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Your Salon Can Make a Difference This Holiday Season

’Tis the season for giving. Use your salon’s clout and expertise to give back to the community with these easy ideas.

How to Send Good Energy When You’re Having a Bad Day

As long as the sun rises in the East, they will be out there — bad days. We all have them. No, we can’t make all the bad stuff go away but we can keep it from affecting our clients. Prepare in advance to avoid passing on all that negative energy, and your next bad day may pass without any negative toll on your business.

On My Mind: Practice, Practice, Practice

Whether your aim is to compete professionally, or simply provide confident, skilled services, you must commit to practicing your craft.

Are Jeans and Sweats Up to Code?

Whether or not your salon has an official dress code, there are expectations that a certain standard be maintained. Just what that standard is may depend on the atmosphere, size, and location of your salon. We asked techs if there is ever a time when old jeans or sweats are appropriate attire for the salon.

On My Mind: Can We Change the Stereotype?

I’m looking for a place I like to call a nail boutique. It would be focused primarily on natural nails, and it would have interesting and unique services (where they’d serve drinks to match the services).

Fresno Salon Owners Make Things Right

When a beauty salon went out of business leaving hundreds of customers holding newly-purchased gift certificates, several salons in Fresno, Calif. offered to honor the certificates as a show of goodwill for the industry.

Do You Think Nails Have Gained More Power in the Beauty Industry?

Nail technicians used to be treated like second-class salon citizens—but now more than ever, we’re seeing nails as the focus in the consumer press, at fashion shows, and in the salon environment.

10 Steps to Catapult Your Business

From revisting your goals to hiring a coach, here are 10 powerful and practical steps you can take — beginning today — to propel yourself into action and success.

Ten Ways . . . to be Resilient in the Midst of Everything

Don't let a full day at the salon wring the life out of you. Give yourself the care you need and you'll thrive even on the most challenging of days.

Would You Take Beauty Advice from This Person?

I saw a salon owner walking around the show with a banana clip in her wet hair and sweatpants on. She was barely dressed appropriate to pick up the newspaper, let alone roam the aisles of an industry conference.