SOUTH FLORIDA HARD WATER, its killing your hair

What’s in your water and shower head? I know!

 

As a colorist in South Florida the single most frustrating thing is the water. We live in one of the most concentrated hard water areas in the country.

The water is hard and full of minerals that attaches to your hair and produces discoloration, build-up, fade-age, and makes your hair feel dry and dull.

The next time you’re in the shower just look up. All those white caked-up deposits are calcium and all those green spots are copper. Imagine what they’re doing to your hair?

Let’s not forget lead and magnesium and if your color is always brassy or red then iron is the culprit.

If you want longer lasting color, healthier hair, longer lasting keratin treatments then let’s talk.

For starters run to home depot and get this most affordable filter, it will help your hair tremendously without the costs of high end water softeners.

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Secondly don’t skimp on product and salon visits. Make your appointments faithfully every 4-6 weeks, any longer will cost more due to additional fading and mineral deposit.

Third, you must be using salon profession product and get a detox treatment every 3-4 months.

These are very simple affordable steps to give your color the insurance it needs.

All too often the clients look to a salon as a source of blame when the issue is right in their own faucet. Let’s face it you can’t leave looking fabulous and then 2-3 weeks later think it was us, that would be silly. 

Hair Studio Artists is committed to creating fabulous and educating clients on all the ways to improve the health and integrity of the hair.

Choosing a Salon

A few helpful tips on choosing a salon.

We all have certain desires and expectations when choosing certain things and a salon should be no different.  From the moment you step foot into a salon you want to be welcomed by friendly staff and amazing fragrances.  What is it that women in today’s world want from a hair salon?

We are all very much into comfort and at the fingertip service.

You come home from work take a look in the mirror and see that you need to visit the salon since your new growth is showing but the salon is closed. What to do?

Does your Salon have 24/7 online booking on the computer or even on a smartphone?

Who doesn’t like to receive something extra when we spend our money?

Does your Salon have a rewards program?

I want to go to a salon where they use professional products.

Ask questions, an informed customer is a happy customer. Questions like” What is it that you are using on my hair today” “What do you recommend I use for my dry scalp? Is the product you use sustainable? These are all questions you think about but sometimes don’t voice.   The Salon staff are all doing what they do best which is to give your hair the best treatment possible. Going for a haircut or color that you spend money on and purchasing products in a food store from someone who did not get training in hair care is not always the most advisable.

Does the Salon sell any product?

If a salon cares about you they would make it easy for you to purchase everything you need to take care of your hair’s optimal beauty. It includes everything from the shampoo to styling products and tools.

What is used in the back bar and styling chair should be sold in the retail section.

BEWARE: If a Salon is using only one or two big bottles of shampoo without labels and are trying to sell you products that they are not using while styling hair. These are usually the salons that are looking to make a sale and don’t care about your hair.

 I want to get my hair straightened but am scared because of all the formaldehyde scares.

Ask the stylist questions about the product they use in their salon. Not all Keratin treatments are toxic.

If the Salon cares about you and your hair they will not be using dangerous products.

I need to go out tonight and would love to get my makeup done as well.

Having a makeup station goes hand in hand with beautiful hair. Adding a little color to your face after getting your hair done makes you feel even better.

Is the salon you are going to a one stop chair?

Going to a salon where the Stylist and Colorist are all the same person could turn you into an ordinary person and sitting in the same person’s chair for hours could become boring. Having a fresh set of eyes doing your cut and color keeps your look new. Look for a departmentalized salon where the Stylists and Colorists are separate but working together to create an individualized look. Being departmentalized gives a stylist or colorist the opportunity to be experts in their field.

Taking care of your hair should be a number one priority from the Salon you go to.

Hair Studio Artists strive in excellence by offering our clients everything they need.  Online Booking, Smart Phone apps, Rewards Programs, Shampoo Beds, Professional Products, Professional Styling Tools, Safe Keratin Treatments, Makeup station, Departmentalized Salon with Affordable Services

THE IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL PRODUCT

Sure we all go into a salon and have a certain amount of product pushed in our faces, some pushier than others.

Some salons even have quotas and could care less what you buy so long as you buy.

You the consumer, are bombarded with ads, media, TV commercials as well as what your salon is trying to get you to buy.

The reality is that if you want amazing hair, your specific needs addressed, and to be able to maintain the investment you made in the salon on your hair itself; then you do need professional product.

But what product?

This is all based on your hairs’ individual need. This is your hair type, texture, color, and home habits.

Each salon hopefully and should believe in what they sell and use passionately, if they don’t you need to find another salon that does.

At Hair Studio Artists we not only believe in what we use but our color director and owner is a National Artist for the company used in the salon.

Unlike other salons we don’t advertise the brand, we utilize it. We don’t believe in using the top name of media hype mainstream product, you can find that anywhere; in CVS, Publix, Walgreens, etc.

