Despite the number of years
we've been in business, we still encounter rumors from time to time so
we thought we'd address some of them here.
About us...
"Sigel"
is pictured on the left. Sigel is the director of the MetrOasis®
Advanced Training Center. Sue is in the middle. Sue likes to say that
she married her hairdressser and she actually did. We've been married
for nearly 25 years now. Sue is the administrator. Aly (our daughter)
is pictured on the right. She owns Alligator Wharf
which is a Cajun / Creole cafe with is attached to our beauty school /
esthetics school / beauty salon / retail store. We're crazy about each
other and we love working together. So, this is what we do. We love to
travel around the world looking for those individuals who are at the
top in their respective fields and we pay them to train us in their
specialty. We then bring this training home to Alaska where we share
this training, these techniques, these products , these recipes and
even new philosophies with our students and our clients and customers.
There's a lot more to what we do but this puts it into a nut shell.
Perhaps you'd like
to find out what we're like by watching a video. Here are a few things
that we like to do in our spare time.
VIDEO
"Smile" - Shroy family video.
VIDEO
Aly play her accordion with the Irish
House Party Band in Dublin, Ireland.
VIDEO
Sue goes scuba diving.
VIDEO
"Christmas" in the Bahamas with the
boat listing from side to side.
VIDEO
Sigel talks with the dolphins at Key
Largo, Florida
In March 2010 we
went to Barcelona to the Cosmobelleza
Beauty Show
and learned a lot of new hair techniques and some amazing skin care
techniques as well as some great makeup techniques. In March 2010 we
also went to Paris to the Mondial Beauty Show
and learned some more skin care techniques and some new makeup
techniques and studied chignons (formal updo's) at Art Libre Padiglione as
well as some new haircutting techniques.
http://www.leclaireurhebdo.com .
In September 2010 we went to Los Angeles to a skin care show and
learned manual lymphatic massage therapy as well as some other skin
care techniques. In March 2011 we went to London and studied with Metin Warwick ,
celebrity hairstylist, and learned some great new haircutting
techniques. Mondial
again for some more skin care training and a French cooking class where
we learned the traditional way to make French soups. Then we went to
Verona, and then to Venice, and finally to Bologna to the Cosmoprof
Bologna Beauty Show where we learned more hair techniques and skin
care
techniques and where we had an intensive class by Massimo
Pradella of
Compagnia Del Colore (the main Italian hair color line that we use). We just got back
(September 2011) from the Esthetics Congress in Long Beach, California.The Cosmoprof beauty
show in Anchorage, Alaska on Sunday October 23, 2011 was really, really
fun. Educational also.
In reality,
we have two kinds of clients and we seem to be doing very well in BOTH
arenas. school
in 1995. That's almost TWO decades! So,
OK, this sameAnchorage beauty school
owner, (a lying one), is
telling perspective students that since his school uses Schwarzkopf
color and our school uses Italian colors that
Duh! To start with... not every salon in Anchorage only uses Schwarzkopf
color, in fact, American Board of Certified
Haircolorists - Energizing Summit in Los Angeles and were only able
to find one single person that actually YOU decide where
YOU want to learn color!
MetrOasis®
Advanced Training Center
Trend
Setters Beauty School
Not for
OUR students anyway. IF you'd ever attended beauty school you'd know
this. This guy knows absolutely nothing about hair color. In the
meantime, Sigel & Sue are the color educators in Compagnia
Del Colore http://www.haircared.com/techarea.asp Who do YOU want to teach you professional hair
color?
We
finally got started on our credibility wall. We have almost 30
certificates and awards that we haven't figured out where to put.
They're not going to fit on this wall! We'll see if we can find some
more wall space back by the facial rooms or something. The big question
though isn't how to fit in all of our other certificates, awards and
diplomas, the real question is what are the qualifications of the
instructors that will be teaching YOU your new skills? Do they have ONE
certificate, one award or one diploma? Before you sit down with someone
and they tell you about your new career, make sure that they are
qualified! If you take this wall and remove every single frame, you'll
have the credentials of Mr. X!
I
have been trained PROFESSIONALLY in numerous places in the United
States, the UK, France, Italy & Spain and am LICENSED to instruct
and to
apply hair color in Alaska. I have also color
instructor training by five different hair color lines directly from
the manufacturer. This other school owner, is not
licensed, or trained, or knowledgeable in ANY type of hair If you'd like to see my licensing information
you can find it here . This other school owner doesn't have a
hairdresser license, an esthetician license, or an instructor's
license. So... some
color "expert" huh? It sounds like this other school does color as a
hoby instead of a serious part of their business. We traveled to
Bologna, Italy in March 2011 to meet with the International
Educational Director and the president of
Compagnia
Del Colore for some one-on-one time.
