Roundtable: Professional
Anti-Lice Hair Care

Why this is your next huge moneymaking niche. Plus, a look at the three suppliers that’ll help you build it.

by Marc Birenbaum

Lice and the professional beauty industry? Yes, at first, it does sound a bit out of the ordinary. Feel free to chuckle to yourself if you’d like. For some time at Beauty Store Business, however, we’ve seen professional anti-lice haircare products and services as growth areas—and we strongly believe that both will continue to get larger.

That’s the reason for this special presentation—to publicize the topic and educate our readers about the lice market and its associated pro beauty products. And who better to talk to about them than the industry’s three current suppliers: Fairy Tales Hair Care, Lousey Nitpickers and Circle of Friends? Here’s our roundtable discussion with Risa Barash, executive director and co-owner of Fairy Tales Hair Care; M. Evan Parker, director of sales and marketing, and co-founder of Lousey Nitpickers; and Eleanor Keare, president of Circle of Friends. Specifics about each of these three manufacturers and their products are provided in the Suppliers Guide on pages 54 and 56. Monetizing lice does sound a bit funny, doesn’t it? Until, that is, your main competitor does it first!

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Light, Bright and Vibrant

Check out these new nail-polish collections for spring and summer 2010.

by Shelley Moench-Kelly

The change of seasons marks not only rebirth but a reemergence from the dark, cold days of winter just past. Along with this rebirth comes a whole new flock of nail-polish colors that range from the palest shimmers to the most vibrant crèmes. Warmer days lie just around the corner, so make sure to heat up your sales with these new hot color collections for spring and summer 2010.

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