Stylist Talk

I'm here with Ashleigh Bailey, you can find her on Instagram @socialcoashash 

Ash has previously worked at Haircare Australia as the social media marketing manager. Working with brands including EVO, Olaplex, Cloudnine, etc.   

Ash has recently launched her own consulting company, Ashleigh Bailey Consulting, and she is here to educate, inspire and coach our industry and salon owners on how to use social media. 
It is a great topic that we are all trying to wrap our heads around.  

I hope you enjoy her story and all her great social tips.


You can find her services and connect with Ash at:
https://www.ashleighbailey.consulting/more-services
https://www.instagram.com/socialcoachash/


Thanks for listening to stylist talk 
You can follow me @laurenmcnamee and our salon @blushgirlsalon

My last podcast for 2021
I have been asked by a few people to upload an episode sharing my own story in hair and business, so here it is! I found this one quite hard to listen back to and finally upload but I hope that you enjoy it.
Wishing everyone a happy new year and hoping we all stay safe xx

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Follow me on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/loveblushgirl/
And my salon - https://www.instagram.com/blushgirlsalon/

Wow! I'm so pumped about this episode. Grace and Alana don't hold anything back. They share all the details of their background and business ideas. What's so clear to me is that they are focused on creating amazing stylists, which is their legacy and is very inspiring. 

They are here for all the industry shifts but they know at the end of the day they are just a salon and they are very down to earth. Every salon owner and stylist will be able to relate to this episode. Without a doubt you'll pick up so many ideas. This episode will have your thinking challenged.

Grace and Alana share how it all started, their education, hustle, pivot to shag chair and so much passion and love for the hairdressing industry, particularly the business side. What a team they make!

Thank you so much ladies for joining me on @stylisttalkpodcast

Find  Grace, Alana and Shag hair on Instagram:
@gracey_shaghair
@alana_shaghair
@shaghair

and on their website: 
https://shaghair.com.au/ 

Nicole started Melbourne Hair Blogger 6 years ago. Nicole was one of the smart ones who caught on early and realised that there was a great opportunity for her to grow a community of stylists and keep connected while she stepped off the salon floor to be with her family. 

She has grown her page now to 100,000 followers and shares her learnings to teach salon owners all over the world how to use facebook and instagram for marketing. She was always interested in tech even at school and loves how those two passions have combined for her now. She has a job that truly brings her so much happiness. Nicole is a mum of two babies and places a big importance on family, which is one of her core values.

She knows socials inside and out she shares so generously. This episode is loaded with heaps of educational tips and of course Nicole's story. I wanted to do this for a long time and I’m so glad that we could make it happen. I loved having a conversation about a passion that we share, which is utilising social media to grow your business. 

Please check out all of Nicole's services and follow her pages:
• @social.salon.school
• @melbournehairblogger
• https://www.melbournehairblogger.com.au 

Please enjoy hearing form Renya Xydis, owner of Valonz Salon. She has had the most incredible career. Living through the 80’s, 90’s and the noughties. Seeing all the changes and shifts in our industry and embracing them all. Working with gorgeous models and celebrities, the editorial work, famous magazines and all while running successful salons and raising a family and most importantly sharing her BIG LOVE for this industry.

How can I thank you enough for giving me this time and this opportunity. You truely did touch my heart. Your passion and love is so clear, so pure and so beautiful. You reignited what I thought I had lost and challenged me to remember why I started. I haven't felt this inspired to be on the floor to do beautiful hair in a very long time. 

I hope when you listen you remember too. Renya is here to teach us all to bring back the love of your craft, remember why you started and to reinvent yourself.

A true creative artist. Thank you so much Renya from the bottom of my heart for joining me for @stylisttalk 

You can find Renya on instagram @renyaxydis and her salon @valonzhaircutters 

Lauren Cooper, co owner with her partner Matthew, opened Etcher salon 1 year ago.  It's very clear that this was all meant to be. Even though it was the start of a global pandemic the stars aligned and things fell into place. 

In just one year her team has grown to 12. They have been able to hold industry events and do forward thinking things such as holding mental health workshops. Lauren and Matthew can see that this industry needed something different. They didn't want to open another salon just to make noise. They knew that is had to be special, they knew it had to be Etcher.   

Lauren holds herself so beautifully. She is smart, opened minded and oh so humble about what she has achieved. I love her mindset around learning even as a leader and their goal to celebrate individuality have gender neutral pricing and run a sustainable salon is inspiring.  

Congratulations on what you have created! I'm looking forward to seeing this grow and collaborating with you.

Please enjoy #stylisttalk 

Find Lauren and Etcher on Instagram:
@laurencoophair
@etchersalon

@stylisttalkpodcast hosted by me  @_laurenmcnamee from @blushgirlsalon 

My guest is Maria Unali, I've been following Maria for a little while and I can see she gives a lot to her salons and her team. She share so much valuable information in our conversation so I hope you listen carefully. 

Maria and her salon are located in Sydney where they are currently in lockdown, going on 7 weeks. I'm sending all my love and strength to her and her team at this difficult time and I just hope so much that they can resume trading soon. 

We started off our conversation by discussing how she is feeling. I'm really inspired by what her and her management team are doing at such a difficult time for a salon owner. 

I'd like to mention this was our first interstate guest which we recorded via Zoom. It took me a little while to settle into this new way. There's a few audio issues and a part of our conversation was lost but I'm sure we will meet and chat again. 

Please make sure you listen to the end and catch her answer to my final question as it's a true indication that she is here to lift this industry up higher. She blows me away with her mindset.

Thank you so very much Maria for openly sharing about how you lead. 

You can find Maria on instagram :  @maria_ unali as well as her salons : @salonkiin and @salonKia
Website :  https://www.salonkiin.com/ 

In episode 12 I’m talking all things @foilmefoils with co-founder and creative director Emily Ciardiello.

Emily and her husband Ili set out eight years ago to come up with a unique pre cut foil for the hairdressing community. 

In this time they have been incredibly successful. They’ve launched several other lines, including tiny brushes. More recently they launched Foil Me Skin.

They’ve built a really strong movement of foil me lovers. They’re distributing worldwide and they’re another brand we love and use at @blushgirlsalon .

Thanks so much for sharing  @foilmefoils.emilyciardiello 

I am so excited to be back with our first episode for 2021 and excited to introduce our guest, Jose Bryce Smith founder of Original Mineral haircare. 

Original Mineral is a clean, kind haircare company that is cruelty free, ammonia free and resorcinol free. 

Jose first started the range in 2000 after she moved from England. She was in a salon environment and noticed how toxic the chemicals were and started to feel concerned about the affect on our health. 

She says her mission is clean colour - thats the ‘CØR' of the brand.

Original Mineral is the brand we use and love at Blush Girl and I'm so grateful she came to visit us and share her story. 

@originalqueeni 
@originalmineral 

In episode 10 I speak with Belinda Mills (Bel) of Pipsqueek in Saigon. I've known Bel for a really long time and I really looked up to her, even before I started my career in hairdressing.

I loved so much hearing her story. She's been in business for 15 years and hairdressing for 20. When Bel first opened Pipsqueek in Saigon it was a salon/vintage store which she ran with her sister Ale isha and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. 

We share some of the same goals of wanting to bring our industry together, wanting to make it better and as Bel says "hang with cool people" and share our creativity.

It was really nice to reconnect essentially through the brand which we both use, O&M, who Bel also does some education for.

Thanks so much for sharing. 

We wanted you to know about Bel. 
Thank you for listening, this is Love Blush Girl.