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Angel Hairs for Kids and Cuts for Cancer
Angel Hairs for Kids and Cuts for Cancer are two fantastic charitable programs focused on providing natural hair pieces to cancer patients at no cost to the family. Angel Hair for Kids™ is part of A Child’s Voice Foundation™ run out of Toronto. Their goal is to help improve the self esteem and self image […]
Posted: December 31st, 2010 ˑ No Comments
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Tools we use A LOT: Google Alerts
Most people I speak to have never heard of Google’s alert service, but it’s a really fantastic tool to help stay on top on the news, business activity in your markets and more. This simple but powerful free service sends you updates directly to your email whenever google finds new content or news items that […]
Posted: December 22nd, 2010 ˑ No Comments
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Winter White Salon
I’ve come across sets of photos of this crisp winter white salon from Poland twice this year and thought it was about time I posted it to the blog. (First seen as a 3d model at Dezeen and then in real life at ArchDaily) Designed for Bartosz Janusz by moomoo architects, the space was inspired […]
Posted: December 12th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
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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
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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