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Vintage inspiration at Lulu’s by Travis Parker

Lulu’s Beauty Salon is a well known nail boutique located in San Diego California and is part of Travis Parkers beauty empire. What I was really impressed with was the design aesthetic of their Website. I love their use of vintage imagery and find it’s a perfect match for the services they offer.

June 16th, 2011

Junior Boys – It’s All True

The Junior Boys are back with their awesome beats. The Canadian band’s latest album “It’s All True” is full of great tracks for your salon. Stylists will be grooving along to these great songs and clients will be leaving your salon feeling upbeat and happy. Check out their new song below: [soundcloud url=”http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/junior-boys-banana-ripple”]

June 15th, 2011

Vidal Sassoon Battling Cancer

A few months back we wrote about our excitement over the soon to be released Vidal Sassoon documentary. Now we have some less exciting news about the legendary creator of the “bob”. It would seem that for the last couple of years he has been battling leukemia, a form of blood cancer. Word is that […]

June 14th, 2011

Customer interaction lessons from the Apple store

I stopped by the local Apple store recently to pick up a new laptop and was blown away by the way they manage client handoffs between their customer service representatives. It reminded me how poorly this is handled at so many salons and made me think we could learn some lessons from them. Whenever it […]

June 10th, 2011

Protect your hair from the sun

With all the effort we put into our luscious locks, we need to remember to protect it from sun damage. Prolonged exposure to the sun can cause your hair colour to fade, cause dry brittle hair, split ends and frizz. Here are some quick and simple tips to protect your hair when you’re out playing […]

June 9th, 2011

Summer Style

With the warm weather finally appearing, it’s time to start thinking about summer hair! Here are some great styles to help your clients cool down while still looking hot. Scarves, braids and ponytails all help by pulling the hair off your clients face and neck on those hot summer days. These are also styles you […]

June 8th, 2011

Captains of Industry

One of our favorite businesses of late here at salonMonster is a shop based out of Melbourne, Australia called Captains of Industry, Gentleman’s Outfitter and Cafe. According to their Website, this super cool shop offers “Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, Beverages and Comestibles, Bespoke Footwear and Leather Accessories, Traditional Haircuts, Made to Measure Menswear & Mens […]

June 7th, 2011

The Cloud

This afternoon we watched Apple’s Keynote Address at the WWDC 2011 like the nerds that we are! It was culty as always but still quite exciting. The most exciting part of all was the announcement of iCloud, Apple’s answer to Cloud computing. It’s not the features of iCloud that excite us but rather the […]

June 6th, 2011

Hockey pride through a manicure

What a great way for nail salons and their clients to show their hockey pride! Being able to design custom nail treatments for the Canucks fans here in Vancouver has been a very smart business move for GlamStar Beauty and Nails. This concept could work for many different events in any city – […]

June 2nd, 2011

Newsprint Nails

Looking to make a statement with your nails? This newsprint manicure may be the answer! Originally found on Passion Nail Arts site in French, this is a cool manicure you can give yourself as well as customize any way you’d like. For the english instructions on how to do this, go to If It’s Hip […]

June 1st, 2011

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