 Hey guys, welcome back to another vlog. I am picking up exactly where I left off in the last vlog. It's currently Thursday night and we're going to do a little weekend in my life and I'm very excited because I am going to be doing hair again in a salon for the first time in almost a year. I've been a licensed cosmetologist since the beginning of 2018. I love it, it's my passion, but I got really burnt out. And then in the beginning of December, this past December, I moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. I just wanted a little bit of a break and then what I thought was going to just be like maybe a three month break ended up being almost a year later. So I haven't done hair since the beginning of December, it's now the end of October. So it's been a while, I've still been doing it obviously on like friends and family here and there on the side at home, but it's so different compared to like actually doing it in a salon on clients that you don't know, like on a stranger, you know. So I started working in a salon a couple months ago, doing the front desk, being around the other stylists, seeing them do hair all day. It was definitely making me start to miss it. So I decided that I am going to start taking clients on Saturdays, on just like occasional Saturdays. And that way I'll have very limited availability, which will allow me to be super selective about the clients I take and the hair that I choose to do. I'm not going to have my schedule just like open, I'm not doing online booking. So I literally am only going to do hair when I want to and only do the type of services that I want to do. I feel like this will be kind of the perfect balance for me because I'll still get to do it, but I'm not going to be overdoing it to the point where then it's going to make me get burnt out again. That's the plan, that's what's going on. And the Saturday is when I'm going to be having my first clients. But we'll talk more about that later. Right now I pulled out my big bin of hair stuff. I'm just going to go through it and pull out stuff that I need. Water bottle. I will be bringing that. I have my hand mirror. Ooh, my apron. I have two. I'm going to use the denim one. Frame art detangling brushes. These are a must have for me in my kit. I love them. They're like the wet brush, but so much better in my opinion. Then I have all of my round brushes. These are the Cricut round brushes. These are pretty good. I also really like the Olivia Garden ones, but those are pricier. These I feel like are the best round brushes you can get for the price. Like if you're looking for a more affordable price, these are super good. A couple of combs. Then I have my Babelis flat iron. Then I have this one and a quarter inch hot tools. Curling iron. Love this thing. I have a few clips in here. I love these butterfly clips. These are good if you need to hold a lot of hair if you have someone with really thick hair. Then I love alligator clips because you can section with these at the same time. Especially when I'm cutting hair, I always use these. Then I have a bunch of basic combs for doing haircuts with. I've got this whole little box from Cosmoprop. Highly recommend. You never have too many combs, and especially if you're working in a salon with a bunch of other people, you tend to get your stuff mixed up, combs, clips, those kinds of things tend to get lost. It's always good to have a bunch of extras. Then foiling combs. I always get the extra long foiling combs because the foils just fit over this so much better. Then I also have stuff in these drawers. Let's see. I have more clips. I'm just going to bring all of the clips that I have of another long foiling comb. Then of course, I need my shears. I'm working the front desk at the salon tomorrow. When I'm there tomorrow, I will just double check and see what other stuff I might need. I just wanted to get all of this out and ready to go because tomorrow is going to be a really long busy day and I don't know if I'm going to have time to get to it tomorrow. I have this tote bag here. I think it should all fit in there. I'm actually going to wash this tonight because it doesn't smell bad, but it kind of smells like it's just been sitting in a box for months because it has. I am going to throw this in the wash and then go to bed because it is 10 p.m. I have to be at the salon at 8 o'clock, so I'll be getting up at about 6. I'll see you tomorrow. When I tell you, I almost had a heart attack when I opened that door. That was not there last night. Sit, wait, okay, good boy. Had out the door soon. This was the best that I could muster up at 7 in the morning. The sun is not even up yet, so I'm just grabbing a couple things I'm going to bring with me because I'm going to be working a longer shift today. I get in at 8 and the earliest that I'm probably going to get out of there is 5 o'clock, so my friend, luckily, is the best. She's amazing. She's going to come by later this afternoon to let Benny out and she's going to bring her dog to play with him. The same dog that I was dog-sitting a couple weeks ago, if you guys saw those vlogs. So got our coffee. I made some hard-boiled eggs. I'm going to take these to go as well. I'm also going to bring a Greek yogurt and a little mandarin orange. Tonight, I'm planning on going to my friend's house, the same one that's coming over to take Benny out. We are having a wing off at her place. I'm not really sure who's going to be there or what we're doing exactly, but I think we're just all making wings and we're just all going to each do a different sauce and we're just going to eat wings. I'm going to have that after I get out of work. I feel like that might hold me over, but we will see. 