Chevelure618
New Member
The one stylist I wanted for my salon, Swang, Inc. quit last night before he even started. You all will not be surprised why. He said that he "disagrees" with some of my hair growth philosophies. Guess what they are? 1) stretching relaxers- thinks that women who want short hair should be able to have them much sooner. I don't totally disagree aside from the possible scalp issues, but he said I should not say in my brochure that relaxer stretching is 'better'.
2) saying i can't really know what I'm talking about when he has been a stylist for 25 years, comparing it to a patient telling a dentist how to do teeth.'
3) the fact that offering these healthy hair services will keep Type 1 haired clients away. My decision on this is to also advertise it being a 'Multi-Ethnic' salon. I would absolutely not want to turn away women who work/live in the neighborhood and I never intended to.
Even so, he said I'd "have to find someone else". I said "OK, bye". and meant it. I have 2-3 other stylists interested and just put another ad in the paper.
My point is: Just as it is hard to educate women about healthy hair practices, so it is just as hard or harder to retrain stylists, many of whom have created the very damage and repetitive practices we've encountered until we learned how to grow our hair healthy.
I've got my work cut out for me.
P.S, Its fun as heck anyway.
M
2) saying i can't really know what I'm talking about when he has been a stylist for 25 years, comparing it to a patient telling a dentist how to do teeth.'
3) the fact that offering these healthy hair services will keep Type 1 haired clients away. My decision on this is to also advertise it being a 'Multi-Ethnic' salon. I would absolutely not want to turn away women who work/live in the neighborhood and I never intended to.
Even so, he said I'd "have to find someone else". I said "OK, bye". and meant it. I have 2-3 other stylists interested and just put another ad in the paper.
My point is: Just as it is hard to educate women about healthy hair practices, so it is just as hard or harder to retrain stylists, many of whom have created the very damage and repetitive practices we've encountered until we learned how to grow our hair healthy.
I've got my work cut out for me.
P.S, Its fun as heck anyway.
M
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My advice though is that you may have to hire stylist that are fresh out of school and give them extra training because I don’t see it being easy to retrain someone who has already been a stylist for many years. Also i just can't believe this stylist said that you cant really know what your talking about comparing it to a patient telling a dentist how to do teeth- thats just straight up disrespectful! 
, but plenty who can grow and manage their own hair at home. When's the last time you saw a stylist write a prescription? 
Heck, the FDA doesn't even give a hoot about regulating hair products-- shows how important that is on the grand scale of things. NEXT.
