Finding the Right Salon Supplies
Finding the Right Salon Supplies
Author: Ed Friesen
In every business, the tools that people use are the foundations that make a business work. Without the tools, no matter how much the man power, a business will never be called a business. For imagine having a restaurant without the tools to cook the food. Imagine a dress shop without the clothes. Imagine a movie house without the screen. What do you think of when you imagine such ironies? Perhaps some images that would cross are “no customers”, “no profits” and “no business”.
With a beauty salon, the salon supplies are its foundation. A beauty salon is probably one of those that would make it to the top list of every person’s business endeavor. This is because it can potentially rake in a lot of profits. It is a fact of life that people want to be pampered every once in a while. This is true not only for women, but for men as well, whether they are straight, metrosexual, bisexual or homesexual.
A beauty salon needs someone who has the skill to manage it, the creativity to run and advertise it and most of all, the right salon supplies to go with it. Salon supplies are the beauty products or equipments that a customer entering a beauty salon would expect to find in the place. We are talking about hair dryers, shears, cutters, nippers, nail files, among other things. Then there are beauty supplies like creams and chemical solutions.
Now what makes ‘the right supply’? Well, that depends on the services you are most inclined to offer.
If your services run more on beauty, comfort and style, then you should have an abundance of beauty products. Beauty products are the ones that cater to customers’ need for style. These include facial beauty products and other salon spa supplies. In order to find the best of these products, you need to find the right beauty supplier that would best identify with the salon’s image. You also need to make sure that the product prices of these suppliers are not too expensive. As a businessman, you need to maximize profits at the lowest possible cost.
If your salon services are more inclined towards hair care and hair styling, then you should have a lot of hair salon equipment. A lot of people, particularly women, view their hair as that singular factor that would make or break or cramp their style. After all, it has long been observed that hair style can shape the face and frame in different ways. Hair equipment can include hair scissors, dryers, clippers and the like. These kinds of supplies are available in a few clicks online. You can even find second hand supplies that would be most friendly to your budget. Just enter the terms “salon equipment” or “salon supplies” or “cheap salon equipment” in the search bar of any search engine like Google.
Tools are very important in every business. It’s not enough to have the tools, but also to find the right ones.
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Hair Shears 101: Taking Care of Your Precious Shears
Hair Shears 101: Taking Care of Your Precious Shears
By Kristy Scott
If you are thinking of putting up a hair salon business, one of the things you have to invest on are high quality hair tools and equipment that will ensure that you give your clients nothing but the best kind of service and treatment.
One of the fundamental hair tools that you should invest on is a pair of good shears because this is the tool that you will be using to give your customers great haircuts. A pair of Shiro Shears is one of your best choices.
Of course, it does not end with buying a pair of nice hair scissors. You also have to know how to take care of your shears so that they will last a long time doing great service to you and the people who come into your salon.
Here are the basic caring techniques that will help you maintain your hair shears properly:
1. Inspect your hair shears prior to use. Using your shears when it is not in good condition can worsen the damage. Attend to it before it gets worse.
2. Clean your shears every after use. Do not let hair or any hair product sit on it for a long time. Remove any debris using a clean cloth or tissue. Just be sure that the material you use to wipe it will not cause any scratches on the exterior.
3. Store them securely in a container. Keeping your shears in the same container where you store your other hair tools like brushes, other shears, combs, and hair clips may damage the cutting edge of the tool.
It would be best to make use of the shears’ special container to ensure that they are well-protected while not being used. You can also keep them in a holster, case or a pouch. Be sure that you dry out your shears completely before storing. (more…)
Must Have Hair Tools For Any Salon
Hair Tools, Styling Shears, Hair Shears, Thinning Shears
Are you overwhelmed to see the wide range of hair tools and hair care products for your salon? Do you aim at finding the best hair care products and professional salon hair tools at competitive prices while saving lots of money and efforts? Before you make any purchase for your salon, you must remember the latest trends and requirements in the hair care industry, and choose suitable products accordingly for your salon.