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It is several hours later. I can't even explain to you the level of exhaustion that I feel right now. I gotta do my skincare so let's talk while I do that. Work was pretty good. It was just a long day. I work part-time. I usually, because I have a dog, normally I don't have someone come and check in on him throughout the day. So I typically only work like five hour shifts at a time, like five to seven hours. But today I ended up being there for almost nine and a half. It was just rough because if you guys saw my last vlog, it's just been a very draining week. Benny was sick earlier this week and there were two nights in a row where I didn't get any sleep. And then I ended up having to take him to the vet first thing in the morning on Wednesday. And I just feel like all week after that I just felt so drained. Don't mind how crazy I look. This has been my routine lately because my skin was just acting kind of weird. I hadn't changed my routine at all or like the products I was using but I just kept breaking out. I think what it might be, because I noticed that majority of my breakouts were happening on one side of my face and they were all happening in the same spot, like right here. And then I realized when I'm at the salon and I answer the phone, I hold the phone on this side of my face while I'm like doing stuff on the computer with my right hand. And I think the phone from just so many people using it and touching it all throughout the week, it just, you know, gets bacteria and it needed to be cleaned and I think that's what was causing my breakouts. I rubbed the phone down with some alcohol and I don't have any new breakouts this week. So I think that's what it was. But yeah, I don't know, my skin was just like breaking out and just kind of feeling and looking like blah. So whenever that happens, I just go back to the basics and I don't even bother with all my usual steps. I will just make sure that I cleanse really well and then I use the old school Nivea cream in the blue tub. I'm telling you, this stuff is amazing. It does not clog your pores. It's for your face and body and anytime I have issues with my skin, like whether I'm breaking out a lot or my skin feels super dry or it's irritated or I accidentally over exfoliated or whatever. This, at least for me anyway, I am not a dermatologist or an esthetician. So I can only speak for myself and my, you know, and what works for me. But I've been using this stuff for years and years and years. It is trying to true. I repurchase this so many times. I will just slather a big layer of this on my face and then go to bed and it just like fixes all of my issues. But anyway, so she had a bunch of people come over and I'm sorry that I didn't get more vlog footage, but I was trying to be in the moment and plus there were a lot of people there and I feel weird like just recording people that don't really know me. Um, there were quite a few people there that I had literally just met for the first time tonight and I just felt weird like recording what was going on without, you know, like them knowing or their consent. I think about how weird that is. You're just like hanging out at a friend's house and then next thing you know, you are on the internet for tens of thousands of people to watch. In someone's video that you don't even know. But she made a whole bunch of just plain wings and we all had our own sauce and every person got a plate. We dipped one wing in each sauce, tried all of them and then we all voted for our favorite one. Some people actually like made their own homemade sauce from scratch and I was like, oh. I literally just went to the grocery store and just picked a random one off the shelf that sounded good. Just a fun little thing to do, good idea, and then she had like a bunch of dips and little appetizers and then she also planned a scavenger hunt and they had, her and her sister did this together. It was like so creative and so cute. I ended up not staying for that because at that point it was almost nine o'clock and I was like, it has been over 12 hours since I've been home. I am just exhausted. I need to go home. I have to shower because I have to get up early again tomorrow. So I just wanted to get home and like get my life together a little bit. So that way in the morning, I'm not scrambling like a fool because if I was just going to be standing behind the front desk, I wouldn't care. You know, it doesn't matter but I'm going to actually be doing hair tomorrow. I want to feel good, well rested, prepared on my A-game, you know, so I showered. I think I'm just gonna let my hair air dry and I already know what I'm gonna be wearing tomorrow. So that's good. That's like half the battle sometimes honestly. It's already 10 o'clock now so I'm gonna try to get to bed. My first client tomorrow is at 10 a.m. So not too terrible. I want to get to the salon around 9.30 so that way I will have time to set up and get prepared. Today I was scoping out the salon a little bit more and really studying all the products in the color room just so I know exactly what's there and what I'm working with. I don't know. I feel okay. Like I feel pretty confident and comfortable. Part of me is also just like a little nervous because it's just been a while since I've been in the swing of things. I will see you in the morning and I'm hoping I sleep well tonight so that way I'll feel refreshed in the morning. Good morning. I feel really good this morning. I was a little bit nervous last night because I just felt so tired and honestly last night part of me was kind of dreading today but this morning I actually woke up before my alarm I'm feeling refreshed and I'm excited and I actually feel like really good. I thought that I was gonna be a little bit more nervous but I feel like my brain is just automatically going back into stylist mode and even though it's been almost a year since I've taken clients in a salon I just feel like I'm getting right back in the groove. Like I'm just this was my life for so many years you know waking up on Saturday mornings and my schedule for the longest time too was Saturdays I would have my first client