Two Ohio salons dominate the list of top Vish Waste Warriors, according to the team behind the color management app. This April, Vish is celebrating Earth Month by naming the best in the industry for boosting color profits and protecting the planet by ending color waste.
Reve Salon & Spa in Sylvania, Toledo, which has slashed color costs by $400 a week, is the top Salon Waste Warrior, with three of its team in the top five. But it is Karen Welch, owner of SoZo HAIR by Bajon Salon & Spa in West Chester, Cincinnati, who clinched the top spot for personally cutting her color waste by half and bringing the average amount she spends on color per service to the lowest in North America. Her efficiency has impacted on the whole salon.
“Vish can literally save salons,” says Karen of SoZo, who has 37 years’ experience behind her. “We cut the amount of product mixed by half, therefore our dollar spend on color went down by half. In our case, it comes down to about $25,000 extra towards the bottom line.”
Karen has personally brought her average color cost per service down to $2.12. Close behind is Renee Gavioli of Reve Salon & Spa in Toledo, who dispenses just $2.17 worth of color while still producing amazing results. A further two Reve stylists make it into the top five: Chris Schnabel and owner Carmen Wigmans. Most of them have cut the cost of the color wasted per client down to less than 50¢; Renee has an average of just 23¢ of color left over after each service.
Both salons introduced Vish to ensure greater efficiency in their color departments, with the app helping stylists refine their formulas so only the amounts needed for each client are dispensed. This has led to huge savings on color costs and the amount of chemicals habitually being washed down the basin by the beauty industry.
To identify the top Waste Warriors, Vish looked at average dispensing costs per service over six months and cost of waste left rather than simply comparing month-by-month figures, which could be affected by lockdown and capacity limits in place in various parts of the continent. It also considered reweighing stats and length of time each stylist had used Vish to get a clear picture of those who had made the greatest savings.
The Karine Jackson team has dominated the inaugural Vish Waste Warrior Awards, bagging three of the top stylist places while the salon seized the overall winning slot. Simon Hall, Karine Jackson and Alexia Legrand won first, second and fourth place in the awards, launched this month by Vish to celebrate Earth Month and to recognise those boosting their colour profits and protecting the planet by ending colour waste.
To identify the top Waste Warriors, Vish, the colour management system, looked at average dispensing costs per service over six months and the cost of wasted product rather than simply comparing month-by-month figures, which could be affected by lockdown and capacity limits. It also considered reweighing stats and length of time each stylist had used Vish to get a clear picture of those who had made the greatest savings.
Simon was named top stylist for personally bringing his average colour cost per service down to just £2.94, followed closely by Karine, whose colour costs average £3.03 per service. Both have brought their actual waste per service down so much that costs are well under 50p: Simon disposes of just 32p of colour per service while Karine beats him at 29p per service.
‘My clients know that since we introduced Vish I’m not wasting any colour and that they are getting their money’s worth,’ says Simon, who has helped the salon convert its colour business from a commodity into a highly profitable part of the business.
None of the top twenty Waste Warriors uses more than £5 worth of colour per service or disposes of colour above the value of £1.
Misho Hair Studio in Stockbridge, Hampshire, which came third in the salon category, embraced Vish to help refine its stylists’ formulas so only the correct amounts for each client were dispensed, leading to huge savings on colour costs.
‘Vish enables us to improve efficiencies and charge our clients the correct price for the colour used, rather than spreading the cost by averages. And by reducing our wastage, we maximise our teams potential earnings,’ says Misho Dimitrov.
Top Salons in NA
- Rêvé Salon and Spa
- Jem Hair Studio
- Craft and Theory
- Pure Eco Wellness Salon
- Luxe Salon and Design
Top UK Stylists
- Simon Hall – Karine Jackson Sustainable Hair Salon
- Karine Jackson – Karine Jackson Sustainable Hair Salon
- Seraphim Williams – Nikki Froud Hairdressing
- Alexia Legrand – Karine Jackson Sustainable Hair Salon
- Aimee Hudson – Conrad Blandford
Top Uk Salons
- Karine Jackson Sustainable Hair Salon
- CC hair salon
- Misho hair studio
- Elevan hair salon
- Mayfair and grace
To read more about 2021’s Waste Warriors, click here.
