Allure Consulting’s Blueprint for High-Yield Salon Suite Ventures
During her time as a top-performing beauty sales consultant, Karen Kaminski recognized the imminent growth of salon suites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, opening one of the first salon suites in Pennsylvania — which proved to be a huge success Her knowledge and experience helping salon owners then establishing successful salon suites herself, led her to start Allure Salon Suite Consulting in 2018 to help investors across the United States establish, manage, and scale their own salon suite facilities. Through Allure Consulting, Kaminski meets the private salon suite ownership demand that offers a different solution from traditional franchise models.
Allure Salon Suite Consulting
At Allure Salon Suite Consulting, Kaminski offers investors a comprehensive start-to-finish salon suite facility service. She works with investors from location selection, to opening doors and filling each salon with tenants ranging from nail artists, makeup artists, hairdressers, estheticians, massage therapists and more. Kaminski is capable of building a beautiful facility for significantly less than the average franchise model. One of her many skills is negotiating tenant improvement (TI) money for her investor clients, which helps defray project costs and reduce out-of-pocket expenses.
Kaminiski’s model involves finding ideal locations where rent is affordable and securing TI money to offset project costs. Kaminski’s ultimate secret sauce is ensuring that each salon within the suite she opens remains filled with tenants longterm by offering each beauty industry entrepreneur extensive business support. Kaminski handles everything from selecting pro forms and space selection to drawing up plans and estimating costs with a 5–10% accuracy margin. Salon Suite facilities are customized, making them attractive to ideal tenants and enhancing the property’s overall appeal. Once the salon suites are filled with long-term tenants, this investment has the potential to generate semi-passive income.
By leveraging technology, Kaminski has expanded Allure Consulting’s reach across the U.S. and Canada, providing clients with the flexibility of remote support. “Allure integrates advanced systems like motion detectors and timers to optimize energy use and enhance efficiency in its facilities,” shares Kaminski. “We also help beauty professionals implement digital tools for scheduling, inventory, and financial management, which boosts productivity and profitability.” The salon suite expert takes this tech-driven approach not only to keep Allure at the forefront of the industry but also to strengthen the relationships with investors and tenants, driving property growth and maximizing profits.
Allure is also expanding into property management of other private salon suites, deploying its SOP into locations and helping owners stay competitive in their markets. Additionally, Allure is conducting mergers and acquisitions with other private salon suite facilities interested in being part of a large company with an exit plan in place.
Karen Kaminski’s Background
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Kaminski attended Seton Catholic and Marywood College (now Marywood University), earning her Bachelor of Arts in Advertising, Graphics, and Fine Arts. Though she was passionate about the beauty industry, her father encouraged her to pursue college first. Kaminski then became the owner of a nail salon, where she realized her true passion was in the business side of the industry. From there, she became a top sales consultant for major beauty brands, including CosmoProf, Moroccan Oil, and East Coast Beauty Supply. While visiting salons through her sales role, Kaminski identified big problems in the market—for both the franchisees and the struggling beauty professionals—and decided to open her own independent salon suite in 2016.
Kaminski’s perseverance in challenging the ideas behind the business side of the beauty industry eventually paid off. With an approach involving targeted marketing and finding niche audiences of licensed professionals, her innovative thinking and dedication have allowed her to stay ahead in the industry.
Karen Kaminski’s Approach
Unlike the franchise model of salon suites, Kaminski’s private salon suite approach offers support beyond just creating a pipeline of leads for salon owners. She adds value to her clients’ brands by educating their tenants, creating a low turnover, and keeping locations profitable without lowering rent rates. “If your tenants are successful business owners, they stay long term and create a consistent cash flow with very little turnover,” shares the Allure Salon Suite Consulting founder.
Kaminski has a background in the beauty industry and hands-on experience in establishing and growing profitable private salon suites for both herself and her consulting clients. She sees salon suites as huge investment opportunities for commercial real estate investors uninterested in the franchise model. She firmly believes the more support you can offer your tenants to help them grow and maintain their businesses, the more successful you are all around.
Many of Karen’s clients have full-time jobs in other industries and are motivated by the enticing simplicity of owning a salon suite business thanks to the steady cash flow from the weekly rent structure. This model is intriguing to real estate investors because it provides a prepared space for beauty professionals. All the beauty professionals need to do is customize their suites to their liking and bring their own products. As a result, this creates a desirable and manageable business model for both parties.
“People in the beauty industry are looking for bigger spaces that franchise models do not and cannot offer. Private salon suite facilities are rising year over year, and it’s time to capitalize,” Kaminski says.
If you’re interested in working with Karen Kaminski to design, build, and manage your new investment, you can connect with her at Allure Salon Suite Consulting.
