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We’ve been told lies for a very long time about what it means to be successful and I’m here to tell you that none of it is true.
It’s frustrating to look back at the times I’ve fallen victim to these completely false narratives I was taught about my career.
Read MoreGrowing up biracial, Gillian didn’t understand why her hair wouldn’t do what others did.
The experience of going to salons as a kid and teenager was a big motivation for Gillian to become a stylist. For her, and for many other BIPOC individuals, every single time she went to a salon, it was a traumatic experience.
Read MoreMisty’s big goal is to help hairstylists understand that it’s not your career holding them back, it’s not your income that’s holding them back, you’re possibly holding yourself back due to mismanagement of money.
Read MoreI’m combining foils with open-air hair painting to create the best and brightest money piece around and I’m walking you through it in this step-by-step tutorial.
Read MoreBut one part of balayage that had me scratching my head was when someone came in with previously highlighted hair and wanted the balayage look. How on earth was I supposed to take someone darker?
Read MoreI’m sharing the easiest way to blend grey hair into the most beautiful blonde highlights that your clients are going to love. (Because let’s be honest, these are our bread and butter clients)
Read MoreThe biggest thing that I see happening in our industry isn’t that there’s a shortage of figuring out how to make more money. That’s easy: you just take on more clients, increase your prices or just work longer hours, right?
Read More2020 disrupted all of our plans and the same is true for Jamie. At the beginning of 2020 the goal was to do a huge overhaul of her signature program, Oh Hot Gram and turn it into RISE Social Academy. She says this is where the burnout started. She redesigned the whole curriculum, built a new course from scratch and then did 10 weeks of coaching with her students.
Read MoreYou’ve made it to the EASIEST balayage tutorial you are ever going to find (I mean, until I figure out a way to make it easier that is…). I’m going to be walking you through this balayage with foils technique that is going to leave your clients drooling.
Read MoreI’m not shy to say I’ve had my fair share of mistakes… you know, like the BIGGEST hair mistake I ever made and how I handled it all wrong.
That being said, I’ve also learned a LOT. Like how to transform a client with natural brunette hair into a bright, blonde bombshell in a single session. Yup, you heard that right.
I’m walking you through step-by-step in this brunette foilyage tutorial so you can get stunning results that will WOW your clients and save you time and money.
Read MoreI had been invited by Cosmoprof to come do a photoshoot at ISSE with their team. But there was one client that I couldn’t reschedule so I ended up not going at all. I will forever regret that decision because what happened with that one client ended up changing the course of my career.
I thought I was doing the right thing by staying behind and doing the client I couldn’t reschedule. It would’ve been unprofessional to cancel on her to go to a photoshoot, right?
Read MoreNeedless to say, I’ve come a long way in men’s hair. And the last 7 years of my career I’ve focused on coloring and realized that’s my strength. In this tutorial I’m going to be showing you how to do balayage on men’s hair. I’ll be walking you through the exact toners I used and how to cut this surfer-California haircut on a very special client, my nephew.
Read MoreIt’s like when you have a color correction booked in and you stress about it and try to formulate your plan before even seeing your client’s hair. Color corrections used to keep me up at night.
Read MoreHow can you give your client a bright, popping money piece without leaving them with the 90s bleached bang look?
I gotchu.
To be honest, I think a lot of people are creating the money piece incorrectly. A lot of stylists think that the money piece is the 90s bleached bang look, when in fact, the money piece is the brightness around the entire hairline.
I’m walking you through step-by-step how to create a bright money piece using clay lightener.
Read MoreCheck out these in-demand dimensional color techniques from Hairstylist & educator Dawn Bradley shows you how to achieve money piece hair with the best and easiest placement. See her step by step money piece tutorial to achieve the million dollar money piece with the best face-framing technique
Read MoreI want to say this is a debate as old as time, but that would be a major exaggeration since I don’t think bleach or clay lightener have been around since the beginning of time…
Anyway… Back to the real topic at hand. Clay lightener vs bleach: which one is better?
I don’t think there’s a true answer to this question since everyone has their own preference. But I would argue that clay lightener is better for the integrity of hair.
There’s no better example of this than my client, Aelita.
Read MoreCan you believe I’m gonna start off another blog post telling you about a fail I made in my early hair years?
Yup… If you saw my post on Instagram the other week I told you I’ve failed my way to success. And that’s so true.
Red hair has become more popular in recent years, but back when I first hit the industry it was mainly blondes and brunettes, and I got really comfortable with them. And I didn’t really work with a lot of red hair.
Read MoreI wish I could tell ya that in my 20 years in the industry I’ve never made a single mistake…
Actually, ya know what? I’m glad I’ve made mistakes! I’m human and there’s no shame in making mistakes.
The relationships we build with our clients is pretty amazing, isn’t it? Not only can we become great friends with our clients, we get to see their hair and their life transform around us!
One of those clients, for me, is Ainsley. We first met in 2014, Ainsley had come in to get her hair done with me for the first time.
Unfortunately, for both of us, Ainsley had been addicted to box dyeing her hair (any guesses what color she was using? Yup… you guessed it…) black
Read MoreThere’s a weekend in 2014 that I’ll never forget. Still, to this day, I consider it to be one of the biggest weekends in my life…
Have I got you curious as to what happened?
Alright, I guess I gotta spill the beans then…
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