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# What salon owners are worried about this year
- URL: https://vernista.com/what-salon-owners-are-worried-about-this-year/
- Published: 2026-09-17T02:05:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-27T14:05:26.000Z
- Description: Rent, retention and the cost of a good technician.
- Author: Ada Okonkwo
- Tags: Industry, #vernista-demo, #inspiration, #Import 2026-10-03 02:06

Colour forecasting is mostly listening. The shades that arrive in salons in spring were decided in a room eighteen months earlier, and the ones that stay are the ones that turned out to suit more hands than the forecast expected.

## The shortlist

Four families are doing the work this season: a warm oxblood, a grey-lilac, a true butter yellow and the perennial sheer pink that outsells all of them combined.

## What is quietly leaving

Chrome. Not gone, but no longer the request that fills a Saturday.