Swivel Scissors are an excellent choice for cutting hair. These hairdressing scissors are the most comfortable shears for stylists which not only cut hair but also prevent wrist problems.

Swivel Scissors were invented by the Japanese who came up with the swivel concept. These haircutting scissors keep your wrist straight in all cutting positions. Also, the rotating thumb ring allows the hairdresser to use the scissors at different angles without moving the hand or wrist into an awkward position.

The gap between the thumb hole and the finger hole allows free movement of your thumb. This advantage of Swivel shears creates the perfect alignment of your wrist and fingers, thereby preventing Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).

Swivel Scissors from ScissorBoy are designed to relieve tension on the barber’s wrist. They are ergonomically correct and fit comfortably in your hand. These hair shears also give you dynamic range of motion and more control over the scissor. This technology allows you to cut with angles at greater ease.

Some stylists are not comfortable with a Two Finger scissor. For them ScissorBoy Shear Comfort Scissor will be more beneficial as its Three Finger Control gives added support and dynamic range of motion.

If you are a stylist and suffering from wrist instability or arthritis of the wrist you should consider changing your haircutting scissors. Stressing the wrist is a major cause of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) which is a type of RSI. Once you get used to Swivel haircutting scissors, you will be able to produce smoother, faster, and more effective haircuts without wrist pain.

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In episode 10 of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover Season 3, Tabatha caught up with salons from Season 1 and 2 to see where are they now!

The build-up to the special Revisit Show was as follows:

Tabatha revisits some of her favorite and not-so-favorite salons from Seasons 1 and 2. Have they survived and thrived, or are they still struggling or, even worse, closed? Has Martino Cartier stopped licking his clients and started acting more professionally?

Has Kimmie Blackhall curbed her shopping addiction and started paying her salon bills? Is Chicago Male servicing female clients?

Is Tantrum salon cockroach free? Along the way, Tabatha leaves the owners and staff with some new recommendations for their continued success — and she even gets a marriage proposal!

Here are a few snaps from Tabatha’s Salon Takeover Season 3 episode 10.

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An educator with GoldWell, Nik Nejad has over 24 years experience in the hair business. Though he is an experienced stylist but is a naive business owner. Tabathas Salon Takeover Season 3 helped him take back control of his salon in Episode 9.

When Nik bought Concerto Salon & Spa eighteen months ago, the salon had a strong reputation and a good location, but now he has run it into the ground. At a loss for what to do, Nik let one of his female stylists (Sabina) virtually take over his salon.

But as an outspoken know-it-all, Sabina’s abrasive behavior was alienating the rest of the staff. To add fuel to the fire, Nik’s wife wanted him to sell the business before it goes under. Here’s where Tabatha Coffey offered her helping hand to help Nik take back control of his salon and turn things around before it’s too late.

In Tabatha’s words,

The problem at Concerto was an amazingly passive owner and a group of stylists that weren’t bad at their job, but had nobody leading them, holding them accountable, or managing them, so that they just did whatever they wanted. The staff also saw Nik not being active in the business, and they felt he didn’t care so they followed his lead.

Concerto is a full-service salon & spa dedicated to consistently providing high customer satisfaction by rendering excellent service. However, the salon atmosphere was not at all enjoyable.

Running the salon had created a lot of stress in Nik’s marriage and his wife wanted him to sell it, even though he wanted to keep it. Tabatha took Nik to a martial arts expert so he could get some aggression out and also feel empowered. Tabatha felt this way he would hopefully start taking charge.

Tabatha also arranged staff meetings and talked with everyone to get their opinions about Nik and business. Eventually, she brought harmony and a hip look to Concerto Salon & Spa and helped Nik take back control from Sabina.

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Tabatha’s Salon Takeover made a stop in Mission Viejo as they dropped at A Star is Born, a children salon owned by Mission Viejo resident Joy Brandell.

A Star is Born is a warm and friendly salon for kids of all ages. With over 26-years of experience, this bustling, kid friendly shop has a little something for everyone. First timers are awarded a first haircut certificate, a picture and a lock of their hair.

