INSPIRATION
Hair Color: A Love Story
We wouldn’t want to hit a party in the identical outfit as our BFF or wear her favorite daily aroma. Aveda has this same mindset when it comes to hair color. Why should any of us settle for a business-as-usual blonde, blue, brunette or red? “Aveda has a unique system where we can really play with color and customize it to make that perfect shade for each person,” says Ian Michael Black, Aveda Global Artistic Director for Hair Color who created this stunning vibrant magenta for his personal collection Fractal Hues.
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How to Groom Your A-Team
Ryan Cortello and Courtney Costello developed a solid system for fueling salon growth by focusing on their team at Cortello Salon in Jacksonville, Florida. Whether you’ve only been in business a few years or are an industry veteran, it’s tempting to spend revenue on updating your space, investing in new technology or financing […]
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On the Grid: Mapping Out Success
Recently, almost every member of the Nuovo salon group (three salons in the Sarasota area with another opening in 2015) attended a Qnity + Aveda training session. The program is set up to make tracking numbers more intuitive to the creative, right-brained stylist. “It’s a very Apple-esque approach,” says Nuovo co-owner Terry McKee (James Amato [...]
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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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