Facial Steamers for Faster Hair Treatments and Facial Steamers for More Luxurious Skin Treatments

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April 18, 2009

I’m just back from the salon equipment trade show and saw some fabulous facial machines and hair steamers. If we invest a couple of thousand dollars and some hard work, we can change this dated beauty salon into a chic beauty spa. The most promising machines I saw were the facial steamers and the hair steamers.

First we need to strip off the avocado wallpaper that screams 1970s, replace the carpeting, and have someone build a new receptionist’s desk. The mirrors can stay. We should be able to take them down, redo the walls, and then rehang them. Of course, we need new lighting, but that shouldn’t be too expensive. The new spa needs nice, bright lighting to illuminate our work, but it needs to be soft, not harsh, to set the tone of a relaxing place for our clients to renew their looks. We should get new the chairs, but that can wait. They’ll do for the moment until the machines pay for themselves. I’d recommend a color scheme of Tuscan Red and Mustard. Those colors are all over the magazines and furniture stores. Maybe add touches of olive green or butter yellow here and there. And let’s replace the old boom box with a more updated sound system so that we can provide soothing music to create the relaxing spa atmosphere.

Hair steamers are the latest thing in hair care. One booth at the show had wall-mounted ones and free-standing ones. These hair steamers are useful for just about any hair treatment. They speed up the process and are much more gentle to the hair than other heat sources. We can use it for perms, dyes, hair straightening, among other things. The ones that caught my eye were from Taiwan and seemed to be of better quality than the Chinese ones. In another booth I saw a computerized hair dryer. It provides extra heat for hair that needs it for a good set. It also has an easy-to-read digital read-out that I could read from salon distances.

But what really made me want to turn our beauty salon into a beauty spa were the facial machines. I saw a a large variety of skincare machines at the show. I saw facial steamers that were free standing or with lamps, magnifiers, and timers. They also had a line of machines that have spray/vacuum, a galvanic unit, and a brush unit. These machines were very affordable. If we want to really become a full-service facial spa, we could really use the facial machine with eight functions. It is more expensive, but it would pay for itself when we bring in high-end clients.

The possibilities are exciting! I brought back a stack of brochures about all types of salon equipment. I’ll read through them and do some online research to figure out how we can redecorate our salon and refit it with the best set of equipment so that we can attract more upscale clients with a full-service beauty spa.

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