A business journal for independent beauty pros, by salonMonster
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
Check out this great KeyTool from ThinkGeek that fits over one of the existing keys in your keychain so it doesn’t take up any more space. It includes: * Large screwdriver * Medium screwdriver * Small screwdriver * Nail file * Finger nail cleaner * Bottle cap opener * Wire cutter * Tweezers Sadly it’s … Read more
I was trying to purchase a new Canon S90 digital camera and found this great deal on the Dell Website. I was all ready to purchase the camera but couldn’t for the life of me find the buy button. Turns out you have to click on the Customize it button to purchase the camera even … Read more
Progress is going well on the application and we’ve sent out our new multiple stylist calendar view to our beta testers for some quality control. It’s really exciting for us as we’ve just been testing a single stylist version of the application so far. Here’s a sneak-peek at it:
From Telus’ online phone purchase form comes a great example of something that a simple bit of programming would solve. Just using one line of programming to strip any whitespaces before or after the text once the user submits it would remove the need to harass every user with unnecessary extra steps.