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How To Protect Your Hair From Summer Sun Damage
One of the best things about summer is the opportunity to get outside and enjoy the sun.
Rooftop pool parties, lunches on the patio, dancing around at festivals, and tropical vacations
give us all a much needed opportunity to soak up some rays. When you are in the sun, its im-
portant to stay protected. Your hair needs just as much protection as your skin, or it could
suffer from summer sun damage and end up dry and brittle. The signs of sun damage are easy
to spot, here’s how to stay protected...without having to wear a hat.
1. Your hair color has faded. If so, try using a color protection shampoo. This will lock in hair color and repair strands from within.
2. You have split ends after a trim. This problem can be fixed with a simple summer haircut.
3. Your hair is extremely dry. Buy more moisturizing hair products loaded with UV protec-tion.
4. Hair becomes brittle and breaks. If this happens, lessen your use of thermal heat. This ,along with the sun, can damage hair.
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Inside This Issue
Hair Distribution………………………….2
Lace Wigs…………………………………….2
Using Your Intuition……………………..3
Barefoot at the Airport………………..3
Hillary Clinton Makes History……..4
Salontra Expands………………………...4
Salontra Founder Honored………….5
What’s Happening……………………….5
Birthdays……………………………………..6
Salontra Business Journal The “Suite” Choice of Salon Professionals
Summer 2016 Issue
Butler, Meg, “How to Protect Your Hair From Sun Damage”, June 9, 2016, madamenoire.com.web
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The Truth Behind Hair Distribution in the U.S.
As we all know, more and more
women are turning to closures and
frontals when wearing extensions.
These hair applications are giving
women the option to do more with
their extensions. A closure mimics a
part in the hair, while frontals mimic
a person’s full hairline. This gives
women the opportunity to give their
edges, and the hair that is left out, a
break from the pulling and manipu-
lation of a standard sew in.
Essence Magazine sat down with the
hair guru himself, Tokyo Stylez, to
see how he installs his lace closures
and frontals.
“Tokyo Stylez has styled the wigs of
some of your favorite celebs— Kar-
rueche Tran and Kylie Jenner are just
two A-Listers on a long list of celeb-
rity clientele. At ESSENCE Festival
this year we caught up with the hair
guru to get the scoop on how to
blend your wig seamlessly with your
natural hair and his must-have prod-
uct for making wig silk look like scalp
that blew our minds!
‘I never use foundation on my
wigs— I always tint my lace with
fabric dye,’ says Stylez. His dye of
choice is RIT Fabric Dye. Start by
dying the knots on your wig using a
powder bleach mix; this will also
lighten the lace making it easier to
tint. For an even more natural look,
tweeze the hairline to give it a more
natural density.”
“Hair Guru Tokyo Stylze Gives the Scoop On
Slaying Your Lace Wig Like a Pro!”, January,
17, 2016, essence.com.web
Diishan Imira is the co-founder/CEO of Mayvenn Inc., a VC-backed innovative technology platform that has re-shaped the distribution of retail products and af-forded hair stylists an opportunity to earn a direct profit from selling hair extensions and other beauty products to their clients. Here, Imira gives us the scoop on the fu-ture of innovative retail distribution in the hair industry. ESSENCE.com: How did you get into this business? Diishan Imira: I have hair stylists in my family and had exposure to this world growing up. My professional career was primarily in international trade and supply chain. I lived in China for several years, as well as other places around the world, making money by importing products back to the U.S. A family member asked me to help her get some hair-extensions from overseas. In the process of helping her I discovered I had a lucrative product and began selling hair to salons in east and west Oakland. As I began learning more about the economics of the products, and especially the nature of the existing distri-bution, I thought it was crazy that the sa-lons were not the ones selling the prod-ucts. I had my “ah ha” moment, and the rest is history. ESSENCE.com: Mayvenn’s goal is to create
a new distribution channel for beauty
entrepreneurs to increase their profits.
Can you tell us why this is so needed in
t h e b e a u t y i n d u s t r y ?