Other than personally going and buying these products from a reputed market, you can now find almost all types of hair tools for your salon online as well. There are various websites that offer a good collection of hair tools and also offer them at best prices with quick and steadfast shipping services. Apart from that, you can view the larger size of the image stored on the website to check these tools as well as the prices offered by their competitors before selecting a specific hair tool.
Let’s find out the essential hair tools required for a salon:
1) Blow Dryer
Though a good hair dryer is a must for any type of hair salon, but you must go for only the best dryer. Remember, the more powerful your dryer is, the better performance you can expect from it. This is because high speed and less drying time minimizes the exposure time and thus saves your hair from damage. For a person having thick hair, it’s highly recommended to use a blow dryer with around 1,875 watts. However, you can use blow dryer with 1,500 watts for people having finer hair.
Blow dryer is one of the most basic tools any hair salon must possess. You must choose a light-weighted hair dryer with an easy grip and heat resistant body. It should be easy to operate and must offer you three types of selections: hot, war, and cold.
2) Ceramic Flat Irons
Ceramic flat irons are used to lend silky elegance to your hair while straightening it. A ceramic flat iron is used to smoothen and straighten curly and hard hair.
3) Curling Irons
Curling irons are used to eliminate Frizz while creating silky and smooth hair. They are used to enhance and revitalize your hair with ion reflections. While selecting curling irons, you must check that it provides maximum heat transfer and allows you to control the temperature.
4) Hair Styling Gel
An effective and high-quality hair styling gel provides utmost control, sheen, and constant hold. You can use this gel in shaping and texturizing your hair; even for the hardest types of hair to enable it hold styles. Go for a hair styling gel that is alcohol-free and light-weighted. It should add strength, volume, and beauty to your hair while providing you with long-lasting hold.
You can get the latest range of hairdressing scissors that are made of high quality Stainless Steel. There are scissors available in the market that have silencer for quiet cutting and adjustable set screw.
Other than the items listed above, there are many hair tools including hair brushes, hair clips, detangling comb, detanglers, Hair stranghtener, Slider Razor, Satin gowns, Colormeche highlights, Cling rollers, hair tools stand, and Professional Diffuser Conical Curlers. Make effective usage of these tools to properly care for your hair.
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How To: Adjust & Balance Professional Hair Shears
Adjusting Tension (Balancing) Professional Styling Shears:
Adjusting tension is an important part of getting the best results from your shears. To check the tension on your shears, lift the blade handle to a 90-degree angle and let it fall. Your shears should close approximately two thirds of the way. If it falls completely closed, the tension is too loose, and the scissors will fold the hair. If it is too tight, it will cause unnecessary wear and user fatigue. Your shears can have a variety of tension adjustment methods. The most common are listed below:
1. A precision flat screw holding the shears together which can be loosened or tightened with a screw driver or a coin placed in the groove on the top of the screw. Turn right to tighten and left to loosen.
2. A tension adjustable nut which can be loosened or tightened by turning with your thumb and finger.
3. Other, more expensive, shears may require a specialized key.
Styling Shears 101
Styling Shears 101 – Tips and Tricks:
- Clean your Styling Shears every day with dish soap/hand soap and warm water. This will clean any chemicals, hair, and dust stuck to the steel.
- Check Tension Daily: Make sure your tension is not too loose or too tight. If the styling shears tension is too loose, they will not cut; but if they are too tight, they will become dull much faster.
- Storage: Always keep your styling shears in a scissors case. We have seen far too many stylists with styling shears piled up in a drawer where they get easily damaged.
- Never use disinfectant spray on your hair styling shears, and don’t ever put them in Barbicide. These harsh chemicals will destroy the steel and cause it to rust.
Properly maintained hair styling shears will last you for years. Hair cutting shears are a hair stylist’s most important tool. As a stylist, you pay way too much for your shears to just let them become a victim to improper care.
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Contest Winner Announced
Winner of Free Hair Cutting Scissors!
We are proud to announce our contest winner Timothy Poisal. He entered our CONTEST and won a Free pair of Shiro GV-55 styling shears.
