Beauty Supply Store
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A beauty supply store is the source for most hair care products sold by retail hair spas across the country. The scissors, hair dryers, curling irons, steam setters, flat irons that are used in salons across the country are heavier and more durable than those sold for home use, and are only available from suppliers of professional equipment. Larger cities have at least one of these vendors to take care of immediate needs for the various salons around town. In many cases the public cannot buy in these supply houses. The often reduced rate for many of the popular shampoos and hair gels that are sold for retail in the salon can be purchased at wholesale price or lower from these suppliers. Allowing the public to buy at the salon prices would endanger many businesses efforts to make a profit.
A person wishing to open a hair styling business that will use a beauty supply store will usually have been an employee at another salon before opening one on his or her own. To become a cosmetologist or esthetician, the newest moniker for this occupation, most states require a license to cut hair, a license that is awarded after certain courses are passed. A cosmetologist is a broad term referring to anyone that assists the public in the enhancement of appearance. In most cases, a person is not called a cosmetologist until he or she has passed the state examination for licensing. The requirements for getting into cosmetology school are varied from school to school with the majority of schools requiring a high school diploma. Some schools only require an eighth grade education.
It's not difficult to understand why states would want to license estheticians. For one thing, they are dealing with tools that can easily cut people, and not a leg or arm, but around the head, one of the most copious places on the body for blood vessels and extremely important organs such as eyes, ears and brain. Estheticians are also dealing with chemicals such as bleaches and dyes that go on the scalp, some of the many products purchased at a beauty supply store. Additionally, many who work in expanded salon/spas work with nails, including cutting and shaping them. Most people would appreciate knowing that their fingers are in the hands of a trained clinician. There is a great deal of emphasis in America on beauty and outward appearance, yet God has no interest in how a person looks, but the rather the condition of the person's spiritual condition. "...for the Lord seeth not as a man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart." (1 Samuel 16:7)
In most cases, courses to a actually learn how to cut and style hair usually last about six months, but there are certain salons that feature particular patented styling techniques that will take longer to master. Many of those who attend cosmetology school study to be certified in more than one area of the business. A beauty supply store will not just stock hair care products and tools, but will also supply the supplies needed for other services that so many modern salon/spas offer. These services include skin care services, make up application and nail services. Some salons are moving into the area of massage therapy, aroma therapy and even acupuncture. Of course, the clinicians performing these services must be licensed far beyond the cosmetology licensure. And more and more beauty supply store vendors that wish to service these expanding spa and salons will add to their inventory to service these modern spas.
For the person who believes that he or she might be a good candidate to own and run a beauty supply store, it will take more than a license in cosmetology or being an esthetician. Like many mechanics who want to run their own garage or dog groomers who want their own business, they soon learn that running a business is a whole lot different than just being one of the employees. Right here and now, the truth might as well be said as clearly as possible: it is advisable to any person longing to own their own salon or beauty supply store to recognize before ever becoming an owner or manager that being the owner of a business has its own set of issues unrelated entirely to cutting hair or cutting nails. There are inventory and tax issues, employee relations and customer relations and both of those can be plenty exasperating. if a haircut is messed up, at least the hair will grow out in a few weeks and the customer will eventually get happy again, but is a tax code is violated or an employee's rights are violated, these issues don't go away after four weeks.
If you are the manager now of a large salon spa or a small stylist service, there is no doubt you have gotten to know the manger of your nearby beauty supply store. There are plenty of suppliers online where a person can buy supplies perhaps even cheaper than at that corner supply store a few miles away. But if one of the employees drops the last box of henna at five o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, that relationship that has been developed with that beauty supply vendor over the years can certainly pay off handsomely. Especially if she is willing to stay open a few minutes past closing in order for you to come and new case of henna.
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