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Our Top 9 Tutorial Videos for Barbers

Our Top 9 Tutorial Videos for Barbers

YouTube is many things to many people, and to hairdressers, it is an invaluable source of information, inspiration, and connection to a global industry. Mathew Alexander, a salon owner in L...
Is Editorial Hairdressing for You? Here’s the Good, Bad, and the Beautiful.

Is Editorial Hairdressing for You? Here’s the Good, Bad, and the Beautiful.

For editorial hairstylists – sometimes referred to as session stylists – creating looks for magazine photo shoots, ad campaigns, and fashion shows is not all red-carpet glamour. In fact, ve...
Is Beauty School Broken? Can We Fix It?

Is Beauty School Broken? Can We Fix It?

More than 177,000 people enroll in for-profit beauty schools across the United States each year, which on average charge more than $17,000 for tuition, fees, and supplies to earn a cosmetol...
Instagram for Hairdressers: Marketing with Social Media

Instagram for Hairdressers: Marketing with Social Media

Visual people are drawn to visual platforms, and with over 800,000,000 Instagram users worldwide, hairdressing is high on the list of industries that this sharing site serves. Hairdresser ...
I Do Hair. How Do I Become a Hairdressing Educator?

I Do Hair. How Do I Become a Hairdressing Educator?

Many people do hair well. But can they teach somebody else how to do it well? One of the most unfair of sayings is “Those who can’t do teach.” If you’ve never heard that one before, forget ...
Selling Hair Products: 6 Ways to Shift Your Mindset

Selling Hair Products: 6 Ways to Shift Your Mindset

Hair products are essential to every aspect of doing hair – in the hair salon and at home – and hairdressers are essential to matching the right product with the right person. Hairdressers ...
How to Market Yourself as a Hairdresser

How to Market Yourself as a Hairdresser

What if we told you that you could build a clientele simply by doing your best work and showing it to the world on social media? It may sound too good to be true, but it is: The small “i” i...
Greener, Cleaner Hairdressing

Greener, Cleaner Hairdressing

We’ll be blunt: Sustainability is no longer a choice, it’s a responsibility. If you have a hairdressing business and you’re ready to look far beyond product ingredients to evaluate everythi...
A Guide to Taxes for Self-Employed Hairdressers

A Guide to Taxes for Self-Employed Hairdressers

To rephrase the old saying, there are two things in life we can be sure of: Hair will grow and taxes will come due. Experienced hairdressers won't find this news as anything shocking, but brushi...