All he had to do was fill out his name and e-mail address to enter. Anyone can enter this contest by going HERE. We are so confident in the quality of our products, that we are giving away one pair of Shiro Shears (of your choice) for every 1,000 entries. We know that Stylists love our Styling Shears and once they try them, they will love them.
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Are your Shears Sharp Enough?
Do you know how you can tell? When was the last time you replaced your old Shears?
It is a little known fact that one of the major causes of Split-Ends is that stylists use dull shears. (See: Split-Ends: A Stylists Guide) I know what you’re probably thinking, “I don’t do that.” But whether you realize it or not, you are probably using dull shears.
Most beauty schools pay little or no attention to Scissor care and Maintenance, so it really isn’t your fault that you were never taught the proper way to take care of your shears. As a professional stylist, you know hair. But do you know when to replace those old shears? What about the low quality shears you received in beauty school? Are you still using them? At Shiro Shears, we know Shears inside and out. We are not only a Scissor company, we are educators. Just ask students of Paul Mitchell Academy (Various Locations), amongst many other Cosmetology schools nationwide.
The Sanek-Strip Test:
- Using a piece of Sanek-Strip and a spray bottle (about half a piece will do), spray the Sanek with water until nice and wet. Then, without applying pressure or “torquing” the blades; try to cut the Sanek-Strip
- A sharp pair of Shears will have no problem cutting the Sanek-Strip the full length of the blade without tearing it.
- Dull Shears: You will see tearing towards the tip or base of the cut, or it will simply tear the Strip. Sometimes it will not cut it at all.
Shiro Shears has a vast social network, a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, and we provide great customer service for the life of your shears. Don’t wait for the next beauty show, buy online today and save!
New Hair Cutting Technique
New Hair Cutting Technique: How to turn the shears over for point Cutting.
A lot of customers are asking us, “What’s the best way to use my new Swivel-Thumb Shears,” from Shiro Shears?
By turning the blades upside down as demonstrated in the video; you can save your hands, arms, shoulders and neck from fatigue and pain. As most stylists cut hair, they tend to lift their arm up to at least shoulder height and turn their whole arm over when they do point cutting with the blade facing down. Now you can stop lifting your arm up and down all day by just turning the shears over in your hand and do your point cutting from this position.
Watch the video, it demonstrates the technique of turning the blade over in your hand using our Model GV swivel-thumb Scissors.
Hint: You can also get a Swivel-Thumb texturizer. This is the smoothest pair of texturizing shears we’ve had the privilege of offering. Follow us on Facebook for deals and offers!
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Students Treated to Priceless Info from Curly Hair Expert
by Aileen Passariello on Dec 10, 2009
Ron King offers drying tips to a class at Avenue Five.
CurlStylist.com recently hosted a curly education class for the students at Avenue Five, a cosmetology school in Austin. Curl expert Ron King, owner and head stylist at Bo Salon, was the day’s educator.
King, who says his clients “just can’t stay away,” began the class by explaining that the most important key to success is customer service. Ron attributes his success to the relationship he builds with each client, the trust he develops, and most importantly the customer service that all clients receive every time they enter his salon. Staying consistent with their experience and cut is what makes customers loyal, he says. King emphasized the importance of “contact” by touching the hair, touching the customer’s shoulders, listening, and understanding to gain that trust needed for developing that strong bond between a hair stylist and their customer.
Also, he advises, stylists should not assume that they know what their clients want before they sit down in the chair. “Don’t just assume you know what your client wants because they will surprise you. Always sit down with them, listen to them, discuss how they are feeling and then give your opinion. Clients feel different each day and maybe that day, they are looking for something different. It is important to always listen.”
The students thoroughly enjoyed the class, taking away a wealth of useful information for their future careers.
“Today’s class was very informative and inspiring. I learned how to think about textured hair in a totally new way,” says student Hilary Lowry, who is known on ChairTalk as hil214.
King learned to cut curly hair with Deva. He attended a class in New York and has perfected his technique over the years.