Hair Studio Artists prides itself on working with small private label companies that produce in house product lines. By using private label we are able to seek out the highest quality of performance and ingredient without advertising for a company already in your face.

It’s the hair we believe in, you and your hair and what goes into the creation of it and the maintenance of it.

Our products are all natural, almost vegan and free of all harmful additives.

Best of all our average price is $20 across the board for everything we sell making it extremely affordable compared to media hyped brands and they outperform them as well.

Our shampoo line is broken down into needs such as color, hydration, and scalp. Our styling line is broken down by what it does, such as smoothing, texture, sculpture and so on.

This is why only the professional who touches your hair knows what it needs.

We feel so strongly that should any company we deal with start mass selling at drug stores or supermarkets or lower their quality standards we drop them ASAP, which is why we don’t waste time advertising for them.

It’s about you and our craft.

 

 

Sulfates: What’s all the attention?

Sulfates: What’s all the attention?

Many hair products, including shampoos and conditions, contain various sulfates, like sodium lauryl sulfate or SLS. Some companies produce hair care products that are sulfate-free, including both mainstream and natural or organic manufacturers.

Sulfates are detergents that produce lather. They are found in a variety of beauty products, including soaps, body washes, and shampoo. Sulfates break up grease on the hair, allowing it to be rinsed away. In hair products, like shampoo, sulfates remove natural oils, dirt and hair product residue. Sulfates can be rather harsh for sensitive skin, and may strip away color

 

These chemicals are the same chemical used to degrease engines. Like many things in our modern world, we are discovering safer/healthier alternatives.

The cold hard facts: your hair does NOT need to lather in order to clean your hair. While using a low-lather or no-lather shampoo will feel different, use a regular amount of shampoo with each wash and your hair will end up just as clean.

Common chemicals include Sodium Laureth Sulfate , Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Ammonium Lareth Sulfate and Myreth Sulfate, often referred to by initials like SLES, SLS, and ALS

·         People with really dry hair or hair that is generally more brittle and drier than other hair types. So this group in particular should look for other choices.

·         People with eczema and scalp conditions should stay clear too

·         Anyone with oily skin. This sounds counter intuitive. Surely someone with oily skin will want a product that strips the oil away. Unfortunately, the body will produce even more oil to replace that which has been lost. So avoiding sulfates would be a good plan for these folks too.

·         Anyone with chemically damaged hair or color treated hair. The sulfates will fade the color in your hair every time you wash it.

·         Anyone doing keratin treatments must stay away from sulfates

In today’s world that list covers the majority of people out there. Just like the discoveries in food science can work either for us or against us. As large companies dominate the market with what we call Franken-Science we will see more and more food and beauty products made with cheaper and more harmful ingredients. Just check out the Genetically Modified Food World.

All of our products are sulfate free and parabin free, natural and healthy. Best part of all is that every product of our sells for $20 across the board and is just 1 ingredient away from vegan. If doesn’t get better than that.

Treating your hair right is what will make your hair healthier, shiner, easier to manage, allow you to recreate what we’ve produced for you and gives the hard earned money you spent at our salon insurance that your look will last and be in the best care possible.

We currently carry product for color treated hair, hair that needs hydration/moisture, volume product for fine/limp hair, and a full line scalp products designed to heal issues of the scalp such as dandruff, dry or oily scalp. So we have something for everyone as very reasonable pricing.

The end result of your hair is a combination of what we do here and what you follow at home based on our professional recommendation.

 

 

 

Rocks in your Hair

Your Hair is full of Rocks!

What’s in your water and showerhead?

Its South Florida, the water is hard and full of minerals that attaches to your hair and produces discoloration, build-up, fade-age, and makes your hair feel dry and dull.

Hair has negative ions and water has positive ions.  Together they create a magnet and everything in your water attaches itself to your hair and fills up the strand with unhealthy mineral deposits. These deposits form as rocks in a tunnel. Your hair-shaft is filling up with all that it doesn’t need.

How about using positive ions with healthy components so when they attaché through the magnetic reaction your hair is better, shiny, healthy, full of life and longer lasting color.

So the next time you’re in the shower just look up. All those white caked-up deposits are calcium and all those green spots are copper. Imagine what they’re doing to your hair?

Let’s not forget lead and magnesium and if your color is always brassy or red then iron is the culprit.

If you want longer lasting color, healthier hair, longer lasting keratin treatments then Wellness Color is for you.

Our new Wellness Color Experience will excavate the rocks and produce healthy anti-oxidant color, and will cleanse and detox out the impurities.

If you are one of those people whose scalp gets sensitive from color services we can adapt your service using the same methodology, just inform us.

What you do and use at home is equally important since you cannot change the water supply. Using weekly at home treatments can cost as little as $10/week.

It is our firm belief that if your hair is not healthy or if your canvas is compromised than excellent color and cut is a continual challenge, it doesn’t have to be.