry due to lack of income, yes. But, I wonder, was there was a bit of magical thinking prior to hitting bottom? Here, a few reality checks I offer beauty schools, assuming you want to succeed