Education

Learn the Lisa May Method

This is the whole curriculum for the Lisa May Method — the order the products go on, what each one is doing to the scalp and the hair, and the technique behind every step. Watch the overview first. Then work through the six tutorials in order, because the order is the method.

Every label in the line carries a QR code that brings you to its tutorial here. Nothing on this page is a secret held back for a class. This is what we teach at the chair.

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The Lisa May Method

Fifty-five seconds, the full sequence named in order. Brush, shampoo twice, condition with the oil, sprays, style. Watch this one first and the six tutorials underneath it will make sense as a routine instead of six separate products.

The Order, and Why

Brush → shampoo twice → condition + oil → sprays → style.

Now, the reason the order matters. You brush first because brushing brings the dirt and debris up off the scalp where the shampoo can reach it. You shampoo twice because the first one lifts what the brushing loosened and only gives you a low lather; the second one foams properly and takes the rest. We shampoo the scalp. We don't shampoo the hair — the hair is cleansed by the shampoo running through it on the way out.

Then the conditioner and the strengthening oil go on together, in the palm, and they stay in. Leave-in, not rinse-out. Comb through to disperse, and do not squeeze all the water out first — the water is what carries the product through the hair.

The sprays come last, and our styling sprays go on before you shape the hair, not after. That is backwards from what most professionals were taught. Spray it, let it dry, then style. Hold the can 8 to 12 inches off the scalp.

Restore, not repair. There is no such thing as repairing hair. You restore it to a percentage of its natural condition, and then the client maintains it at home.

What We Do at the Chair

Six tutorials, in order. Each one assumes you have done the one before it.

Tutorial 01

How to Brush

Before anything else, you go ahead and brush the scalp with a boar bristle brush. Small C-shaped movements: start at the front of the scalp, work around the face to the top of the ear, back to the crown, then down through the nape, connecting side to side until you have covered the whole head.

Brushing the scalp does the same thing people pay for in a treatment room. It moves the blood, it lifts the dirt and debris up where the shampoo can get it, and it costs you nothing but a brush.

What gets missed

Most professionals brush the hair and call it brushed. Brush the scalp. That is the whole point of the step.

Tutorial 02

Shampoo — Twice, Every Time

Wet the hair, then take a quarter-size amount of shampoo and distribute it to the scalp. Add more water, bring the lather up, and cleanse the whole scalp — around the ears, underneath, all the way to the nape. Rinse. Now repeat, and this time add more water and get a really good foam, because the dirt and debris grab hold of that foam and leave with it.

Rinse the scalp, not the hair. Lay the water on top of the head and let it run through and carry the shampoo out with it.

What gets missed

The first shampoo gives you a low lather and people read that as "not working" and reach for more product. It is working. The second shampoo is the one that foams.

Shampoo
Tutorial 03

Condition — Conditioner, Oil, and Pro Spray

Spray the Collagen Pro Spray over the wet hair first, lifting as you go, and don't be afraid to use quite a bit. Then take a nickel to quarter-size amount of conditioner in the palm, add two squirts of Strengthening Oil, rub it through your hands, and squeeze it into the hair from the ponytail out. Do not remove the water. Comb through to disperse it, then squeeze the excess.

It stays in. Leave-in, not rinse-out. We condition the hair — we do not condition the scalp.

Match the weight to the hair in front of you: Light, Medium, or Heavy. Then teach your client to keep it up at home with the same conditioner, left in.

What gets missed

Two things. Clients put the conditioner on the scalp because that is what every other line taught them. And professionals squeeze the water out before applying — the water is what disperses the product through the hair.

Conditioner
Tutorial 04

Between Washes — Sea Salt, Then Collagen

This is what buys the client three to four days between shampoos. In the morning: brush the scalp, then Sea Salt Spray, then Collagen Spray, then comb through. Sea salt first, always.

The Sea Salt Spray manages oil at the scalp — it is a form of dehydration, which is why the Collagen Spray follows it and puts the balance back. Use one without the other and you have defeated the purpose. These two are a pair.

What gets missed

Teaching them as two separate products. They are one lesson. Order matters and neither one does the job alone.

Sea Salt Spray and Collagen Spray
Tutorial 05

Restoration — The Five-to-Seven Cycle

For highly damaged hair. Shampoo twice and rinse fully. Spray the Collagen Pro Spray all over the wet hair, lifting as you go. In the palm, a nickel to a quarter of conditioner with two squirts of Strengthening Oil, applied through the lengths and lightly to the top. Wrap it in a towel and leave it five minutes, then rinse. Repeat that five to seven times.

It brings the hair back toward its baseline — up to a percentage of its natural condition, not to new. Then the client maintains it at home, and that maintenance is not optional. A professional should be customizing this cycle for the hair in front of them and charging for it as a treatment.

Tell the client this before they leave

They will feel an itchy scalp when the product starts working. That is the scalp restoring, and it goes away once the scalp is mended. A client who has not been told will think something is wrong and stop.

Strengthening Oil
Tutorial 06

Styling Spray — Spray First, Then Shape

Our styling sprays go on before you shape the hair. Spray it, allow it to dry, then blow dry or style. Hold it 8 to 12 inches from the scalp, work it into the scalp area and lightly through the ends.

Pick by what you need to hold: firming for lift, shaping to direct it, holding to set it.

What gets missed

Every professional was trained to spray last. Ours is a pre-style product. Spray it at the end and you have wasted it.

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For Professionals

The back-bar side of the method — what to charge for, what to hand over, and what to keep behind the chair.

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Collagen Pro Spray Is Stylist-Gated

Pro Spray is a back-bar product for licensed professionals. It goes home with a client at the stylist's discretion and only after one-on-one instruction — it is not a walk-in retail product. Its standard use is inside the conditioning step; its multi-cycle use is the restoration protocol above.

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Back-Bar and Volume

Salon accounts get back-bar sizing and volume pricing, plus the sizing guidance for how much of each product a chair actually goes through in a month. Apply for an account and we will set the tier against how you buy.

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Teach It While You Blow It Out

Keep the products on your station before the client sits down. When you start blow drying and they are looking through their hair, that is when you explain what you used and why. Then rake through and show them: this is the shampoo, twice, brush the scalp first. This is the conditioner, it stays in. Day two is sea salt, then collagen.

You restore the hair at the chair. They maintain it at home. Say that sentence out loud to every client and your retail takes care of itself.

The Take-Home Handout

One page, plain language, for the client to take with them. It carries the at-home routine, which products they bought, and when to come back. Fill in your salon name and your own name before you print it — a client who can read your name on the sheet comes back to you.

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