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French salons go quiet to protest music rate hikes
Hair salons in France were eerily quiet today as salons shut off their sound systems in protest against the doubling of the licensing fees required to play music in their establishments. Salons, shops, cafes and even car parks have to pay a levy to play music on their premises. The tax is in the range […]
Posted: December 7th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
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Tabatha returns to Bravo tonight
Love her or hate her, Tabatha Coffey is back on your tvs tonight with the season 3 premiere of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover. With her no holds barred style of salon makeovers she certainly doesn’t mince her words, this woman means business. Any merits aside the show has been a huge success for Bravo and makes […]
Posted: December 6th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Business, Hair, Salon Design, TV -
The resurgence of barbershops
The New York times had a good article this week on the renaissance of the barbershop as a hip place to get your hair cut. I’ve definitely noted the increase in stylish, upmarket barbershops opening across the country. More and more hip young men seem to be turning to barbershops for a classic Mad Men […]
Posted: November 30th, 2010 ˑ 2 Comments
Filled under: Hair, Salon Design, Trends, Uncategorized -
Thanks to you all for over $1,000.00 in Movember donations
We’d like to give a huge thanks to all the great donors out there who have supported our Movember campaign in this month formally known as November. We’re totally blown away by everyone’s support and are stoked to announce we have received over $1,000.00 from generous donors in support of prostate cancer. Thank you all […]
Posted: November 27th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
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Lovely dark and sexy hair spa in Indonesia
Chrystalline Architects have designed a lovely dark and sexy hair spa in Indonesia called Hairu. They offer massage and treatment for hair loss. I love their use of wooden slatting as a screening device. On the inside the white curtains keeps things nice, light and airy. Found via ArchDaily. I can’t find Hairu’s Website if […]
Posted: November 14th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Design, Salon Design -
No music for you
The copyright battle is moving its from the computer to the salon in London as government agencies start to crack down on salons who don’t have music licenses to play copyrighted music in their salons. A London high court justice has barred Doreen Ellis, owner of Studio 44 salon, in Church Road, Northolt from playing […]
Posted: October 20th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
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Beautiful brand identity for a new salon
Check out this amazing brand identity by Studio MPLS for a new salon in Minnesota called Salon Modern (Website not up yet). They’ve done such an incredible job with their graphic design and colour combos. The wallpaper and product packaging is awesome. It really is a whole image, very effective. I’d go there just based […]
Posted: October 13th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Design, Hair, Salon Design -
Follow our blog on twitter
We’re excited to say you can now keep up with our latest blog posts on our twitter account @salonmonster . Whenever we make a new post it should show up with a bit.ly url so you can easily view the full post. All of this thanks to the twitter tools plugin. We hope you find […]
Posted: October 1st, 2010 ˑ No Comments
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Preserving Production Capability aka Holidays
If you’ve ever read the hugely popular book 7 Habits of Highly effective people by Stephen Covey you might remember his comments on preserving production capacity. Covey cites the old fable of the goose and the golden egg where the farmer kills his gold egg laying bird to get all the eggs at once only to find there are none and his bird is dead. This concept of balancing your productivity level with working to preserve/increase your production capacity is so crucial yet is often forgotten in our workaholic society. You just can’t work the machine so hard and delay maintenance or the engine will burn out.
Posted: September 26th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
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We’re out of stealth mode
We’re very happy to announce that as of this weekend we are out of “stealth mode”. Our pre-release clients are up and running and our information site is now live with a great overview of what salonMonster can do for your salon. We’re going to be working hard to keep improving things every week so […]
Posted: September 5th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Programming, salonMonster