Do Away with Your Licencia?
You have homework: make two calls. One to your State representative demanding licensing, next, call your area beauty school and offer to do a free class.
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You have homework: make two calls. One to your State representative demanding licensing, next, call your area beauty school and offer to do a free class.



Martin Chairez is an international educator for Joico International who believes that everything in his life involves beauty in every sense
You can go to a trade show without a plan, hang out, be bored and vamonos. Or, you can study the brochure and create a route that supports what you like and need. Which is it, grasshopper?
Check out some solid advice on how to address typical situations encountered in the salon from global beauty educator Carlos Valenzuela.
Kudos to our industry for not retiring talent, as many industries do;I scanned the pages of Modern Salon recently, and played the game of looking for “mature” artists actively spotlighting stages.
This weekend I head to the port of Long Beach for the first spin of the show season, the International Salon Spa Expo. I don’t know about you, but unless I make a plan, when I get to an expo the tide carries me away. I wind up not seeing, learning, and meeting the people I wanted. So, here is my attack plan for the weekend.
If you educate, sitting in on seminars is an experience I highly recommend. This past show season I took in as many classes as possible and came away with one big message: the audience has changed, it is younger, techy, empowered, and has a ...
I don’t really have time to be nosey. A fleeting wonder might be possible, but not the time to plan and investigate something that is nada of my business. Unless, of course, I am getting a haircut. Each time my stylist opens that top cajón, I want to see what’s in there. I am not sure porque. I just can’t resist the urge.
What is it about a barbershop that feels so honest and down-home, like the comfort food of grooming?
We fudge the truth if it hurts. The truth is often an insult. Reality often will do nothing for a client’s confidence.