Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
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I write about hair and business and the business of hair from both sides of the chair. I am a veteran salon owner, master hair stylist, colorist and educator. I am Vidal Sasson Certified and Framesi Hair Color Certified. I love to do hair, I belive in education and a superior work, life balance. Every day in the salon and in business is a new day full of creativity, opportunity and growth.
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
7M ago
HairQueen News
It is with joy and a little sorrow that I after a fantastic ten year run I am announcing the closing of Swans Studios.
Thank You Swans Studios
My lease is up, I’m retired from my full-time career and now it’s time to close my brick-and-mortar business doors.
The good news is that 936B Clay Street will reopen under new ownership by Diane Zelaya, my long-time associate and friend.
Congratulations Diane
Join me in wishing Diane well in her new business endeavor and me well in this phase of my retirement plan.
Don't worry I will contin ..read more
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
9M ago
Hairqueen News
My transition into retirement continues, it’s a bit like growing out your hair or your hair color.
It’s exciting at first to try something new, but then the reality sets in, your bangs are in your eyes, your grey is showing.
Will you like the new look, will you feel like yourself, will you regret it and go back? The only way to find out is to try.
I find in my retired life, like growing out hair there are some bad hair days.
On those days, I miss my color bowls and foils, the sounds and the smells of the salon. And all of you.
Yet, I’m grateful t ..read more
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
1y ago
HairQueen News
The past six months since I stepped into semi-retirement life have flown by!
My new schedule of one-day-a-week continues to be working out.
I truly do miss so many of you from my full-time schedule.
There have been times that I have grieved this change and times I pinch myself in gratitude for this change, especially for the time with my granddaughters.
I continue to offer my gray hair transition specialty service. If you or someone you know is ready to embrace their grey, I would love the referral. Check out this article here for more details.
For ..read more
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
1y ago
HairQueen News
On October 1 2022 after 40 plus years of working full-time I stepped way-back from the salon chair and way-into retirement life.
As the date grew closer, I was and still am all over the place with so many feelings and uncertainties about how to navigate this next stage.
To mark the occasion of my retirement I had a wonderful party, please see the previous blog: Retirement Party
Next, I went on a celebratory trip which included a week sailing the Atlantic Ocean on the Queen Mary 2.
So exciting!
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean ..read more
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
1y ago
HairQueen News:
I celebrated a big milestone, forty years of being a hairstylist and 25 years as a business owner.
I was planning to completely retire but then I decided to keep the “tip of my scissors” in for a while longer. This decision means I am free to step into a new phase of life as I gradually let go of my wonderful salon career.
We had a party — it was fantastic! I loved every minute. My heat overflowed as my clients, colleagues, and family helped me mark this milestone.
&nbs ..read more
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
1y ago
HairQueen News:
I hope these summer days are finding you in good health and spirits as we navigate this current stage of pandemic life.
I am staying healthy and hopeful as our lives adjust to the on-going Coronavirus Pandemic and the latest BA.4 and BA.5 viruses.
I am grateful that my granddaughters have received the vaccine and hopeful for all of us as we move towards herd immunity.
The summer days are lovely and long and yet I am aware that I am rapidly approaching my full-time retirement date of October 1 2022!
Time to put my feet up ?
As the date gets closer, I am all o ..read more
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
2y ago
HairQueen News:
March is here and brings with it more twists and turns for me and my businesses.
My wonderful virtual assistant, Rebecca, needs to step back from her client load. I have throughly enjoyed working with Rebecca and I wish her well.
I met Rebecca through Freedom Makers, a company founded by my client and friend, Laura. We met through Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC) when we both attended an ICCC course in Oakland.
I was one of Laura’s first clients and I have been thrilled to watch her company grow over the years.
Here's a throwback ..read more
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
2y ago
Hair Queen News
Thank you all for your kind words regarding my retirement later this year.
I had hoped to make it to my retirement without too many bumps along the way. Ha! I was exposed to Covid and boom! The Omicron variant got me, my husband, and maybe little Never.
My husband, Michael and I followed all the CDC and Kaiser guidelines. We isolated, quarantined, rested, read, hydrated, recuperated, cancelled, and rescheduled our lives. We had mild symptoms and thankfully nobody we were close to before our diagnosis tested positive, including our grandchildren. Little Neve ..read more
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
2y ago
Hairqueen News
It's 2022! I am now in my 40th and last year of hairstyling! I went to Cosmetology School in 1982 and I will be retiring this September.
This is the current plan, although if we have learned anything since March 2020, it's that anything can derail the best laid plans.
What does this mean for you? It means we have until September to keep you looking fabulous and, after September, we’ll find you someone great to keep you coiffed.
In other news, I am now in my 25th year of salon ownership! Swans Studios will be nine in August and I owned Topps Salon Day Spa for ..read more
Runs Businesses With Scissors Blog
2y ago
HairQueen News
Last December, salons were closed. Then came 2021 and all it entailed.
I'm so grateful the salon is open now!
Photo credit: Tim Mossholder
We got our vaccines, stylists continued to work masked, clients stayed masked. Professionally, my love for hair and you, my clients, got me through.
What a relief to be fully vaccinated!
On the personal side, I became a Glamma again!
Isla, her new little sister, Pali Lu, plus my family and friends got me through the rest of it all.
Isla and Pali Lu
What helped you get through this past year?
I ..read more