Real Talent

Okay, yes I think she is really cute. Put that aside and this girl is the real deal. Great to watch her do so well. P.S. her aunts were in the salon the other day. Enjoy!

PEOPLE MAKING NEWS Taylor Swift won five awards at last night’s American Music Awards. Congratulations Taylor Swift “Artist of the Year”       Salon City’s Beauty Entertainment  Magazine congratulates Taylor Swift for her outstanding showing in last night’s AMA awards show in Los Angeles. Salon City was on hand to catch it all. Taylor Swift was the biggest winner at the 2009 AMA’s, taking home five AMA awards. She showed once again that she has an appeal to music fans that stretches further than just country music. Spokane Examiner’s Ryan Gamble reported that Taylor Swift wasn’t the only big winner at the 2009 AMA’s though, as the late Michael Jackson won four awards.   2009 AMA Winners Best Artist — Taylor Swift Best Country Male Artist — Keith Urban Favorite Male Pop/Rock — Michael Jackson Favorite Pop/Rock Album — Michael Jackson (Number Ones) T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist — Gloriana Favorite Soul/R&B — Michael Jackson Favorite Pop/Rock Band — Black Eyed Peas Best Country Female Artist — Taylor Swift Favorite Female Pop/Rock — Taylor Swift Favorite Female Adult Contemporary — Taylor Swift Check Out The Digital Edition of Salon City’s NEW BE! magazine!      Click on Cover!LOOK FOR MORE MUSIC, SALON PEOPLE AND STYLE IN .UPCOMING ISSUES OF BEAUTY ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE!! BE! In Beauty Entertainment The ‘Salon People’ Magazine. We are ON DEADLINE and have LIMITED SPACE in our New Year issues. Take a moment and email us. We’ll fill you in on how you can BE! IN NOW.

How Great For Kate

If you know about our salon you know we grow our team from just out of beauty school to true salon professionals. So today I get to brag on one of our team members Kate Reiling.

Kate has been with our team for about two years and just this past week had her busiest week ever.

About Kate, she is a cheerleader coach, newly wed, new home owner, and of course hairdresser. She has completed our 100 haircut training plan and is really starting to blossom.

You might ask why I blog about this? Because I am so proud of her. When my team wins I win. I do not do much hair these days, I get more excited when I help develop a stronger hairdresser. I grow people. Helping keep the salon industry strong and growing is a real passion for me. So, I say GREAT FOR KATE.

Good Hair

Just came across this. This is great. Chris Rock’s movie “Good Hair” is calling attention to the care and detail that women give to looking and feeling better. I’m not sure if I would call it good hair or bad hair, I feel we all want to look and feel better about the hair we have. What a good salon and stylist should be doing is solving the hair challenges that we all face. Black, white, or other is irrelevant we must be shown how to manage what we have. Insist your stylist is professional and works in a professional salon. Read on.

