Modern Salon - January 2008 - (Page 96)

MODERN HAIR CARE Fantastic Career Path According to Jeff Sturgis, vice president of franchise sales and development for Fantastic Sams, hair stylists are among the company’s best franchisees and salon owners. Fantastic Sams currently has 1,400 locations and approximately 10-15 percent of the company’s franchisees/owners have a hair styling background, he says. Sturgis adds that when the company looks at its future plans, salon professionals are a natural market to tap for achieving planned growth. “Most stylists enter the franchise arrangement with a partner or spouse,” says Sturgis, adding that Fantastic Sams provides new franchisees with financing sources along with all the other business benefits of franchise ownership. “As a Fantastic Sams franchisee, stylists can go into business for themselves, but not by themselves,” he says. Martha Barton of Riverside, California, built her salon career by beginning as a Fantastic Sams stylist and finally achieving her career goal of salon Martha Barton, Fantastic Sams franchisee and ownership. owner of six salons began her career as a stylist and found a rewarding and lucrative career path. “I was a stylist with Fantastic Sams and worked my way up the management path. I wanted to take my career to the next income level and expand my management role. My boss and the owner of the location where I was working suggested I join him in a business partnership. Now, 17 years later, we own six Fantastic Sams salons,” says Barton. To learn more about a career with Fantastic Sams, visit www.fantasticsams.com. Joico Debuts Line and Recognizes K-Pak This month, Joico is debuting its new line of styling products, the Design Collection. The Joico research and development team, along with the company’s guest artists, collaborated to create this range of products in a variety of texture, finishing and hold factors. “Whether I’m on a photo shoot, fashion show or film set, Design Collection products morph and meld beautifully to meet my every styling demand,” says Joico International Artistic Director Damien Carney. In honor of its 30 The Design Collection years as a top selling intensive includes Molding Putty, conditioner, Pliable Paste, Gloss Wax, Joico’s K-Pak Dry Spray Wax and Reconstructor will be available in a Humidity Blocker limited-edition Finishing Shield. commemorative tube. This month Joico is also celebrating the 30th anniversary of its popular K-Pak Reconstructor, one of the industry’s leading restorative hair repair products. Joico has sold more than 10 million tubes of K-Pak Reconstructor in the past 30 years and is now offering the product in a commemorative, limited-edition 11.1-oz. size containing 30 percent more product. For more information on the new Design Collection and the limited edition K-Pak Reconstructor tube, visit www.joico.com. L’Oréal Professionnel Teams with Miami Salon L’Oréal Professionnel, the official hair care sponsor for designer Zak Posen, joined stylists from Miami’s Jean Claude Biguine Salon to create the runway hair for Posen’s Saks Miami Show at the Vanderbilt Mansion on Fisher Island. Stylists Jamie Bailey, Ryan Shur and Abraham Elizade along with Claudia Diesti and Jacky Zuric from Spa at Wellington Green worked backstage to re-create the looks seen at the Spring 2008 collections during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. The styling team used L’Oréal Professionnel’s luxury styling collection, Texture Expert, to create texture and design for the runway’s popular lowset bun. L’Oréal Professionnel and the Jean Claude Biguine team also joined forces for the recent Gen Art Shop Miami Fall 2007 fashion event, where Texture Expert and Infinium hair spray were used to style both models and shoppers. For more information on L’Oréal Professionnel’s Texture Expert, visit www.lorealprofessionnel.com. Stylist Claudia Diesti finishes a style with L’Oréal Professionnel’s Infinium hair spray at the Gen Art Shop Miami fashion event. Fashion designer Zak Posen (center) thanks stylists, from left: Jamie Bailey, Claudia Diesti, Jacky Zuric Ryan Shur, Abraham Elizade and Edward Oberle backstage at his Saks Miami fashion show. Joico is introducing to salons its new Design Collection of styling products this month. 96 JANUARY 2008 www.modernsalon.com http://www.fantasticsams.com http://www.joico.com http://www.lorealprofessionnel.com http://www.modernsalon.com

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