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.
