 don't know why I do this to myself. I got up so early this morning and I had so much time to get ready but I completely underestimated how long I was gonna take and now I am rushing which I feel like is the story of my life. Of course it's always when you're in a rush to that your hair doesn't want to cooperate but when I'm like not going anywhere and I'm just gonna be hanging out at home. It'll just lay perfectly whatever it is what it is. I tried to diffuse it a little bit to just get like some of the root area kind of dry but I don't have time to dry the whole thing so we're just gonna let it air dry. One of the nice things about having curly hair so I just did like a half up clip situation you probably can see my extensions a little but that's fine I'll adjust it at some point but hey welcome back. Why am I always vlogging too when I am in a rush? I don't know. My name is Sam if you're new here I am a hairstylist and it's currently Saturday morning I am frantically getting ready to go work at the salon. I have a full day of clients today so on the agenda today my first client is actually my friend and then I have two other clients they're both coming in for highlight haircuts they're brand new never met them before I don't think they've ever even come to the salon to like see somebody else. Fingers crossed that they will be easy because you never know when somebody books a highlight haircut I don't always have like direct contact with clients that are booking sometimes I do and I'll get like as much detailed information as possible so I know what they're looking to do but like 60% of the time people will just call the salon and speak to one of the other receptionists so if somebody is down for highlights that could really mean that they already have highlights and they just need a touch up it could mean that they don't have any highlights at all and they want a full head it could also mean that they just want to be a full on brunette to blonde so let's hope that it's not any of those kinds of situations let's hope that it's easy stuff touch up appointments because I just today I I don't have the energy and mental capacity to do big transformations I also have a very tight schedule I only have two and a half hours per client and I don't work with an assistant so yeah wish me luck I did not plan out my time efficiently this morning so we're going barefaced it is what it is so client number one like I said this is my friend we have been doing this like dark reddish brown color and she just came in basically for a touch up I don't know if you could really tell but her natural color is a very very dark brown so I did permanent color on her roots and then I did a gloss all over just to add some shine refresh the color rich in it up and then I also gave her a little trim so this was her final hair so beautiful she has the prettiest hair it's so thick and beautiful and then client number two I did not get any clips any before or after clips all I got was this clip of her hair processing but she came in for a root to retouch so she likes to be like a star break blonde kind of coppery color so I did permanent color on her roots and then little tiny baby lights are on her face and up top and then toned her down to a golden blonde and then my third client as you can see she was blonde but she had a lot of darkness like her previous stylist had only been doing her highlights on like the top half of her head and underneath was very dark so I brought all her highlights up higher and then I really brightened up that underneath part that you know her previous stylist had just left so that way she was nice and blonde all over and this was her finished hair hello good morning happy Monday I am getting ready to go out I have a hair extension appointment I have two rows of the beaded hair extensions and it's time to get them moved up I get them moved up every five weeks or so and I'm thinking I might have her remove one of the rows and I'll just keep one because I feel like with summertime coming around it'll just feel more comfortable having less hair on my head I love the extensions but I feel like removing one just until the end of summer might be the move and I only get them for fullness like they're the same length as my real hair so it won't really affect like the way my hair looks it'll just be slightly less thick but it'll be like less on my head less to deal with plus like the top one kind of comes in a little bit more so I can't like fully pull my hair up in a high pony tail without the corners kind of sticking out and I like being able to just throw my hair up especially in the summertime if I'm gonna be like at the beach of the pool and whatever don't mind the mess behind me all of this clean laundry I need to put away but wearing gym clothes today because I'm kind of at a point in my fitness journey right now where I'm not always as excited and motivated to go work out as I was like the first few months but I know that right now this is like the crucial moment because this is kind of the point where like normally I would just fall off give up stop being as consistent so it really just comes down to discipline and routine at this point forcing myself to go even if I don't really feel like it so by putting gym clothes on first thing in the morning then I'm already dressed for the gym so I just have to show up it's just easier for me to force myself to go but yeah these workout leggings are from Define they're so cute I love the color and then my new balance 5 30s and then just a plain black t-shirt doesn't matter where I'm going or how Bummy I look I refuse to leave the house without putting perfume on scent is so important to me and I love smelling good and when I tell you I always get compliments like at work amongst my co-workers amongst my group of friends and they are always asking what I'm wearing and I'm like it's the same answer every single time dossier and Marie Saffron and this portion of the blog is sponsored by dossier they make replicas of well-known brand name designer fragrances for a fraction of the cost in a lot of cases 70 to 90% less than the name brand and it just comes in this nice sleek simple packaging so there's no markups and you're getting the exact same fragrance exact 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hello hello good afternoon it's Tuesday I washed my hair it felt so good to be able to get in there and scrub the rows of extensions I had were like back to back right on top of each other so there wasn't much room in between the two rows so it was nice to be able to now just have the one and be able to really like scrub my scalp around the extensions and just having one less row really made blow drying faster felt nice to blow it out because I haven't worn my hair smooth in a couple weeks here's how it looks with just the one row but yeah I have been non-stop all day it's about two o'clock now I had a video that I needed to edit and submit to a brand so I just got that done and now I have to hurry up and get ready because I have a front desk shift at the salon I'm closing so we'll be there from like three till eight possibly a little bit later just kind of depends what time the last client is finished by I'm gonna go get dressed all right here's what I decided on very casual comfy and simple my top is actually a body suit from she in good American jeans these are I believe they're called the good loose 90s and then I just have some pillow slides from Amazon I just put on some mascara and brow gel going with the fresh face look it's also just super hot out today so I just can't even be bothered putting foundation on good morning it's Thursday it's like about 6 30 a.m. like physically still working on waking up but this