Just curious sincewe have a few new members what does everyone here do? Getting a topic going peeps...thanks
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Sat, October 22, 2005 - 6:56 PMnothing yet. planning on going to school for cosmo. -
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Sun, October 23, 2005 - 9:48 PMI'm going to cosmetology school here in SF myself right now. But I was doing hair before that. I've been part of the Hair Revolution for awhile now. -
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Mon, October 31, 2005 - 4:32 PMAwsome. Have you guys always known you wanted to do hair or did you stumble into it? -
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Tue, November 1, 2005 - 2:30 AMI always knew I liked doing hair, but it kinda took a while for me to realize i wanted to make a career of it. Then it took a while for me to get good. How about you?
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Unsu...
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Tue, November 1, 2005 - 4:30 AMit was on my big list of stuff i wanted to try out because i have a natural knack for it. i always cut hair for everyone i know....so at least if i go to school for it they can start paying me as i will be a professional. hee hee
i have been really good at make-up too
plus i want to learn to master nailpolish. this i totally suck at.
i also got interested in it by doing a little bit of modeling and thehair and make-up people were personallities that i liked dealing with. they seemed happy and always had decent clothing and cars.
and now that there is a school right up the street...its like a higher power is kicking me in the arse to do it to it! -
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Tue, November 1, 2005 - 11:33 AMgo for it. It sounds like a good fit. I like the part about "decent" clothes & cars. That's all I want out of life, really. -
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Unsu...
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Wed, November 2, 2005 - 6:13 AMme too.
anything more than that has more work and time involved.
i dont care about rich people shit. it all becomes rather boring and you are always seeking something better and more novel but you are never satisfied.
i also want to be able to work less than 40 hours a week and have a flexi schedule. so if i had 6 months where i needed to be lazy i could just do part time or loyal clients hair. -
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Thu, November 3, 2005 - 3:50 PMI too have always known, and have been in biz for 10 years. I love it. Once you get established, you can get the goods...cool clothes ect. I usually work say 35 hrs a week give or take. I thought at one point I wanted to get out of it yeah right! I interviewed and they were like no jeans, no tattoos showing, normal blah blah blah 8-4 hour for lunch. What do they do for an hour for lunch anyway? I come in at noon some days and get off by 7 so why would I want that...You get your hair done for free, so many perks. I ran back to my comfy hair salon, And never looked back again! You have freedom like not many careers out there. -
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Thu, November 3, 2005 - 6:33 PMThat's so good to hear. I definitely am into the no dress code environment. And if I want some wild hair color, I want to be able to do it and not say"Oh I can't cuz of work"... -
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This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded.Unsu...
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Fri, November 4, 2005 - 8:24 AMyes!
having to conform makes me HATE a job. it gives me anxiety. -
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Mon, November 7, 2005 - 7:41 PMI've been the hair wonderful hair world for about 4 and half years now! And I love it... its always changing and growing.. this weekend all the girls at my salon are going to a hair show in Michigan.. I'm so excited I LOVE hair shows.. they always get u excited for new things! YAY! -
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Unsu...
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Tue, November 8, 2005 - 9:40 AM"this weekend all the girls at my salon are going to a hair show in Michigan"
these are so cool. i loved being in them because the stylist got all spazzy about showing off thier new tech. and color design. everyone was like kids at x-mas.
i cant wait till i can be the creator at these things instead of just the head. haa haa
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Sat, December 17, 2005 - 11:10 AMHello I just found this Tribe....
I have been a Clinical Massage Therapist for the last 20+ years sometimes most of the time Dancer of some form.
Long ago & far away (it seems) I hair modeled for Sassoon & long long before that hair modeled back in '64 - 66!!! when I was a teen but thought I was So adult ;}
Going through the photos I swear! I have had most of these cuts & colors
& more far out ones - 8 colors in 1 weekend in the Las Vegas '65 show omg before we knew or cared about the affect of chemicals on proteins (multiple colors at each 'style')
with big circles laquered for the space crown look -lol
It was actually pretty cz my hair had been bleached so white it was almost No color & they would paint kinda psychedelic rings....
Decades later I played on that motif but with a 1/4 - 1/2 inch bleached head & paint brushes*~**~*
It has brought back some Stylin' memories as I have just let it grow =======& eventually that is what it is - long or tied or knotted out of the dogs & weeds way (I live semi-rural)
SO THIS IS INSPIRING!