PEOPLE MAKING NEWS

Chris Rocks Best Yet? Chris Rock’s ‘Good Hair’ gets tangled up in controversy   In Theaters Nationally - October 23 Reprinted from USA Today: By Maria Puente   Secrets, comedian Chris Rock declares slyly, are bad for the human spirit. That’s why he’s gleefully talking out of school in his new documentary, Good Hair, which has some people rolling in the aisles and others rolling their eyes. In Good Hair, Rock sets out to explore the historically fraught concept of “good hair,” which for African Americans burdened by the twin legacies of slavery and racism has traditionally been defined as hair more like white people’s. Do black women, he wonders, spend countless hours and hundreds of dollars in hair salons to make their hair straighter and silkier because they want to lookwhite? In following his search for answers, the movie manages to be at once funny, fascinating and heartbreaking. But it also has spurred unprecedented conversations among whites and blacks about - hair. HER STORY: What did our reporter’s mom say when she went natural? VIDEO: Watch the ‘Good Hair’ trailer   “The hair salon on Saturdays is right up there with church on Sundays as the most segregated place in America.” “When it comes to hair, we’re still living in segregated America,” says Lori Tharps, 37, a Temple University journalism professor and co-author with Ayana Byrd, 35, a Glamour magazine editor, of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America. “The hair salon on Saturdays is right up there with church on Sundays as the most segregated place in America.” White people don’t know much about black people’s hair, and blacks don’t want to talk about it, or at least not with whites, they say. Thus the secrecy about hair. And that’s the way it always has been - until Good Hair, which opened in select cities two weeks ago and goes wide today. Now everybody is talking - on Oprah, on Tyra, on Today, in Essence magazine, in scores of workplaces and salons, in numerous Internet blogs and around countless virtual water coolers as Rock travels the country promoting and defending the movie. “Secrets will rot the soul,” Rock says. “They’re good for no one. Unless you’re planning a surprise party or something.” ‘Old-school journalism’ Surprise, surprise - Rock, 44, has turned out to be a pretty good reporter, in addition to being a comedian/actor/awards-show host. Who knew the guy wanted to be Edward R. Murrow? He’s thinking of doing more documentaries.   “I miss old-school journalism,” he says. “Nobody plays anything down the middle anymore.” Credit: Roadside Attractions  Rock says he was surprised by what he found out about hair. “I knew women wanted to be beautiful, but I didn’t know the lengths they would go to, the time they would spend - and not complain about it,” he says. “In fact, they appear to look forward to it.” As the movie opens, Rock says in the voice-over that he decided to investigate the meaning of good hair after his little daughter asked him one day, “Daddy, why don’t I have good hair?” Now where did she get that idea? So he visits hair salons, where women get their heads slathered with toxic goop (known as “creamy crack”) to “relax,” or straighten, their hair. He watches as they sit for hours getting their hair braided or a “weave” of hair extensions that can cost $1,000. He helps a scientist demonstrate what the relaxer chemicals can do to an aluminum can (it’s not pretty), observes a wacky hair show contest and travels to India to see where the hair in extensions comes from. (Indian women shave their heads and donate their hair in a religious ritual; the hair is later sold by Asian-owned companies.)   He interviews black men about their funny/painful experiences of sex with women with weaves. He interviews black women (including actresses Nia Long, Raven-Symoné and Tracie Thoms) about their funny/painful hair stories. He interviews black men about their funny/painful experiences of sex with women with weaves. (Don’t touch the hair!) To make a satiric point that no one wants black people’s hair, he gathers some up and tries to peddle it on the streets of Los Angeles - and gets no takers. All this is framed by a hairstyling competition, a Las Vegas-style show for hair, held twice a year in Atlanta by the Bronner Bros., a leading black hair products company. Pressure to conform For many white people, Good Hair will be revelatory as well as entertaining. For many black people, it’s not news; what is new is that Rock is talking about it - in a movie aimed at the mainstream. “Some people are saying: ‘You’re putting all of our business into the street. Why are you pulling the curtain back?’ ” says Chris-Tia Donaldson, 30, a Chicago lawyer and author of Thank God I’m Natural - The Ultimate Guide to Caring for and Maintaining Natural Hair, aimed at black women or mothers of black children who want to go natural. “The deeper issue continues to be glossed over, which is why do minority women in America feel so much pressure to conform to a mainstream standard of beauty that is hard to attain?” Derek J, 27, an Atlanta stylist who is in the movie as the winner of the hairstyling competition, says some of his clients who have seen the movie or heard about it are upset. “They’re saying he’s attacking black women and their hair choices, but he’s not,” he says. “I tell them go see (the movie) because I’m in it!” Jason Griggers, 40, another Atlanta stylist in the movie, who is white, hopes the movie will help break down walls between races. “More dialogue is better than no dialogue,” he says. “When I started (going to Bronner Bros.), there was only a tiny handful of white people there, and now it’s much more integrated.”   Some reviewers say Good Hair is the best thing Rock has ever done Some reviewers say Good Hair is the best thing Rock has ever done; critics of the movie complain he failed to provide any context for women’s hair choices. For instance, there’s a movement among black women to let their hair go “natural,” but Rock doesn’t address that. Nor does he point out that women of all races and ethnicities have issues with their hair and try to change it. “I feel like I’m living O.J. all over again,” says Tharps, sighing. “The mainstream media are saying it’s fantastic, it’s groundbreaking, it’s a wonderful picture into African-American culture. On the Internet, opinion ranges from it didn’t go far enough to pure anger and ‘I’m never watching Chris Rock again because he made black women a laughingstock.’ ” Getting it out there But even those who have issues with Good Hair aren’t condemning the film entirely, and they hesitate to dis Rock himself because, well, everybody loves Chris. He is applauded for at least raising the subject. “I love that there’s a film dedicated to hair; I just wish there had been more context,” says Byrd. Alynda Wheat, a senior writer for Entertainment Weekly, wrote a column about where Rock went wrong (”Reason 2: $1,000 at the salon? Get real.”). She says Rock deserves credit for “introducing a conversation that’s so important, it reached the White House,” home to two black women, Michelle Obama and her mother, Marian Robinson, who wear straightened hair, and girls Malia and Sasha, who don’t. But Wheat rejects the notion that hair choice these days is a political statement or a sign of racial insecurity. “I have absolutely no desire to be white, and no one I know sits down in a stylist’s chair because they want to be white,” she says. “If you’re going to educate people about something, it should be representative of a larger whole than just some actresses or one crazy shop where a weave costs $1,000.”   “Now it’s much more integrated”: Stylist Jason Griggers says that now, more white people go to the Bronner Bros. International Hair Show in Atlanta. By Bob Mahoney, Roadside Attractions Rock responds that the only thing he’s attacking is the alarming practice of putting toxic relaxer chemicals on toddlers’ hair. He says that the movie isn’t about what white women do with their hair and that he personally thinks all hair is good hair. He doesn’t believe he’s spilling the beans by talking about hair. “Is it really a secret?” he asks. “These products are sold at any drugstore. You can walk by any beauty parlor and look through the window, and it’s all being done out in the open.” But he has been on Oprah twice, the first time to promote the film, the second time to respond to critics of the film. Mikki Taylor, beauty and cover editor for Essence, which put Long and Good Hair on its November cover, gathered a roundtable of black women, including Long, to talk about hair and self-esteem. She says it’s a “good thing” that everybody is talking about the subject, but the old concept of “good hair” is antiquated and no longer relevant to most black women, especially young women.   “When will our hair cease to be political?” “Good hair now is healthy hair,” she says. “When will our hair cease to be political? Every other group of women can do what they want with their hair, and it’s not seen as making a statement. We’re over that, and we wish everyone else would be over it, too.” Someday, Byrd says, little black girls are going to be able to decide that whatever they want to do with their hair is the same as deciding what kind of earrings to put on or what dress to wear. “The point is not to say hair is good or bad, it’s to say that once we work through the history behind our hair, we can get to a place where it can just be hair.”   CLICK ON THE COVER and View on the Digital issue Salon City’s NEW BE! magazine!