It was nothing short of
amazing!
Sigel & Sue &
Sarah at Cosmoprof Bologna Show (Italy) with Compagnia Del Colore staff
Massimo
Pradella
The staff at Compagnia Del Colore are so amazingly friendly and
professional it just blew us away. To have all a chance to have some
training
with the people that created this color line was a chance of a life
time. Giannantonio Negretti was so gracious, that despite owning
several large companies in Italy,
(Green Light, Compagnia del Colore, Jungle Fever, Cover Line, Fantasy
Look, Italian Color Factory, Bod.D&Co. & others) he gave us his
personal cell phone number
and offered us help during our stay if we needed anything while in
Italy. We had a great meal at the restaurant he suggested as well.
Massimo owns two salons
and is the international directof for Compagnia Del Colore and is very
busy. Despite this he sat with us and gave us a presentation of the
entire color line and
answered every question we had for him. I've been trained by half a
dozen color companies to be a color educator and I've purchased salons
of color products from about two
dozen different color lines, but I have to tell you...
Compagnia Del Colore absolutely wrote the
book on customer service!
At MetrOasis® we ARE
color.
Compagnia Del Colore Professional
Hair Color Factory where our color is made.
While we're on the subject... why do
you use Schwarzkopf color in the
first place? We use Italian colors because they are richer, fade less,
and we can offer outstanding prices to our clients.
Watch this video for the proof! Click
here . We use the colors we use because
they work better than Schwarzkopf, they fade less than Schwarzkopf,
and they have lower levels of ammonia than In this video, they
were able to successfully figure out how to interchange color formulas
for a "6N" between 65 different
colors! I don't believe that anyone in the video went to this other
school either. Hmmmmmm? The Schwarzkoph distributor is located only a
few blocks from my business and I could choose to
carry this line if I wanted to. I decided to go with Italian colors for
specific reasons of quality. Here is a chart so that the PREVIOUS
students of this school can translate their formulas to your
NEW color line. Here .
I find it impossible to believe that this guy thinks that our students
can't figure out how to translate a 5N to a 5 in Colore or to translate
a 5N to a 5-0 in Schwartzkopf
when
he expects HIS previous students to translate a 5/505 to a 5-0. Seems a
bit trickier to me? So that everybody can see how easy this is to
figure out, I included a
link. THIS is your FREE Schwarzkopf color chart .
#1 pick your level, #2 pick your shade #3 mix with developer. Wow! So
apparently (according to Mr X) if a MetrOasis® student uses a "5
- N" on our clients and the label on our color says It@ly, or
Allegretti, or Colore then they wouldn't be able to figure out Schwarzkopf
on the label??? Huh? Seems simple enough to me. All one needs to
do is look at the color chart and poof, you have a formula I
didn't think so. Makes you
wonder what else he is lying about huh?
here is another link
for you.
#4. Sue is not a
"Little
Person ". Yes, she's a person, and she's little, but the height
requirement to be a "Little Person" is being UNDER 4' 10". Sue is exactly 4' 10", so unless
she starts shrinking at an #5.
MetrOasis® is not owned by anyone living outside of Alaska. Sigel, Sue
& Aly live in south Anchorage and have done so
for the past 18 years.#6. That six-wheeled
vehicle that is sometimes parked outside MetrOasis® is called a Pinzgauer
712 and Aly owns it now. Yes, all 6 wheels work, yes, it is legal, and
no we didn't make it, it was
#7.
Yes, Sue is ALWAYS this nice. She's even nice to telemarketers. I don't
know how, but she is. Enjoy her personality and try not to take
advantage of her "niceness" and make her crazy...#9.
No, we didn't adopt Aly from England. Ask Sue about the 36 hours of
labor and the C-section she had to go through. We have the video! Aly
watched everybody change their clothing fashions,Leytonstone ",
so she developed an accent from that area. #10.
No, we're not from New Orleans, NO, we're not from France. Sigel has a
German background, and Sue has an English background. In fact, Sue is
the 12th great grand daughter of Sir #11. OK, this was a little
funny today. An esthetician student that was already enrolled came in
to specifically ask if we trained people to do "waxing below the
waist", because "someone at
