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Tips for Hairstylists Just Trying to Survive the Holidays
Photo by Johnny Lai By now you probably have your holiday marketing plans sorted out. You’re already sending out mass texts about special offers and referrals and gift sales and now you’re waiting...
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4 Reasons a Home Salon is a Bad Idea (and Why You Should Do It Anyway)
Are You Ready to Style Hair at Home? Photo by Karen Newman For millions of stylists in America, starting a home salon seems like a shorter, cheaper path to owning their business, but many don’t...
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Fanola Hair Color Year End Round Up 2016
It’s been a little while since we’ve rounded up some of our favorite hair colors made with Fanola, and the end of 2016 seems like a good time to do it again. This is getting trickier to do because...
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5 Ways You're Mistreating Your Salon Equipment
One of the worst things you can do after setting up your salon equipment is to leave it alone and pretend it can take care of itself. Whether it’s styling chairs, shampoo chairs, or manicure tables,...
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New Year Hair Transformations
It’s a new year, spring is inching closer and people are starting to get an itch for change. And that means new hair styles. We’ve been seeing a lot of hair color transformations while we spend too...
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Salon Guys Spotlight: Katie Radu and Studio Posh 29
Studio Posh 29 has become a constant sanctuary for Sacramento people with hair troubles thanks to the calm and caring ownership of Katie Radu. Many of the stylists here are well known for their...
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3 Great Portable Massage Tables for the Travelling Professional
A good massage table can make all the difference on a day of travelling between clients. Lugging around tables that are too heavy, or stepping up onto one to do deep tissue and hearing that worrisome...
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3 Reasons You Should Check out Fanola at ABS 2017
Prepare yourselves, colorists. Fanola is headed to America’s Beauty Show in Chicago this year. They’ll be in booth 2480, and pining to answer your questions. Fanola has been working hard to educate...
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5 Ways Stylists Can Avoid Back Problems
Photo courtesy of Adg The hair styling life comes with three major problems. Clients who don’t know what they want. Slaying too hard. Back problems. You can fix the first one with the second...
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3 Fanola Treatments You Need to Stock this Summer
A New Season Means New Hairstyles But a new summer means a lot of sun, wind, water, and sand, ie, some of our hair’s worst enemies. Summer can be a great opportunity to find new clientele but the new...
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Why Do We Think Curly Hair is Unprofessional?
Photo by Francesca Cappa Pick a magazine with your eyes closed and you’ll find a Spring 2017 hair trend gallery. That’s cool. We like looking at hair trends, even if they look like the same trend we...
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How to Consult Men about Their Hair
Photo courtesy of Garry Knight The male hairstyling movement is in full swing right now. Or at least, this iteration of it. Male grooming has always been a big thing. We just talk about it...
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Miju Van Salon Styles Coachella
Coachella has travelled far from its roots as a grungy music festival to something more like a free for all fashion show. It usually comes with a wave of free spirited behavior, so when people change...
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How James Miju Created Pale Rose Ash from Overprocessed Hair
A Rose Balayage out of the Ashes of a Chemical Wasteland There is a secret to working with over processed hair. Possibly. that secret involves becoming James Miju, but since only one person has...
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4 Steps to a Healthy Instagram
Photo courtesy of Ellen De Vos If you’re a stylist or barber you’re almost certainly on Instagram. If you aren’t, we wish you the best of luck, but we highly recommend you get on there if you want...
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Hair Color Round Up Summertime 2017
Our Favorite Summer Hair Looks So Far July is in full swing now, so stylists have had plenty of time to flex their repertoire of summer looks. Traditionally this is the season of chopped bobs and light...
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3 Things You Should Be Doing to Sell More Retail
Don’t Be Afraid to Sell Your Clients Good Shampoo Fanola’s Botugen Hair System Retail is one of the best ways to maintain and grow your salon without working yourself to death. That sounds like a...
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Why Stylists Should Learn More about Photography
Good Camera Work is about More than Instagram Photo courtesy of Zorah Ollivia These days most stylists immediately equate “better pictures” with a better Instagram following. Generally speaking that’s...
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How to Loosen Up Your Salon’s Budget
Being Good with Hair Doesn’t Make you Good with Money Image courtesy of Kevin Doncaster Sometimes all you need to improve the profits of a business is to manage the money you’re making better and...
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Pink Styles You Should Study
NYFW 2017 Was Great but It Didn’t Make Pink Hair Cool This year’s New York Fashion Week sparked its usual, widespread discussion of what’s “in” now. Vogue is under the impression that the lesson in the...
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