KARA

New year, new blondes! ✨

Are you ready for your Spring lift? Not only does a little color brighten and soften your look, it can make your hair feel fuller and more manageable. Add a toner and the result is a glossy finish that will leave your hair feeling and looking great!
Do you love this before and after?!

When your golden blonde client wants to try some red tones, we add in a beautiful peachy strawberry 🍑🍓

Don’t do it!

💥 BREAKING NEWS! DON'T DO IT!!! 💥💥💥WE INTERRUPT OUR NORMALLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING FOR BREAKING NEWS + to bring you updates on the SCOURGE OF #QUARANTINEHAIR...😱😱😱 Watch til the end. Cut/color at home- do not do it! DO NOT! #abcnews VIA @stylistricardosantiago behindthechair.com

“I am a hair dresser”
“Oh how cool! I would love to sit around and play with hair all day”
“Thanks I really love it”
“I wanted to do that too but I had to get a real job”

I chose my profession, yes I said profession. I have an education; believe it or not I am not dumb.
I have a license that probably looks similar to the one in your accountant’s office.

“So in beauty school they just teach you how to braid hair and stuff?”
“Yes, we did learn how to braid, along with all the bones and muscles in the body, along with chemistry, electricity, along with business, along with anatomy and physiology”
“Oh wow, I don’t see why you need all that just to cut hair”

I was taught how to properly help you achieve the look you are wanting while maintaining the integrity of your hair. But I have also dropped my head in defeat because I couldn’t get Sara’s hair to move from black to white in two hours. Then drove home in tears because I knew Sara was a walking un-happy billboard for my business. And although I did everything I knew to do Sara isn’t happy. In tears because I knew Sara would tell everyone who would listen about how “that stupid hairdresser” ruined her hair, while leaving out that she was dishonest about the history of her hair.

I do get upset when I hear “I’m going to hair school; I already know everything so I just need to be certified. Since I’m so good I might as well get paid for it” If you are that good I am happy for you. But having the “I already know everything” mentality is going out the window the first time a screaming 2 year old sits in your chair. When he moves and screams louder with every cut you make. I have walked out the back door of the salon more than once wondering if his mother was going to put a review about me on Google, or Yelp or if I would get my own Facebook rant. Because her little boy looks terrible because of the “horrible experience” he had with “that stupid Hairdresser”

I have cried with clients while touching up their roots for their parents, or worse their child’s funeral.

I have curled little girls for the Daddy/Daughter dance listening to them tell me how they are going to look just like Cinderella.

I hear “I would love to go into work at 10”. Yes I open at 10 that doesn’t mean my day starts at 10! Just because we “close” at 6 doesn’t mean we leave at 6.

I hear “I would come to you but your prices are too high”. Again I have an education that wasn’t free. I have booth rent, I have to pay for any and every product I use on your head. If my thinning shears pull your hair it’s because they need sharpening, that’s not free. And I have to use Ken to sharpen them because the last time Dave did it they got bent, and had to be replaced. Those aren’t free.

I can’t turn away a client because they are sick I just have to pray I don’t catch it. Health insurance doesn’t come in our lack-of-benefits package. And it’s a good thing that in school we stopped playing with each others hair long enough to learn business because I am the only one looking out for my retirement.

I love making people feel pretty and being an honorary family member to many. I feel very blessed.

I am happy had the courage to bet on myself and walk away from job security, guaranteed income, insurance, a 401k plan, and family dinner to stand behind you.

I am a hairdresser

I have the crooked fingers, scared knuckles, burnt fingertips, and sore feet to prove it!

- Not “Just a hairdresser”

Spring has sprung!🐇 I am loving the slightly subtle pops of pink and rose gold. Do you change up your hair for the seasons?

🌞🌞🌞 Super Soul Sunday - Repost , Written by Katrina Roberts
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I love what I do and wouldn't have it any other way. Our job as stylists is to not only make you look good but to make you feel good. Our clients confide in us and share pieces of their lives when they sit in our chairs. I want you to know that when you sit and tell me your story, you are heard. I relate to your highest of highs and lowest of lows. I get excited at your accomplishments and get saddened by the challenges that life presents to you. Thank you for the honor of letting me into your lives. My hope is that your time in my chair not only makes you feel good, but at the end of the day my job is to add positivity. Your hair will shine bright and your confidence brighter. Tomorrow is another day and a new story is just waiting for us just 6 weeks away.

- Behindthechair.com

This girl travels the world, but always finds her way back to me to freshen up those lovely locks. ❤️ I love her for that!! Today she wanted to keep some depth for low maintenance but add some pops of brightness. I weaved her hair with some low lights and babylights, then went through and balayaged some ends for impact, meanwhile adding a little demi permanent hair color to blend any of those “natural highlights” away.
Using products- oi milk and Volume foam help to give her bouncy shine, even in the rainy weather.

The holidays are almost here! 🙌🏼 Time to plan out your appointments for Thanksgiving 🦃 Christmas 🎄and New Years! 🥂
Text me ASAP to get your favorite appointment time scheduled! 🙋🏻‍♀️

From Summer blonde to FALLing Into Autumn. Pumpkin spice anyone? 🍁🍂

Thank heaven for little girls 🎀
Seeing little girls spin in their dresses after their hair is done, makes my heart sing!
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