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salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
ClearChoice's Crinkle Body Serum enhances skin resilience and firmness while preventing and reversing neurogenic inflammation. This multi-use body serum is formulated with peptides, amino acids, and botanical extracts, it delivers deep hydration and visible skin firmness for a smooth, youthful appearance. It's suitable for all skin types, this versatile serum nourishes and revitalized, leaving skin visibly toned, smooth, and resilient with continued use.
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salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
The small front desk creates a personalized experience for each guest.
Beautifully lit retail shelves bring a touch of elegance.
Artwork and chandeliers in each room add to the upscalce ambiance.
A long, narrow space is used for the styling floor, but as a result each client has a sense of privacy.
Bright, oval mirrors put each guest on center stage.
The salon's color processing bar.
Cobalt blue chairs make a statement.
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1 month ago | 
salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
The pandemic challenged the business acumen and leadership skills of most salon, spa and barbershop owners, and Soleil Salon and Spa’s Luisa G. Garcia was no different. Unfortunately though for Garcia, the pandemic turned out to be a practice test for the final exam that faced her in 2023 when a backed-up sewer issue destroyed 90 percent of her salon in Windham, New Hampshire.
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1 month ago | 
salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
Beauty Mark, Ltd.
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salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
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1 month ago | 
salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
The upscale exterior of Cooper Alley Salon.
A backlit image draws the eye behind the front desk.
Beauty images above backlit shelves give the retail area the feel of a museum.
Rows and rows of retail encourage guests to shop.
The salon's 24-foot, interactive color lab and its 20-foot color table.
The salon's pros love the color bar experience as much as its guests do.
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1 month ago | 
salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
Last month, at the Data-Driven Salon Summit in Scottsdale, I stood on stage looking out at a ballroom full of salon and spa owners. The energy in the room was palpable—curious, cautious, and quietly anxious. These owners were no strangers to growth challenges: rising costs, shrinking margins, team turnover, and a looming sense that economic instability could hit again at any moment. The room came for numbers. But they stayed for clarity.
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1 month ago | 
salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
Whimsical decor touches and furniture with a slight boho feel welcome guests to Davanti Salon in Denton Texas.
A blend of retail shelving enhances the shopping experience.
Plants bring the outside in.
A kiosk replaces the typical front desk, encouraging a community feeling.
The owners intentionally created experience zones in their salon design to encourage guests to flow through the space.
Framed, back-lit mirrors create a beautiful view.
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1 month ago | 
salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
Never discount the impact of a gorgeous exterior image, like that of last year's Grand Prize Winner, Mirror Mirror in Austin, Texas.
This broad shot of Juut's New Artist Salon + Creative Hub in Minneapolis allowed our judges to view a number of working areas at once.
This clean shot spotlights the riveting cobalt blue chairs and modern lighted mirrors, but also allowed the owner of Luis Allen Salon in Blue Ridge, Georgia, to share how they made a long narrow space work.
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1 month ago | 
salontoday.com | Stacey Soble
In late April, the owners of the salons, spas and barbershops profiled in this issue descended upon Scottsdale, Arizona, for the Data-Driven Salon Summit and the SALON TODAY 200 award dinner. At the elegant sit-down dinner, entire salon teams collected their certificates, while five special awards were bestowed upon the owners this year’s judges felt had the strongest ideas.