at 10 o'clock so that's what I'm doing today and it just feels the way it used to be. Like I don't know I just I mean we'll see how I feel when I actually get there but so far I feel good. I feel excited. I'm just mixing together the essence pretty natural foundation and the makeup forever HD skin and I'm blending it out with the Morphe M439 brush. It's like a fluffier foundation brush. Today my first two clients are just haircuts and then my last two clients are both just getting darker color so I feel like that'll be the perfect way to ease back in because I'm not doing anything crazy no big like color corrections or anything. My worry was not that I was going to be nervous about doing hair because like I said earlier I've still been doing hair this whole time on friends and family. It's not like I stopped doing it all together. I think it's just like being in this particular salon and like I don't know just knowing where everything is knowing like the water pressure in the shampoo bowls and like how hot do they typically get and I don't know. I think it's because the last salon I was at I was there for several years so I just knew that place like the back of my hand. I knew every single product that was there. I knew just how everything worked. I just felt so comfortable there so it's just like getting familiar and comfortable with a new space I think is what was making me like a little bit nervous and originally I wanted to have one of my friends come in to be my first client at the salon so that I could have a little bit of like a practice run because I also don't want it to seem it's not like I'm coming straight out of beauty school you know like when I was a brand new stylist I didn't really care if a client could tell I didn't really like feel comfortable or I didn't really know 100% what I was doing I was still figuring things out you know because like I was brand new I was fresh out of school but now I don't want people like I feel confident I know what I'm doing I know I'm a good stylist and a really good colorist because I'm new to this salon I don't want them to see me like I don't even struggle but just like I don't know I don't want them to think like who is this girl she doesn't know what she's doing and then you know what I mean I don't know ultimately it doesn't matter because I know what I'm doing and I know it's gonna turn out well these are just you know thoughts going on in my mind and I just wanted to share them because I feel like this is probably relatable whether you also are starting in a new salon like you just changed salons recently or if you just graduated school and you're just starting out or if you're in a similar situation like me where you took a little bit of a break from hair and now you're just getting back into it just know that if you're feeling this way I'm right there with you I'm also feeling it just remind myself you know what you're doing you're good at what you do and even if you don't really know what you're doing and you're just starting out we all start somewhere we've all been there you eventually will know what you're doing and you eventually will become super confident in your work and it'll all be okay here's my outfit I'm wearing this dress from Sheehan and then I'm wearing my combat boots from H&M I got them a while ago so I'm not sure if these exact ones are going to be available still but I did see almost identical ones at Target recently so I will either link these or if they're not available I'll link Target ones and then my hair because I slept on this side last night this was like a little bit less curly so I just pinned it back with a couple bobby pins I'm gonna throw on my black denim jacket and head out I'm excited I'm so sorry by the way I didn't get any footage of my clients it was just so hectic and only one of them actually follows me online and like knew who I was the rest of them were just new to the salon it had called and I just decided to book them with me so yeah I didn't want to like just have a camera recording what I was doing and then be like um what why are you recording this you know and on top of that I ended up running behind and then I was playing catch up and then I was like doing two people at once it was a little stressful so I just didn't and I also wasn't doing anything like really transformative that was worth like taking pictures of so I didn't even get like any after pictures or anything like that so I apologize I know that stuff is interesting to watch but I do have a few color corrections and some highlights and stuff coming up over the next few weeks so as I started to like get back into the groove of things I will definitely bring you guys more of the content I used to do when I would just like set up the camera and just record myself and do like a time lapse of me working in the salon I definitely want to do that again because I missed that my first two clients were haircuts but both of them had such thick hair and honestly the first client I realized at one point like I was shaking a little bit like I was nervous and not because of the client like luckily they got everyone I had was so incredibly nice and easy going so it was a really good first day I don't know it was weird like doing this again and I felt like I was like moving so slowly but then by the end I was like going super fast and like I was just back you know like I just felt like I was back it's just so crazy how like it wasn't even like a super long day it wasn't anything crazy but oh my god I physically like my shoulders and my back and my feet are like killing me and I'm like how did I used to do this four days a week every week for years like how so it's going to take like a little bit of my body kind of getting used to that again I originally was planning on going out tonight and like celebrating Halloween I'm not sure if I'm still going to do that uh it's five o'clock now so I'm just going to chill for a bit and we'll see in