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Speed & Breed Tips for the Holidays!

Foundation Fundamentals: Basic Grooming – Use These Tips To Increase Your Speed!

 

How to Use Notes From the Grooming Table

Do you own “Notes from the Grooming Table – 2nd Edition”? This book will help you build your grooming career, boost your communication levels with your peers and clients, while expanding your career growth! You can purchase a copy HERE. NOTES is NOW AVAILABLE on Paragon’s Grooming APP where you can search, save notes, highlight, draw and translate – check it out HERE.

More Tips from Melissa Verplank at Paragon’s Blog

 

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🎉 Introducing the NEW Theory of 5 Video Series!

🎉 Learn2GroomDogs.com is excited to premiere a new video series based on founder ❤️ Melissa Verplank’s five-star Theory of Five ✂️ grooming guide!

Born of the need for consistent and efficient grooming, Melissa Verplank’s book has helped grooming operations worldwide simplify everyday grooming. Now those fundamentals, honed through 30 years of field testing and teaching, are available in byte-sized bits for continued education.

Perfect for solo groomers, mobile teams, or in shops, salons or pet boarding facilities, the Theory of Five series of Groominar® tips break skills into body parts and types.

In this first episode, you’ll be learning about grooming and styling the body from six Learn2GroomDogs 🌟 experts::

  • Melissa Verplank, CMG and Marc LeFleur show tips for effective drying during a Bath and Brush style groom.
  • Suesan Watson, CMG, demonstrates guard combs on the All-Trim.
  • Kathy Rose NCMG, IPGCMG, ISCCCMS demonstrates ways to work with bone structure when setting in Stylized Legs and tips for blending.
  • Judy Hudson, CMG shows you tips to master angulation and work with coat-growth patterns on the Sporting Dog or Short Legged Terrier Trim.
  • Irinia “Pina” Pinkesuvitch, NCMG demonstrates setting the topline on a Bichon Frise for Hand Scissors or Miscellaneous Trims.

Start Learning with Theory of 5!

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New Release: High Style Yet Simple German Trim on a Poodle

Have you ever wondered how to achieve a stylish trim on a salon-based timeline? Are you looking to up your styling game?

Join Brittney for this amazing lesson. You will have a front row seat as she shows how YOU can get this trim done simply, easily, and effortlessly. This lesson is so packed full of practical, helpful tips and tricks that you will have pages of notes! Brittney Valle is an award-winning Certified Master Groomer who is going to help set you apart with her approachable teaching style and wealth of knowledge.

A few of the highlights you will learn in this video:

  • How to get perfect poodle feet
  • How to set the lines on a poodle’s face
  • What guard combs lengths to use and where
  • How to set in beautiful angulation
  • How to disguise a high ear set

Start Learning with Brittney

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New Release: Setting a Show Style Trim on an English Cocker

Have you ever wondered how those Setters and Cockers in conformation show rings look so beautiful? They look natural yet sculpted at the same time. How the heck do they do that?

In this video lesson, award winning pet stylist Elizabeth Gibbs shows you how to achieve the look. Her model for this lesson is AKC finished champion. Even if you are just doing your pet Elizabeth has one special technique that will make your dog stand out. She explains her techniques in this video demonstration. Her end result looks soft, gorgeous, and very natural, just like the dog had GROWN that way.

In this video you will learn:

  • The importance of carding for a natural look
  • How to style an English Cocker’s feet for the proper look
  • How to tame an unmanageable area of coat when carding does not do it
  • How to pull the underline together for balance
  • How to style the head for the classic, soft English Cocker look

Start Learning with Elizabeth

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New Release: Active Drying Techniques Double Feature

Be honest with yourself. Do your dogs come out looking soft? Fluffy? Clean? Like a cloud? No? The problem is likely how you’re bathing and drying. Join experts Khris Berry and Brittney Valle as they show you how to get spectacular results in the latest Learn2GroomDogs Double Feature!

These lessons are about combining multiple forms of active drying with your everyday grooms. The benefits are many: your dogs will look better, your grooms will last longer, you will be able to finish the groom faster, and, when done correctly, are safe and gentle on the pet.

In this video you will learn:

  • How to increase your speed of drying
  • How to dry from the skin out
  • Three ways to vary the speed of a high-velocity dryer
  • Ways to work safely with the pet while drying them
  • Secrets to the perfect fluff dry

Start Learning with Khris and Brittney

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