(Salon) CARE
Because hair salons have always been about more than just hair.
CARE
Rooted in nurturing the roles hairdressers have in the communities they live/work in through the personal care they intrinsically provide to anyone that sits in their chair. CARE initiatives include fundraising, volunteering, and educating salon workers to continue to serve their communities as they historically always have.
CARE WORK
CARE WORK
Care work is engrained into everyday work at Salon. Find a selection of projects we have worked on over the years below.
Reach out if you’re interested in being a part of future Care events, or want to collaborate on bringing Care to a salon in your city.
BEAUTY FOR PAID LEAVE
2021
Hairstylists have seen the impacts of the lack of paid leave in our own lives and the lives of our clients for years, and the conversations we had behind the chair during the Pandemic alongside seeing the affects of a temporary Pandemic National Paid Leave policy acted as catalysts for us to push for change.
Our campaign was put together with volunteer contributions from Salon’s clients, colleagues, family, and friends.
Campaign Goals
To educate hair salon owners/workers and clients on Paid Leave and engage them to contact their representatives to pass a long overdue national paid leave policy.
We believe that every salon worker (and every worker) deserves to take time off work to heal themselves or a dependent from serious illness, welcome a new child to their family, without having to worry about job security and paying for their living expenses. (Salon)CARE believes that this is possible through a national paid-leave policy, and that these quality-of-life issues are the responsibility of our government, not our employer or individual.
Assets:
shareable social media graphics
a comprehensive fact sheet
a text campaign with Resistbot where supporters could text GO BEAUTY4PAIDLEAVE to 50409 to send a letter to their representatives
encouraged supporters to share on their social media channels along with the hashtag #beauty4paidleave
All of these resources are available on bit.ly/beauty4paidleave
CARE WEEK
2022
Care Week is an experimental form of mutual community caregiving within our extended Salon community.
We teaming up with holistic healers, pilates instructors, physical therapists, coaches, and others to offer resources and access to practices that can help support and sustain hairdressers body needs from the inside out and at every stage of their career.
PRICING:
Each practitioner is offering their services on a sliding scale or has set aside a few spots that will be free and prioritized for hairstylists whose own hair services are at a lower price point than the Care service cost. We aimed to price these services around the same price as an average NYC haircut or color, thus making the cost a direct service trade monetarily.
By booking a service at full price, you help fund a service for hairstylists who will benefit from our accessible pricing model. Our pro bono and sliding scale spots prioritize BIPOC hairstylists in our neighborhood of Los Sures. If this describes you, then you are highly encouraged to book an appointment and inquire about pricing accessibility. We thank you for practicing and experimenting with for Salon’s first ever Care Week.
2022
Care in 2023 has taken on a new collective form that goes outside of ourselves. Our first Care project birthed in 2020 as a response to conversations with clients behind the chair, the second was a response to conversations with fellow hairdressers through our community library visits. This year we feel so cared for as we’ve settled into our new home in Williamsburg, by our clients, neighbors, and hairdresser community that we wanted to flow this energy back to you.
Visuals of ebbs and flows, expanding then shrinking, nourishing and extending out again. This care season feels like nourishment before a cycle of rebirth. Like we have collectively held tight and want to hold a little tighter while feeding, nurturing, and holding onto each other. A hammock has come to mind as we’ve been in the beginning stages of planning this, or a net maybe. A knit web of support. If one of us is weak, we might not be able to do much more than to sit alongside them for a little while, stepping in or just showing up and if we can, take a little weight off so they can rest. The web, the net is always there.
We’ve been thinking of collective mixtures. There needs to be variety in growth, healthy growth. We mix, we compost, all of it, and together it all feeds, nourishes the collective.
Visible mending. Because frankly, that’s what it is sometimes. Strengthening, when muscles are hurt or weak, we strengthen the ones around it, so it doesn’t have to overwork itself. Cupping. Couldn’t be more fitting. We release. We open up pathways for flow. Shedding, nourishing, and rebirthing as a lot of us do cyclically, alongside the moon. We stick and poke to honor that while sharing an open and safe dialogue about our bodies. Readings on support and rebirth. Moving, dancing, stretching and getting out of our minds and into our bodies. We hope you can join us. All are welcome.
CARE EVENTS
“This is a community issue; the salon is a community space. Paid sick leave is just one of many causes that I hope to rally for now and in the future, and it’s just the beginning.”
— Rubi Aguilar Jones, founder