Salon Management

Creating a Network to Find the Right Talent for the Salon

When you’re opening a new salon, finding talent can be tricky especially when targeting a team willing to service all types and textures of hair.   We also wanted at least one specialist in each discipline.   We will be ...

Creating a Network to Find the Right Talent for the Salon

When you’re opening a new salon, finding talent can be tricky especially when targeting a team willing to service all types and textures of hair.   We also wanted at least one specialist in each discipline.   We will be ...

New Consumer Study Reveals Clients Desire for Products with Sun Protection

As clients start booking their summer holidays, it’s time to start organizing a focus table or merchandising display that spotlights your retail products with sun protection, as well as your sunless tanning services. The Benchmarking ...

Progressions Salon Lends a Hand to the Homeless

Progressions Salon Spa Store in Rockville, Maryland, was honored to participate in the annual fundraiser for Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless held on April 21, 2016, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. Over ...

Are You Oversharing?

When problems arise in the salon, your team’s first priority should always be to make things right. Customers don’t need to know the details.According to John DiJulius, owner of the John Robert’s Spa chain in Cleveland and the ...

Mindset: Social Studies

Today's job-seekers are looking for employers whose values align with their own. On that same note, employers want to know a prospect will be a valuable addition to the team. This month, we asked several industry leaders, "What's ...

Upgrade Revolution

When a salon’s service providers start reaching full productivity, an owner’s usual next step is to mentally start envisioning his or her brand in a bigger location or an additional one. But the smartest course to profitability lies ...

Upgrade Revolution: Resolve a Thinning Hair Challenge and You Have a Client for Life

Providing answers to hair challenges is a stylist’s main priority. However, there’s one problem many salons have yet to regularly address—thinning hair. Although carrying a line of products for thinning hair is a good start, ...

Upgrade Revolution: A Big Profit for Small Lashes

Michelle Mirizio, owner of Let’s Talk Makeup Salon and Spa in West Palm Beach, Florida, and NovaLash brand ambassador, has one simple question for any salon or spa owner who isn’t offering eyelash extension services: “What are ...

Upgrade Revolution: Keeping Nail Services Competitive

With budget nail salons in virtually every strip mall in towns, big or small, it’s become increasingly harder for salons and spas to compete on price alone in the nail arena.Amber Edwards, nail director for Mario Tricoci, with 14 locations ...

Upgrade Revolution: Make Mine an Upgrade

For most salons, the majority of clients revolving through the doors tend to seek cutting or coloring services. A few years ago, Tiffany Conway, owner of CoCo Cheveux in South Portland, Maine, started leveraging this focused interest in hair by ...

Upgrade Revolution: Extending Your Menu with Extensions

In the past five to 10 years, hair extensions have evolved from a fad to a must-have service for many women. Whether they’re fashion-forward ladies who want to add flare to their style or guests seeking a solution to thinning hair, the ...

Personal Compass: Where's Oliver?

Take a photograph from any salon industry gathering and chances are Oliver Steinnagel is in the crowd. Armed with an amazing work ethic passed down from his German immigrant parents, Steinnagel, who co-owns Oliver’s Hair Salon with wife ...

Announcing the 2016 Salons of the Year Finalists

Salon Today is pleased to announce the 20 finalists for the 2016 Salons of the Year. All 20 finalists will be profiled in the June issue of Salon Today. The winner of the competition will be announced live at the Premiere Orlando Beauty Event in ...

Healthy Hairdresser Hero: Anthony Barnhill

“Late last year, I was feeling like I wasn’t where I wanted to be—either personally or professionally,” says Anthony Barnhill, nominated as a Healthy Hairdresser Hero by this month’s Healthy Hairdresser sponsor, ...

SALON TODAY RECOMMENDS: 5 Tips for Effective Salon Leadership

Salon owners juggle more roles than many may realize. From mentor to business strategist, marketing guru to customer relations expert, they have many hats to wear—without even considering any work they may do on the salon floor. As ...

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Service Spotlight: Citrus Crushed Pearl Massage

George the Salon in Chicago has introduced a new service, the Signature Citrus Crushed Pearl Massage, featuring crushed freshwater pearls and a blend of lime, mandarin, grapefruit and lemon oils, lotions and scrubs.“A beauty regimen worthy ...