Imira: Our position at Mayvenn is that hair
stylists and beauty professionals are the
some of the most important people we
have in society. Everyone wants to look
and feel their best, and go to either a styl-
ist, barber or beauty professional to help
them do this. They bring out the beauty
and confidence in all of us, and we think
that’s very important. We think it’s time
that stylists get both the recognition they
deserve, AND earn incomes that reflect
their true value.
ESSENCE.com: Aside from increasing their
revenue, what are the other benefits of
hairstylists selling products directly to
t h e i r c l i e n t s ?
Imira: It adds to your professionalism. It
becomes another service that you can of-
fer your clients—the convenience of buy-
ing without having to go the beauty supply
store and getting a better customer service
experience. This reflects well on you as a
professional and your clients appreciate it.
Also, as we expand our product offerings,
stylists will be able to recommend and sell
better products that may not even be
available at beauty supply stores. The goal
is to help you generate even more value
for yourself and your clients.
ESSENCE.com: What do you attribute to
M a y v e n n ’ s r a p i d g r o w t h ?
Imira: It's simple. We have a real solution
to a real problem. When you have a great
product, people talk about it, and it
spreads. We have a tremendous amount of
word of mouth. What would you do if you
saw the stylist next to you making an extra
$1,000 a month?
ESSENCE.com: We see more and more
investors betting on minority tech foun-
ders. Why do you think we are seeing this
t r e n d i n t e c h n o l o g y r i g h t n o w ?
Imira: There are more of us coming to Sili-
con Valley every day, so I think just in
terms of volume we’ll see more of it. Inves-
tors are also beginning to realize there may
be advantage in finding and investing in
people who come from different places
than what’s typical. Unique perspectives
tend to lead to unique ideas, and that’s
where opportunity exists.
Tips & Tricks
“The Truth Behind Hair Distribution”, March 16, 2016, essence.com.web
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Intuition Is Your Superpower
With the TSA lines not getting any shorter,
many of us wait a while before we take off
our shoes, belts or other accessories that
need to be scanned in their security x-ray
machines. But when the moment arrives to
do so, we find ourselves rushing and walking
barefoot through the security body scanner,
especially during the summer travel season.
Although the quick moment doesn’t seem
harmful, Smarter Travel says otherwise.
In their piece, Why You Should Never Go
Barefoot In Airport Security, author Caroline
Morse quoted Dr. Michael Nirenburg, reiter-
ating the importance of travelers keeping a
barrier between their feet and the airport’s
bare floor. “The risk is raised in cases of
open sores or wounds, cuts, abrasions, dry,
fissured skin, or poor circulation, diabetes…
children are more susceptible to catching
warts because their immune system is not
fully developed,” Dr. Nirenburg claims.
Other physicians note that travelers may
even risk developing Athlete’s Foot if they
walk through TSA’s security passage bare-
foot. However in their blog, TSA says the
Department of Health found that the possi-
bility of one catching foot fungus or worse is
remotely impossible unless the floor is wet
or moist…
Dr. Kathyrn H. Jacobson told Conde Nast
Traveler, “ just about every floor surface-at
shopping centers, gyms, airports, and other
places –is located in bacteria like E. coli and
Staph as wells as other pathogens.” Mean-
ing, once bacteria seeps into your skin, you
will be at risk for an infection. Although
chances of this actually occurring are pretty
low, Dr. Jacobsen suggests you carry an
extra pair of socks in your pocket to cover
your feet as you go through the security
check, especially if you suffer from diabetes
or any other foot-related problem.
“Shoul.d You Really Walk Barefoot Through
Airport Security?”, July 26, 2016, madem-
noire.com.web
Your intuition is like a superpower. We
use it every day in a thousand ways.
We use is it in every transaction, nego-
tiation and relationship we engage in.
Intuition is a deep inner listening.
And we all have this ability.
Intuition is a faculty of higher mind. It
is a kind of extra sensory perception, as
it were. Intuition allows us to discern
between the billions of information
bits that we are thinking, to discover
by filtering through all of this sensory
data, the common denominator, which
is: the truth of something.
