How to Use AI to Simplify Your Salon Tasks

I don’t know about you, but when I need to calculate percentages, I immediately go to ChatGPT. Just to be sure, not because I am bad at math. 😳

But this is just me.

As a salon owner, you can definitely use AI not only when it comes to percentages but also to automate some of your repetitive tasks and make time for what matters most – taking care of your clients and business. 

Let’s see a few ways in which you can use AI in your salon tasks.

8 Ways Beauty Professionals Can Use AI to Be More Efficient

The beauty industry is still a people’s business. So, you can’t rely 100% on AI. Still, you can automate a few areas of your business. 

Here are a few ways to use AI in your daily tasks as a beauty professional.

1. Social media 

a) Content creation 

Beauty professionals use social media marketing as a way to share their work and attract new customers. They take advantage of social media to showcase their skills with before-and-after shots. 

Sharing photos builds trust by giving potential clients a peek into your salon’s vibe and team. While the visuals you use can and should be photos of your work, you still need to write short copies for every social media post.

Some salon management software like Goldie have AI integrations that make running a salon business easier. Goldie’s social media post generator saves time by creating engaging, tailored post descriptions based on your photos. This keeps your online presence active and consistent, helping attract new clients and retain existing ones, while you can focus on providing great service.

Here’s how you can generate social media posts with Goldie. If you’re not using this software to manage your daily salon appointments yet, you can download it from the App Store or Google Play. 

Another way to generate content for your salon business is by using ChatGPT. Here’s how:

• Go to ChatGPT
• Type in your request:

• Get your answer:

• Maybe you like something more straightforward? Ask for adjustments or more versions so you can pick the one you like best.

b) Customer engagement

Social media chatbots, introduced on platforms like Facebook in 2016, have become essential for effective community management because they provide instant assistance – exactly what many of us need.

These automated software applications simulate human conversation. They operate using predetermined scripts and artificial intelligence. The scripts handle common queries, while AI improves their ability to understand and respond to more complex questions.

Because they can offer 24/7 customer service, they can improve customer satisfaction. 

If you want to implement a social media chatbot, you should define the bot’s purpose, choose the right platform, design natural conversation flows, and test thoroughly before launching.

Here are a few possible tools:

• Chatfuel: Primarily used for creating Facebook Messenger bots.
• ManyChat: Offers chatbot solutions for Facebook Messenger and Instagram.
• MobileMonkey: A platform that provides chatbot solutions for Facebook Messenger, SMS, and web chat.
• Tidio: Uses live chat and chatbot tools and supports integrations with various platforms, including social media.
• Botsify: A platform for creating AI chatbots for websites and Facebook. 

Tip: The Goldie app’s AI integration can interpret your client’s message replies, facilitating automatic confirmations, cancelations, and rescheduling.

2. Hair & skincare solutions

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Salons and spas can use AI-powered skin analysis tools. These tools can analyze a customer’s skin using a camera or app, identifying concerns like wrinkles, pores, or oiliness.

After the AI analysis, beauty professionals can use the results as a starting point for a personalized consultation. Then, they can recommend skincare products.

There are apps that analyze hair types, too. They can identify the texture, thickness, and curl patterns of your customers’ hair so you can recommend the best hair care products for their needs.

Here are some AI skin & hair analysis tools:

• Cetaphil AI Skin Analysis
• MyRoutine AI from La Roche Posay
• SkinConsult AI from Vichy
• Haut.ai
• Perfect Corp 

3. Try-ons

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There are AI tools that allow customers to virtually experiment with different makeup looks or hair colors before committing to a change. 

For example, L’Oréal Professionnel’s Style My Hair app is a service-oriented beauty app that allows users to try out different hair colors and styles using augmented reality. The app uses deep learning technology to provide realistic simulations of hair color and style.

Similar apps exist for nail art, where clients can virtually try different designs and colors.

