Salon Management
How salons create service menus
From conception to completion, each spa has a different way of designing service menus. SALON TODAY invited four salons to share their development process.
The Appliance Market
What is currently on your shelves? Are you taking advantage of one of the industry’s biggest trends? According to the 2009 Professional Salon Industry Appliances Study, the overall growth of salon appliances was 6.6 percent—three times the salon industry’s overall growth rate of 1.5 percent for the same timeframe.
The Salon/Spa Future Looks Bright
Fueled by continued improvements in service and retail sales along with higher customer traffic levels, the Professional Beauty Association's (PBA) Salon/Spa Performance Index (SSPI) hit a record high in the first quarter of 2010. The SSPI—a quarterly composite index that tracks the health of, and outlook for, the U.S. salon/spa industry—stood at 10e.1 in the first quarter, up 0.5 percent from its fourth quarter level.
by Stacey Soble
Salon & Spa Services: Hair, Experiential, Self-Serve
A cross-country look at the spa services that make menus sing.
Salon & Spa Services: Body, Massage
A cross-country look at the spa services that make menus sing.
How to Create Signature Spa Services
A couple of designing women demonstrate how to create customized services that will make your spa a standout.
Top Tip: Style With Knowledge
by Stacey Soble
How to have the perfect consultation
by Stacey Soble
Finding the Perfect Match
by Stacey Soble
How does your staff translate trends into new services for your clientele?
Offering your clients the latest trends is an important part of staying on the cutting edge of business, so this month we asked: How does your staff monitor trends, share them with one another and translate them into new techniques and services for your clientele?
How are your salon customers different in the new decade?
Enormous advancements in technology and the information age not only have changed customer expectations, they’ve changed customers themselves. This month, we ask a manufacturer, a distributor and three salon owners:How are your customers different in the new decade?
Designing a salon with great lighting
Minardi Color Perfect Lighting, by Eco-Lite Products, not only addresses a problem that’s plagued colorists for decades, its environmentally friendly products use anywhere from 40-80 percent less power than traditional lighting options. In addition, the lights reduce heat values, which requires less cooling energy from air conditioning.
What's hot in salon services?
Leverage these trends that define the 2010 marketplace to get the most from your service menu and to shape recommendations for your clientele.
Adding waxing to your salon
Mini-Pro Kits from American International Industries’ (AII) GiGi Honee Wax, the number one wax in the world, make it easy for hair stylists to maximize their facial waxing add-on business.
Adding demi-permanent hair color
Ammonia-free Deepshine Demi incorporates Rusk’s Advanced Marine Therapy formulation to infuse shine, guard against yellowing or brassiness and provide long-lasting, tone-on-tone creme color that fades out gradually. Special ingredients like cera alba (beeswax) condition and nourish the hair.
Offer salon products for smooth hair
SeaExtend Silkening oil is a styling treatment formulated with sea botanicals, ultra-light argan oil and sweet almond oil. The crystal-clear formula contains no artificial dyes that can leave hair with a yellowish tint, and helps extend the life of hair color.
Increase profits with hi-lift blonding
Copchi HiBlondes, which processes in 20 to 40 minutes, comes in eight shades in the 11 series, which lifts up to four levels, and five shades in the 12 series, which lifts up to five levels.