The Curly Girl's Obsessions

How I Became A Curly Hair Specialist

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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.
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                The Curly Girl's ObsessionsBy Jennifer Janisch