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In the community of Great Clips stylists, offering great value to your customers is what delivering comfort, freedom, and connection is all about!

Using the Great Clips cutting system offers an outstanding haircut with great efficiency.  However, a chance to engage with the customer further by completing their look with easy finger blow-dry styling techniques and stellar product recommendations is often overlooked.

This is why Salon Innovations’ Director of Education, Sharon Mudgett, has teamed up with Minneapolis-based Great Clips stylist, Erica Klaphake to produce a 6-video series on finger blow-dry styling techniques with supporting products. 

This series offers simple and easy techniques utilizing your hands as different styling brushes, proper blow-dryer practice to protect your hands, and finger blow-dry styling techniques to help you create multiple styles. With these techniques, you’ll be able to sculpt smooth looks, craft amazing texture, enhance natural curls, and build great volume.

If you’re looking for the perfect addition to a new stylist orientation or for a seasoned stylist to freshen up their existing skill set, these videos are a great choice!  These videos can be viewed at your convenience on the Salon Innovations’ YouTube channel in the “Hair Hack” playlist. 

NEW “Finger Blow Dry Styling” Video Series

In the community of Great Clips stylists, offering great value to your customers is what delivering comfort, freedom, and connection is all about! Using the Great Clips cutting system offers an outstanding haircut with great efficiency.  However, a chance to engage with the customer further by completing their look with… Continue Reading

BosleyMD: Advice from the Top-Seller

As a growing brand at Great Clips, offering a brand like BosleyMD to customers who are struggling with fine or thinning hair is a win for the salons and positions stylists as caring experts in their field.  With BosleyMD on the shelves, there are solutions to help solve the increasing… Continue Reading

Ingredient Scoop: Vitamin B

The discovery timeline of the vitamin B complex begins with Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman (ahyk•mahn) in 1889. He found a connection between a condition called beriberi and a diet of refined rice in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). In 1906, biochemist Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggested a link between nutrition… Continue Reading

Manager & Franchisee Meeting 2023

At the beginning of this year we had the privilege to share with many Great Clips managers and franchisees a series of product promotions and product launches occurring through April. We also shared resources on how to execute the Retail to Great program and Great Deal products from brands we… Continue Reading

Ingredient Scoop: Coconut Oil

Coconut oil is a cure-all for everything, from dry skin to scalp issues, not to mention that it’s also edible, a pantry staple that can easily double for use in any beauty routine. Coconut oil is used in various products, from curling creams to nourishing shampoos, and is the one… Continue Reading

A Beast’s Tale

Brand Spotlight: Beast®It’s happened!  Beast® has now begun entering Great Clips®.  Beast is the newest brand to join the Great Clips family and can now be offered in any participating Great Clips salon.  But who is Beast, and what are they about?Tale of Beast®The tale of Beast begins back in 2013.  Beast, named initially “Tame the Beast,”… Continue Reading

2022 FRANCHISEE VIDEOS – The Importance of Product

Q1 2022 Managers and Franchisees Meeting If you attended the Q1 2022 Managers and Franchisees meeting, you may remember seeing previews of a few franchisees speaking about the importance of product in their salons. Below are the full videos from Michelle Bates, Bryan Bitticks, Win Cady, and Clara Osterhage talking… Continue Reading

Clean Hair with Clean Beauty

As a stylist, you know that customers are becoming more eco-conscious of what chemicals are in the products that they are putting in their hair.  Customers are often opting to choose hair products with lesser trace amounts of harsher chemicals that are more sustainable for the environment.  To meet this growing need,… Continue Reading

Not All Curls Are The Same

Curls, curls, curls! They are everywhere! As celebrities like Zendaya, Keke Palmer, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock are embracing their natural curls, the beauty industry is embracing them, too!  There are more products than ever for curls. However, before trying somebody else’s regimen on your or your customer’s hair, you have to know… Continue Reading

Trending Halloween Hairstyles

Halloween is around the corner, and we got the scoop on some of the most popular hairstyles that you may notice come October 31st! Looks from Netflix’s hottest shows such as Bridgerton and Squid Game, or Disney’s Cruella and let’s not forget sports comedy-drama star, Ted Lasso!  Netflix’s Bridgerton was one of the biggest titles of 2020! So, there is no doubt… Continue Reading

Why Buy From SI?

We’ve all seen it, time and time again. A screaming deal on something we’ve had our eyes on for a while. But is it too good to be true?  Discount retailers and obscure online shops end up with goods in round-about ways. There are auction sites where anyone can purchase… Continue Reading

The Truth About Dandruff

Stylists can sometimes be a person’s first line of defense when it comes to scalp problems. Being up close and personal with a person’s head gives you a full view of what exactly is going on. Although a customer may have noticed light yellow or white flakes on their shoulders… Continue Reading

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