Just Made it in the Top 100 Salons

Wow! I didn’t even know there was a list. But I am glad to be on it. Pass this on. Tell a friend, and come in and see one of our great team members.

We grow our hairdressers from when they graduate beauty school and build them up to top salon professionals. My most favorite thing to do is watch each one of them mature and grow our business of beauty.

If you asked my why are we on the list, I would have to say great hair, professional team, and my wife and my desire to develop their skills.

Enjoy!

PEOPLE MAKING NEWS

Llongueras ( their model above ) is one of Salon City’s HOT 100 Salons Internationally.  Salon City’s HOT 100(SM) Salons in America  Ocotober 2009 Ratings   THE TOP 10 OCTOBER 2009 CHARTS Warren Tricomi Salon in New York City continued as # 1 for the fifth time in a row. Rounding out the TOP 10 in August’s HOT 100 list were:  (2) Allen Edwards Salon/Santa Monica, CA; (3) Frederic Fekkai Salon/ New York City; (4) Kim Vo Salon at The Mirage/Las Vegas, NV; (5) Depasquale The Spa/Morris Plains, NJ; (6) Eric Fisher Salon/Witchita, KS;(7) Umberto Salon/Beverly Hills, CA; (8) Philip Pelusi Salon/Pittsburgh, PA;  (9) Michael’s Salon & Spa/Centerville, OH.;  (10) Magnum Opus/Portland, OR.   THE BUZZ IS ON! Look for new names and shifts in upcoming monthly ratings as many more salons are responding to the HOT 100 opportunity. For full HOT 100 listings click on the link: http://www.saloncity.com See The Latest HOT 100 Ratings in Every Issue, Every Month of BE! Beauty Entertainment Magazine The ‘Salon People’ Magazine. Some Go Up, Down, In or Out! The HOT 100 Monthly Chart of TheHottest Salons in America ( October Ratings post the end of the month)   There are up to 250,000 Salons in America. These media-savvy salons “Made it to Salon City’s HOT 100.” Salon City Magazine Reports the News. Congratulations to all salons in America for making people feel beautiful every single day of the year! Salon City’s HOT 100 Salons in America are chosen because they reflect those qualities that make a salon stand out in their city and community. Regardless of size and number of staff, these salons are some of the most popular and positively committed beautymakers anywhere. Each month they may move up, down, in or out! Salon City rates its HOT 100 by media artistry, performance, popularity with clients, peers and by their interest and involvement with Salon City’s retail media network, licensed distributors and the brands they work with. Look for New Salons & our HOT 100 Charts each month in BE!. Not everyone we like makes our HOT 100 list, but these one hundred did. They’re talked about, they reach our radar, and they know how to get media attention. Call a HOT 100 Salon and congratulate them!   Salon City has led the salon industry in investing in the independent spirit of the beauty profession. In addition to Salon City magazi ne and our other social media products, we want you to get involved with us and bring success and elevate the role in society of today’s best beautymakers. Because you have supported our mission, we invite you to appear in BE! - our new daily and monthly online-print-digital-mobile publications. For smaller boutique advertisers, email us today if you would like to hear more about our fabulous introductory rates for new, exciting market category leaders. Click to Request a Media Proposal  ( Click on e-media kit image below to see Beauty Entertainment Magazine’s kit )

