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Keratin Hair Treatments

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Most Tampa beauty and hair salons provide keratin hair treatments along with haircut, hair color, highlights and hair extensions. Not all hair salons in Tampa are truly reputable and reliable, though. You should make sure that you choose a professional salon in Tampa that is credible according to a large base of loyal clients. Keratin hair treatments after all are supposed to improve the looks and health of your hair and not damage it. Keratin hair treatments make hair straighter by relaxing its waves and curls by as much as 50 to 80 percent. It also removes frizz and leaves hair soft, smooth, silky and shiny. Such hair is much easier to style and daily styling time can be cut by as much as 20 minutes. Results can last up to a maximum of three months. This is why keratin hair treatments are often called a long term blow dry.

There are various types of keratin hair treatment products but the proper product should not contain harsh chemicals. Keratin itself is a natural substance. As much as 88% of human hair is made of keratin. Proper keratin hair treatment should therefore be safe even for hair that has already been permed, straightened, relaxed, bleached, colored or highlighted. The hair is then straightened with a flat iron. Upon leaving the salon, the client is instructed not to wet the hair for 48 to 72 hours, depending on the specific instructions on the particular product used. You are also warned not tie up your hair, put it in clips or even put it behind your ears. Any action that will bend the hair may create permanent bends because your hair strands are still very malleable for this period. Your hair will still be looking flat at this point but that is not yet its final appearance. You will only see how your hair will really look like after you have washed it and dried it. It will be a lot straighter but not as flat as otherwise straightened hair.

Keratin hair treatment wears off gradually and your hair will regain its waves and curls in a natural progression. You will not have to endure awkward periods of having stick straight hair with curly and frizzy roots. Repeating the treatment multiple times will not damage your hair but will even make it healthier.

Business Plan For a Hair Salon

Monday, January 18th, 2010

There is such a thing as too much detail in a business plan. While the plan must cover its bases completely, including company description, industry, customer, and competitor analysis, marketing and operations plans, management team, and financial plan, it only needs to be detailed enough to persuade some investors to work with you. To create a plan that is detailed enough to convince every investor may end up working for no one. If the document is this long and complicated, it can easily be set aside by professional investors who will happily pick up another business plan that is less of a headache to read.

Remember that a human being is reading your salon’s plan and that he or she is just interested in hearing the story of how the salon business will work and what the payoff will be for them. They don’t care about the minutiae of how you will run the business or pages and paged of detailed customer research. This type of detail might be appropriate for an appendix, which is considered optional for readers to peruse, but the body of the plan must get to the heart of the matter by simply fulfilling the purpose of each individual section.

Assuming Reader Understanding

At the same time, don’t make the mistake of assuming that the reader already knows recent industry trends in hair salons or is familiar with your key competitors. You must show what you feel is important about these items in the appropriate sections of your plan, to reassure investors that you’ve done your homework and understand the situation yourself. If a statement is obvious you don’t need to dwell on it, but, nevertheless, don’t skip key steps in the logic of why your hair salon is a viable business.

Financials Without Notes

Finally, the financial plan includes many pages of pro-forma financial statements which are, in a sense, guesses about what will happen in the future. Readers will feel much better about these guesses if they understand the assumptions they are based on. Explain these assumptions in notes that accompany the financials. Without these explanations, the reader will make his or her own assumption – that you simply pulled numbers out of the air that sounded good and tried to pass it off as financials projections. Even if readers disagree with some of your assumptions, it is better that they know what they are than them writing you off in this way. Disagreements with readers can lead to valuable further discussion and maybe can help you strengthen your plan further in the end.