Behind the chair

This blog is now a dead blog.

This blog will stay up as long as tumblr will let it.

Once again. It's 8 am and I'm tired.

To be a stylist you need to know

- Anatomy of the skull, face, shoulders, upper back, arms, and hands

- Chemistry so you can mix colours

- More chemistry so you know how perms work

- Even more chemistry so you can bleach the hair out and not have it melt off(looking at you YouTube)

- Actual minor therapy classes so you can get a handle on all your clients crazy(and there is a lot of it)

- How to sell retail because that's a huge part of the job

- How to read your clients so you know how to adapt yourself to their energy

- How to talk to people(talking to people is half the job)

- How to cut hair.

- Colour in a specific sense so you can cancel out and neutralize specific tones in the hair(All of these different coloured boxes do different things. Good luck figuring it out!)

- the actual cutting of the hair is a very small part of the job.

Okay if your stylist is getting mad at you for asking for a specific style you need to look for a new one because that's total bullshit.

We are here for you, you're paying us. So it's in our best interest to do what you'll be happy with.

Very salty answer because it's 8 am.

Why should a plumber go to school? Why don't they just learn everything there is to know about plumbing by looking at a toilet?

Why should a welder go to school? Why don't they just learn how to weld by looking at a torch?

Why should a pilot go to school? Can't they just figure out how to fly from looking at the controls?

Why should a vet go to school? Can't they just figure out how animals work by looking at them?

Yeah, in a SHOCKING twist of events hairstylists don't get hired by walking into a salon and getting looked at by the owner who tells us "well you look like you could hold a pair of scissors. You're hired!!"

Also. Hairstyling is a fucking trade. Just like plumbing and welding and pipefitting. There's a lot that goes into it, despite the majority of the public thinking what we do is so easy they can do it at home and that we're too stupid to chew gum and breathe at the same time.

Me: Well that sucks.

Weird client: Can we still use it?

Me: sadly no. You have to have it with you.

Weird client: Oh....

Me: I have a coupon here for a free haircut with the purchase of a full colour you can use and instead of roots and foils we'll just do your roots.

Weird client: So you would have done more if I had the coupon?

Absolutely nobody:

Colour wisks: Am smol :3c

So this insane woman who's trying to get as much free shit as she can get her hands on because she's picky and not above throwing a tantrum like an actual toddler.

Came in Thursday to get her hair coloured after she'd been using box dye

Loved the colour

Came back in on Friday to say she hated the colour and she wanted it fixed.

Loved the colour

Came back in TODAY and got her hair 'fixed'

Seemed to like her hair

Literally called in two hours after she left the salon and wanted her hair cut

And then

AND THEN

Told the receptionist she wanted to get a full colour over top of the colour she harassed two seperate stylists for three days over

AND THEN

This fucking insane woman who is literally just doing this as a power play because she thinks if she does a big enough tantrum she'll get some sort of free service ON top of the free services and products SHE'S ALREADY GOT

She's 15 fucking minutes late for the appointment she booked in

We called her and she answered the phone and then immediatly hung up

A note has been put in her file saying we can't help her any longer because she's harassing the stylists

Like what the actual fuck lady??

She's not even a baby boomer. Like that behaviour is expected from them.

She's in her fucking 30s

Me: I'm not taking vacations over the summer months....

Me: But I'll be sure to take good care of all your clients.....

Me: Really good care....

Me: Mwahahahahahahaha! Let me see how many clients I can coax over into my chair while you're away.

Not rude at all. Your stylist was the rude one.

Managing the hair doesn't really have anything to do with race. We're not doctors, it's none of our damn business.

Managing the hair is about working with that hair type over and over again until you can do it in your sleep.