For Women Only

Okay, if you are a guy you can still read this.

Tuesday night Jessie, Danielle, Jennifer W, and I went to Ambassador Flooring in Chesterfield Valley. They hosted a women’s only event to almost 400 ladies. They invited around 40 different vendors to come and display their goods and services to the general public. We were one of the vendors.

Danielle twisted up a coulple of holiday hair dos, and gave some private consultations and fresh ideas for the fall looks. Her out going personality really shines at events like this.

Jenny W. chatted it up with countless ladies and viewed them through the skin scope. It is an ultraviolet light that helps show the person really what the skin is in need of. Jenny has great knowledge and truly wants you to look and feel better.

Jessie our salon manager and the best salon assest organized the entire event, handed out countless coupon ensentives to visit our salon, and does what she does best, be friendly and nice to everyone. We could not do it with out her.

If you have not visited our salon give us a visit. We are here to make it easier for you to have great hair, skin, and wellness. Our salon is different than most WE CARE ABOUT YOU!

We love doing these events so if you are reading this and you have an event of your own that Cary O’Brien’s Design & Color Spa needs to be, let us know, we will be there.

Still Doing It

Just back from Milwaukee. Talisa and I along with 8 other couples went there over the weekend to run the 29th Milwaukee Marathon. Only the husbands ran except for Shelly Hester. Her and Dave both ran. Hats off to Shelly. We call the non-running wive the marathon managers as they have to approve where the marathons will be ran in order for them to attend. i.e. Little Rock, no, Napa Valley, yes.

Great course in Milwaukee, probably the best course I have ever ran. That makes 24 full marathons for me. This past weekend also brings the total of states up to 12. I am now qualified to attempt the 50 states club. That’s right, run a marathon in every state in the union. In our running club I think only Kay McVey has that honor.

Moving a bit slow today, but I thought I would post out and encourage everyone who has ever thought of doing something even close to a marathon to just go for it. You will never know if you never try.

Day Break At Harvester C.C

Day Break at Harvester Christian Church is a womans retreat. We have been invited to participate for the last couple of years. It is a very nice event.

I think it is so important for ladies to take time for themselves to recharge and unwind. From my many years in the industry I have noticed that they rarely take the time to do so.

Our class is of course about salon ideas and how we can help ladies look and feel better. If we can solve some problems and save them some time even better.

We had three 45 minute classes to get our message out. We love to bring in our team members who are our rising stars to participate. We choose our models right on the spot from the audience and do a live conversation and then give them the make over in front of the attendees. As you can imagine cutting and speaking live is a bit more of a challenge than in the salon. Here’s what they did.

Lindsey has been with us for 1 1/2 years and is so technical at her approch to hair. It is a pleasure for me to watch her cut as every move is on task. That might sound insignificant, but it is very important. She did a great job. Gave her model a great new look and update.

Danielle has been with us just over a year. When she started to speak Talisa (my wife) and I just looked at each other and smiled. Talisa whispered “you can go now” indicating that Danielle had it covered and I was no longer needed. She spoke like a seasoned veteran. Having done stage work for over 15 years myself, she performed way beyond her years of training.

Stefanie is a seasoned veteran. With 12 years of experience she made the task look so easy. Although new to our team (6 months) she brings a great new approach to our salon. She gave wonderful time saving tips and styling ideas to her model.

I am so proud of our team. They gave up their time behind the chair in the salon where they are comfortable and make money, to give back to the community where we all live and prosper from.

