Summer of Style

Your client sits down in your chair.  You wrap the cape around them with a flourish, spin them to face the mirror and say....."How do you want your hair cut today?"  The client is not thinking about how they are just going to look today.  No no no it's almost May, summer is almost here.  The summer of style!  The client wants a look that will change their life.   A style that will bring back the fun, bring back the good times.  We've been down for two years.  We have all given up things, made sacrifices, maybe even had to forgo the six syllable latte.  We are all tired of that.  Give us color, give us shape, give us style!  Look at that eager face, they are ready.  Be inspired, be creative,  give them what they need...Change.

L'Oreal Launches its new hair color product INOA

Here at the American Beauty Show in Chicago L'Oreal launched their new INOA hair color line.  Or did they?

INOA is positioned to compete with P&G's WELLA brand.  INOA is an odorless, ammonia free color line that has beautiful packaging and fantastic marketing.  The problem is that they have made claims that the product leaves your hair in a virgin state after several uses.  What?  Well P&G has been trying to get an injunction to keep INOA off the market in the EU where it has been selling for a while.  Wella and the EU are not happy with the bold claims from INOA.  I heard a lot of claims at the American Beauty Show of INOA processing hair to a "virgin like look to the naked eye".  Still, they made a huge splash and most are excited to begin working with it this summer.

Salon Insiders Podcast with the Salon Success Program

Hello Everyone,
Today we talked with Rosellen and Debbi from the Salon Success Program.
They offer us tips regarding custom blended makeup and supplements that we
can offer to the clients sitting in the chair.  Have a listen and hopefully it will give
 you food for thought about how we can expand our services.

Getting schooled on Clippers

We sat down with Kevin from Professional Products and More to learn all about clippers.  We learned what to look for and why we need different types of equipment for different types of hair.  Take a listen on the audio player to the left or subscribe to saloninsiders in the itunes music store in the podcast section.

Sandra Bullocks Setting Hair Style Trend

Buy yourself a new flat iron, quick!  If you are a hair stylist, get ready to see this photo for the next couple of weeks.  Your clients are going to want this look.  Sandra Bullock is working her long gorgeous hair this year at the Oscars.  Stylist need to be prepared to recreate this look.

New tech for the Nail Tech

Hello Nail Techs,
Is there really a great new technology out there for gels?
Soak off gels are now hot on the market.  5 minutes to soak them off?!
Add extra dollars to the shrinking price of a manicure?!  Say it is so!
Please say it so.  This guy, Tony Cuccio says it's so.  Here is a clip of him

Cuccio soak off Gels youtube link click here

ISSE ISSE BABY

Long Beach Ca just finished hosting the ISSE show over the weekend. And now as the colored hair clipping are being swept up off the floor and the hairspray is vented out of the building, I reflect on the spectacle that I saw. Sure there were new lines and amazing celebrity platform artist, but the attendees are what we all love about that show. They generate the style and energy better than any performance coming from the stages. The people I met and outfits I saw (or lack there of) showed me that this industry was ready to thrive with innovation this year. They are charged up and ready for twenty ten! They want new products! They want Exciting concepts! They want Education! This year things are going to turn around and beauty is back!

L'Oreal USA's Salon Centric Division aquires two midwest distributors

L'Oreal announced two acquisitions yesterday. Their Salon Centric division acquired Maly's Midwest and Marshall Salon Services. This is part of a strategic commitment that L'Oreal USA made to further its mission to gain closer proximity to the salon community while continuing to provide them with products, service, training and education. Salon Centric now covers 80% of the US. Maly's Midwest and Marshall Salon Services represent combined sales of $130 million annually.


SalonCentric, headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, is the professional products distribution operation of L’Oréal USA. It was created in 2008 following a series of acquisitions that provided a strong store organization and distributor sales consultant network. SalonCentric is the premier distribution partner to the professional salon community in the US, fully committed to fighting diversion and protecting legitimate channels of distribution. Focused on a multi-line, multi-channel business approach with professional salon brands, including partner brands, and through hundreds of store locations and field sales activities, SalonCentric connects stylists to the finest brands, education and business solutions to ensure their overall success. SalonCentric has over 3300 employees and services salon professionals through its network of around 1150 distributor sales consultants and 700 stores. A multi-branded organization, SalonCentric distributes, among others, the following: Big Sexy Hair, Farouk, Framesi, Kenra, L’Oréal Professionnel, Matrix, Mizani, OPI, Pravana, Pureology, Redken 5th Avenue NYC and TIGI.

The Halaby Group Expands

Hmmm, Where will they go next?
This just in -

Jay Halaby and Associates, LLC, is once again pleased to announce our further expansion, this time into the Southwest Territory, effective December 1, 2009. We welcome industry veterans Art Hernandez and Jay Ohlrich to the Halaby Team.  With Terry Spitzer servicing State Beauty/ RDA, and Joel Tanenbaum servicing BSG we will have the strength and relationships to service all of the markets in the territory, as we do in our other territories.

With this expansion, Jay Halaby and Associates now has national coverage in all 50 states as well as Latin America.

“With one of the largest sales organizations in the industry we are prepared to enter 2010 even more aggressively, with a focus on servicing all customers, large and small. We now have an incredible foundation upon which we can continue to build. This year was spent on increasing our coverage geographically, and building the manpower to support it. This next year will be about using this unified national team to drive sales and increase the business.”

For more information you can contact Jay Halaby at (800) 651-2106

Forever 21 sets it sights on the beauty world

What do you do after ruling the malls with $14 outfits?  You keep those girls shopping in your stores with
$10 beauty products.  Forever 21 lauches their Love and Beauty line this month.  The line will consist of fragrance, cosmetic bags, tweezers, makeup brushes and products for the lips, eyes, face and nails that will retail under $10.