Other tools: 

• Face Maestro by Armani Beauty
• Perfect Corp 
• ModiFace

4. Product formulations

AI can help the beauty industry create better products. By constantly analyzing new data and customer preferences, AI can recommend tweaks to existing formulas, making them even more effective. 

This technology is a game-changer for personalized product development. It can analyze skin types and ingredient interactions, helping beauty professionals understand the products better and make relevant recommendations.

Provital, for example, is looking at skin health in a new way, considering how it connects to other parts of your body and even your mood. This is thanks to advanced technology like AI. They used AI to study people’s subconscious reactions to a new product. They’re also using AI to measure how well their ingredients fight signs of aging.

Provital believes that skin health is complex and connected to your overall well-being. They’re using AI to develop better products with scientific backing and personalization. 

You can read more about their research here.

5. Business information

When you create an online booking website, you need to take time to write essential business details and other key information useful to your clients. If writing content is not your strength, you must know that there are tools that do it for you.

With just a few inputs, this tool crafts detailed and captivating service descriptions, business overviews, and clear policy & terms tailored to your needs, and you can directly display them on your booking website. Here’s how it will look like.

• Service description

• Business description

• Policy & Terms

6. Contract drafting

Beauty professionals can use AI to assist them in drafting contracts, but it’s important to understand AI’s limitations in this case.

You can find an AI legal service that offers pre-drafted contracts or clause libraries relevant to the beauty industry, or you can simply ask ChatGPT for a standard contract related to your specific needs.

For example, you can ask for an employment contract or a retailer/distributor contract.

While AI can provide a starting point, have a lawyer review and customize the contract template to ensure it adheres to your specific needs and local regulations. 

Your advantage here? If you’re hiring a lawyer by the hour, you’ll pay less because you have a draft of your contract.

There’s also a specific tool for drafting documents: Rocket Lawyer

Here’s how I asked ChatGPT for a Hairstylist Independent Contractor Agreement:

Note: Please be aware that this is not an official legal document. It’s best to consult a lawyer when drafting your contracts.

7. Automated bookkeeping 

Beauty professionals usually want to focus on the beauty part, not on bookkeeping. That’s why they can delegate this to an AI assistant.

You can use tools to automatically categorize transactions, reconcile bank statements, and flag potential errors.

This saves time and ensures accurate expense tracking.

Here’s a tool for this: Dext 

8. Salon branding

Salon branding has entered a new era with the integration of artificial intelligence, making it easier than ever to create a logo in just a few seconds. The Goldie scheduling app now features an AI-powered tool that allows you to generate your business logo. 

This innovative feature takes into account your brand colors and business style, generating a logo that perfectly mirrors your salon’s unique identity. 

Here are five other AI logo generators that you can use to create a logo for your salon:

• Hatchful by Shopify:

Hatchful offers a free, user-friendly platform to create logos with various fonts and colors. 

• Logomaster.ai:

This AI logo generator allows you to create logos quickly by selecting your industry, style preferences, and colors. While customization is available, high-resolution downloads and additional features require a paid plan.

• Canva:

Canva’s logo maker is part of a broader design toolset that includes AI-assisted features. While Canva doesn’t automatically generate logos, it offers extensive customization options and templates, making it a versatile tool for creating unique logos.

• Looka:

Looka offers a comprehensive suite for branding, including logo design, business card creation, and social media templates. While the tool is free to use, downloading the logo files requires a paid plan starting at $20​.

• Wix Logo Maker:

Part of the Wix website builder suite, its logo maker provides a flexible design process with extensive customization options.

Wrapping Up

Running a salon can feel like a juggling act sometimes. Between appointments, social media, and making sure your booking website’s information are complete and up to date it’s easy to feel swamped. That’s why you can use AI for all those repetitive tasks so you can focus on what you do best – making people look and feel fantastic.

Plus, you can use Goldie’s appointment scheduling software to manage your business by keeping track of all your appointments in one place. Let us know in the comments section how you use AI to simplify your salon tasks.