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salonMonster Updates
Monstrous Updates Season’s Greetings from your friends at salonMonster HQ! We are pleased to announce that we’ve updated the salonMonster application with some much-needed holiday functionality. Make Some Room Want to add some extra openings to your calendar this holiday season? You can now set “Additional Openings” to allow clients to book when you […]
Posted: December 5th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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salonMonster Artist in Residence!
So we are lucky to have a local Vancouver artist by the name of Michael Honeyman drawing some salonMonster comic book style artwork for us. He is available for comic based commissions and advertising. You can contact him through his website or check out his profile on deviantART. So here it is and we hope […]
Posted: November 29th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Qualifications and Insurance
With many States and Provinces de-regulating the salon industry, a very scary scenario is emerging. There are many “self made” stylists out there trying to find jobs, and what is more scary is the fact that many salons are hiring them – with no license and no certificate of qualification from either their association […]
Posted: November 28th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Hair Fashion!
Thelma Madine, the seamstress and dressmaker from the UK’s hot show My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding has created another bizarre masterpiece. This time it is made out of 250 metres of human hair and is valued at over 50, 000 pounds or a little over 78, 000 US dollars. Thelma had a team of dress […]
Posted: November 22nd, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Peacocks Made From Beauty Supplies
Check out these amazing Peacocks made by Laurel Roth using different beauty supplies like fake fingernails, barrettes, nail polish, false eyelashes, and jewelry. It shows yet again that there is no end to the original things you can do with hair and beauty accessories.
Posted: November 15th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Accessories, Art, Fashion, nails, Uncategorized -
New Business Blog Series!
We are excited to announce a new blog series all about the business of salons and spas featuring Marion Shaw! For those of you who don’t know Marion, she is a salon business coach and consultant as well as the owner of Busy Bus Publications. here is a little bio all about her. After many […]
Posted: November 14th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Formaldehyde In Baby Products
More than two years ago health and parents organizations asked Johnson and Johnson to discontinue the use of toxic ingredients in their line of baby products particularly quaternium-15 which is a chemical preservative that kills bacteria by releasing formaldehyde. Last week the […]
Posted: November 7th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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The Story Of Cosmetics
If you haven’t seen this video before then check it out. Everyone involved in the beauty industry should be aware of the ingredients they are working with. You can find out more at www.safecosmetics.org/.
Posted: November 1st, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Environmental, Health, Products, sustainable, Uncategorized -
Anything can happen on Hallowe’en
Nothing gets blood boiling faster than young Tim Curry -shown here as the Grand Wizard in 1986’s made-for tv movie The Worst Witch (other than his inimitable performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show of course) Happy Hallowe’en from your favourite monsters!
Posted: October 31st, 2011 ˑ No Comments
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Hairdressers as Diagnosticians
Recently a study was published in the Archives of Dermatology to found out how often Cosmetologists and Barbers check their clients for cancerous moles and lesions. The study discovered that out of the 203 people who answered the survey just over half of them have had alerted clients to some form of growth on their […]
Posted: October 24th, 2011 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Education, Health, Uncategorized