There is often so much mental clutter
around certain subjects, especially
ones that are important to us, that we
sometimes cannot cognize what we
think. That’s because we are thinking
everything at the same time! When
we’re afraid, and especially when we
feel our lives depend on it, we can be
thinking thousands of thoughts simul-
taneously with no conscious prioritiza-
tion. This can put us into utter chaos.
But just behind the veil of the pros-and
-cons list of our life, and all the myriad
information that we pick up along the
way - behind all that data - waiting pa-
tiently for us, is our personal inner
knowing. Not what the world would
say, not what someone else thinks
about a subject, but our very own pre-
cious knowing.
Intuition helps us sense our way
through life’s problems. We can sense
when to move and when not to move.
We can feel the intentions of another.
We can intuit if something is right for
us or not. It is literally our “inner
sight.” It is our insight!
Your intuition is the most accurate
gauge of someone’s intention and
heart. Your intuition can tell you what
something really is. By heeding this
deep inner listening, the truth of it can
shine through. Because we really do
know, or I should say, we can know.
We just need to stop, and consciously
ask ourselves...
...and then, listen.
Like this:
Become quiet inside yourself. This is
very like a little mini-meditation. Sit
perfectly still and empty your mind.
When you think of the decision, the
person, or the situation, what do you
intuit? (Not, what do you think.) For
the moment, put aside your opinions,
judgments, or preconceived ideas.
What does your heart know? What is
your intuition?
Really, deeply listen.
Does your inner self give you a thumbs
-up or a thumbs-down? Is there an in-
ternal nod of YES, or a squeezing con-
tracted feeling of NO? You will feel it. It
is very definite.
Should You Walk Barefoot
Through Airport Security?
Lang, Diana, “Intuition Is Your Superpower”, August 1, 2016, huffingtonpost.com.web
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Hillary Clinton’s life, in many respects, traces the arc of progress for women in American society. Her mother, Dorothy Rodham, was born in 1919, a year before the 19th Amend-ment gave women the vote.
It has taken a long, long time for that amend-ment’s promise of women’s full participation in American democracy to be realized. Mrs. Clin-ton moved it a big step closer this week, as she became the first woman nominated for the presidency by a major party.
Mrs. Clinton’s nomination — bringing women, barred first by law and then by custom, to the pinnacle of American politics — is to be cele-brated as inspiration for young Americans, and as hope for women in nations and cultures that deny them the most basic opportunities. It is further proof that opening doors to women elevates and strengthens our nation.
At a moment when political discourse is divisive and dark, Mrs. Clinton acknowledged stiff chal-lenges but summoned optimism in her call Thursday night for Americans to work together. “America is once again at a moment of reckon-ing,” she said. “Bonds of trust and respect are fraying,” she said. “We are cleareyed about what our country is up against. But we are not afraid. We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have.”
Mrs. Clinton, who grew up in an era of few op-portunities for women, revealed strength and tenacity building a career that spanned the world. Her education and work ethic eventually opened many avenues to her, and — despite forays into lucrative and sometimes regrettable pursuits like her corporate speechmaking — she has always returned to a path of service.
For four decades, Mrs. Clinton has listened to and spoken for children and the poor. She has absorbed personal and professional blows that
of state to strike the right balance between
what society expected of women and what she
aspired to accomplish.
The first time Mrs. Clinton ran for president, in 2008, she all but ignored the historic nature of her candidacy; this time she has embraced it. Yet lingering uncertainty over how to combine Mrs. Clinton’s skills, experience and femininity into a winning package was apparent during this week’s convention, as Democrats and her own husband toggled awkwardly between por-traying her as a mother and wife, and as a po-tential commander in chief.
When Barack Obama was inaugurated as the nation’s first African-American president, histo-rians wondered what combination of qualifica-tions, experience and personality made him, of all black leaders, the one to break through that barrier. Such questions are, if anything, even sharper for Mrs. Clinton. Is she the nominee because she has more relevant experience than just about any candidate for the presidency, or because she is the wife of a former president? Skeptical voters have scrutinized her age, voice, tone, even clothing as qualifiers for the White House. Small wonder women make up less than one-fifth of Congress, and only six are gover-nors.
