Curls Disrupted

How did we get from the beginning of the free #30DayHairDetox challenge to where we are now?

Cut It Kinky started as a Beta Test in 2018.Two years later we've trained more than 100 curl artists. In this episode we break down what we think is important for aspiring independent beauty educators to know.

You can do whatever you want to as long as you can prove that you can do it. You can build your own table and eat at it on Al Gore's internet. We explore what is really keeping beauty industry on the fringes new technologies that can assist in our exponential growth.

Curly Cutting is an art and a science. It’s a way of seeing hair that is completely different from how most cosmetologists are taught to see hair

There are a ton of misconceptions that curly cuts aren't precision cuts, that you can’t see the ends of the hair, that damage is left after the cut.

We chat the most popular methods that we're familiar with and explain why we felt the need to create Cut It Kinky specifically to address tighter, kinkier curls.

As professionals how do we determine our worth and place a value on out attention, time, and money?

This journey has never been about our hair.

We haven't shared much about our hair because we don't center our hair in the work we do. Everything has always been about leading our clients digital and IRL to their own curl goals.

We keep hair care simple by simply cleansing, conditioning, and styling.

In this episode we chat about what we're feeling about out hair right now and what 2020 holds for the fate of our curls.

We go behind the scenes with Cut It Kinky Alumni and Mentor stylists Roni from Pasadena, CA and Sonnie from Dallas, TX to chat about how their careers behind and beyond the chair have shifted since attending their first Cut It Kinky Live Workshop.

*This session was recorded at Hazel O. Salon in Alexandria, VA www.hazelosalon.com.

Hazel O. is a dope loft salon with facilities to host professional technical classes and workshops.

Some of you have been wondering why we are not in a permanent salon space. This is what happens when things fall apart and what we are doing to recover.

For so many years we've been told that salon ownership is the natural progression of a dope stylist's career. In this episode we examine what ownership is and what having responsibility for a physical commercial space really means.

We regularly get asked if we will travel to different locations to do hair. As a stylist it can be an ego boost for your services to be in high demand. In this episode we through a huge bucket of ice water on the sexy idea of being a traveling hairstylist. We also explain what we're doing to solve the problem many consumers have around finding a competent curl stylist