Where Are They Now? NAHA 2013 Newcomer Winner Jeremy McDougle
As a student at Paul Mitchell Academy in Colorado Springs, Jeremy McDougle attended Paul Mitchell’s annual event in Las Vegas. The salon group Lunatic Fringe (12 locations) played a major role in the event and McDougle was impressed. We chat with Jeremy about his NAHA success.
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Where Are They Now? NAHA 2014 Student Winner Nicole Gary’s Path to Success
When Nicole Gary enrolled in San Bernardino Beauty College in her native Southern California, her purpose was to obtain a cosmetology degree so she could advance the career she started at Aquage. Little did she know where her decision would lead. Below, we chat with the winner of the 2014 Student North American Hairstyling Award [...]
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Fanning the Flame: How Juut Keeps Stylists Passionate
By nature, salons have high turnover rates. Stylists move to a new city, leave to start a family, quit to join a different salon or sometimes just drop out of the beauty business entirely. Unfortunately, there’s no way to combat some of these things—life happens and people come and go. But if you’re a salon owner, high turnover doesn’t have to be a mainstay in your business.
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Education Gets Personal
Advanced education in the salon is nothing new. Many salons offer excellent programs to further their stylists’ skills in coloring, cutting and styling. Salons with spas often offer advanced classes for estheticians as well. But for some salon professionals, that’s not enough—many stylists want to develop their personal skills as well. And in the beauty [...]
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A Stroke of Genius: How One Owner Uses Painting to Inspire his Stylists
Thom Ciarniello, owner of Casal’s de Spa & Salon locations in Canfield and Howland, Ohio, is one of 5 professors for the Aveda Business College, where there are blueprints for everything a salon owner could ever want to teach, from customer service to cutting techniques to consultations and everything in between.
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