It happened on New Year’s Eve my whole family was sick. I was eating dinner in my PJs and received a call from my friend. She told me that an experienced stylist at her salon quit, and they needed someone to take over her clientele. I knew the minute I hung up that phone, I was getting that position. From there, the story unfolds.
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- How she became a curly hair specialist. 0:00
- Welcome to the curly girls little sessions podcast. Jennifer is the owner of adored salon and is obsessed with curly hair.
- Today’s topic is how she became a curly hair specialist.
- She even did nails for eight years, even though she broke her hand in a car accident. She learned how to do nails and took over all the nail clients in the salon.
- She was working in her house for a long time, working in a salon in New York and getting certified.
- Getting a job at a salon. 4:44
- She was available all the time and there for her children at the drop of a dime because she worked out of her house. She treated it like an actual salon, with boundaries and pricing.
- She was starved for connection with other stylists and camaraderie in the salon.
- She was excited to learn a new technique, but was overwhelmed by the amount of time she had to spend in New York.
- The second day, she asked to take a third model and it was in new york. She was nervous to fly by herself.
- Putting yourself out there. 9:54
- The importance of doing all ethnicities of hair in the salon, and how the first client’s hair looked like a sponge.
- The threshold for patients at that point was zero.
- She was 21 and her mom always did her hair. She had not come through her hair since she moved to new york.
- She had a bleached out blonde afro.
- She had never cut her hair prior to that part of her career, and it was not a thing.
- She was the sweetest thing. She had faith in you.
- The first client that scared me and the second. 17:19
- The first client, the second client, was a Tennessee girl who loved the whole process and loved where she was. The third client was from Tennessee and wanted her to do exactly what she was taught to do.
- The second client was easy, the third was a bit of a struggle.
- She was so happy when she was done that she came home and her family had a newfound appreciation for her. She knew she had to perform and become a six-figure stylist.
- She would get there on a saturday and get eight hair cuts back to back, with no breaks.
- The importance of niching down to your specialties. 22:57
- She went to a salon without a clientele to maintain her other stylist clientele. She learned the importance of niching down to her specialty to produce the maximum dollar amount for her.
- When she decided to go out on her own and open her own salon, she knew that her main thing was curly hair.
- Curly hair is more fragile than straight hair and requires more time and effort to keep it conditioned when doing a lightning service or a color transformation.
- Adored signature full color.
- How to become a six-figure stylist. 28:25
- With curly hair, there is no in between guesswork on how to cut it. There is a method, a start and an ending point.
- With the proper curly girls set, you can typically go a good seven days without washing your hair even more if you want.
- All of these things come with ease after time because you learn and use the same product day in and day out.
- How to become a six-figure stylist.
- Next week, jennifer will talk about how she started with hair extensions and how that road was chaotic, but there were so many learning lessons along the way.