If I had a Tim Tam—an Australian cookie—for every time I heard, “I want to look thinner,” I could open my own bakery. It’s a common complaint from clients, but especially as the hot season approaches and all the glossy magazines go into overdrive with features on being “Bikini-Body Ready!” One of the silliest magazine [...]
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Wendy Belanger’s Tips for a Greener Salon
To make your salon more environmentally friendly, there are small steps that you and your salon staff can take to benefit our environment. For Earth Day, April 22nd, try one or all of these ways to help preserve our earth: When providing guests
Sam Villa Says: Teach Your Clients How to Achieve Great Blowouts at Home
When clients would tell me that they couldn’t get their hair to look at home the way I got it to look in the salon, I would say, “It’s easier for me, because I’m standing behind you and have both my hands. You’re working in front of a mirro
John Simpson Gets Some Balance
Let’s “flip” our canvas to a new shade for the season that has durability, even tone and multiple reflection! Sometimes all we need is a little BALANCE! The winter blond may have become too flat or opaque looking, while your brunettes and reds ma
Napoleon Perdis Says: Make Your Client Queen for a Day … Everyday!
Since the original 1933 film, women, young girls and probably quite a few hirsute men have marveled at the visual splendor that is Alice in Wonderland. More than seven decades years later the new version of the classic, helmed by the incomparable Tim
Redken Runway Reinvention Contest-Winner Heather Washburn Hits the Big Apple!
Heather Washburn of Heather’s Hair Design in Spokane, WA, recently got the opportunity to work on an American Salon shoot for our April issue after winning Redken’s Runway Reinvention contest, for which she reinterpreted the hairstyle Redken Crea
Rodney Cutler Weighs In on Helping Clients Maintain Their Salon Look at Home
Clients spend a lot of good, hard earned money on our salon services, and the old phrase “My hair looks good leaving the salon but I can’t replicate it at home” is now unacceptable. Clients expect to have fantastic, wearable hair that is self-m
Sam Villa Forecasts a Spring with Swing
We’re getting into a very exciting season in hair. In fashion, spring 2010 is three-dimensional—marked by ruffles, gathering, tilted collars, diagonal lines and opposing fabrics colliding in the same garment. To capture that three-dimensional fee
Napoleon Perdis Says: Pucker Up for the Return of Lipstick!
Glamourpuss actress Natalie Wood was the kind of woman who, after dining in an upscale restaurant, would check her lipstick in the reflective blade of a knife. I was thinking about how impossibly chic that was recently and lamenting the fact that lip
Ruth Roche Talks About Her American Salon Cover Shoot
The creative inspiration for this photo shoot for the February 2010 issue came from the idea of working with texture in the family of curls and waves. Influences came from different time periods and what fashion designers are showing on the runwa
