Voting is live!

All eyes are on the $28,000 Vish Color Bar Makeover giveaway as it enters its final stages, with just three salons – from a staggering 1,500 entries – shortlisted for a beauty industry prize of epic proportions. Now the ultimate decision of which of the three will win a personalized color bar rebuild and inventory restock, along with the Gift of Vish, is in your hands. Voting runs from Oct 15-20th, giving you just six days to vote.

The winning salon will receive a personalized color bar – built by premier supplier Minerva Beauty – that will reinvigorate their business and include everything necessary to help guarantee profit with every service. Along with the new color bar, Vish will provide a color inventory restock (valued at $5,000) to replenish the new shelves, and, of course, the Gift of Vish, the complete system with iPad, scales, stands, mixing mats, set-up, onsite team training, and 1:1 coaching; together worth an incredible $28,000.

So who should win? First, meet the finalists – three different salons with very different stories – and then cast your vote.

Alessandro Salon, St. Catharines, Ontario, 4 Chairs

Opened in 1977 by Rachel Fortino’s father, Alessandro Salon has had the same color bar from the beginning. But it’s time to bring it into the 21st century. “Our salon is in a 120-year-old historic building. It’s beautiful but requires a lot of maintenance and investment,” says Rachel. “My sister and I work very hard to keep the salon going, especially after the hit from COVID and now with the struggling economy. We have wanted to redecorate our color bar for years, but it’s always been the last on the totem pole to get done.”

She knows the salon isn’t playing to its strengths with such an old color bar, and a revamp would help make it and the team more efficient. They’ve already embraced technology to ramp up the organization, including Phorest and Vish, which integrate with one another. 

“We would love to be able to offer our team a new color bar so they can create beautiful hair in an efficient and functional space. This is our dream,” she adds.

Arizona Hair Co, Queen Creek, Arizona, 10 Chairs

When Michelle Patcher bought this family-run business she was new to the beauty industry but already feeling the passion. She immediately recognized she had a winning team at Queen Creek. “We have an amazing group of girls. I couldn’t ask for better and they are so deserving,” she says. “But they are cramped into this tiny little area, trying to mix colors all day long. It would be really fantastic if I could reward their hard work with a beautiful new color bar and expand the space’s efficiency.”

It is such a busy salon where there are more stylists than chairs, and often when every chair is full, 10 color services are active simultaneously. Michelle would love to transform the space to be open, less hectic, and more professional-looking. 

“When you walk into a salon and it has a beautiful color bar, there’s a sense of confidence and pride,” adds Michelle. “If your stylists can be proud of their environment I feel it will rub off on the clients.”

Salon Fusion, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, 12 Chairs

For Salon Fusion’s owner, Alisha Helseth, the joy of owning a salon is in the opportunity it gives to help others grow and develop as stylists. It’s her passion. 

“I think we’re an incredibly strong, cultured team that gives back to our community. We focus on leading with gratitude – servant hearts. So I feel like that sets us apart. In today’s world I feel like everything right now is costing so much,” says Alisha. “As a salon owner I’m constantly trying to find ways to run and have a profit, and still yet give my team what they need. I try to do it in fun ways, but since COVID, there just hasn’t been a lot of extra profit to do those kinds of things.”

A brand new, beautifully designed color bar, stocked with the team’s favorite brands and with Vish center stage is just what she thinks they need to revitalize the salon’s culture.  

“It would bring excitement and motivation back to measuring color, and properly completing tickets the way they should be,” she adds. “And with Vish, it would make replenishing inventory so easy.

Cast Your Vote

Visit https://getvish.com/color-bar-makeover-finalists to place your votes for who will win the $28K Color Bar Makeover Giveaway! Voting closes Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 11:59 pm ET.