​One of the mottos my salon lives by, that seems to be crazy simple but has been incredibly useful, is "Show Up On Time Ready to Work." So easy, right? There are three pillars to this idea:

1) Be ready and on time when you show up to work

"Show Up On Time Ready to Work," sounds straightforward, but in reality, can be challenging to accomplish. I spend a lot of my time as a coach and a mentor making sure people are out of bed, caffeinated, fed, and functioning at a solid baseline, so they're ready to bring their best selves to the chair. When my team shows up in a healthy headspace, prepared to work, it elevates the entire salon. 

2) Restaurants & Salons - Keep em' both spick & span

I often compare restaurants to the hair salon. How much do you hate to sit down at a dirty restaurant table? In this analogy, the stylist's chair is their restaurant. Hairstylists often let clients sit in the excess generated by multiple hair cuts, product-use, and color, throughout the day - waiting until the last client is finished to clean-up. Your chair is your oyster; it can be the catalyst for incredible creativity and financial growth. A regularly cleaned station sends the message that you and your workspace are valuable and deserve respect. 

3) Foster a Generous & Caring Atmosphere

I've been lucky to work with everyone on my team. The salon staff, as well as our Sunlights team, focus on generating a collaborative atmosphere to promote new ideas, enhance each other's success, and keep me on my toes. I have a fifty chair salon in Atlanta - without every person contributing work and ideas generously in that salon, we wouldn't be able to keep growing and improving. 

Simple things, like cleaning, showing up on time, mentally preparing for the workday, and supporting your fellow stylists, may seem basic. But, when you start implementing these steps in your work life, you will see a tremendous shift in your earning potential. There is no such thing as too small, and as ya'll know from my "devil is in the details" teaching method, the smallest strokes can create the most brilliant overall look.
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It's our favorite day of the week: Tips & Tricks Tuesday! Let Candy Shaw's personal hairdresser (and daughter-in-law!), Adrienne Codner, show you her secrets for keeping her lines clean when painting balayage. This technique is helpful for this fun foil stroke technique, but can be applied to all of your balayage painting for spectacular results!

Try this technique out on your next balayage and share it to Instagram with #sunlightsbalayage - we'd love to see your work!

Have an idea for a future episode of Tips & Tricks Tuesday or questions regarding this week's episode? Let us know in the comments below, and don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our YouTube channel!

Candy Shaw and her team work hard to help their fellow hairdressers better themselves, whether it's right here at home in our Atlanta Academy or all the world over with our extensive network of Sunlights Artisan Educators and classrooms on the road. But did you know you can learn from Candy from the comfort of your very own home?

Every Tuesday, Candy shares her favorite Tips and Tricks on the Sunlights Balayage YouTube channel. With over 100 videos and more added every week, there's no shortage of information to help you take your skills to new heights! Head over now and join the nearly 35,000 subscribers who tune in weekly to learn the secrets to increasing your bottom line, painting energy into your haircuts, and having more fun doing what you love. 
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If you're already one of our subscribers, we at Sunlights want to thank you for being a Balayage Believer and helping us get nearly 3.5 million views -- and that number's still growing!

Hungry for more education? Head over to our Events page and find a class near you, or sign up for a class in our Atlanta Academy!
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​Last year, Candy Shaw and the Sunlights team headed to Melbourne for Hair Expo Australia, the largest hair show in the country! We had such a great time we returned, this year to Sydney!

Candy and her team taught two hands-on balayage classes to a total of 70 students on Sunday, then spread the Balay Gospel to OVER 400 students in a packed out Look & Learn on Monday. With numbers like that, it's clear that Australia has bought in to the Balayage Revolution in a big way!

Thank you so much to all the wonderful Balay Believers that came out this past weekend and made our second visit to the other side of the world so special. We can't wait to be back!

Did you make it out to see us this past weekend and are looking for Sunlights down under? Just want to see what all the buzz is about? We're available through Rogue Beauty at sunlightsbalayage.com.au!

Living stateside and looking for some more Sunlights love in your life? Candy and her team will be in Bellevue, Washington next weekend! We'll be back soon with more tradeshow updates, so stay tuned!

You’d think after 8 straight years, we’d be tired of ABS Chicago, but you’d be wrong!

This year saw not only the release of our all new 50 volume High Lift Balayage Developer, Suncrème, but it also marked Sunlights' FIFTH BIRTHDAY!

The chilly weather couldn’t keep us out of sunny spirits, with Candy Shaw spreading the balayage love in a (what else?) packed out Hands-On Balayage class. We weren’t just there to paint the tradeshow floor yellow, though: for the first time ever, Candy brought a live hands-on French Cutting workshop to Chicago! The sold-out class opened up a whole new world of hair cutting to a group of students looking to further their skills as hairdressers.

Among the droves of hairdressers in attendance were a group of very special visitors: a group of SIXTY beauty school students that came all the way from Erie, Pennsylvania to meet the Balay Lama, lead by our very own Sunlights Artisan Educator, Kayla Noonan!

We’re glad to be home after a nonstop weekend packed to the brim with French Cutting and Balayage, but it was certainly one for the record books and a birthday to be remembered! With the support of Balayage Believers all over the world, we’ve been Painting the World Yellow for five years, and can’t wait to see what the next five bring.
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See you soon at ABA Toronto, then Image Expo Houston, Sunnies — here’s to many more years of spreading the Balay Gospel!

​This past weekend, Sunlights Balayage and the Academy at Jamison Shaw had the pleasure of hosting 20 students for our first ever Candy’s Cut Camp! Students took part in an intensive, 3-day workshop to learn the French Way — the right way!

The weekend began with a get together over dinner with the Balay Lama on Friday night. Can’t learn on an empty stomach, can you? With bellies full, our French Cutting devotees-to-be were ready to learn!

Students spent Saturday deeply engrossed in one-on-one learning with Candy Shaw, getting a detailed looking into her “Americanized” French Cutting method as they shadowed her in her Atlanta salon. Throughout the day, they learned the ins and outs of the technique, and how to use it to create gorgeous, versatile, and consumer-friendly hair cuts in half the time of a British cut. 

Sunday, the group took live models and really put their new found knowledge to the test. Nothing tests your skills like the real thing, and this crowd did not disappoint — nothing but beautiful hair cuts and happy guests walked out the door!

Just the Cut Camp would be a busy weekend for anyone, but was that enough for us? Not at all!

On Saturday, we had the honor of hosting ANOTHER cutting class at our education facility taught by none other than protege of Vidal Sassoon and world-renowned haircutter DJ Muldoon! Talk about a full schedule!

In all, it’s hard to ask for a more successful weekend. Such a successful weekend, in fact, that we’re excited to announce ANOTHER Cut Camp this July 27 + 28! If you missed out on the inaugural class, you have another chance but act fast — this class WILL sell out quickly!

Stay tuned for the release of the registration form to secure your place in Candy’s Cut Camp!

​This week's Tip & Trick with Candy Shaw she explains price increases and how to add value to not only your business but also how to invest in yourself to charge what you're worth!

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