The Importance of Using Standard Procedure

September 28th, 2009  |  Published in Articles  |  2 Comments

choosing a hair color

As a professional hair dresser you know the importance of choosing a hair color for your clients. How do you know which one is correct? How do you know if you are using it correctly?

choosing-a-hair-colorAfter many, many hours of research and discovery, a company will produce a new product. With all the resources available to them, they work out a set of instructions that when precisely used will create a specific result.

This would be the “standard procedure” for using that product.

The product is then marketed and sold to the consumer.

When the consumer uses the product and follows the directions exactly they get exact results, however, if they do not follow the instructions they do not get the results they expected.

In years gone by, I would purchase an item, take it home, pull it out of the box, and start to put it together. Normally I would get three quarters of the way into it… run into trouble, curse, jump up and down… and finally, after all the cursing, I’d read the instructions.

99% of the time I had skipped a step, left something out or put it together upside down. This would end up costing me more time than just reading the instructions from the start.

It is human nature to blame the product rather than to look at the way one has used that particular product.

The ramifications of the above example cost me a lot of time (and a bit of a blow to my pride) but in a salon situation, when it comes to your clients and the results you achieve in business; the ramifications have far greater consequences.

Over the years I have worked with quite a number of people who are true professionals and leaders in their fields. They have been hairdressers, actors, photographers, make-up artists, carpenters, musicians, pilots; nearly any profession you can name. There’s one thing they all have in common: they understand the laws or rules in the area they work in.

While I myself am a great believer in bending the rules, there is a big difference between bending the rules because they are known and throwing rules aside and making up your own procedure without understanding why the rules and procedures are there from the start.

Organic Color Systems is “outside the box” when it comes to hair color. There are a few significant points of difference. It is not an ammonia-based hair color. It’s not the same old color you’ve been using with a different label.

These differences mean that there are some vital differences and changes in procedure (and subsequently you get better results).

When a manufacturer supplies instructions it is for the benefit of the customer – so that the consumer can get the product that they purchased.

I’ve discovered that every time a hairdresser has had a problem with Organic Color Systems they have done something other than following the procedure relevant to that head of hair or situation. The people that have had the most success with Organic Color Systems have followed the standard procedures and understand the rules in play.

Vidal Sassoon revolutionized the hairdressing profession in the 1960′s by applying standard procedure to cutting hair. A Bob, Wedge, Basic Layer, etc. all have certain procedures that, when exactly followed, guarantee results.

Even to this day these rules and procedures apply because they are founded in demonstrable truth.

With Organic Color Systems you have an opportunity to revolutionize your color business. The key thing is that you understand what it is and how to use it.

It is not an ammonia-based hair color. It is actually easier to use, it’s true to the color chart, it lasts longer, gives you the most vibrant reds, etc. It can produce results in clients that you would never dare put ammonia products on.

It is the future of hair color. Just understand its differences, understand the procedure and start creating a whole new color game for yourself!

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  1. J Singleton says:

    May 17th, 2010 at 12:11 am (#)

    I’be been a cosmetologist in Florida for 20 years and certified with Redken..Wella Color Perfect..Clairol…Matrix SoColor…Logics…..If ammonia isn’t used as a catalyst….What then..is employed to open the hair cuticle to either life the natural pigmentation and/or deposit a different pigmentation?

  2. Scott says:

    June 13th, 2010 at 9:08 pm (#)

    The oil delivery system swells the hair cuticle to gently open it under heat rather than using corrosive chemicals like ammonia that damage the hair cuticle. This preserves the integrity of the hair providing a better canvas for the hairdresser to style and create with. It also allows for more frequent color treatments which is usually the highest margin service offered by salons. Also, because swelling the cuticle enables penetration of the pigment, fading is minimized and grey coverage is excellent. Please call our 1-888-213-4744 if you have any more questions or want to discuss these points in more detail.

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