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Hairstyling technology . . . what’s new

Every year all of the beauty products heavyweights meet to try to impress each other. Its where they reveal what the have been secretly working on in the labs “the class includes a customized makeover”that they hope you and I will hot foot to our local beauty supply house and fight with each other for first in line to get their latest gadget. Usually we see lots of useless over hyped junk that no where to be found in a few months, but about 10% of the products are truly useful and ground breaking. I’ll let you folks judge which of the products you think will be this years ground breakers. Give me your opinions about what you think you’d like to own and why. Read the article and post your comments. My online class starts next week all of the colleges and educational partners are in their summer slow time so it will be a small class so its a good time to give away a free seat. I’ll pick out the best comment and give a away a free enrollment in my online class

Finding the Right Hairstyle for You!. Watch the comments next week for the winner.

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 It’s All About THE HAIR

The annual Cosmoprof convention rolled into town with the latest innovations for your tresses

Whether it’s a perm for your eyelashes or the world’s biggest round brush, it’s going to be unveiled at Cosmoprof North America.The global beauty trade show, held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, brings out every doodad, and knickknack imaginable. And the beauty of it all is that every one of them will make you — yes — more beautiful. This year, we were on the prowl for the latest and greatest hair products. The good, the amazing and the just plain weird. Take a gander at the products you may very well be using on your tresses in the coming year. Some of them may surprise you.

HOW WE ROLL

Remember when Velcro rollers were first introduced and we thought they were the best thing since sliced bread? Well, Maxius has put out something even better; consider it the butter on the sliced bread. They’re called Adjust-a-Curl Rollers and if you use the old Velcro rollers, get ready to bid them farewell. Adjust-a-Curl Rollers lay flat and have Velcro strips running along the sides so you can make them as large or small as you wish.

The original rollers, like curling irons, come in all shapes and sizes to create whatever amount of volume you’re after. If you like to switch up your look, chances are your Velcro rollers are taking up a good chunk of space in your vanity drawer, not to mention your suitcase. Not anymore. (www.maxiusbeauty.com, $40 for a pack of 10)

STRAIGHT UP

If your hair is anything but stick straight, you probably own every straightening serum, special blow dryer and flat iron imaginable — all because you want what Mother Nature didn’t give you. Well, the most recent innovation banking on your “grass is greener” disposition is the MAXIglide Multi-Purpose Straightener, also from Maxius. Using steam and 120 detangling pins, this hair tool claims to give the tightest curls some Lucy Liu-like locks.

The need for detangling is understandable when it comes to straightening, but steam

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    Love hairstyling? Got an entrepreneurial itch?


     

    Hair Cut Franchise pic

    There are great business opportunities in hair

    Consider a hair area liscense . . . but the only two worth considering is Great Clips and just a couple of weeks ago, I wrote the article, New hair salons for men only. Today I received a pitch for a job opportunity with the Sports Clips organization and thought it an interesting business opportunity, especially for those who have interest in the hair business. I get people that visit my site with a variety of interests about hair. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to get out of that corporate cubicle from hell . . . this could be just the opportunity for you.

    “follow the franchisee manual to the letter!”

    Here is a area liscense you can get into at the front end, with a good pick of locations, a track record and a unique concept. You don’t need to be a licensed stylist, as a matter of fact, the majority of area site owners are business entrepreneurs. Actually, a business person is preferable in a certain sense. The idea is that operations would be your main focus, in order to push the franchise and ultimately your business, forward. You would hire a stylist/manager to work in the shop, and focus on operational tasks and building the business.

    From my experience, your biggest challenges will be in your ability to hire and keep good hair stylists. You need good managerial skills in order to keep a happy, productive staff that respects each other and understands that good service.

    I am also fortunate to have breakfast every morning with a top notch licensee consultant . . . my hubby, Gary Fugere. In fact he served on the board of directors of the Great Clips many years ago. He knows the hair business and franchising and is pretty excited about the Sports Clip opportunity. But one big consideration I learned from him in buying into a area liscens is . . . follow the operations manual to the letter! Failure in the this type business almost always can be traced to the entrepreneurs inability to follow not taking the advice and counsel.

    The Wall Street Journal’s StartupJournal.com interviews franchisee, Jared Lee and gets right down to it in this article.

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    No Cutting Corners For Hair Salon Owner
    James Caverly

    The Wall Street Journal’s StartupJournal.com

    After Jared Lee purchased a license for three Sport Clips locations, he and his business partner bought an established Sport Clips shop in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert, Ariz. That strategy helped them “come up the learning curve more quickly,” he says.

    Mr. Lee and his partner have signed the lease for their first new Sport Clips in Chandler, Ariz. scheduled to open in September of 2006. While managing and planning his new franchise, Mr. Lee still works 40 hours a week as a software engineer manager for a Fortune 500 company.

    StartupJournal: How long have you been running this Sport Clips?

    Mr. Lee: My partner and I have a store we’ve been running since September of 2005. We were investigating franchises and thought Sport Clips was a pretty unique concept, so we decided to go ahead and sign up after going through their “Discovery” process at the corporate location in Georgetown, Texas, which they hold for prospective franchisees once a month. We ran into another franchisee who was looking to sell. We thought it would be good to take over an existing operation that would help us come up the learning curve more quickly before opening new stores ourselves. We still have an additional license for three other stores, and we have a lease signed for one of them that should open in September.

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    Hair color cancer risk found


     

    Heavy hair color users might want to back off a bit

    For most of you who use haircolor sparingly need not be too concerned, but if your are middle age and have colored your hair several times a year since you were 12 you might want to read this article pretty carefully.

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    Hair treatment increases cancer risk, study concludes
    By Jenna Wolf/Boston Herald

    Researchers conducting the hair-raising study analyzed data from six European countries and found a 19 percent increase of non-Hodgkins lymphoma cases among people who said they used hair dye. The risk increased to 26 percent for the dyeing-addicted who colored their locks 12 or more times a year. And for those who used carcinogen-filled dyes popular decades ago, it jumped to a 37 percent risk for the cancer, researchers found.

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