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Building The Brand Called You – R + Co and V76 President, Reuben Carranza

Owner, Jack Ray and Reuben Carranza

Reuben Carranza, President of Luxury Brand Partners brands, R + Co and V76, recently visited Samuel Cole Salon. Reuben left his role as CEO of The Wella Professional Division of Proctor and Gamble to join the corporation LBP, which is revolutionizing the luxury beauty market.

Reuben’s talk focused on helping stylist identify their career “sweet spot”. He emphasized the need for each individual stylist to find what is important to them and identify what their ‘brand” means. It’s very important to be able to take a step back to evaluate their work and also to have a sponsor or mentor evaluate them as well. Someone on the outside can find the blind spots they might not be able to see from within. It’s about connecting with their clients on another level. A professional who is consistently giving a great performance will see it reflected in their work.

Samuel Cole Salon and Reuben

Reuben’s talk on branding yourself revolved around the importance of evaluating your career based on performance, image and exposure. Your performance, should be outstanding and consistent in terms of your technical skill. Image showcases the mental impression you make with others. Exposure focused on getting your name out there to fuel your career success with social media being a means to document your work then posting it for others to see your creativity.

Being a stylist we look to grow creatively but sometimes we need to look at it differently at a business perspective to grow in our careers.” Stylist Natalie Bowers

Samuel Cole Master Stylists Attend Luxury Brand Partner’s New Miami Studios

Alley, Nikki, Ronnie Stam, and Carolyn at Miami Studio’s

Master Stylists Carolyn Nord, Nikki Kepley, Cara Harrison and Alley Biehl traveled to Luxury Brand Partners newest venture, Miami Studios. Luxury Brand Partners is the parent company of high-end product lines; Oribe, R + Co, V76, and Smith and Cult. The stylists attended The Textured Wrap class taught by brilliant and creative stylist, Ronnie Stam who serves as Oribe’s Global Artistic Director.

The master level class consisted of sculpting the hair without the use of pins. The “Sculpted Tease” was a creative challenge and provided an extraordinary experience.

Ronnie’s early career began by spending much of his time in his fathers well respected salon in Amsterdam. Early on, Ronnie was introduced to a fellow Dutchman and hair legend Christiaan, who became his mentor.

Ronnie was Christiaan’s first assistant in Tokyo, Paris, Milan and New York over a period of more than 10 years. During that time, Ronnie opened a very successful Amsterdam salon, splitting his time between Amsterdam and Paris.

In pursuit of the next chapter in his career, Ronnie relocated to New York City where he worked with top models from Cindy Crawford to Naomi Campbell to Kate Moss. He soon became the go to for celebrities and musicians such as Carlos Santana, Rob Thomas and Duran Duran, Uma Thurman, Lauren Bacall and Lauren Hutton. Ronnie Stam spent several years creating classic rock and roll looks for the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith as well as traveling on tour as skills for their tours and videos.

After speaking with the girls after the trip, they were overly impressed with the new Miami Studios. They felt for once they were the clients. The staff was very accommodating and catered to them like they were at home. The facility was beyond their expectations. We all are looking forward to many more classes at The Miami Studios.

Ronnie was so inspirational and pushed us creatively and technically. The Miami Studios gave us a world class experience. They were amazing hosts we really got the VIP treatment and can’t wait to return for more education.” Stylist Carolyn Nord

Popiettes and Pin Curls with Oribe’s Tony Caldwell

Tony Caldwell styling senior stylist Nikki Galloni-Kepley

Tony Caldwell demonstrating for the stylist

Oribe educator and Parlour 3 stylist Tony Caldwell visited Samuel Cole Salon for an afternoon of creative styling. Tony has worked with some of Nashville’s finest, such as the band Rascal Flatts and singer Easton Corbin. His unique perspective and creative vision has led him to a variety of clients, from business professionals to country music legends, fashion designers and photographers.

Stylist traded in their curling irons for magazine pages during the creative curl workshop.

The workshop revolved around poppiettes and pin curls. Tony wanted the stylists at Samuel Cole Salon to embrace their inner artist and creativity. “With all of the tools available to us now, we tend to forget that styling has not always been as easy”, said Caldwell. History’s hairdressing icons made their mark by being resourceful, creative, and authentic. Caldwell challenged the stylists to create a curl set without the use of a heating tool.

Stylist Erin Grogan’s model

The stylist were only allowed to use bobby pins, torn out magazine pages, and Oribe’s Crème for Style styling cream to achieve the soft, textured, editorial look.

I thought it was refreshing. The class gave me a new outlook on how to create something simple and elegant”, said stylist, Natalie Bowers.

Tony’s passion for being a true artist is contagious. I’m accustomed to utilizing heat while styling so I really liked how he showed us that we could achieve this timeless look in such a creative, almost effortless way.”, said stylist, Dustin Fann.

“On The Road” with Oribe in Nashville, TN

Samuel Cole Salon Team in Nashville

Samuel Cole Salon takes over Nashville for Oribe’s exclusive “On the Road” event. Stylists, salon managers and owners from around the country made their way to Tennessee to learn editorial and salon-friendly techniques from the Oribe Education Creative Team. The class focused on current trends of the industry including: cutting, styling, sculpting, braiding and extensions.

Seasoned stylists Louis Orozco, Coby Alcantar, Kien Hoang, Ronnie Stam, and Wella’s color expert, Mark Debolt were on hand for a morning of demos and an afternoon of hands-on training . Stylist were given the knowledge, tools, and techniques to create different looks and learn how to adapt these trends into everyday styles behind the chair.

Samuel Cole Salons senior stylists, Nikki Galloni- Kepley and Cara Harrison, were honored to be asked by Oribe’s team to assist them back stage and on stage during the demo’s.

Being backstage at the Oribe “On The Road” event was an exciting new privedge for me. It was cool getting to network with educators I had already met in the salon. I felt challenged but at-home with the hairdressing that was being created backstage and I am grateful to have been a part of such an exciting, exclusive event”, said Nikki.

Nashville was an amazing experience all around but working with Kien backstage was absolutely inspiring. Not to mention all the other amazing stylists that were there as well. I just love absorbing as much as possible and truly falling love with the medium we use to create art”. said Cara.

Samuel Cole Salon Stylist Attends Bumble & bumble University

Nikki’s Curly Hair Model (top-before & bottom-after)

April 8-9, 2013 (New York City) – Samuel Cole Salon Senior Stylist & Mentor, Nikki Galloni recently returned from Bumble & bumble University in NYC where she attended Curl Workshop. The intense two day advanced course is designed to apply Bb U Design School’s scissor, razor, and styling techniques to analyzing different curl textures, talking about them, and creating suitable long and short shapes with precision and control (and adding your own professional signature). Galloni engaged in daily hands-on sessions with multiple models. She learned how to conduct effective curl consultations and deliver on these by utilizing cutting and styling techniques specific to curly textures.

“Being at Bumble & bumble University is everything that you would want it to be. Surrounding yourself with such intelligent and creative hairdressers is a true source of inspiration. Continually expanding my knowledge and creativity is very important to me. And, to get the opportunity to do that in NYC at Bumble & bumble is unparalleled,” said Galloni who has naturally curly hair herself.