Life At The Hair Salon

I am a real hairdresser. I am not a hairdresser that charges $1600 for a haircut. I do not have my name in a lot of magazines. I was Manager of the Month several times at a previous job. I am not on tv acting like a diva, or calling everyone a b&*%#, or cussing everyone out. That’s fine for some people, but I am one of the majority, the real hairdressers that you don’t hear much about. I am probably a lot like your own hairdresser. I work Thursday, Friday, and every other Saturday. I work during the week if needed as long as I am home by 2:30 for the school bus. I work 10 to 14 hr. days, on my feet , sometimes eating lunch standing up, three or four hours late. Before I had children, I worked five days a week like this. I have been doing hair for 24 years. God has blessed me with wonderful clients, some of whom I have been doing for almost 24 years. I welcome new clients if I have appointments open.

Did I always want to be a hairdresser? No, it was the furthest thing from my mind. I was an English and Art Major. Due to a few bad life choices, I ended up staying with my sister, needing a job. I couldn’t afford to go to the college in town, and didn’t have a car to get to the nearest Jr. college. I thought that I would go to beauty school because I could do hair anywhere, make some money, and go back to school. I did go back to school once. While I was managing a salon in Louisville, I started feeling a little brain dead, so I rearranged the owner’s schedule and took a psychology class. I made a 97, decided that I wasn’t brain dead, and haven’t been back to college since. (I probably need to take some computer classes , though.)

Where do I begin? For years, I have said that I wanted to write a book called Life at the Hair Salon, Names have been Changed to Protect the Guilty. I never quite got around to it. My husband thought that this would be a good idea, so after much prodding and cajoling, here I am!

In my life as a cosmetologist, I have been a student, an apprentice, a hairstylist, a 2nd Manager, a Manager, a Training Manager, an Executive Manager, a Salon Owner, and a Booth Renter. I am a little unusual in that I am a White girl who specializes in African-American hair. Not counting family, at the present time, I have 3 regular White clients. Amazing, ain’t it!

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