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Men’s 2011 / 2012 hairstyles: hair trends, cuts & colors

Nov. 4, 2011

All fashion trends are cyclical, and in recent years have gradually modernised the looks of the 20th Century and planted them firmly in the 21st. Such a modernisation of past styles is especially true of men’s hair trends in 2011: it’s out with the new, and in with the old. Or at least an old hair style with a new twist.

2011 sees men’s hair styles fall into two distinct categories: school boy and rocker. But while the rocker look is certainly a 20th Century creation, the resulting hair style finds its roots (if you’ll pardon the pun) distinctly in 19th Century Britain. And so it is in 2010; while the odd 2010 runway collection featured something akin to a grunge revival, the majority of us will live out 2010 with a refined, classically inspired hair cut. Read More…

Are You Wasting Your Money on Skin Care?

Oct. 21, 2011 Tags: anti-aging skin treatments, skin treatments, spa

You think it’s never too early to start wrinkle treatment (you can prevent fine lines, right?), but just like Botox for teens, some anti-aging treatments are a waste of time if you’re not ready for them yet. So Beautylish chatted with an expert in the field, Jim Wilmott, chief scientific offer of Leading Innovations, and former Executive Director of Global Skin Care for Chanel about how stem cells work—and who should try the treatments.

WHAT ARE STEM CELLS?

Just what are stem cells? Molecular building blocks that renew bones, organs, and blood vessels. In humans these important cells also exist in the lowest level of skin, working to repair damaged or diseased tissue. “Stem cells are critical to the quality of tissue in the outer layer of skin,” says Jim. “When you’re younger, your stem cells reproduce rapidly, causing skin to turn over naturally about every 26 days. However, as you get older Read More…

How to Give Your Man a Makeover: Brows

Oct. 10, 2011

For some guys, brows are just those two things above their eyes that remain untouchable. For us girls, this can be a problem. Luckily for everyone, men’s grooming is on the rise, as is the amount of guys heading into salons to get their brows trimmed. A brow trim or clean-up not only makes your guy look more polished and better taken care of, it can also make him look more awake! We spoke with Ramon Padilla, director of Strip Ministry of Waxing and Browhaus in New York City, to find out the best way to get your guy to the salon, and how to look after those brows. Read More…

Reading Between the Lines

Sep. 16, 2011

Wrinkles aren’t the only indicators of age! Here are other ways your face reveals your true birthday

Just as the eyes are the windows to the soul, your facial features can forecast if you’re predisposed to age well. Skin-care experts say these visible signs combined with lifestyle choices and an understanding of your genetic makeup can give a surprisingly accurate reading of how Mother Nature’s hands will shape and transform your face over time.

The first facial asset you can hope to be blessed with: a round or heart-shaped visage, versus a long, thin one that is more prone to fat loss. Though you may have cursed its fuller appearance growing up, facial skin that has an increased number of fat cells maintains a youthful look longer.

Prominent cheekbones are also considered golden. “If you’re blessed with nice high cheekbones, you definitely hit the jackpot,” says celebrity aesthetician Renée Rouleau. “Your cheeks won’t sag as much over time… Read More…

MODERN TRENDING: What Our Editors Saw and Heard at Beauty Week

Aug. 5, 2011

MODERN SALON Media sent a team of five editors—Maggie Mulhern, Stacey Soble, Alison Shipley, Lauren Salapatek, Jan Hillenmeyer and myself—to PBA Beauty Week this past weekend, plus a camera crew and photographer to interview industry icons and cover major events. We covered Cosmoprof and events like NAHA, Beacon, PBA Symposium and City of Hope for MODERN SALON, SALON TODAY, FIRST CHAIR, modernsalon.com, Modern Salon TV, posting stories that span the lifecycle and lifestyle of beauty professionals.

For Associate Editor Lauren Salapatek, who oversees product sections The Goods, Spotlight, Products We Love (online), as well as Style Watch, Ask the Experts and other key departments for MODERN, SALON TODAY and FIRST CHAIR, it was her first time at the show, and she was, quote: “blown away by the scope of it. I saw so many new things and met so many great people and industry experts.”

Yes, Beauty Week can create a “kid in a candy shop” effect for beauty editors and others, with a plethora of brands, sources, launches and events to experience. (And if you stopped by TIGI’s party or booth to check out the company’s latest styling launch, you actually WERE in a candy shop.) For those of us on the team who have logged “a few more” annual Vegas trips in July than Lauren, we too were impressed by the connections we made and the innovation and activity we saw on the showfloor and beyond.

