Practical Tips for Your Hair Salon

Hair stylists at a hair salon - Hair salon team
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Beginning, designing, and furnishing a hair salon involves some practical thinking, as well as some thoughts about the atmosphere of your workplace. Harness your thoughts for just a minute and keep your enthusiasm. Come with me and lend an ear to listen because you have a lot of things to consider and many decisions to make.
 
Good planning on designing your hair salon comes from the type of ambiance, comfort, and practicality. Are you in a small village, a medium-sized town, or a large city? What color scheme are you thinking about? In other words, country, conservative, or city? Will it be a family-oriented salon or are you considering servicing the career men and women more? All of these considerations need to be thought about before you paint your walls red or put up a pony seat in the corner to cut children’s hair.
 
Ask friends who are in the same profession for their opinion, or your relatives and spouse. These are people who really know you, with all of your little quirks, and will tell you the truth. You don't have to take their advice, but listen to them and weigh what they have to say, realizing there must be a hint of truth in what they say.
 
This will help you with all of the upcoming decisions you will be making. For example, if you are not one who is patient with children, it might be wise not to have a children's corner or a playroom in the back of the hair salon for them. How could you work on the child’s mother if her darling keeps screaming and throwing temper tantrums because of the lack of attention?
 
I believe it was Socrates who said "Know Thyself." In this case, it means recognizing the limitations of your desires. Know what you want in the beginning and write it all down. When we write it down, we can look back and see it more clearly. We can see the whole picture. First, we are going to talk about the...
 
Hair salon sign with regular haircutting scissors and thinning shears
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Employees
 
What is more important than your employees? Depending on where you live, something you must consider is the health of the employees of your hair salon. They are standing on their feet all day long under your employ. Do they have a rubber mat under their chair? As their employer, it is vital that you ensure they have the right childcare and healthcare. This will be the lifeblood of your salon.
 
If they are giving you their best professional talent, you should care about their personal problems as well. Be empathetic when you can. They are giving their best for you, and you in return should give your best considerations for them. This means healthcare, dental care, paid holidays, paid maternity leave, and even childcare. If you show concern for your employees, they will love you and will want to give you their best work and prove to be faithful and loyal employees.
 
Color
 
Color is a big consideration when planning the decor of a hair salon. Most salons are neutrally colored with sand, beige, brown, metallic, or battleship gray walls with sand, beige, black, and sometimes gorgeous red stationary chairs. The pros of this type of design are that neutral colors will go with the lobby chairs and whatever you decide to put on the walls. This is a big plus with neutrals; they go with everything. Sometimes you will see wood-grained sets at the station and chairs.
 
Green hair salon interior
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The cons are that neutral thinking is just like everyone else: neutral. Meaning: average, don't stand out, go with the flow, and don't cause any trouble. Something big to consider is to follow your own color passion. Connect with something that symbolizes who you are and what your hair salon will represent. Different colors symbolize different things to people.
 
If you are neutrally-minded, then go neutral. Everyone who has ever become famous has stepped outside of their comfort zone! Look out your window and you will realize that any shade of green that you are looking at will go with any color theme of your heart’s desire.
 
Green is neutral! Bold, daring walls of a vibrant, luminescent green trimmed with a pulsating rich blue will stop anyone in their tracks who walks through your door. Instead of the usual gray or black chairs, why not purple or a hypnotic bronze? There you have your three colors: green, blue, and purple/bronze. Or if you aren't into purple, think about a pretty yellow.
 
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