Mrs. Clinton’s rise has not been smooth or par-ticularly graceful. Some of her positions seem born more of political expediency than convic-tion. She can be secretive and defensive. Her failure to hold an open news conference for months shows a reluctance to submit to legiti-mate questions. Her candidacy itself is an act of courage; greater transparency would demon-strate that she does not intend to govern from a position of fear. Her challenge now is to per-suade voters to judge her on her merits and ideas, rather than her gender or her husband’s record.
Salontra Expands!
After operating in Catonsville for
more than 8 years, Salontra Select
Suites is ready to expand its footprint
into Southern Maryland. The new
Laurel location at Maryland City
Plaza, will open on 2017. Anchored
by retailers such as TJ Maxx, Pier 1
Imports, and Shoppers Food, it will
consist of 47 suites with
contemporary furnishings and
feature the Salontra Café.
“Stylists from across the state are
anxious for us to arrive and we are
ready to give them the service they
desire,” says founder Wilson Nolley,
Jr. For more information about leas-
ing in Laurel, contact the manage-
ment office at 410-719—6107.
New Executive Suites in Catonsville
In addition to Laurel, Salontra Select
Suites opened a new lower level in
Catonsville. Many salon owners want
the benefits of operating in a large
space that can accommodate three
to six stylists and a reception area
without the overhead expense.
Always focused on the needs of the
stylists, Salontra opened executive
suites in June to accommodate such
requests. The lower level will also
house an educational conference
center and corporate offices.
Hillary Clinton Makes History
What is already clear is that Mrs. Clinton
has had to work fiercely hard, under a
withering scrutiny no male candidate
would face, and that that hard work has
now resulted in a profound service to
the nation: A short time ago, the idea
that a woman would attain her party’s
presidential nomination was beyond
audacious; it no longer is.
Editorial Board, “Hillary Clinton Makes
History”, July 29, 2016, newyork-
times.com.web
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Entrepreneur of the Year Salontra Founder Honored by Maryland and Baltimore County
Wilson A. Nolley, Jr, established Salontra Select Suites in 2007 to provide an alternative solution to stylists seeking to grow
beyond the traditional booth rental business model. Through hard work, perseverance, and prayer he built a salon community
that is the largest in the country—housing more than 143 suites and 200 beauty professionals.
In June, the State of Maryland and Baltimore County recognized Mr. Will for his 30 years of entrepreneurial experience and
contribution to the Catonsville community. Representatives from the office of Councilman Tom Quirk, (D) 1st District ,
Baltimore County and Delegate Charles Sydnor III, (D)44th Legislative District, Maryland joined the Salontra family at a reception
to present Mr. Will with official citations and a resolution.
WHAT’S HAPPENING
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Happy Birthday
To
Salontra Select Proprietors
June
(1) Alice - 136
(1) Jackie - 138
(9) Ivory - 76
(80)-Monica-10
(10) Monica - 03
(11) Tia - 134
(12)Antwon-156
(15)Katrina - 66
(17)Shayeeda - 92
(18)Constance - 128
(21)Ebony - 71
(22)Brandi - 112
(23)Shanae-104
July
(2) Monica-35
(6) Cassandra-97
(7) Ayana - 59
(8) Tammy - 05
(9) India-102
(13)Tope-104
(14)Dana - 74
(14)Mia - 63
(15)BeBe - 153
(20)Lena-85
(22)-Tyffany-21
(24)-Keely-78
(25)Nicole - 117
(25) Tiara-55
August
(2) Aisha - 50
(3) Dominique - 88
(6) Tekesha - 118
(8) Nigel - 70
(10)Irene - 102
(16)MiMi-131
(18) Latushia-151
(19)Kristen-82
(19) Shawna-142
(21)Nikki - 45
(26)Michelle - 35
(28)Jocelyn-95
(29)Shanise-101
(31) Mary-80