After we returned to our home bases in Chicago, NYC and California late Tuesday evening, then spent the better part of Wednesday dealing with email and deadlines, we dedicated our weekly editorial meeting to a “deep dive” on what we saw as major or emerging trends at the show. Below are highlights of what we discussed. Read More…

Someone Just Like Me Said, ‘Buy It’

Jul. 29, 2011

MAGAZINES have long been oracles of beauty advice for women. These days, beauty bloggers, celebrities and tweeting makeup artists also dole out tips and tout must-have products — that they may have received free. But Makeup Alley, a 12-year-old low-frills Web site that focuses on user-generated reviews, has quietly come to be the standard bearer for the unvarnished truth about beauty products online.

According to its New York-based founder, Hara Glick — who, unlike most beauty editors, is so low-profile that she didn’t even want to be photographed for this article — Makeup Alley now has 1.1 million members, which is roughly equivalent to the circulation of Allure. They hotly debate the finer points of Clarisonic skin-cleansing gadgets on the site’s message boards, which get 45,000 posts daily (the site had 2.1 million unique visitors in June), Ms. Glick said. They also swap their used blush, lipstick and other items, so no ill-suited purchase goes to waste and something “new” is always in the mail, even if funds are low and outsiders think it’s gross. Read More…

Bridal Hairstyles – New Fashion – New Trends

Jul. 15, 2011

Wedding hairstyle with curls

Flowing locks, elegantly framing the face, give the image of romance. This hairstyle fits any of the fair sex and harmonious look with almost any wedding dress. Locks can be decorated veil, Fresh flowers, tiara or a beautiful clasp. But wedding hairstyle with curls can only afford the bride long and medium length hair.

Bridal Hairstyles tips

Girls with heavy long hair wedding hairstyles for the rehearsal to discuss ways of fixing a barber, because locks are not reliable and can lose their shape due to the heat or humidity.

Idea! If you wear medium length hairYou can use the overhead locks for the wedding day. Read More…

Hair Ideas: Would You Ever Wear Lady Sideburns?

Jul. 8, 2011

Yesterday afternoon, Emma Watson joined the rest of the Harry Potter cast in London to promote Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II. Besides Rupert Grint (swoon), the first thing I noticed was Watson’s piece-y pixie—and the two sections of hair smoothed down strategically in front of her ears.

These are what we like to call “lady sideburns,” and Watson’s were our first non-fashion-show sighting this year. (Not surprising, really: It takes guts to wear man-inspired hair.) But on the fall runways, hairstylists were ‘burning models left and right—especially Guido, who left wispy side pieces loose all over the place, calling them “this season’s accessory,” and also created stronger, more defined sideburns that blurred gender lines. “It’s that whole masculine/feminine thing that is very chic,” Read More…

5 Ways to Eliminate and Reduce Salon Workers’ Comp Injury Claims

Jun. 21, 2011

By: Kerri Lee

We focus so much attention on keeping clients safe in the salon, but what about the salon employees? Injuries in the workplace are inevitable, but highly preventable with a little planning, communication and proper execution. Here are five ways to help eliminate and reduce workers’ comp injury claims in the salon:

1. A Healthy, Stable Environment – The best way to eliminate or reduce injury claims is to create the safest work environment humanly possible. Take a step back and look around the salon. Are cords untangled, confined and bundled together? Are shears put away in their proper place? Is hair getting swept up during and after each and every haircut? To make sure everyone is chipping in, create a top-to-bottom safety checklist in the salon and have each stylist and station adhere to it. Better yet, laminate 10 checklists and require employees to submit a completed checklist before they are allowed to walk out the door at the end of their day or shift. It will only be a matter of time until these small steps becomes part of their daily routine. Read More…

Building Sales and Loyalty with Gift Cards

May. 16, 2011

By now you know how Gift Cards increase sales as well as how popular they have become as gifts for every occasion in this busy world.

Gift Cards can also help you increase sales and build loyalty with your current clients.

For example, offer a deal in which a client buys a Gift Card for $100 or more. When they do, you give them a $20 Gift Card as a bonus free gift for buying the first card.

This allows your Gift Cards to work for you the same way loyalty cards work for coffee shops and restaurants. The client is buying a Gift Card, but what they’re really buying is $100 in future services and getting $20 worth of services or products for free.

You will be amazed at how excited your clients will be about this offer. It’s just too good to pass up. Plus, as you recharge their Gift Cards, you will find that they will make larger and larger purchases over time. After all, it’s money “already spent.”

If you’d like more information on setting up a Gift Card loyalty program, call us at 800.373.1684 or visit salonsupplies.com and click on “Gift Cards Made Simple” to see our selection of cards for every occasion.

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