Tabatha doesn’t enjoy kids’ company and salon owner Joy created a huge challenge for Tabatha by admitting she wasn’t sure whether she wanted to save her salon.

Ever since her parents passed away, Joy had lost all the passion and drive for her once popular children salon. She had checked out and so had her staff – they didn’t like doing hair and they didn’t like kids.

To make matters worse, Joy expanded to do adult clients in the same space but no one was showing up, and the salon had become dirty and rundown. Episode 9 of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 3 dealt on how Tabatha was able to reignite this owner’s passion for her business and her staff’s passion for doing children hair.

Tabatha mentions on her blog:

Working in a kids’ salon is hard. It is a specialty, but it doesn’t give you a free pass to do crap work and not care about your profession or the clients. The staff seemed to not give a damn except surprisingly Rosa the youngest of the group. She wanted to learn and wanted help. Even the reopening day was so anti-climactic for me, because most of the staff all seemed to hate it.

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Tabatha Coffey made a visit to bQute: Palmdale, CA during episode 7 of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover Season 3. This salon was disorganized and delusional, no wonder its business was not great.

Tabatha has to fix an out-of-control staff and a marriage on the brink, and turn this low-rent beauty shop into a high-end salon.

When Tabatha visited bQute, she realized the salon not only did hair but it also had a mortgage broker, travel agency, legal services, hideous clothes, shoes, and bags. She realized the two owners had no idea about their primary business.

bQute owners – Shannon and Frank Peters are newlyweds and new business partners in the multi-cultural salon they opened together. But their salon was already struggling and their marriage is cracking under the stress of trying to save it.

Frank was an ineffective manager because he split his focus between five different businesses – not to mention he was not a hairdresser. Shannon didn’t want to manage, but won’t allow her husband to be the boss.

There was no management or leadership in the salon at all, and it was beyond clear how out of control things were. Tabatha was amazed bQute was still open after watching the behavior of the staff, the complaints the clients had, the lack of respect and the fighting.

Tabatha had to keep her sane in this disorganized salon and save Shannon and Frank’s business and their relationship. To do so, she organized a desert bonding trip where the owners and staff had to work in groups, thereby making them work as a unit.

She also changed the interiors of the salon and advised the staff on effective client relationships. She gave them a wakeup call since there was a lack of respect and teamwork.

In the end, the salon renovation looked great, staff started to work as a team and Tabatha could see the marriage and business of Frank and Shannon doing well.

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Tabathas Salon Takeover Season 3 is getting more and more exciting as it covers more salons. Last night was Episode 5 of the reality show in which Tabatha Coffey visited Avanti Salon in Boston.

Tabatha had to confront an insubordinate staff and a push-over owner who thought the salon should run itself. However, Tabatha had to toughen up salon owner Alex to change Avanti into a high-end salon worthy of Newbury Street.

In Tabatha’s words:

Avanti salon was in a prime location, not a bad looking salon, but it lacked leadership, rules, structure, teamwork, and accountability. Stylists were doing whatever they wanted, assistants were doing nothing. I really felt like I was starting to break through to the staff, but I was having a problem with Alex. He just wasn’t stepping up and being a leader.

Alex Iacobacci, owner of Avanti, had ignored his responsibilities and let his stylists run wild in his rundown Newbury Street salon. Their unprofessional behavior had driven away the high-end clientele, leaving the salon broke. Tabatha had to work hard and challenged them to change their unprofessional ways and strive to make their salon worthy of the “Best of Boston” list.

Tabatha had to work hard to fix the salon business of Avanti and change the attitude of the staff. In the end she managed it well, and said “I am really proud of the staff at Avanti and of Alex. They saw where they needed to change, they embraced it, and I have high hopes they will make the “Best of Boston” list.”

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The fourth episode of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover Season 3 saw Tabatha travel to West End Salon & Spa in Provincetown, MA. She had her hands full trying to reform salon owner Dougie and his diva protégé Robbie.

