Skip the Salon · First Edition · 2026

Do What The Salon Charged You For

Twenty-five services I did behind the chair for thirty-five years, written down so you can do them at your own mirror.

“I did these same steps so many times my hands stopped needing my eyes, and now I want yours to know them too.”

— Donna Petrocelli

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No. 2 · The salon bill

What It Costs To Keep Going

A color appointment never jumps in price all at once. It creeps up one small add-on at a time, until the visit that used to feel routine starts to feel like a decision.

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One service, four visits a year$240
One visit$60
At your own mirror$0

These are my own remembered prices from thirty-five years behind the chair, not a survey — your own routine will change them.

The bill doesn't have to keep climbing just because the calendar does.

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No. 3 · The book

Twenty-five services I did behind the chair for thirty-five years, written down so you can do them at your own mirror.

Skip the Salon is a hundred twenty-nine pages, twenty-five chapters, one method to a chapter — gray roots, dull color, thinning brows, chapped hands, all of it. Every chapter gives you the tool, the timing, and the exact spot to stop before anything touches your face.

I wrote it in the order things actually go wrong at a mirror, not alphabetically. Read it start to finish or jump to whatever's bothering you this week, and do the patch test the first time, every time, before anything new touches your skin.

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PETROCELLI'S BEAUTY SALON
Hair & Skin · Thirty-Five Years At The Chair
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  • Bonus: Donna's Fifty-Dollar Kit$9
  • Bonus: Twelve Questions to Ask Before You Pay a salon$11
Total value$86
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No. 5 · The math

The math on staying with the salon.

Don't weigh this book against other books. Weigh it against what these same fixes cost at the salon, her own prices, priced two ways.

Keep booking
All 25 services, at salon prices, once: $785
Repeat visits are not counted here
$785, at least
her own prices, no repeats counted
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The book, once: $34
All 25 methods included
Every repeat visit after that: $0
$34, once
about 23 times less than the salon menu

This book is twenty-five chapters, one method to a chapter, the same steps I used behind the chair for thirty-five years, written down plain. It's thirty-four dollars, once, no subscription, no appointment to book around. That's the whole offer, the work in writing for a single price. My own salon prices were never every salon's prices, and what you get out of it depends entirely on your own habits at the mirror.

“Try the sugar and honey lip scrub in chapter nineteen tonight, before you reach for another tub of balm.”

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No. 6 · What's inside

25 methods, cheapest first

A quick look at three of the twenty-five chapters inside.

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Ch. 1

Cover Gray Roots Between Colors

you can hide the regrowth line at your part without booking a full color appointment

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Ch. 3

Add Volume to Fine Flat Hair

you can get real lift at the root without a salon blowout

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Ch. 7

Hide Split Ends Between Trims

you can make ends look healthy without cutting length

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Ch. 12

Reduce Under-Eye Puffiness Fast

you can calm morning puffiness in under five minutes

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Ch. 17

Strengthen Brittle Nails Naturally

you can stop nails from splitting without a gel overlay

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Ch. 22

Keep Makeup From Sliding Off in Heat

you can make makeup last through a hot, sweaty day

  • 1.Cover Gray Roots Between Colors$60
  • 2.Restore Shine to Faded Color$45
  • 3.Add Volume to Fine Flat Hair$35
  • 4.Thicken the Look of Thin Hair$40
  • 5.Tame Frizz Before It Starts$50
  • 6.Stop Winter Static For Good$0
  • 7.Hide Split Ends Between Trims$30
  • 8.Control an Oily Scalp By Midday$0
  • 9.Calm a Flaky Scalp at Home$35
  • 10.Bring Back Color to Dull Skin$55
  • 11.Fade Sunspots With What You Already Own$65
  • 12.Reduce Under-Eye Puffiness Fast$0
  • 13.Contour Away a Double Chin$40
  • 14.Fix Dry Winter Skin For Under Ten Dollars$30
  • 15.Repair Dry Cuticles Overnight$20
  • 16.Make a Manicure Last Two Weeks$25
  • 17.Strengthen Brittle Nails Naturally$30
  • 18.Heal Chapped Hands Before Bed$0
  • 19.Smooth Chapped Lips For Photos$0
  • 20.Fill Thinning Brows So It Looks Real$25
  • 21.Tint Your Own Lashes Safely$35
  • 22.Keep Makeup From Sliding Off in Heat$45
  • 23.Style Wedding Guest Hair At Your Own Mirror$65
  • 24.Do Holiday Party Makeup That Lasts All Night$55
  • 25.Know When to Pay a Professional$0
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The book's cover
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Contents
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Part two · Texture and Volume
A chapter spread from the book
Part six · Lips, Brows and La…
The bonus sheet: The checklist
The checklist
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The brow spoolie, still on the tray.
No. 7 · The quiet advantage

How To Fill Thinning Brows So It Reads Natural

I always reached for powder over pencil on thinning brows, because pencil sits on top of the skin and reads as a line the second you're under any real light. Powder settles into what's left of the hair and disappears into it instead.

Follow the arch you already have. I saw plenty of women redraw it higher, chasing a shape that wasn't theirs to begin with, and it never looked finished no matter how carefully they filled it in.

Brush upward last, every time, and set it with a little clear gel. That one step is what keeps a filled-in brow from looking drawn on by noon.

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No. 9 · The author

Donna Petrocelli

Salon owner, Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

“I never put a product on a client that I wouldn't put on my own mother.”

I opened Petrocelli's Beauty Salon in 1991, twenty-eight years old, four chairs, and a bank loan my husband had to cosign because the bank wouldn't take my signature alone that year. Tuesdays were color, Fridays were lash tints before weekend weddings, and prom season meant blowouts from seven in the morning until the last girl left.

The lease is what ended it, not me tiring of the work. When it doubled in 2023, I sold the chairs to my longest-serving stylist and kept my kit — the tint brush, the mixing bowl, the price list — and walked out with thirty-five years of muscle memory and nowhere left to put it.

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PETROCELLI'S BEAUTY SALON
Hair & Skin · Thirty-Five Years At The Chair
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Your Ticket For Everything I Used To Do

  • Skip the Salon — 129-page illustrated PDF$59
  • Bonus: The checklist$7
  • Bonus: Donna's Fifty-Dollar Kit$9
  • Bonus: Twelve Questions to Ask Before You Pay a salon$11
Total value$86
$34 $59
One payment, thirty-four dollars, no salon required.
Get the book — $34
30
DAYI'll stand behind this the same way I stood behind that chair for thirty-five years: 30 days, no questions, you keep the book.

Launch price ends October 18, 2026

No. 11 · Before you ask

Plain answers.

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No. 12 · Last call

The Root Touch-Up At Your Own Mirror

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