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.




Check out some solid advice on how to address typical situations encountered in the salon from global beauty educator Carlos Valenzuela.
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.
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?
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.
What is it about a barbershop that feels so honest and down-home, like the comfort food of grooming?
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 ...
If you think other stylists can "steal" clients from you, you're looking at the situation from the wrong perspective.