Lessons from Meatloaf

I heard a story recently about a young girl watching her mother make meatloaf (stay with me here, it gets better). Before her mother put the meatloaf in the pan, she cut off both ends. The little girl asks,

“Why do you cut off the ends, mom?”

Her mother responded,

“That is how your grandmother taught me.”

So the little girl goes to her grandmother and asks,

“Why do you cut off the ends of meatloaf, grandma?”

She responded,

“That is how my mother taught me.”

 So she goes to her great grandmother and says,

“Why do you cut off the ends of meatloaf, Super G?”

 Her great grandmother said,

“Because my pan was too small.”

Have you been using the same products over and over again without considering the reasons why? Have you ever stopped to think about the reason you stock certain retail products in your salon? Now is your chance to ask “why?”

 Here are some questions to ask yourself about your retail supplier:

 Is this the type of business you want to support?

Have they kept up with the new sciences?

Do they work against you by selling retail directly to consumers?

Is their packaging up to date?

Stop and consider what you are buying.  Are you cutting off the ends, just because that is how it has always been done?

It’s time to take a bigger piece of meatloaf, with Screen Professional Hair Care!

My favorite topic,  DIVERSION— have you checked out the Rite Aid website lately? If not, your clients have...

Rite Aid has 4,700 stores in 31 states and has a website that makes online shopping easy. They sell over 4,000 hair products and over 1,000 of those products are discounted or considered “on sale" and being sold for less than you sell them in your salon.

I can't imagine how so many "Salon Professional Products" got on their website (sarcasm). I mean think about this, Rite Aid feels confident enough in their supply chain to actually represent these lines on their website:

Alfa Parf

American Crew

Aquage

Bed Head

Biolage

Chi

Davines

Enjoy

FHI

Framesi

Goldwell

Joico

Kenra

Kerastase

Loreal Professional

Living Proof

Macadamia Nut Oil

Nexxus

Nioxen

Paul Brown

Paul Mitchell

Phyto

Pureology

Rusk

Scruples

Sebastian

Sexy Hair

Tigi and Wella

My first guess is either Salon Centric or BSG represents all of these brands, but that is not the case.  The list above demonstrates that Rite Aid carries both Salon Centric and BSG brands; therefore it is not one distributor selling professional products to a non-professional outlet.  I have heard of consolidators that sell in this grey market, but I never knew that it was this organized and thorough. This problem is systemic in the industry not just here or there. Don't let them fool you, there is intent to sell via these channels.

You may be thinking that Screen will be sold via these channels eventually, when enough people know about it. After all, Aquage and Scruples (both listed above) tout their no diversion stance, and they both have it pretty well managed. I promise you that we will do our best, but unfortunately, it is legal for people to resell products that they have bought, so we need your help. If you see our product being sold anywhere they should not be, let us know and we will do our absolute best to stop it. This is my pledge to you.

Do you disrespect your art?

 

I was privileged enough to have lunch with a brilliant friend of mine. He told me that Stylist don’t like to sell products because they feel like it cheapens their art and their client’s experience.

Well that sucks for me, seeing as I sell Salon Professional Products. 

We started discussing the Stylist ramifications of not selling high quality products. We likened it to creating a painting and not putting UV glass over the painting when framed, or allowing your favorite color t-shirt be washed with regular or generic detergent.

When a great cut is not styled properly or color is not cared for… not only does the client look bad but the stylist looks bad as well.

The absolute best marketing is a referral. I refer business to Bentley Salon (a Screen Salon) that I go to in all the time in Tampa. From their services and the “extension of their service” to the use of Screen, the highest quality products, the salon make my hair beautiful and healthy.  

Not selling a product that will make your styles more marketable to others is just bad business, and more importantly disrespecting your art.

Bentley Salon

3228 W Kennedy Blvd

(813) 877-9801 

Best of the Best

Just flipping through the Robb Report (the magazine of the super wealthy) this month’s  issue was about the “Best of the Best” in the world. I was thrilled to be reminded about how many of the finest things are from Italy. But most of them are only known by the most discerning customers…. Just like Screen. Have you ever heard of an Azimut or Brioni or Screen… it can still be the “Best of the Best” without the masses hearing of it.

Ferrari 458 Italia



Azimut Yachts

Argento Vivo Kitchens



Cars, Yachts, Kitchen, Clothes and let’s not forget the food. Even the French are inspired by Italian design. Chanel inspired by Venice and Parmigiani Fleurier designed by Bugatti.

Screen’s design and quality is in the same Italian tradition…

Be as Free as your Hair

People express their individuality in so many different ways…clothing, their homes, their cars, tattoos, their music, their friends…

I love Lady Gaga—she has taken showmanship to the next level and I believe she will put Madonna to shame in 20 years.

She recently came out with a single called “Hair”, the lyrics are below.

Gaga uses hair as a way to express herself, she currently has a beautiful pink/peach color which is featured on the cover of Vanity Fair.

Hair has been a form of express for thousands of years, probably longer than clothes. So much can be learned from a hair style: health, economic status, vanity, sexuality, independence…. It acts as a social channel of communication and Gaga, in her genius, knows this.

In her song below, she uses hair as an analogy for Freedom and Independence. If Screen had an anthem, it would be this song.

