“Cut for a cure” donations up over 30% this year!

A great big thanks goes out to our guests for all their support and generosity, and to our talented and dedicated team! Your salon increased their donations by over 30% versus last year. Way to go!

We could not have accomplished this with out all your support and participation ………………….

Arame Salon and Spa partner’s up with Stony Brook University Medical Center

Arame Salon and Spa is proud to be supporting “Cut for a Cure” for a third year running. We will be opening our doors on Sunday, October 23rd from 10 am thru 1pm. Proceeds from the day’s efforts will be donated to the cause. We will be offering snacks and refreshments for all of our guests and encourage you to stop by and show your support.  In addition, we will be selling raffles tickets throughout the month to increase our donation efforts (1 raffle for $5 and 5 for $20)

Excellent prizes will be awarded! Proceeds go to benefit cancer patients treated at Stony Brook University Medical Center.

We will also offering Aveda’s “Pink Ribbon” Hand Relief. With each item sold AVEDA will donate $4 to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation! You can also visit www.aveda.com to obtain additional information.

We are looking forward to another successful October, thanks to our talented and dedicated team, and the generous support of our guests, thanks again!

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Arame Salon & Spa Featured in Long Island Business News

Arame Salon & Spa was recently featured in the July 1, 2011 edition of Long Island Business News as part of an interview with Maureen Calamia, owner of the Saint James green/feng shui consulting firm Luminous Spaces.

How Green is my Feng Shui?

Design pros see connections between concepts

Sometimes it’s difficult to refrain from New Age jargon.

Take the Arame Salon & Spa in Port Jefferson, where – ready? – the chi, or energy, flows and the carbon footprint is light. In other, more staid terms, a couple of years ago owners Phyllis and Ron Schlumpf were looking to make changes that were both friendly to the environment and their staff and customers. The spa was transformed and now boasts a seamless combination of feng shui principles and green building ideas.

“Green is about being earth-friendly, and feng shui is about what’s human friendly – it’s about how we feel both consciously and subconsciously,” said Maureen Calamia, owner of the Saint James green/feng shui consulting firm Luminous Spaces, which guided Arame’s renovation. An ancient Chinese art and science developed to allow humans to live in harmony with the earth, feng shui is complimentary to green design, Calamia said.

The eco-friendly features of the Arame renovation included sustainable bamboo wall coverings, cork flooring and non-toxic paint. These elements promote a healthy indoor air quality while the cork flooring is a feng shui connection since it’s easy on the staff who are on their feet all day.

Previously, the receptionist’s desk was front and center, right where customers walked in, and behind the desk loomed a cavernous room with salon chairs. “We moved the receptionist’s desk to the side,” Calamia said. “There is an uncomfortableness when a customer is confronted by a receptionist when he first walks in and can’t scan the space and take it all in, and the receptionist was constantly assaulted by this flow coming at her.”

A bamboo wall covering, with the company logo, was placed near the front, to separate the back of the salon. Customers may not look their best when their hair is wet or if they’re sporting rollers and generally would rather not be on display, Calamia said.

Other feng shui elements include waterfalls, plants and candles, as well as curved surfaces that are intended to improve what Calamia described as energy flow… [Read the rest of the article]

Caps off to Port Jefferson!

We are excited to be teaming up with The Friends of the Port Jefferson Free Library and recycling #5 caps with the support of our friends at AVEDA. This has been an ongoing campaign at AVEDA and we are thrilled that the library will be supporting these efforts with us. You can view a recent article put together by the Port Jefferson Patch by clicking on this link: http://portjefferson.patch.com/articles/port-jeff-library-partners-with-local-business-to-recycle-bottle-caps

Please stop by and visit with us to learn more this Saturday (6.11.11) at the Port Jefferson Green Fest, at the Village Center from 1 – 6 pm.

Thanks to all for your support!

Arame raises $1250 during Earthmonth, 2011

Thanks to the generosity of our guests we had our best Earthmonth fundraising efforts to date, raising $1250! We raffled off three great prizes to raise a portion of the monies. Proceeds go to Clean Ocean Action, www.cleanoceanaction.org, who’s mission states ” Our goal is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York Coast”. These efforts are part of Aveda’s global efforts for clean waters (www.aveda.com). For the third year in a row, we also participated in Earthstock at Stony Brook University, helping to bring awareness to the issues our environment is challenged with and ways we can help.

We are grateful for all the support our staff and guests provided during this campaign and look forward to continued success. Thanks again to all!

Makeup and Skin Care Holiday Event

Join us this Saturday from 2 to 5 PM for a special holiday event!

An Aveda Makeup Professional and Esthetician from NYC will be offering complimentary makeup applications, mini skin care services and great tips you can use during this holiday season and beyond. We look forward to seeing you!

Arame Salon raises over $1250!

Thanks to our generous guests and talented staff we raised over $1250 in October (a 20% increase over last year’s efforts!). All proceeds benefit cancer patients at Stony Brook University Medical Center, through their GIFT program. We accomplished this through raffle ticket sales in October, awarding four great prizes with products and services. We also participated in Stony Brook University Medical Center’s annual “Cut for a cure” event. On Sunday October 24th we opened and staff member’s donated their time performing hair services. Proceeds from this event were also donated to this cause.

Thanks again to our guests and staff for making this year’s efforts so successful, much appreciated!

Cut for a Cure at Arame Salon

Once again our staff will be donating their time and talent for this worthwhile cause. On Sunday, October 24th, we will open from 12-3pm offering hair and skin care services. All proceeds from this day will go to “cut for a cure”, benefiting breast cancer patients treated at Stony Brook University Medical Center.

In addition to these efforts, we will also be selling raffle tickets throughout the month of October (some great prizes!), raising additional funds for the cause. Thanks to our terrific staff and guests support, we are confident that this will prove to be another successful October, thanks again to all!

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Arame Salon donates over 40 lbs of hair for Gulf Oil spill clean up

We have been involved with the environmental group Matter of Trust for close to two years. Since then, we have been storing hair clippings in plastic bags, inside boxes in our garage  (it was getting hairy in their!) We were recently contacted by Matter of Trust requesting all available hair, and off it went.  They have been coordinating efforts to assist with making hair mats as well as hair booms with nylons, assisting with oil clean up efforts in the Gulf. To watch videos and get more information around these efforts, please visit www.matteroftrust.org.

Thanks to all of our guests (and their hair) for helping us contribute to these efforts!

Arame Salon raises $500 during Earth Month!

Thanks to the generosity of our guests, we were able to raise $500 during Earth Month for Clean Ocean Action. This was accomplished through the sale of $5 raffle tickets in exchange for a chance to win a $100 Gift Certificate for salon services.

Congratulations to our  winner, Noreen Bauser, and to all that were involved!

Thanks to all of our guests for your contributions and continued support. We appreciate your business!

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