Can't get in with my 'guy' til after New Years but I am off Now to rummage through the 30 some color tubes & bottles in the cabinet & where did I put those scissors>>>????<<< -
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Wed, December 21, 2005 - 8:42 PMHow awsome! Welcome Welcome and welcome! I am so excited to see some action here and such variety in our business. I love that about this field. Such positive people. I think you have to be to do what we do. -
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Fri, December 23, 2005 - 9:43 PMhey there-
i fell into it. when i was in high school, i wasn't sure i wanted to go to college, i sure as hell didn't want to have a desk job, and wanted something flexible, because i was into theater and wanted to be able to have time to do other things. some of my friends in high school were taking cosmetology through the r.o.p. program, so i checked into it, and did it. at first, i just went for the esthetician program, but back in the early '80's i never thought i'd make any money at that, so i switched over to cosmetology to have a wider range of opportunity.
i've been doing this for 23 years now. i do cuts, color, perms, and extensions and dread perms. i would be happy with giving up cutting, and sticking to color, extensions and dread perms. but the majority of my business is cut and color. -
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Sat, December 24, 2005 - 11:09 AMHEyyyyy There Wendy~
I was wondering what kind of 'work' you did standing on yr feet all day ``*o*'''
then you dance on them Aallll night ~~~~~~~
When I 1st hair modeled & was 'doing' everybodys hair, big twists & loops of Texas meets London Mods of Vogue backwater surfers, a family friend was going to put me through school but I rebelled so We all thought but I was/am So allergic to the Chemicals!!
Doing Hair is a hard hard on the body job! & multi faceted as artist & conversationalist -all while thinking like a computer for details....
I was So happy to get reinvolved in being creative when Sebastian & the likes came out. I don't know if Sasson's products are just better/milder than the old harsh 60's or if the Science of How-To also improved godzillions {*<>*}
'Course the Client or Model treatment was Lovely La de Da over the 'guys' out to compete in late 1960s
oohh hoo no offense meant but maybe a movie on the world of cosmetology shows like the one on Dog Showing~()~(~)
I have been wrapped in plastic bags for 22 hrs for my lazy but intense method of hair coloring>>>> {I use to hand paint 3-4 colors with toothbrushes on only the underside of the shafts & pin aside 1/2 inches, wait then twists for blending; but that was 20+ yrs ago in the LA scene that would appreciate such maniac work}
LOl my 'hair stylist friend/client called for an appointment With Me just as I was tying the plastic on; it always makes me feel inhibited cz He is the guy in this county that is treated like Warren Beatty's character in Shampoo "who does Yr hair?" "oh yes I would Only go to Himmm!" I heard at our
2 room art museum between lovely younger matrons of $$
Since I have massaged his body for almost 10 yrs I know the aches & pains Yr work can create! -
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Unsu...
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Tue, December 27, 2005 - 4:51 AMhow hard can it be on the body?
i hear some people say it is and some people say it isnt.
the people that say it isnt have had "busting ass" jobs like waiting tables or kitchen work.
the people that say it is went strait to school or have a retail history.
one of my luxuries is going to be getting a bi-weekly if not weekly massage. at least i hope to make enough to do that. -
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Thu, December 29, 2005 - 3:21 PMIt can be hard. Alot of stylsits myself included tend to care almost too much about our clients so we skip lunch breaks, stay longer hours, ect and don't take the time out like yourself to do the things we should to de-stress. You are standing on your feet in one spot with your arms up in the air for hours a day. Your wrists are movin in ways you never thought possible, your pullin on hair to straighten it one minute and the next your curlin it for an updo on the next client. Your fetchin sallysue a coffee, your rinsin out someones client for them, answering phones, gabin, bending stoppin, waxin bikinis, you name it, then you sit down, and you just want to not move!!! LOL.
You'll probably make enough by if you work at a day spa you can trade services and not spend a penny!
So my advice continue that habit of servicing yourself first then your clients not in a selfish way but if your not at peace how can your client come to you to be pampered themselves. That's why we have a bad wrap sometimes for being crabby or not listening is because we have just listened to hundreds of others too. Not that that is wrong but I chose to.
So ladies, and gents lets do something this week whether a massage, wax, face scrub at home, teeth whitening, anything cheap or luxury, just to remind ourseves of how important we are...I'm gettin a pedicure for free tomorrow!!!
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