Be as Free as your Hair.

Hair by Lady Gaga

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, woah

Whenever I'm dressed cool,
My parents put up a fight.
(Uh huh, uh huh)
And if I'm a hot shot,
Mom will cut my hair at night.
(Uh huh, uh huh)
And in the morning,
I'm short of my identity.
(Uh huh, uh huh)
I scream Mom and Dad,
Why can't I be who I wanna be?
(Uh huh, uh huh) to be.

I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to love me for who I am.
I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to know, I am my hair.

I've had enough, this is my prayer,
That I'll die living just as free as my hair.
I've had enough, this is my prayer,
That I'll die living just as free as my hair.
I've had enough, I'm not a freak,
I'm just here trying to play cool on the streets
I've had enough, enough, enough,
And this is my prayer, I swear,
I'm as free as my hair.
I'm as free as my hair.
I am my hair.
I am my hair.

As free as my hair, hair, hair,
Hair, hair, ha-ha-ha-hair,
Hair, hair, hair,
Hair, hair, ha-ha-ha-hair.
As free as my hair, hair, hair,
Hair, hair, ha-ha-ha-hair
Hair, hair, hair,
Hair, hair, ha-ha-ha-hair.

Sometimes I waltz around,
Put on red highlights.
(Uh huh, uh huh)
Just because I want my friends,
To think I'm dynamite.
(Uh huh, uh huh)
And on Friday rocks in,
High school dance.
(Uh huh, uh huh)
I got my bangs too hot,
That I don't stand a chance.
(Uh huh, uh huh) a chance.

I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to love me for who I am.
I just wanna be myself,
And I want you to know, I am my hair.

I've had enough, this is my prayer,

That I'll die living just as free as my hair.
I've had enough, this is my prayer,
That I'll die living just as free as my hair.
I've had enough, I'm not a freak,
I'm just here trying to play cool on the streets
I've had enough, enough, enough,
And this is my prayer, I swear,
I'm as free as my hair.
I'm as free as my hair.
I am my hair.
I am my hair.

As free as my hair, hair, hair,
Hair, hair, ha-ha-ha-hair,
Hair, hair, hair,
Hair, hair, ha-ha-ha-hair.
As free as my hair, hair, hair,
Hair, hair, ha-ha-ha-hair
Hair, hair, hair,
Hair, hair, ha-ha-ha-hair.
Ha-ha-ha-hair.

I just want to be free, I just want to be me
And I want lots of friends who invite me to their parties.
I don't wanna change, and I don't wanna be ashamed.
I'm the spirit of my Hair, it's all the glory that I bare.

I am my hair, I am my hair
I'm my hair, I am my hair
I am my hair, I am my hair
I am my hair, I am my hair
(It's all the glory that I bare)

I am my hair, I am my hair
It's all the glory that I bare
I am my hair, I am my hair
I'm my hair, yeah, yeah
(All the glory that I bare)
I'm my hair, yeah, yeah
(All the glory that I bare)
I'm my hair, yeah, yeah
(All the glory that I bare)
I'm my hair, yeah, yeah, yeah

I've had enough, this is my prayer,
That I'll die living just as free as my hair.
I've had enough, this is my prayer,
That I'll die living just as free as my hair.
I've had enough, I'm not a freak,
I'm just here trying to play cool on the streets
I've had enough, enough, enough,
And this is my prayer, I swear,
I'm as free as my hair.
I'm as free as my hair.
I am my hair.
I am my hair.

Ooh, my hair, my hair.

Are you a Wave or Part of the Ocean?

I tend to have a lot of “self-focus”, which is the politically correct way of saying that I am self-centered or egotistical. I take on too many things and I think I do them well. I am impatient and I  get frustrated easily.  In short, I am exactly like everyone else. 

I have decided that I am a wave moving through an ocean of people who work in synergy. I don’t just mean my team at the office, or my husband, or my partners. I mean everyone; my life includes a series of people who help me daily and my wave can work against them or with them.

I think that people can easily forget that they are part of an ocean, that there are millions of waves out there and the energy you give out is the same energy that you take in. Look around you, understand the surrounding waters.  Are they positive or negative?  Is it time to risk crashing on the shore and moving forward, summoning the powers of the waters around you and gain the momentum that life is intended to have.

You will always be part of the ocean.  Even after hitting the shore, we all fall back into the ocean.

Every day we must decide to summon the energy around us and move forward, gaining momentum and letting go of our fears.

It will not take an ocean to change the beauty industry just some big waves all moving in the right direction, away from the stagnant waters of the past.

Use any independent brand and avoid the big boyz.  They are the stagnant, only gaining power when they break your wave.

SURF ON!

Screen is for the Wild Ones

Screen is for the wild ones. The passionate. The individual. The ones who see things in a distinctive way. They detest the mass market. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can dismiss them, love them, vilify or glorify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.

Because they transform things. They create. They dream. They inspire. They nurture change. They push their vision forward.

Maybe they have to be a little crazy.

How else can they stare at a head of hair and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and visualize a color they have never seen, or gaze at a person and see them at their best?

We make products for these kinds of stylists.

While some will see them as the wild ones, we see genius. Because the people who are passionate enough to think they can change their industry, are the ones who do.