My charge is to help each team member challenge themselves to do more than they thought they could and evolve into the salon professional that I know they are. Sometimes I know it and see it before they do. “That’s the best part of my job”

Day Break For The Ladies

Looking for something to do next week? Having trouble finding time to refill your own cup? Take a Day Break. Harvester Christian Church of St. Charles is hosting Day Break for the 10 year in a row.

Come take a break and stop in one of our three classes to watch what we do best, Make People Feel Better.

We are demonstrating live in 3 of the 4 classes. Salon Solutions to Help You Shine

Take a look at the home page and take time to take care of you. Cary

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This special event for women combines main sessions filled with laughter, tears, and an uplifting time of worship with your choice of 35 workshops to create the perfect weekend of renewal and refreshment.

 

Featured Speaker Tammy Trent Tammy Trent is a singer, songwriter, author, and speaker. Her life is real. Her music is real. Her words are real and her God is real. You see it in everything she does. Why? How? Because she knows what it’s like to have the wind knocked out of you and yet to feel the very breath of God bringing you back to life again. A weekend spent with Tammy is like being in one big living room, just hanging out with your friends. That is her gift to the world. Letting you in, making you feel comfortable, and then sharing her God, her faith, and her hope in one of the most authentic, tender, and humorous ways.

 

 

Worship Leader Jeff Moody   Jeff Moody’s music flows freely from his heart with a passion and energy that is contagious. His travels as a worship leader for over 25 years have taught him that the key to worship is approaching God with an open heart. You will be blessed by Jeff’s enthusiasm and love of music!

 

 

 

Click Here to Register for Daybreak 2009!
Online registration requires payment by credit or debit card. If you wish to pay by cash or check, please download a registration form, then mail your completed form along with payment to Harvester Christian Church,
Attn: Daybreak 2009, 2950 Kings Crossing, St. Charles, MO  63303.

For detailed conference information, please follow the links below:

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If you cannot find the answers you need here, please contact us via email at daybreak@harvestercc.org or by calling 636.928.7651 x1511. We will be happy to assist you!

We look forward to seeing you on September 25th and 26th!

Attention Women’s Ministry Leaders! For resources to help you promote Daybreak to your church or women’s group, click here.

 

 

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Daybreak Women’s Conference
September 25 & 26, 2009
Registration Deadline Sept. 11th!

Don’t miss our 10th annual Daybreak Women’s Conference!
This special event for women combines main sessions filled with laughter, tears, and an uplifting time of worship with your choice of 35 workshops to create the perfect weekend of renewal and refreshment.

 

Featured Speaker Tammy Trent Tammy Trent is a singer, songwriter, author, and speaker. Her life is real. Her music is real. Her words are real and her God is real. You see it in everything she does. Why? How? Because she knows what it’s like to have the wind knocked out of you and yet to feel the very breath of God bringing you back to life again. A weekend spent with Tammy is like being in one big living room, just hanging out with your friends. That is her gift to the world. Letting you in, making you feel comfortable, and then sharing her God, her faith, and her hope in one of the most authentic, tender, and humorous ways.

 

 

Worship Leader Jeff Moody   Jeff Moody’s music flows freely from his heart with a passion and energy that is contagious. His travels as a worship leader for over 25 years have taught him that the key to worship is approaching God with an open heart. You will be blessed by Jeff’s enthusiasm and love of music!

 

 

 

Click Here to Register for Daybreak 2009!
Online registration requires payment by credit or debit card. If you wish to pay by cash or check, please download a registration form, then mail your completed form along with payment to Harvester Christian Church,
Attn: Daybreak 2009, 2950 Kings Crossing, St. Charles, MO  63303.

For detailed conference information, please follow the links below:

About Daybreak	Daybreak Workshops
Conference Information	Girls Night Out
Hotel Listing	Promotional Materials

 

 

 

If you cannot find the answers you need here, please contact us via email at daybreak@harvestercc.org or by calling 636.928.7651 x1511. We will be happy to assist you!

We look forward to seeing you on September 25th and 26th!

Attention Women’s Ministry Leaders! For resources to help you promote Daybreak to your church or women’s group, click here.

 

 

Daybreak 2009

• Register for Daybreak 2009 Here!
• Daybreak Women’s Conference
• About Daybreak
• Daybreak Workshops
• Conference Information
• Girls Night Out
• Hotel Listing
• Promotional Materials
• Contact Us

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Keeping It Professional

If you have never watched Tabitha’s takeover it is worth the watch. I find it sad that a person like Tabitha with such a strong personality has to come into some salons to teach them that they must look, act like, and talk like they are in the Beauty Industry.