He says he always cuts curly hair dry and always starts from the inside, using a bricklayer pattern. When separating the hair, try to avoid disruption of the curl, he suggests; don’t rip or tear. When cutting, always cut in the bend of the curl to enhance the spring action and create lift.
“Cutting curly hair from the inside in a bricklayer pattern made total sense, and trying not to disrupt the curl as much as possible makes a huge difference in the outcome,” says Lowry.
King addresses the important difference between cutting curly hair and straight hair. “No two curls are the same,” he says. Therefore, each strand has to be treated as an individual, he reminded the class.
“Pick up the curl, shake it out, and cut down the curl,” he emphasizes. Ron believes that the optimal shape for curly girls is the oval shape, as this shape avoids the “bozo the clown look or the mullet look.”
King told the class that after cutting, it is important to condition your client’s hair. Curly hair tends to be dry, so King recommends that his clients cleanse (not shampoo) their hair once a week. Once the washing and the massaging of the scalp is complete, King uses paper towels to absorb excess water. Regular towels have too many fibers and break the curls, he counsels. Fun tip: Sham wow towels also work great! King recommends using fingers to detangle the hair (or a wide-toothed comb) and then with a mixture of product on a paper towel, he mixes Deva B’Leave-in Conditioner and AnGel.
King uses a diffuser on his clients in the salon, but he recommends his clients air dry their hair as much as possible to avoid too much heat. Ron uses as many as 15 duckbill clips on top of the head to achieve root lift. He also recommends the students always diffuse from the bottom of the hair — not the top. King recommends setting your dryer on low speed and high heat setting. He suggests spraying the hair with Deva Set Me Up! pomade. The heat activates the pomade and gives the curl a shinny look.
Lowry was thrilled with all the real-world information King imparted. “I was also eager to learn how much online reviews and networking in the right ways can help your career,” she said.
And ChairTalker AndieJ22 added, “By far it was one of the best classes I’ve seen here. I graduate on Thursday and I couldn’t be more excited and I hope to learn more from Ron in the future.”
Top 10 Tips from Ron King
1. Stylists need to embrace curls and get over their fears before they can cut curly hair
2. Make contact — gain trust by listening and understanding your customer
3. Stay loyal to one product line — keep it simple for your customers
4. It is very important to educate your client about taking care of her hair
5. The majority of your clients are not looking for a shock effect
6. Be consistent with customer experience
7. Don’t get too comfortable with customers; they will surprise you
8. No one curl is like another
9. The best look for a curly hair is an oval shape
10. Cut in the bend of the curl
5 Reasons to Buy your Shears Online
1. Can you trust the website you buy from?
Look for the company Return policy and Warranty. If the company you are buying from does not offer a 30-Day trial period and Lifetime Warranty, don’t trust them. At Shiro Shears, you get a 30-Day trial period and Lifetime Warranty! You can get a great deal and trust that you can try them out before you are committed to keeping them. If you aren’t satisfied, simply return them for a full refund. Now that’s what I call risk free buying.
2. What type of steel are you buying?
Make sure that you know what type of steel you are buying. Many companies claim their shears are from Japan, but the reality is…Most of them are from other countries such as Korea or Pakistan, and they use a lower quality steel called J2 or 420. The best steel type for styling shears is 440C stainless steel. Most scissors made with this Japanese steel are around $300.
3. How long should they last?
Quality styling shears will last a long time when properly maintained. Clean them and keep them in a case and they will last much longer. As a general guideline, you should do about 700 haircuts in between sharpening.
4. Security?
Buying products online can be frustrating at times. At Shiro Shears, we ship items within 24hrs. Our purchase process is 100% secure, we do not store any financial information. Paypal is one of the most recognized payment processors around, and their security is unmatched.
5. I want to feel the shears in my hands before I buy, why should I buy from a website?
The prices we offer online are not available anywhere else. Buy a pair of Shiro Shears. Try them for 30-days, and if you are not satisfied for any reason, we will refund the full purchase price.