Stylists who excel in the art of the updo often develop clever little tricks for creating outstanding work. Here are three go-to techniques, created by Sexy Hair artists, used to create the three looks in their latest collections.
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Do you, like me, hate excusing yourself when working on a client? The habit we salon professionals have of holding our pee can have grave consequences.
As a stylist for 13 years, Kate Sparks reflects back on the choices she made that led to future success.
During the ordeal, I kept thinking of how I must warn all cosmetologists of the need for self care.
As you make your money, think of the future. Resolve to never live paycheck-to-paycheck. Here are a few rules I follow.
Get and remain healthy as you put hair on the floor and get guys looking their best.
Use the sentences as they are, word for word. Do not alter the words. Do not change the order. Then watch what happens.
10 Habits of a Young Stylist is a creative workshop for new beauty graduates or young stylists looking to expand their career in their own terms and is being offered at the International Salon and Spa Expo (ISSE) in Long Beach, CA, this weekend.
What would you list as the things that make you tick or that tick you off?
This is an old school marketing idea that will never alter, never go out of style and never be replaced with anything that will ever work better.
I like out of the way barbershops for a haircut because barbers consistently deliver a great cut. Recently, I discovered 81 Barbers, a barbershop tucked away behind The Children’s Museum open just six months in downtown Tucson—and it is already buzzing busily. Here's why.
A new client, whether a walk-in or a referral, is a nugget of gold.
How do you craft this nugget into a thing of beauty?
How have you decided to manage free haircuts for family members? How are you seeing to it that you can take care of family and yet not be abused?
When you are happy where you work, daily challenges are easier to bear. In a business where profit hinges on great customer service delivery, salon owners need to shoot for happy employees.
Leading the charge for change, Harold Leighton, a hairdresser of range and experience accumulated through nearly fifty years in the industry, wants to challenge the beauty industry to be better.
"There is so much to know about this business and most of it can all be sorted out by knowing exactly how to talk to their client and to be able to acknowledge their own worth as a hairdresser."
You only have one chance at a first impression. Cool Beauty Consulting shows how to make it a good one.