Balayage highlights are hitting the streets of York, Pa with our summer collection 2016

I have been inspired by our stylists creativity. Being in the hair industry as long as I have you see haircolor ideas and collections come and go. But the quality of long hair complimented with Balayage highlights as left me in awe.

One of our stylists, Taylor, has worked as an assistant moved up to stylist level and has been slammed with her specialty of balayage highlighting clients from medium length to longer lengths down to the tushy. She seems to have the gift of illuminating the clients color with contrasting shades of dark and light.

What’s interesing are the tones she has been creating with the help of Wella. Wella International haircolor company has developed brands of haircolor that is actually good for the hair. It heals the hair from the inside out instead of the outside in. I know that sounds confusing but the quality of haircolor has changed since I started in the business in 1984.

She has been mixing colors of violet that turn to a beautiful cooler champaign blonde with the dull ashy look. Cooler blondes mixed with warmer blondes with shots of a russet dark blonde. Try summer champaigne muted violet tones that are such a clear blonde with a hint of violet that is so soft and touchable. Caramel bronde is lovely shade going for medium to darker hair that can handle a mixture between brown and blonde. I mean the photos of before and after are stunning. If you get a chance go to our facebook page here to see some of her work.

                           Are balayage highlights for you?

Our professional hairstylists can use balayage to soft a color, shade in a sun kissed look on a bang or do some surface color to look like the sun kissed it. Natural looking without foil lines. It’s not quick. Chasta, a senior stylist for us at Indulge Salon south george st, enjoys colors such as desert rose. Now the girls give me a hard time about that color which I happen to love, thinks I need a pole to go with the name. Funny girls. Really desert rose has been the prettiest shade I’ve had on my balayage ends and of course I have to cover the natural gray hair that sprouts out every month.

Our stylists are passionate about our prestigious haircolor and the work they do. We work purposefully and we are totally opinionated about the art of haircolor. We actually can look at a person’s face to see where they need lighter areas to bring them wider and we can choose darker shades that can minimize a fuller face or rather a big boned face that needs to appear narrower. Similar to interior design we just do it with faces.

Celebrity eyelash extensions turn

Celebrity eyelash extensions

your short stubby lashes into fuller and thicker

 Instead of dreaming of lashes, you can have your first full set in an hour.

Celebrities don’t have to be the only ones to have fuller thicker lashes in the movies. You can have them too. Celebrities aren’t born “naturally” with long lush full lashes. Have you ever watched the mascara commericials and see the models with full thick lashes? Look closely and you will see the lashes are fuller and thicker at the corners of the eyes. Their lashes are individually applied with a natural “resin” to look natural just like our Celebrity eyelash extensions.

Benefits of our Celebrity Eyelash Extensions:

• put away your mascara – not necessary
• lasts several weeks with updated maintenance
• customized for you eye shape to give you the most alluring eyes

Treating your mother to our Celebrity Eyelash Extensions would be a great gift for her. She will be grateful that you remembered. She will probably think its “too expensive” but overall she will secretly love the idea of looking younger and feeling more like herself ten years ago would be worth it. She will love that she could save time in the morning not having to put mascara on, get the kids off to school quicker, make the meeting early in the morning without having to worry that the mascara clumps in the corners of her eyes that she can’t see to separate.

Like my mother keeps telling me, 70’s are the new 60. 60’s are the new 50. I agree. When I think of my grandmother, may she rest in peace, she would have had her nails done, her eyelashes applied, makeup and her hair blown out PLUS expect a card and chocolate. Yeah, she was a lot younger in her attitude than I remember her as a young mother. I was really lucky to have her in my life. She is the one that taught me to wear mascara. She would always have her tube in a drawer waiting for one of us to play dress up. We had so much fun. She taught me the magic of three layers to make my lashes look super long.

Why wait till the last minute. Be prepared for her big smile of surprise. For more information go here. 

Gift certificates are available for any amount at any location or you can purchase her full set of Celebrity Eyelash Extensions at our South George Street. Call and we will prepare your mom’s special gift. Call  717.8464424

Honoring Administrative/Secretary’s Day

Appreciate your professional administrative secretary that has helped you get the job done in your business.  They certainly are working with deadlines, making phone calls, appointments for clients, patients, residents, other vendors, making sure your typing is done, grammar is correct, filing, and having to listen to you talk about how much work you have to get done while they are faciliating “getting the job done.”

I’ve been working closely with my front desk salon coordinators on a mammoth project that doesn’t seem to end. We celebrate with high fives when we get through minimal phases. We are updating our salon software that has exposed every single inconsistency from a standard version that wasn’t a problem before but now is a glaring light beam.Once “we” get  this problem cleaned up, it will be smooth sailing for all of our front desk coordinators, our customers, and for me. I can’t wait. Frankly, I don’t have the time in a day to get this done myself. I truly appreciate all of the efforts from my team to get this project off our task list.

Alex T. Front desk coordinator at our East Market location

As a business owner, I speak for all owners and managers, we get caught up in the big picture of our business operations that we are not considering all of the secretaries, adminstrative professionals that help us clean up our brilliant ideas.

I admit that when these problems are exposed, our administrative professionals really want to tell us, “I’ve been telling you about this for months.” Well, this day on April 27, 2016 is all about celebrating you for telling us and we didn’t listen. I’ll say that we want to listen and we actually do, its just that we prioritize these things until they become a priority. This whole idea of honoring Adminstrative Professionals is about appreciation of all the hardwork they do for us.

Who created Administrative/Secretary’s Day?

National Professional Secretaries Week and National Secretary’s Day was created  in 1952 through the work of Harry F. Klemfuss of Young and Rubicam. Klemfuss recognized the importance and value of the position to a company or business. His goal was to encourage more women to become secretaries. Using his skill and experience in public relations, Klemfuss, promoted the values and importance of the job of secretaries. In doing so, he also created the holiday in recognition of the importance of secretaries.

The name of this special day has changed and evolved over the past few decades. But, the importance of recognizing these vital individuals remains. The two new terms in use today are: “Administrative Professionals” and “Executive Admins”. The two names sometimes mean different roles and responsibilities in different companies and organizations. Both are broader terms, that encompass more positions than the original “Secretary” role.

The name change recognizes and acknowledges that the role has changed significantly since 1952, and for the better at that. In Harry Klemfuss’ day, these positions were the realm of women. Today, you find males in these positions. Being a secretary was a prestigious position in the 50’s. Now, it’s more of a business position with clout and the “gatekeeper” to the owner.

The most common ways of recognizing your Administrative Professional(s) today are:

• Flowers
• Cards, often with shopping gift certificates
• Indulge Salon gift cards from $25 – $100
• Take them to lunch
• Candies
• Assorted Gift Baskets
• Starbucks gift cards
• Indulge Pure Originals moisturizing lotion, creams, body butter bar
• Facial, manicure,
• Rose Petal Pedicure this month only $35  here

I want to thank all of my administrative front desk coordinators for all of their hardwork, loyalty and for putting up with my crazy ideas and for making Indulge Salon look good. Alex, my daughter for helping me from behind the scenes, Alex T for making sure our new customers get their information being liason to staff and customers, Melissa for social media management and the other stuff you do behind the scenes, Carol for being an awesome trainer, fill in when someone gets sick, changing light bulbs and correcting my grammar when it doesn’t make sense, Becca for being “all that and more” front desk, colorist, fill in where needed,  Amanda for being that management glue and liason, Sarah for putting up with all our training to be manager, and Paris for being a liason to our clients and positive outlook on life. You guys rock!