After West End was dubbed as “gayest salon in the 50 States” Tabatha had to work hard to turn this salon from sleazy to sleek.

The salon staff at West End was supportive and professional, yet the salon was not profitable. The only reason for this failure was owner Dougie Freeman.

Dougie relied on his crazy shtick to drum up business during the short tourist season in this gay resort destination. But his outrageous behavior was actually driving away potential customers.

Pushing 60 and working 18 hours days, 7 days a week, Dougie turned to Tabatha to help him make his salon profitable so he could step away from the chair to enjoy life.

Tabatha finally manages to reform Dougie and with the support of his staff, she transforms West End Salon. One of the highlights of episode 4 of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 3 was the cleansing beach bonfire act.

To see before and after transformation images of West End Salon, click here

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In the 3rd episode of Tabatha’s Salon Takeover Season 3, Tabatha traveled to Salon Vendome in Houston Texas. This was probably her toughest challenge yet as she had to deal with five owners in one salon!

These five feuding owners were making for one big problem in this upscale Texas location. Their selfish attitudes and bad customer service were driving away high-end clientele, and the salon was behind in rent and on the verge of closing its doors.

Salon Vendome is a booth rental salon, which means that each stylist in the salon pays a weekly rental to the owners. As the salon was behind in rent, it was causing financial problems in the salon and holding them back from making the changes they needed.

Tabatha was required to help these owners learn to work as a team and take responsibility for their business. So to get these owners on the same page and working together, she figured giving them money and telling them they were in charge of their own renovation would help. It did, but only temporarily!

She tried several ways to get their business back on track and eventually succeeded. As she said in her blog:

Going back to salon Vendome six weeks later was like walking into another salon. Not only were the owners communicating and having weekly meetings, but they were offering education, had kept the receptionist, and were all proud and motivated and paying their rent! The salon was doing well, the stylists were all really happy, and I was really glad to hear from Jack that Janiece was doing well and working in a commission salon, which was helping her to stay responsible.

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Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 3 – episode 2 saw Tabatha visit Christopher Hill salon in California, owned by Tim and Alexis Byk. In this episode, Tabatha tries to teach two inexperienced salon owners the error of their ways.

Tim and Alexis took over Christopher Hill salon eighteen months ago with no prior salon experience. They wrongly assumed that their MBAs and corporate backgrounds would be enough to run the struggling business. But with no respect for hairdressers or the hair industry, they were driving the staff away, and the salon into the ground.

When Tabatha visits the salon, everyone is overwhelmed. In fact, Alexis gets teary at the sight of Tabatha, who calmly understands the situation and decides to make changes to the salon interior as well as try to motivate the staff.

While talking with the salon staff, the people reveal that they feel like Alexis micromanages everything and they are not happy with the management. Tabatha then has the staff confront the owners as she tries to liaison between them.

Tabatha schools these elitist owners in all things hair, and empowers the beaten down staff. She advises both Alexis and Tim to change their attitudes to save their salon.

In the end, Tabatha finally hands the keys of Christopher Hill salon back to their owners who should have (hopefully) learned the proper way to manage a salon.

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Tabatha’s Salon Takeover Season 3 premiered yesterday – Monday December 6, 10 pm on BravoTV. The first episode saw Tabatha travel to Mia Bella Salon in California where she transformed the salon into a truly beautiful (and clean) salon.

The Phun sisters – Cindy and Marjorie opened up Mia Bella salon four years ago as a way to support themselves and their younger sisters, Karen and Janet. But Karen and Janet took the salon for granted, which sent Cindy over the edge in front of clients.

Bringing their family drama into the salon was alienating their staff and ruining their business. Tabatha moved in with the Phun sisters for the night to stage a family intervention in order to save the salon and their relationships.

See how Tabatha gave Mia Bella Salon a makeover during Tabatha’s Salon Takeover Season 3.

Next week we’ll see how the staff fires back about their issues with the management. For more info about Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 3, visit: BravoTV

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