You Don't Own a Salon. You Own A Business.
In his latest blog, Leon Alexander Ph.D., challenges industry conventional thinking to help owners add more to their bottom lines.
5 Fall Hair Tips to Share with Clients
Hair Essentials' Paula Nelega offers 5 Fall tips for healthy hair to share with your salon clients.
by Paula Nelega
October 11, 20133 min to read
Paulina Nelega is a registered clinical herbalist with Hair Essentials.
As your busy Fall season begins to pick up, many of your clients may be asking how they can get their hair back in shape from a summer of sun, salt from the beach, or chlorine from poolside days. Let them know that fall is a great time to revitalize their hair and regain those luscious locks!
Here are five natural tips to share with your clients to get them started:
Benefits of Fall Foods
Fill your clients in on the benefits of Fall foods, including two all-time favorites, pumpkins and cranberries. The seeds from these colorful foods yield a pressed oil that is highly antioxidant and anti-inflammatory, providing protection to follicles against damaging free-radicals. These oils, as well as that from another fall-harvest favorite, red grapes, are beginning to appear in more and more hair care products. The virtues of the grape extend beyond wine, as the oil extracted from its seed has been shown to have powerful antioxidant properties as well.
Top it off - with Water, That Is!
Encourage your clients to stay hydrated, especially at this time of year when schedules get busier and it becomes easy to forget healthy habits. Being indoors more now, we tend not to notice the constant evaporation occurring from our skin (including scalp), especially compared to when we’re outdoors and perspiring more noticeably. Let your clients know that staying hydrated is one of the single-most important things they can do to keep their hair healthy, strong, and shiny! And, if they don’t fancy water, suggest green tea or herbal teas to keep their thirsty follicles topped off.
Shampoo Less Often
Suggest to your clients they wash their hair less, such as shampooing every-other-day (or even every third day, if they can). Let them know that over-washing strips the hair of its natural oils, which moisturize the scalp and help protect the hair. If they blow-dry daily, remind them to keep the heat setting on ‘low’ and the nozzle at least 6 to 8 inches from their scalp, as high heat can damage the hair and follicles.
Quality Counts
As a stylist, you always want your customers to use the best quality hair products available to them—these can help maintain the scalp’s pH balance and improve sebum production, which will also make the transition to washing their hair less often, easier for your client. Suggest to your client shampoos and conditioners that are rich in natural botanical extracts that help repair and rejuvenate the follicles, such as rosemary, nettles, and chamomile, and those that include nourishing protective oils, such as those described in our first tip.
Take a Daily Hair-Healthy Supplement
In addition to a well-balanced diet, a daily hair-healthy supplement is a great addition for your client to consider. For example, Hair Essentials is formulated to help repair and revitalize hair follicles and stimulate strong, healthy new hair growth, as well as combat hair loss and thinning hair—and it does all this, naturally! Hair Essentials is 100% drug-free, vegetarian, and certified gluten-free, and features more than 20 herbs, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids and other essential nutrients that work synergistically to keep your hair healthy and locks luscious, year-round.
Paulina Nelega is a registered clinical herbalist for Hair Essentials and has been assisting individuals experiencing hair loss for nearly two decades. Hair Essentials is an all-natural, 100% vegetarian, non-GMO, certified gluten-free proprietary blend of more than 20 herbs, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids and other essential nutrients, and can be purchased online at www.HairEssentials.com or by calling 800-536-9353.
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
More Salon Management
Are Your Stylists Doing Free Hair on Your Time? Introducing the 'Win-Win' Staff Services Playbook
In her latest blog, Amy Pal helps you develop your own clear guidelines around complimentary free employee services.
Caring for Your Caregivers at the Front Desk
From managing air traffic on busy days to handling frustrated guests' complaints, your front desk team often serves as the salon's emotional shock absorber. From a customer service lesson from the DMV to a list of strategies for caring for your front line, our experts offer ideas for alleviating stress, celebrating wins, and setting goals.
by Stacey Soble
What's Really Happening with Salon Retail and How to Reclaim Your Revenue
According to the KIM Report, top-line salon revenue appears steady or slightly up, but that growth is driven primarily by service price increases. Beneath the surface, retail performance and client visit frequency (appointment drift) are under real pressure. In his latest blog, Alain Audet offers strategies for keeping your salon's retail sales strong.
Trimming Your Tax Bill by Putting Family on the Payroll
Putting your family to work in the salon offers some real tax benefits, but you have you have to play by the rules of the tax code to claim them. Azarvand Tax Law's Leticia Skrabut, Esq., shows you how.
The Art of the WOW Experience
Discover how to create a true “WOW experience” for every client by first building a culture where your team feels engaged, empowered, and inspired. Drawing on Calvin Stovall’s Iconic Framework, this blog explores how salon, spa, and clinic leaders can strengthen culture, elevate customer experience, and build a business that stands out for the long term.
Sponsored by Phorest Salon Software
Why Wellness Belongs on Your Salon's Growth Plan
The wellness industry is growing fast, and salons and barbershops already are an important part of it. In her first blog, Tracy Rado shares where the wellness dollars are heading, and how salons can grow with this movement.
Why Your Revenue Looks Good But Your Business Feels Stressed and What to Do About It
While salon sales are increasing, owners often feel they're working harder for the same or less profit. Leverage Q2 data from The KIM Report, Alain Audet reveals some of the structural changes that are dampening your growth and why your region and your salon size matters.
Why Your Holiday Season is Won in September
Weaknesses in your business are amplified during the Holiday Season. Spark Pro Global's Lucy Randall shows you five things to do now to have the strongest holiday season yet.
Appearance Standards are the New Dress Code
In Kati Whitledge's latest blog, she shares how salons have moved away from dress codes and embraced appearance standards. But by removing strict dress codes, some businesses may have unintentionally lowered their appearance standards. Whitledge helps you explain to your team why an appearance standard is important and how to smoothly implement a new appearance policy.
Working Through the Gray Areas of the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit
The Small Business Health Care Tax Credit is a non-refundable tax credit for for-profit businesses that provides a financial incentive for eligible employers who offer health insurance coverage to their employees. Leticia Skrabut, Esq., walks you through how to claim that credit.
5 Things Every New Stylist Should Learn Early
Developing strong work habits early in one's career supports long-term success in the salon industry. Jesse Linares offers new stylists his top five tips.
The Four Numbers Every Salon Owner Should Know
Most salon owners have no idea what these numbers are. You can hit record sales and still have a profit problem. The difference comes down to four numbers almost nobody was taught to track.
Sponsored by Strata Salon Systems™
Your Salon Can't Survive Without You. That's the Problem.
A five-area audit every owner-dependent salon needs to run. You built something that looks successful. Now find out if it can survive without you.
Sponsored by Strata Salon Systems™
Waiting for the Right Time Is a Decision. Here's What It's Costing You.
Every month you put off fixing the problem, it gets bigger, more expensive, and harder to solve.
Sponsored by Strata Salon Systems™
A Partner in Business and in Life
At Janet St. Paul Studio for Hair and Beauty, Director of Operations Natasha McMillen helps bring her wife Janet St. Paul's vision to life, elevating every system from education to operations.
by Stacey Soble
Back to Business with the Pinstripe Trend
Expand your color service menu with the Pinstripe technique. Brooks and Brooks' Marlon Hawkins walks you through the technique.
by Stacey Soble