Salon owners get lazy (some times I know I have) they let the team dictate how the salon should operate. When this happens the salon moves away from the vision that made the salon great to begin with.

I find it refreshing to bring in new talent and revitalize the salon from time to time. Some times it is just time for stylists to move on a see if the grass really is greener. Often it is not. However, that is another story.

PEOPLE MAKING NEWS

Tabatha Coffey Tabatha Coffey Takes Over Again! ‘TABATHA COFFEY CONTINUES HER MISSION TO SAVE STRUGGLING BUSINESSES ON THE SECOND SEASON OF BRAVO’S ‘TABATHA’S SALON TAKEOVER,’ PREMIERING TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 AT 10 PM ET/PT Read it First in Salon City Magazine Last year’s sleeper hit, “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover,” returns for a second season featuring the forthright and smartly styled Tabatha Coffey as she transforms the lives and businesses of salon owners in the Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami areas. The new season of Bravo’s “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover,” premieres Tuesday, November 3 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. With the economy contributing to the dire situations of fledgling small business owners nationwide, Tabatha hits the metropolitan cities of Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami to work with ten different beauty salons literally about to go under. For one week, she confiscates the keys to the establishments and takes over as boss, bringing her no-nonsense approach to these salon owners and stylists in dire need of her skilled business direction. For a sneak peek at the second season of “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover,” go to: http://www.bravotv.com/tabathas-salon-takeover/videos/tabathas-taking-over. Fans first met Tabatha as an acerbic contestant on the first season of Bravo’s “Shear Genius,” and since that time she has increasingly earned respect for her unapologetic, brutally honest approach. Tabatha speaks from years of experience as a stylist and salon owner. Since her start as a salon assistant at the age of 14 in her homeland of Surfer’s Paradise, Australia, she instantly fell in love with the field. At 15, she started a four-year apprenticeship program in Australia, and her love for hairdressing grew. Next she moved to London for eight years to continue her training, and has since been working in the beauty field in the U.S. for 19 years. She has a large clientele nationwide and owns the Industrie Hair Gurus salon in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Entering the salon doors donned in her signature all-black attire and perfectly coifed short blond hair, the awed reactions of the salon owners and stylists upon seeing her are a testament to the respect she has earned in the field. Love her or hate her, Tabatha’s expertise is indisputable. The stakes are high for these salon owners, who literally can lose everything and quickly realize that in order to save their livelihoods, they need to step up to Tabatha’s strict business and styling standards. She will stand for nothing less than passion and commitment from the stylists she coaches. Her critical eye probes the salons’ customer service, cleanliness, professionalism, and overall styling techniques. This season, she will again make her recommendations for which stylists should have a higher profile in the salon, and which ones might need to be fired. The end results are often dramatic and inspire all those who have come in contact with Tabatha to strive for only their best. The salons Tabatha will makeover in the Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami areas include: Orbit Salon - Chicago, Ill. Allure Salon - Miami, Fla. Eclectic Salon - Los Angeles, Calif. Bang Salon - Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Plush Salon - Chatsworth, Calif. Brownes and Co - Miami, Fla. Refuge Salon - Los Angeles, Calif. Chicago Male - Chicago, Ill. Tantrum Salon - Covina, Calif. Earth Moon Sun - Western Springs, Ill. Brand your Name and Company in Salon City’s NEW BE! magazine! LOOK FOR MORE TV SHOWS, STYLE AND SALON PEOPLE IN THE NEW ISSUES OF BEAUTY ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE!! BE! In Beauty Entertainment Magazine The ‘Salon People’ Magazine.

The Paige and Kate Show

What is the Paige and Kate Show you ask? Well, Paige Maple and Kate Ruwe from our salon just did a fashion show for local church. They were able to get the 10 models in the show completed in just under one hour. WOW

I am so proud of them. I know Paige and Kate  have the skills needed to handle the task. It is a little scary going to do a show out of their element which is the salon. It is too easy to stay comfortable taking care of our salon guests and not accepting the challenge when it comes along to step out and step up. Paige and Kate did.

Paige is a soon to be Junior Designer, and Kate is a soon to be Stylist. Having completed our training program they are valued members of our Cary O’Brien’s Team.

Try a visit with one of them soon to see what they can do for you. Maybe a little fashion show of your own.