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Beauty and Fashion Director, MODERN SALON
MODERN's Beauty & Fashion Director is the NYC based Editor and Art Director for Modern Salon Magazine and modernsalon.com. Maggie joined MODERN in the 1980's and has spent more than 3 decades covering the professional beauty industry around the world. In addition to writing articles, Maggie travels globally as a journalist to report on the latest trends, products and techniques in the professional beauty world. Known for a keen eye, Maggie has judged hundreds of national competitions including NAHA, and international competitions such as Wella International Trend Vision and Goldwell Color Zoom among others. As an Art Director, Maggie is responsible for hundreds of magazine covers and thousands of inside pages and features for Modern Salon and her sister publications. Among her many professional passions is ARTIST SESSION, the 2-day workshop she founded which offers direction and inspiration to hairdressers interested in learning how to do successful photoshoots. A graduate of Boston College, Maggie is the author of Great Looks (Doubleday) and, in the few minutes of spare time she has left, is working on a book for children that has NOTHING to do with beauty.
Learn more about the new Bumble and bumble Meatpacking District Salon in NYC. Steven O'Neal, Bumble and bumble Executive Director of Salon Operations and Development offers a video tour.
Take a tour of the First Impressions Salon, Fort Wayne, Indiana, with owner Andrea Krock.
Learn more and get a tour of SalonCentric's new National Education Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Award-winner Daniel Rubin (2016 Goldwell's Color Zoom Challenge) shares his top five tips to winning a hair photo competition.
Salon Services has partnered with professional hair care manufacturers Davines, Keune, Kevin.Murphy, and Moroccanoil to present the TRIFECTA Hair Show on June 12th, 2017 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, WA. Details here.
More than 1,000 salon professionals, friends and family gathered in Dallas, Texas to cheer on the nine finalists in Sebastian Professional’s 2017 What’s Next Awards (WNA). See who won in each category: Student, Professional and Affiliated Artist.
What are your plans this weekend? Sebastian Professional’s What’s Next Awards (WNA), a premiere hair styling competition for students and professionals, will broadcast live from Wella Education’s Facebook page at 6:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. CST/9:30 p.m. EST.
It has been a problem in our industry for years - retailing. Many salon pros have trouble seeing beyond the artistry and find it difficult to sell products to their clients. In this brief video Cody Fullerton of Living Proof confronts the situation and shares why salon pros should encourage their clients to buy products to maintain their hair between salon visits.
The Christian Siriano F/W 2017 collection has created quite the buzz since being presented this week at NYFW. Models of all shapes and sizes sported gorgeous silhouettes as they glided down the runway at the famed Plaza Hotel. Learn more about the nails here, created by Rita Remark for essie.
CND offered the perfect accent for The Blonds fall/winter 2017 collection during NYFW. Crafted with diamond-like precision, the nails featured moonlit colors and hypnotic effects representative of a woman’s talisman.
For the Georgine Fall/Winter 2017 collection presented at NYFW, Moroccanoil Artistic Director, Kevin Hughes says the "collection was inspired by the care-free VIP individuals that used to reside in hotel suites and make them their own."
Ted Gibson and The Ted Gibson Artistic Team created a beautiful textured ponytail for the Carmen Marc Valvo F/W 2017 collection presented earlier today during NYFW. “This season, Carmen was inspired by the sunset and all the different colors and warmth that comes with it," says Gibson. Learn more about the look here.
Sebastian Professional Lead International Stylist Anthony Cole incorporated natural elements into the hair look for the Christian Siriano A/W 2017 collection. Here he shares the details.
Lead Nail Artist Jessica Tong used Smith & Cult to create the nail look for the A Détacher F/W 2017 collection. “The A Détacher woman is the downtown New York woman. She’s street smart, aggressive and fashionable. I designed this look with the founder to reflect those characteristics in a modern, experimental way,” says Tong of the nail look. Nailed Lacquer in Dark Like Me and Lovers Creep were used to create the daring look.
Lead Nail Artist Jessica Tong used Smith & Cult to create the nail look for the Ulla Johnson F/W 2017 collection presented at NYFW.
L’Oréal Professionnel announces its first-ever Color & Style Trophy in the United States. Reported to be the longest-running LIVE Hair Competition globally, the professional brand is bringing the competition stateside to showcase U.S. talent.
MODERN challenged James Pecis, asking him to show how Swept Up (which he refers to as his “new favorite product IN THE WORLD”) can be used to create immediate volume at the crown.
