Annoucment! Keratin Kutz! New collaboration with Silk2 at the Premiere Orlando Show

Bonika Shears announces a new collaboration with Silk2 at this week-end's Premiere Orlando's Show. Look for our new Keratin Kutz banner at booth 5444.

What is this new partnership about? John Searles of Silk2 is a long-time friend and colleague of Bonika Shears. We were musing about the importance of good shears in making healthy beautiful hair more beautiful with a super hair cut and in like fashion; the importance of having beautiful, healthy hair to make a hair cut by our Bonika Shears look good. It's like Peanut Butter and Jelly, so much better together.

To test our theory we brought a friend of ours from church, Mandy Sevenston who has color and heat damaged, curly hair to Bernie Key, the artistic director for Silk2. Bernie applied the "Life Changing Hyper-Keratin Conditioning" to Mandy's hair and the results were spectacular. Even though she got just a trim with Bernie's Bonika Kaleidoscope Shears, her ends which had been frayed, now looked healthy.

Come by the booth 5444 at Premiere and check out this new Hyper-keratin and the detox used with Mandy's hair. We will have other models who will get haircuts with Frances London Dubose after receiving Silk2 conditioning treatment.

We need models for hair cuts and conditioning. Let us know if you can come to the show for a "Life Changing Experience!"

Before and After Hairstyles by Frances London Dubose

Frances will be cutting hair at classes with Bonika Shears at the Premiere Beauty Classic in Columbus, OH October 3-4, 2010 and the Premiere Birmingham Show October 17-18th. Check out her work. Let us know if you want to be a model for these shows.

Information on Frances http://www.bonika.com/frlodu.html
Information on the Ohio hair show: http://www.bonika.com/ohio.html
Information on the Birmingham hair show: http://www.bonika.com/prbi1.html

Judging by the Premiere Birmingham Show, the recession is over

We saw the crowds back like in years before at this week-ends show in Birmingham. Special thanks to our great team who helped this to be the best Birmingham show ever. The Sister Twister was one of our best selling shears due to Cory Barnham's cutting classes.

This year we decided to have two separate booths rather than our usual 4 booth island. Gene's team at booth 2507 did not do as well as Mystie's booth at 724 on Sunday. However, on Monday, Gene's booth skunked the other booth. Special thanks to (I hope I don't leave out any names) Mystie and Jay Hunter, Ron Ellis, Harry and Tammy Megowan, Cory and Julie Barnham and their 3 children, Jim Lanier, Nikita Smith, Chuck Bigelow, Ted Powell and of course the whole management of the Premiere Shows. Click on the title to see all the photos I took at the show.

Thanksgiving

Its Thanksgiving time and even with a slower economy and the slower sharpening season approaching, it's time to give thanks. God has blessed us this year with a new grandaughter and the prospects of another next year. All our family is in good health and get to see each other almost everyday since we work together and go to church together. My mother is 93 and is still in reasonable health.

As far as business, it has been strong. I am thankful we are in the beauty industry and not in trucking or real estate or construction work. I am so thank for our customers who not only buy from us but have become our friends and extended family over the years. Thank you specially Tim for Gene's birthday present (he'll be be 54 on Dec 5). He hasn't opened it yet, but I am sure it's unique. Mystie has a birthday on the 1st and Carissa later this month, so December is birthday month.

Our booth location has changed to a better one at Bronner in February. We are in the center of the room. I am also thankful to the Bronner Brothers Show and the Premiere Show which have helped put our business on the map along with our website. I am also thankful to the platform artists and educators who use, love and promote our shears. There are too many to name, but you know who you are, so thank you.

International Twisters vs Twister Sisters

I received an email today from Mimi who writes:

Hello Bonnie, I purchased a pair of your international twisters last month and just noticed on your blog that you are discontinuing this style and coming out with the twister sister. I have not yet used the international twisters and am wondering if I would
prefer the new ones coming out (so am considering an exchange).
Could you tell me the difference between the two and why you are discontinuing the internationals? Thank you, Mimi C.

PS. Congratulations on the new baby!

My answer to Mimi was:

Hello Mimi,
Here's the scoop on the International Twister. We are no longer working with the American Factory that was making the International Twister. We have the Silk Twister which is very similar, but a little stiffer feel, but a hundred dollars less. They are very similar and we sell a lot more of the Silk Twister. When we decided to replace the International Twister we began looking at ways to make it more different and unique from the Silk Twister. We decided on a double swivel and renamed the shear to the Twister Sister. This shear is forged and similar steel as the old International Twister. We think the workmanship is a little better. Both the thumb and the finger swivel which allows a more comfortable point cutting positioning. It is easy to adjust the looseness of the swivel to customize the feel by using a simple screwdriver. Our research and test marketing seems to indicate this was a good decision because we sold a large number of the Twister Sisters at the recent Premiere Orlando show where we first introduced them.

If you would like to send your shears back and swap them, you can get full credit. The new Twister Sisters are $30.00 more. If you get them and wish you had the original Twisters again, we can swap them back again. Just be sure you put a note in with the return shears as to what you want.

Bonnie Megowan
Bonika Shears

Note: The Bonika Shears website is now functional. Sorry for the inconvenience. It was down for 24 hours of pure torture!

Premiere Orlando 2008

I will try to upload some pictures later of the Orlando trip to the Premiere Show. Our sales were up over last year and there was a lot of interest in our new Twister Sister. Jay Hunter sharpened nearly 200 shears which was great considering we were charging $5.00 more per shear this year than last year. Special thanks to all our workers: Ron Ellis, Carla Ellis, Harry Megowan, Tammy Megowan, Mystie Hunter, Jay Hunter, Chuck Bigalow, Bradley Bigalow, Judith, Danny LaPrade, Gene Megowan, Bonnie Megowan, Sheila Tate, Leah Watson, and Carissa Roper. I hope I didn't leave anyone out. It was a successful show and when it was over we all went to Disney World. Just a word of advice, if you go to the Magic Kingdom go to the Pooh's buffet at the Crystal Palace. It was well worth the money.