Useful information requires visible standards.

Purpose and audience

We publish practical business information for owners and managers of hair salons, barbershops, spas, med spas, nail salons, PMU studios, brow and lash studios, salon suites, and independent beauty businesses.

The purpose is to help readers understand a decision, calculation, workflow, term, or official requirement. We do not publish pages solely to capture a keyword or create the appearance of a larger library.

Originality and evidence

Every indexable page must have a distinct purpose and substantive original body. Statistics, laws, platform rules, health claims, benchmarks, and quotations require a named source. Examples must be labeled as examples rather than presented as industry averages.

• Prefer official agencies, laws, standards, original data, and primary documentation.
• Show assumptions behind calculators and clearly define every metric.
• Link to corroborating sources when they materially affect the reader’s decision.
• Do not invent reviews, experts, salon owners, credentials, resource counts, or research findings.

Authors and expert review

Every article shows an author or editorial organization. The byline explains who created the resource; it does not imply legal, medical, financial, employment, or sanitation expertise.

Content involving regulated services, clinical questions, employment classification, taxes, privacy, infection control, or jurisdiction-specific requirements must name the qualified reviewer and scope of review before it can be labeled expert-reviewed.

Use of artificial intelligence

AI may assist with outlining, organizing notes, identifying gaps, formatting, and quality checks. A human editor remains responsible for the published claim, source, example, link, and final language.

AI-generated volume is not an editorial objective. A page remains a draft when it lacks unique value, adequate sourcing, a responsible byline, or review appropriate to its risk.

Updates, dates, and corrections

Publication and modification dates reflect real editorial work. We do not change dates only to make a page appear fresh. Material changes should be described in revision history, and older high-risk pages should have a scheduled next-review date.

Confirmed factual errors are corrected promptly. See the corrections policy for how to report and document an issue.

Independence and financial relationships

Editorial conclusions should not change because a company advertises, provides an affiliate relationship, or is connected to the publisher. Any material relationship belongs near the relevant content, and comparisons need a published methodology applied consistently.

Salon software rankings and commercial comparisons are intentionally treated as a separate editorial product from the general informational purpose of Salon.guide.