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December 2023 - Standard Speaker
Halogen Hair Company donates to Doctors Without Borders
“Do Good While Looking Good” as their motto, the Halogen Hair Company, Hazleton, raised $854.79 for “Doctors Without Borders” and their humanitarian work in Palestine.
The salon hosted a styling bar fundraiser on Sunday, Dec. 3. Attendees of all ages and hair types got to choose from one of six hairstyles by donating a minimum of $25. Style options include: braided space buns, French/Dutch braids, tiny side braids, beach waves, grunge waves, or pressed with a flat iron. Many who could not attend still chose to donate to the fundraiser digitally.
“It’s easy to feel helpless when faced with the horrors that humans inflict on each other. Many of us feel so helpless, and this was a great low-pressure way to help a good cause. We chose “Doctors Without Borders” because the organization has reliably helped all humans, regardless of their race, religion, or any other part of their background, around the world for over 50 years. Our hearts are with all of the innocent civilians affected by this genocide,” said owner of Halogen Hair Co., Ashley Evert.
April 2023 - Standard Speaker
Area businesses follow earth-friendly practices
Today marks Earth Day, a time to reflect on how to help the planet, and several businesses throughout Northeast Pennsylvania follow Earth-friendly practices throughout the year.
They include Halogen Hair Company in Hazle Twp., an eco-friendly salon in Hazle Twp. that offers hair and skin services and creates beauty, not waste.
Salon owner Ashley Evert said Halogen Hair Company is the first and only salon in Luzerne County to register as a Green Circle Salon.
As a certified sustainable salon, Halogen Hair Company recycles beauty waste like hair foils and hair clippings and has become carbon-neutral. Evert said that is done through the Green Circle Salon's partnership with a program that plants trees in Nicaragua to offset carbon emissions.
"In 2022, we were able to keep 313 pounds of solid and liquid waste out of landfills and waterways," Evert said. "That's just one salon in one year."
Halogen Hair Company has been in business for five years and has grown in that time from just Evert to seven employees, she said. (read more below!)
May 2022 - WNEP
Halogen Hair Co. is the first salon in Luzerne County to become a Green Circle Salon
Halogen Hair Company is now the first salon in Luzerne county to register as a Green Circle Salon. The Green Circle Salon program recycles 95% of all beauty waste, including excess hair color, hair clippings, highlighting foils, metal color tubes, gloves, disinfectant wipes, even wax strips.
Halogen is the first salon in Luzerne county to participate in the program. Salon owner and stylist with eleven years of experience, Ashley Evert said, “I’m so pleased to lead by example and make recycling more commonplace in NEPA and the beauty industry. I can’t tell you how enthusiastic our clients have been about this program – it means so much to me that we are able to provide our environmentally-minded community with a guilt-free, sustainable choice.”
In addition to recycling, the program is also carbon neutral, meaning the services being performed inside of the salon, technicians commuting to work, hair dryer usage, lighting, etc. will all be carbon offset. This is done through GSC’s connection with a program that plants giant clumping bamboo in Nicaragua. By planting trees, CO2 (or greenhouse gasses) that salons create by operating are removed from the atmosphere.
The beauty industry generates 877 pounds of waste every single minute, according to the Green Circle Salon website. Since 2009, the organization has kept more than 8,652,000 lbs of waste out of landfills and waterways. (read more below!)
June 2021 - Standard Speaker
Halogen Hair used CAN BE services to build a thriving business.
November 2019 - CanDo press release
Ashley Evert wins Chamber’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
“CAN BE sponsors the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award to promote the development of future business owners under the age of 35 within Greater Hazleton. Applicants are scored on business strategy, long-term goals, growth and community contribution.
Evert said that her biggest accomplishment has been becoming an entrepreneur and opening her own local business and this award made achieving that goal feel even more special.
Evert began her career as a full-time stylist in 2015 and opened her salon in July 2018 with no financial assistance and strictly from her own savings account. She specializes in very difficult and creative color work, a unique niche that she quickly realized needed to be filled in the area. Evert services more than 200 customers annually at her salon on North Church Street…” (cont’d)