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2011 Salon Business Trends

2011 Salon Business Trends

Any salon professional, stylist, colorist, or salon owner who has weathered the storm of the salon industry over the last couple of years can tell you one thing for certain; the industry has changed.  If you want to be a successful salon professional in 2011 you have to be intimately familiar and fully understand the top 5 trends that will have a profound impact on the salon industry in 2011.

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1. Big Beauty is a Big Liability for Salons
In 2011 salon owners are quickly learning about how important it is to maintain their independence. Click here to see what drastic changes companies like Este Lauder, L’Oreal, and Proctor & Gamble have in store for their salons in 2012! Restrictive policies by Big Beauty companies makes the independent creative hair colorist that more valuable.

In 2011, salon professionals will learn that only transparent niche boutique brands will serve to enhance their image and reputation.  Big beauty brands will only increase the skepticism of their already untrusting clientele.

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Trends in Hair Color for Fall

Trends in Hair Color for Fall

This season the color trends are darker, cooler shades like charcoal, sultry chocolates and burnt woods. The look is very street, very New York City with a slightly masculine edge that maintains its sexiness.  Ashley Olsen and Jessica Biel have opted for this bold look for fall, leaving their blonde tresses behind.  Brunettes should be dark, and solid and for those redheads out there fiery, deep shades of red are what we’ll be seeing on the runways.

Complementing the color are hair cuts that are about creating space, shape on shape, we’re seeing a lot of undercutting and plays on texture. Shine and frizz, undone yet polished. The cuts are about movement, but instead of flow it’s about swing.

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Handling hair that is breaking down from bleach or chemical color

Handling hair that is breaking down from bleach or chemical color

We always recommend that our clients use Organic Color Systems color or Naturlite Lightening Powder when treating their client’s hair.  However, we understand that our suggestions are not always followed and some of our salon clients may use other treatments.  Bleaching or harsh chemical treatments work by penetrating the cuticle and breaking down the melanin and can cause the hair to become porous, dry, brittle, and degrade or break down during treatment.  This can cause a salon disaster with your client’s hair but not all hope is lost.

If the hair is breaking down with these chemicals, do not rinse them off. Organic Color Systems Revamp is your solution. Revamp Treatment may be used with these products still on the hair. Just follow these easy steps:

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Treating Over Processed Hair

Treating Over Processed Hair

Whether it was a bad chemical treatment from their previous colorist, heavy use of a curling iron, or too many products, you may find that many of your clients have over-processed hair. No matter how bad the damage is, don’t send them hat shopping just yet. Organic Color Systems has treatments that will revive, rejuvenate, and nourish your client’s overprocessed hair to provide luscious, rich, healthy results. Here’s how.

Over processed hair is often brittle, fragile, and dry almost like wool. This is primarily means two things: (1) the hair has been robbed of its natural essential oils and proteins; and (2) the cuticle of the hair has been damaged by either exposure to chemical treatment of severe lack of hydration. The key is to restore these elements and repair the cuticle thereby returning the stretch, body, and softness to the hair.

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New and Improved Status Quo

New and Improved Status Quo

Following on from customer feedback and as part of our continual development process we have introduced a new and improved formulation for our Status Quo shampoo, to make it lighter for every day use.

Our new formula contains a 100% natural fragrance. Disodium EDTA has been replaced with Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate which is derived from sugar, molasses, corn and rice and it is more readily biodegradable than Disodium EDTA.

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New and Improved Naturlite Lightening Powder

New and Improved Naturlite Lightening Powder

As part of our continual development process we have decided to introduce a new and improved Naturlite Lightening Powder.   This lightening powder has been quite well received and provides improvements that have been requested several times by our salon clients over the last couple of years.  The new product still provides all of the great qualities including the ability for salon professionals to do on-scalp lightening.

The key benefits to the product are:

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Brazilian Blowout has Dangerously High Levels of Formaldehyde According to Recent Government Report

Brazilian Blowout has Dangerously High Levels of Formaldehyde According to Recent Government Report

Salons across the United States and Canada are now wondering what to do with the expensive product purchased from Brazilian Blowout which the government has issues a warning that salon may need to put proper hazardous chemical precautions in place which may be impractical for most salons. The Brazilian Blowout company has not publicly agreed to returns or refunds and its probably too early to accurately assess the legal liability salons may face by continuing to use this product on their clients. This incident has left salon professionals in a very bad situation as keratin treatments are often among the highest priced services they offer.

Government issues “cease” warning to salons.A couple of days ago, a state government agency report revealing that the popular Brazilian Blowout product, which advertises itself as being “formaldehyde Free”, actually contains potentially dangerously high concentration of formaldehyde and OSHA’s COERT has issued an official warning to salons on their website.

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Organic Color Systems’ Cashmere Carmel Technique Featured in the London Sun

Organic Color Systems’ Cashmere Carmel Technique Featured in the London Sun

Organic and Healthy
Karine Jackson swears by the ‘Cashmere Caramel’ technique.

The technique works as luxurious layers of creamy blonde are topped with caramel shades, the perfect complement for brown, to light brown or dark blonde hair. These are delicious autumn/winter shades to brighten any hair.

On the hair underneath, the correct creamy blonde shade for your skin type is lightly layered, and caramel colours are swirled into the top layers. To finish the luxury, a luscious hot toffee cream treatment is applied followed by a blissful head and scalp massage before a hot towel is applied to heat the treatment up.

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Organic Salon Industry Update

Organic Salon Industry Update

Last week one of the largest salon operators in the United States reported their miserable annual earnings. For their fiscal year 2010, Regis Corporation reported that their income was down 66% from $124 million to $42 million on plunging revenue.  This is not surprising as many experts estimate the broader U.S. salon services market has been decreasing by as much as 20% over the last couple of years.  Could your salon survive if, proportionate to what Regis Corporation is experiencing, your salon’s income drops from $124,000 per year down to $42,000 per year?  Don’t worry, we have a solution to get your salon back to strong growth and prosperity and it will also improve your health and well-being!

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Salon Hair Color Revelation

Salon Hair Color Revelation

Summer hadn’t been kind to my locks and they were in need of a serious perking up – cue a hair education for flat, dull color at Karine Jackson’s Hair and Beauty Salon in London’s West End.

My days of dipping my locks into any old color pool are about to be numbered…
The Treatment:
Karine believes in organic hair color, courtesy of Organic Color Systems, so I’m intrigued to see whether this really is any different to the usual colors I have slathered on in the past. The organic colors use naturally derived ingredients and have been featured in the likes of Tatler and Vogue.

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