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!

Afraid to have highlights for your long hair?

I understand. Trying balayage highlights for the first time with hand painting on your long hair could be concerning. Having a stylist you don’t know perform highlights with foils can be super scary. What if they get some of the bleach on my other hair and make it blotchy? What if they leave it on to long and it breaks? What if they…..the list goes on. We understand.

Balayage highlights is the answer!

We have been the leader in balayage highlights since 1992 at Indulge Salon, York Pa. We are proud of what we have been able to provide to our long hair styles without bleed marks, without damaging the hair and giving you the right multi-dimensional hair color just for you. Your hair will be shiny, healthy and beautiful when you leave the salon. Our team has been trained by the best industry leaders of Balayage highlight techniques.

I have traveled the world looking for the best techniques and influences in the hair industry. As a matter of fact, we have on the schedule Mark Debolt whom helped Wella create one of their newest hair color lines called Instamatics. He is on the schedule for December 2016. Yes, we have to wait that long for him because he is so popular and in demand. At Indulge Salon, we only care to bring you the very best services and products that give the best results for both men and women.

Version of Balayage highlights, FREE LIGHTS

Balayage highlights come in different twists such as FREE LIGHTS, BALIAGE HIGHLIGHTS, BABY LIGHTS, and many more. The origination of the Balayage is from a french designer that was an artist that hand painted the color onto the hair giving it more of a customized look. I spent several years training in balayage highlighting techniqes. I had flown Pascal Benzimone in from France to train me and the team on the French haircutting methods, the balayage highlighting techniqe for 3 days. Yes, our education is expensive but worth it. He was tough, he was insistent but we all left the training feeling highly skilled.

Long hair balayage highlights are not for the newly out of school stylist.

Balayage highlights for long hair

This is tedious and should be done by a very experienced master cosmetologist stylist because of the layers upon layers of detailed work that goes into the hair painting and how it lays onto the hair. We look at cross sections, we look at how it the hair will look coming out of the scalp and where it falls onto the rest of the hair. My client Jami has hair down to the top of her behind. I’ve been doing her balayage highlights for years. She started out doing the top of her hair making the color look “sun-kissed” and “natural”. She wanted to learn to trust me as a stylist because she loves her hair. She loves putting it up, placing her hand crafted barretts from Victorian era. She rides horses and enjoys her hair flowing while riding.

This is what Jami had to say:

I began going to Kimberley a year and a half ago for styling and highlights. I had already been going to Priscilla for pedicures, and was no longer 100% happy with my current stylist. However, I was incredibly nervous to switch salons. I have very long hair, and had been going to the same stylist for 17 years. For several reasons of my own, and with some encouragement from Priscilla (who does a fabulous job on my nails), I took the chance and decided to give Kimberley a try. Ohh my, I cannot believe that I didn’t switch years ago! She did an amazing job with my hair styling and highlights!!!!!! She suggested a beautiful cut and balayage highlights, making my hair look gorgeous and effortlessly natural! Just Beautiful! A Huge Thank you to Kimberley for doing an incredible job with my hair, and to Priscilla for my nails and a giant shove in the right direction!!!! I’ll be seeing you both soon…. Jami Edit

Correcting bad balayage highlights is harder than a virgin head of hair thats never been colored. This process can be challenging because we have a lot to consider:

1. the beauty budget of the client
2. how long is the hair and what was done to it previously
3. what can be done when we have previous damage plus brassy orange color
4. how much can we lift without our clients’ hair being in danger
5. client understanding that once we start the process of applying the bleach, we may end up needing more bleach or color than what anticipated due to the length, the texture, the density of the hair which really means it will cost more for the client.
6. products we recommend to take home to maintain the tone of the color
7. amount of time the client has to sit in the salon to process. Could take 1.5 hours up to several depending on the darkness of the hair and the actual desired end result with multiple processes that are needed.

Ready for balayage highlights for your long hair? Make an appointment at any of our locations for a consultation to see if they would be right for you. Call 717.846.4424 or here for any of our locations nearest you.