morning I am opening the salon so we're doing front desk for a couple hours and then I have a client coming in nothing exciting she said that she just wants a haircut and potentially a gloss she says she hasn't gotten her hair done in a while so she's not really sure she just kind of wants me to look at it and see like what she might need but doesn't sound like she wants to like change anything drastic necessarily with her color so it should be a pretty quick appointment but I'm looking forward to it because if you know me you know how much I love meeting new clients and doing consultations and that kind of stuff and then later this evening I am going out to dinner with a few of my girlfriends but I'm going to finish getting ready I'm really excited because I got a new dress that I want to wear today although I haven't tried it on yet so fingers crossed that it fits nicely here's my outfit believe it or not the stress is from Walmart and it was less than $20 so yeah wearing that with combat boots from H&M let's just hope that I don't stain this when I try to be really really careful but you never know when you're working in a salon somehow color just finds a way to get on everything but I'm gonna leave now I'll see you later it was a good day nice good easy shift and then my one client I know I didn't get a lot of clips of her hair but we just had a good thorough consultation and learned about her hair history basically she's just trying to grow it out and get it healthy and she wants to just leave it natural and not mess with it because I guess she had a bad experience a few years ago getting her hair bleached so she's been gradually working on growing it out and cutting the damaged stuff off so I think we got pretty much all of it off I just did a trim and then I just restructured her layers she had some really short layers in her hair that you could tell I asked because any time I see layers that are like really short and it doesn't really seem like blended or intentional necessarily it always you can just tell when like they were done because the hair was damaged like they were done out of necessity not necessarily because they were wanted and yeah so she had a lot of that and some of her layers were just like really heavy in some spots and it just they weren't like blended the best so I just kind of redid those and we also did a gloss because she did have like a little tiny bit just like the last like two inches of her hair she had a little bit of highlights left over so we did a gloss to cover those up and just like refresh everything add some shine add some richness to her hair she felt like it was just very blah she was really happy with it she really loved it a lot and we talked about like what kind of products I recommend she start using and her routine and she pre-booked her next appointment which is always a good feeling I've been having all my clients lately pre-booking which is great and like I haven't even been having to ask like they asked before I even get a chance to so that's always like really exciting so it's like oh you really like me and you want to come back and keep seeing me and say on a schedule so that's nice and that's the best way really if you're trying to like fill up your book with clients get people to re-book so that way you have some consistent regulars it's a lot harder if you're just constantly trying to fill up with brand new clients even though like root touch-ups and highlights and glosses and those kinds of things can sometimes be a little bit boring like they're not always the most exciting thing like just those kinds of like routine touch-up type appointments but they are crucial like they really are your bread and butter at the end of the day because if you can get those kinds of clients that are coming back like every few weeks that's what's gonna keep you busy and keep you booked and keep the money flowing you know big transformations color corrections balayages like all of that kind of stuff which I love doing the most but those are appointments that like I'm only doing their hair one time or you know I'm only seeing them maybe a couple times a year that's not enough to like keep me consistently busy week after week but things are going really well I have been booked and busy I don't think I have a free open weekend I mean I have like some appointments still but I have clients booked out now into August which is very exciting granted I am mostly only working on Saturdays so it's only one day a week but still considering I just started taking clients again pretty recently it's very exciting like I said everybody's been pre-booking so I feel like very soon I'm gonna get to a point where I'm gonna either have to just stop taking new clients already or possibly do more days a week I don't know we'll see I'm kind of thinking about like maybe I will stop doing the front desk shifts because I've been doing those like less and less maybe I'll just stop doing them all together and then start taking clients during the week and maybe eventually get a hair assistant because that's the thing that's tricky is working by myself without an assistant you know I only can take so many people in a day because I can only do so much by myself but if I have an assistant I can take more people and I can double book I don't know we will see I'm just kind of taking it like week by week I think by the end of summer I'll probably like reevaluate and see what I want to do at that point if you live in the Wilmington, North Carolina area or you know someone who does and you are either currently enrolled in cosmetology school or you have your cosmetology license already let me know comment down below I am going to chill for a little bit maybe have a little snack we are going to dinner at 6 30 so I have to leave here in three hours so I don't want to eat like a full meal and then be full oh and I didn't get anything on the dress so that was a success very exciting I'm very proud of myself good boy, good boy that was very good we're a very good boy that's a good boy okay you're free to go you're free to go go on good afternoon it's Friday I have the day off today it's a super gloomy rainy day today and it's kind of cold out and I felt like it was the perfect day to just stay home and clean get caught up on laundry you know just do like my weekly kind of thing I just gave Benny a bath and because it's Friday that means there's a new crime weekly podcast if you know me you know that's my routine I love listening to a podcast while I'm cleaning or doing any kind of like household task and crime weekly is so good because their episodes are super long they're usually like around two hours each we're gonna put that on and get to cleaning mean to give you a jump scare but it's the end of the day I literally just spent the whole day cleaning basically I went to the gym for a couple hours to like clear my head but yeah everything is all clean I still have some laundry there that I just don't have time because like I want to go to bed pretty soon so I'll tackle that on Sunday but I currently have my comforter in the dryer so as soon as that is done I'm gonna go to bed and by the way I have this Nivea cream all over my face this is my nightly routine every night before bed I put a nice thick layer on like a mask and I just leave it to sink in it feels so good to have a clean apartment and it just smells so nice in here I am gonna wrap up this vlog here tomorrow is Saturday and I have clients at the salon so I'm just gonna start a new vlog tomorrow so stay tuned for that but thank you guys so much for watching I hope you enjoyed this vlog don't forget to check the link down in the description to dossier and I will see you really soon in my next video bye