A business journal for independent beauty pros, by salonMonster
I absolutely love the beautiful use of all the different layers of white at Kilico hair salon Tokyo, Japan. It’s so crisp and refreshing. Designed by Makoto Yamaguchi, the salon is built in the basement of a building in the very trendy Daikanyama area. Rather than tearing everything out and starting from scratch Makato chose … Read more
If you thought we were passionate about nails here, check out what goes on at the 2011 Tokyo Nail Expo happening November 20 – 21 at the Makuhari Messe. This nail expo attracts more than 50,000 people and is a serious competition as well. The winners get crowned as “Nail Queens”. With the nail … Read more
My latest music obsession Other Lives have been around for a few years so I’m a bit embarrassed that it’s taken me so long to discover them. Hailing from Stillwater Oklahoma, Other Lives offer up cinematic songs backed by a five piece band of extremely talented musicians. Their latest album “Tamer Animals” is beautifully crafted … Read more
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.
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 … Read more
A really clever video ad by Mankind Grooming out of Toronto. I wish more salons made cool ads! Click through to watch the video.
I came across the most amazing collection of creative and elaborate braids while browsing the site BuzzFeed on the weekend. This level of braiding far exceeds my abilities and since I have fairly short hair I’m left with some serious braid envy! Those of you out there with lovely long locks of hair should … Read more
The new “Be one with the wild” ad campaign by Ogilvy for the Atlanta-area Boy Scouts is one of the more hilarious/genius advertising concepts I’ve seen in a while. What a great way to get kids’ attention and interest using humour and an ad campaign that really makes you stop and take a second look … Read more
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 … Read more
I’m a huge fan of classic Braun products and in particular the work of Dieter Rams who was their chief of design from 1961 to 1995. I find his “less but better” design approach very inspiring and would recommend everyone read his Ten principles of “good” design” (Vistoe has a good summary of them here). … Read more