In Scotland, semi-permanent skin colouring sits under the same council licence as tattooing, cosmetic piercing and electrolysis, and the City of Edinburgh Council may inspect before granting it. The city recorded 5.0 million staying visits in 2024 and 3.91 million festival attendances. Salongram keeps each artist's diary and client notes in one app.
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Salongram is a free salon booking app for Edinburgh salons and barbershops: appointments, clients, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one app for Android and iPhone.
The treatment list decides the licence. A studio doing only lash lifts and brow shaping is in a different position from one adding semi-permanent skin colouring such as microblading, which the council licenses; check with the council how it classes your treatment. Visitor numbers then shape the calendar.
GOV.UK's licence finder for the City of Edinburgh lists tattooing, semi-permanent skin colouring, cosmetic piercing, electrolysis and acupuncture under one licence, and says you need to register both yourself and your premises with the council.
The same page says the council may inspect the premises before you get your licence, and that a certificate of registration or licence follows approval. You pay a one-off registration fee, set by the council and varying from area to area.
Edinburgh by Numbers 2025 counts 5.0 million staying visits in 2024, 2.6 million of them international, with 17.8 million nights. Major festivals recorded 3.91 million attendances, online and in person, and hotel and B&B occupancy reached 85.4%.
The council's figures show 15,800 micro enterprises with up to 9 employees in 2025, 85.9% of all businesses, and that 39.6% of businesses started in 2019 were still trading five years later. Median hourly pay was GBP 20.49 in 2025.
National Records of Scotland estimated 531,370 people in the City of Edinburgh on 30 June 2025, down 0.1% on 2024 but up 18.3% since 2001, against 9.5% for Scotland. The 25 to 44 age group was the largest, with 174,488 people.
Semi-permanent skin colouring is on the council licence list; ask the council whether your microblading counts. List each treatment as its own service, so the diary shows which bookings may depend on the licence.
If you book a top-up after a first microblading session, set a return interval on that service, and Salongram creates a rebooking reminder when the first appointment is completed.
Edinburgh counted 3.91 million festival attendances in 2024. When festival requests pile up, Salongram warns you if a new booking overlaps an existing one, and you choose whether to keep it.
85.9% of Edinburgh's businesses were micro enterprises in 2025. Salongram is free to download, with no fee per stylist, and works offline on one phone.
Client records keep notes on brow shape, pigment and the date of any patch test you carried out, so the next visit starts from what was done last time.
We found no official data on how Edinburgh clients book brow or lash treatments, so this guide does not guess. What Salongram does is keep calls, walk-ins and link requests in one diary per artist, and it shows a warning for an overlap, so you decide whether to go ahead.
When a repeatable service is completed, a reminder is created for when the client is due back, ready to book or message.
Rebooking remindersEach client record keeps past visits, usual services and notes, searchable by name or phone number.
Client recordsShare your link or QR code. Visitors pick a service and a free time, and the booking waits as a request until you accept it.
The booking linkAn illustrative Saturday during the festivals, not research: a two-room brow and lash studio in Stockbridge where the owner does microblading under her licence and a second artist does lash lifts and brow shaping.
The owner opens the diary: her microblading session and a top-up run until half past one, and the lash artist has a gap at eleven.
A visitor sends a booking request through the link for a brow tint and shape; the request fits the eleven o'clock gap and the owner accepts it.
A top-up client's rebooking reminder is due; the owner prepares a WhatsApp message and sends it from her own phone.
The day's payments, cash and card, are in one list before closing.
Type in your own numbers. A no-show is a slot nobody else could take; reminders and a waiting list are how most salons win part of it back.
An estimate from the numbers you enter (a month counted as 4.33 weeks). Nothing is sent or stored. Salongram is free to download.
Add microblading, top-ups, lash lifts, tints and shaping with their prices and lengths, and a return interval for top-ups.
Set each artist's working days, hours and breaks, and add holidays as time off.
Create the optional account to get your link and QR code, then put it on your socials, Google listing and door.
GOV.UK lists semi-permanent skin colouring under the City of Edinburgh licence with tattooing, cosmetic piercing and electrolysis, and the council may inspect the premises first. Ask the council how it classes your treatment. Salongram does not handle licences.
Salongram is free on Android and iPhone. It keeps a diary per artist, client notes, rebooking reminders for top-ups and payment records, and prepares WhatsApp reminders you send yourself. It does not take deposits.
Edinburgh by Numbers 2025 counts 5.0 million staying visits and 3.91 million festival attendances in 2024, with hotel and B&B occupancy at 85.4%. It does not say how many visitors book beauty treatments.
Yes. Set a return interval on the service and Salongram creates a rebooking reminder when the appointment is completed. You book the client or send a prepared WhatsApp message yourself.
Not last year. National Records of Scotland estimated 531,370 people in the City of Edinburgh on 30 June 2025, down 0.1% on a year earlier, though still up 18.3% since 2001 against 9.5% for Scotland as a whole.
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