a couple hours how I feel if I end up going out but I'll check back in a little bit later and I'll let you know what my plan is for the night it's now eight o'clock eight twelve to be exact and I'm in bed I took a nap for a little bit maybe like an hour or so on the couch and then I just woke up and my wrists were killing me it's embarrassing kind of I'm like holy shit one day of doing hair for clients and it has taken a toll on my body like my back and shoulders are feeling better and like my feet feel fine now and now it's just my wrist and it's like all the way from here like down into my forearms and I took excedrin because I was like trying to massage them and nothing was helping and it was to the point where it was like just this pulsating non-stop pain they feel a little bit better but I don't think it's like fully kicked in yet so I'm just trying to like keep them elevated if I keep them elevated they're not so bad but I feel like a freaking old woman oh my god can someone please comment down below and let me know if you also work in like the cosmetology field or the service industry or anything really where you're like on your feet did you take a long break and then come back and also feel the same way like please give me a little bit of reassurance here like I this is just so ridiculous but I'm kind of upset because tonight I was supposed to go out to celebrate Halloween because Halloween is this Monday if I really wanted to I could force myself and like pull myself together and go I physically just don't feel up to it like all I want to do is just be right where I am in sweats in bed I have my laptop here about to watch some Netflix I have a nice big cup of water I'm just gonna stay home tonight but I'm gonna have major FOMO I already was having FOMO because of last night having to leave early I saw videos of everybody doing the scavenger hunt at my friend's house last night after I left and it just looked so fun and I'm like pissed that I missed out on that but at the same time I I'm glad that I came home and went to bed because I needed it if you went out and celebrated Halloween I hope that you had a good time I will see you in the morning good morning no good afternoon it's 12 already my friend told me they ended up going out last night and she said she has never seen it so packed downtown they didn't even end up dressing up because they decided last minute to go out they couldn't find parking anywhere so they had to park in a parking garage they got back to the car around 2 30 and because it was so packed and so many people were leaving at the same time they didn't even make it out of the parking garage until four so yeah had I gone out with them I probably wouldn't have gotten home till at least like 4 30 even though I do kind of have FOMO and like I kind of wish that I had went out but I'm just grateful that I didn't but I just listened to my body and then I stayed home and rested because it was such a good relaxing night I felt amazing and I feel like I don't know like going out is fun but so often I think the idea of going out is more fun than actually going out unless you're like really really in the mood and like craving a night out which I wasn't you know but I always find that if I force myself and if I'm like okay yeah it'll be fun I'm there and then I'm just wishing like God I wish I was home in sweats under the covers I feel rested nothing is hurting anymore and my wrist I think it was just muscle like most of the pain was like down in my forearms so yeah I think it was just all like muscle fatigue honestly like my body is just not used to doing the motions I was doing for such a prolonged period of time you know but anyway today I have so much laundry that has been piling up so I want to get caught up on that it's several hours later I just had the most relaxing day I got all of my laundry done I put all of it away I still have to make my bed my hair's wicking crazy I think I'm gonna blow it out but I'm just letting it air dry as much as possible first and I'm about to make some dinner I'm gonna make some salmon in the air fryer with white rice and some peas and carrots and then for dessert I have some chocolate chip cookie dough so I'm gonna make a couple cookies I'm gonna drizzle a little bit of soy sauce on top and then black pepper garlic powder onion powder in the air fryer and I cook it for usually like 10 to 15 minutes or so until it gets nice and crispy on the outside and then I'm gonna make some rice by the way I just watched the season finale of tell me lies on Hulu Lucy and Steven are like made for each other because they are just both the worst human beings they both suck I hate both of them and that final scene I was like really I feel like they were just trying to go for the biggest shock value it's just so messed up like do none of these people have any kind of like friend code or morals like comment down below and let me know if you watched that show and what you think of the finale don't get away any spoilers but does anyone actually like Lucy is she supposed to be likable at all in any capacity because I literally couldn't stand her from the first scene I have the rice cooking now I'm gonna put the salmon in the air fryer we'll just start with 10 minutes and then see how it's looking after that and then I'm gonna take these peas and shred up some carrots and I'm gonna saute those with some minced garlic and some seasonings and then mix it all up happy Halloween I meant to end the vlog last night and then I realized that I never actually recorded an outro clip so here we are that's gonna be it for this vlog thank you guys so much for watching I'm gonna start a new one this week so I'm really trying to stay on top of my uploads and give you consistent videos at least one or two every week so make sure you're subscribed and you hit the bell so you get notified every time I upload so you don't ever miss one and I will see you in my next video bye