A Kevin Murphy Session Salon… what is that? You’re probably big deal, you sell their products at your salon. Well, it basically means we not basic. A Kevin Murphy Session Salon is a salon that is handpicked “the chosen one” to go through a series of advanced professional trainings. The trainings are designed to help you gain stronger insight of the Kevin Murphy brand, extensive product knowledge, and hands on training of signature KM looks.
We learned about Kevin Murphy’s love for the environment and what a leader he is in our beauty industry. This post falls perfectly on Earth Day which was purely a coincidence but oh how fitting! My goal is for you as the consumer to be the informed consumer and to have the insight as I do as the professional. I want you to be knowledgable on what you’re purchasing . Lets get to it! We will go over what KM stand’s for, how it performs and eventually build a series of blog posts on how we can incorporate these into our new at home hair routine.
Understanding the brand:
Ok you get it I love this company but my love for Kevin Murphy is not only based on performance and ingredients but it it how they care about their carbon footprint. Its about what they do and don’t do for our environment and for their customers.
- Kevin Murphy Product Line is made from 100% from Ocean Waste Plastic (OWP) . For every product you purchase from them there is an average 45g of garbage removed from the ocean. When they use 100% recycled waste they have to sort the garbage by colors which MAY lead to inconsistent package coloring.
- Kevin Murphy Business Practices is shared with any company that seeks the information. This is to ensure we all are able to be informed and do our part with helping the environment. For example you want to recycle the water that you use in your company ask them they will share how they do it no questions asked. (This is unheard of especially in the business of pretty.)
- Cruelty Free not only will they not test on animals but they will also avoid the use of any ingredient that will damage or harm the environment in any way at all.
- Want More check out their website page “The Choices we Make”
There you have it Kevin Murphy is conscious with their choices on how it will impact the environment and how it will impact their consumers. HUGE. So ya they CARE.
Ingredients:
- All Sulphate Free they choose to use natural surfactants
- AHA’s or Fruit Acids for gently exfoliation that will not fry out of strip the hair
- 100% Paraben Free
- Only Essential Oils are for fragrance (there are no hidden chemicals)
- Ingredient List on the Back of the Bottle if you look at the back of the bottle there are a lot of ingredients. As a global brand they have to be compliant with every countries standards.
Performance:
Hands down the first line that does what it says it is going to do. If something was not performing either I was using it incorrectly or they needed a Maxi Wash.
KM is skincare for your hair. Skincare for you hair?? Yes (weightless skincare) for you hair. This means that you should be treating your hair as well as you would be treating your skin. When you pull out a face Mask for hydration, why not a Hydrate.me Mask for that hair hydration. Of if we do a nice gommage to gently exfoliate, why not a gently scalp exfoliation with Maxi Wash. Plain and simple treat your hair like you treat your skin.
What We Carry in our salon in Newport, RI . At this time we currently care the whole product line and their lightners. Their color line color.me contains tree nuts and I am allergic so we do not carry that.
What should I be doing at home right now I will be going over the product regimes in detail in the weeks to come. I have started a series on IGTV here you can watch a quick detailed video on what you should be using them and who should be using them.
Help?! Need An Online Consultation:
If you are in need of any recommendations you have a few options you can
- Fill out our client contact consultation form
- Don’t feel like filling out the form well then send me a DM on my Instagram @jenniekaybeauty
- Head to the Kevin Murphy site and answer their product matchmaker quiz
- Once you know what you would like you can shop our store directly supporting a local business. If you order before 12 it will arrive in 2 days and there is free shipping with a purchase of $50 or more
Where do we buy these amazing products- you buy them from a professional. When you’re buying professional hair care products you should always be buying them from a salon or directly from the website of the brand. Given the current state of the world some salons are able to sell online through their distributor. We are one of those fortunate salons that is able to sell Kevin Murphy products online at this time. They will come straight from our distributor Evolve Salon Systems. This goes for all professionally sold brands. Professional products should be purchased from professionals. Hence the name.
- But this blogger said Amazon has it and I cant get it in 2 days- Well when you purchase professional brand beauty products from the Grocery Store, CVS, Marshalls or yes Amazon you are actually purchasing “diverted” products. In a nutshell they go their illegally. In turn you then have no idea where they’re coming from or how old they actually are #shelflife An added bonus is you will pay the same amount or possibly more (and I’ve seen more) and this product may not be right for your hair and/or you may be using incorrectly. Then that turns into this product really sucks and I wasted my money when in reality it may not be a good fit. What is right for one person may not be right for the next. Think about this… a professional working hairstylist their hands on up to 8 hair textures a day, yes a day and I am sure some do more. They will know what you should be using.
- Well why can I buy them there then… So here’s a scenario I open my salon and I bought beauty line”x” and it was really expensive a true investment but it didn’t sell how I envision and now its expired. Oh crap what do I do?? What I do is I find someone possibly on craigslist or maybe a distributor in another country and I’m like hey here is my whole lot of product for $2500 and they buy the whole lot with the intention of dividing it up selling it to whoever. If your interested in learning more about Anti-Diversion
- Ok I know I just went savage…
Thank you for reading. Ten years ago I dabbled in this blogging world and it looks like I may be returning to it. Please let me know what you want to learn more about.
xoxo
JKP