Hello Humans!

As a beauty professional, I can attest to feeling wasteful and guilty for the immense amounts of chemicals that I have witnessed being tossed in the garbage or down the drain. In the back of my mind all I can think about is how these chemicals that we use to make your hair beautiful can seep in and effect our water lines - gross. I have done a full head of highlights and can use and dispose of 45-100 foils without acknowledging the potential alternatives to just being thrown in the trash. This is why I am enthused to announce that 202 Beauty Lounge is now the first carbon-neutral salon company in our beautiful hometown of Waco, Texas.

While the guilt of all of our waste looms over my fellow environmentally conscious stylist's and I, it leads to the question of, "What kind of impact are we leaving on the Earth we call home?" The answer is simple, a bad one. So bad, in fact, that the beauty industry accounts for up to 120 billion units of plastic per year and the destruction of 18 million acres of forestation annually. Salons produce a plethora of waste with the constant use of gloves, waxing sticks, processing caps, chemicals, foils, the list goes on. The amount of damage salons cause nation wide is astronomical, we are not only harming the environment but directly harming ourselves by allowing plastics and toxins to reenter our bodies through the environment that is meant to sustain us.