 The Hair Dressers podcast starts now featuring Matt Beck, Christina Cavalcanti, Brian Hare, Drea Bolland, Thaddeus Bolland, and Justin Scott. As this is Matt Beck from FreeSalonEducation.com here with episode 94 of Splitting Hares, round two. Brian Hare's with me. Hi. Drea Bolland. Hey, hey. Justin Scott, Christina Cavalcanti, and Thad Bolland. We have a fantastic information-packed show for you all. So we have, Justin Scott's going to bring some news, but also we have some pictures to share from the internet, from our friends that have been hashtagging FreeSalonEducation. So thank you guys for doing that. Justin's going to share that in a little bit. We also got our tresses from Drea coming up and more social media stuff from Brian. So all kinds of stuff to talk about. Let's get started with the show. Again, thank you to Millennium Systems International. If you want salon software, I love it. It runs our salon business every day, and it's awesome. So thank you to them. And demandforce.com slash FreeSalonEducation. We use them to help market the salon. A lot of you don't want to send emails or do confirmation calls, all that stuff. Demandforce is great for that. The Mizitani FSC Gold Scissor is, I think there's one or two left available in the whole... I love mine. You do? It's fantastic. It's so amazing. Good to hear. So if you want to get that, check out FreeSalonEducation.com. You can pick that up. It's a Mizitani Gold Edition FSC Scissor. MinervaBeauty.com. Thank you for allowing us to sit in your fabulous equipment every day and our guest as well. And check out SuperSilk on FreeSalonEducation.com. Somebody just asked, what is your favorite keratin treatment? I think that's a question for later. So we'll get into that. But I love SuperSilk. It's a silk protein treatment that I've been doing a lot of work with the company, helping build their website and doing some different stuff. So definitely support that. Your charger. I'll just get it. And that's pretty much it. So will your computer's dying? Yeah. Uh-oh. So I know, right before his segment. So let's just, let's go into, so we did, we went out Monday night. We did. That was a good time. We did some karaoke. So if you guys follow us on Periscope, Periscope is FreeSalonEducation. I don't really get on there to educate because I feel like we do the education on YouTube. We educate on enough social media. On enough platforms. So we have... That's where they educate people on our skills. Yes. So Periscope is more like if we're doing something fun. So the other night we were out at karaoke. It was late. And so we had a bunch of people log on and got to watch. So if any of you guys are watching live, that's all that happened. Oh, they are. They've been telling us. They have. And you're a fan of shenanigans. I'm upset it wasn't there for that. Yeah, right. I know. You could have been on Periscope. Well, if I knew about it. So thanks. And on stage. So that was the spur of the moment thing. And it was really fun. So those of you that got to see it, it only lasted 24 hours. Thank God. Unless someone saved it. All right. Let's get into Justin's stuff. My stuff. And now. Now. Hair industry news from Justin Scott. That's me. That's me. Cool. We have some news. We're going to get some photos in a second. The first thing I want to talk about is really big. We've been talking about in the shop since last week. Guy Tang is having his own Boliage box of goodies coming out. Yeah. It is with Hand Hamlet Bravana. It's called the Pure Enlightenment Boliage Kit. It sounds a lot like the stuff that we've been using for a while now. Okay. Brian knows more about the sunlight lightener than I do. Like chemically, I just know it's a clay-based lightener. It doesn't get hard at all, does it? It doesn't have an outer shell coating of any sorts? No. I mean, any lightener is eventually going to dry out. But I haven't played with this one yet. I look forward to actually trying it. But I know the sunlight's one. That's one of the things that I like about it is that leaving it open, it doesn't dry out. Well, this one is made with rice flour and kaolin clay to form an outer shell. So it hardens a little bit. So it traps the air inside the actual kind of whatever you're lightning. That's cool. It capsules the hair and keeps everything moist inside of it. And it also, the kit comes with these reusable sheets you can use. Okay. Whereas the other one you're using, disposable saran wrap almost. So that's really cool. The kit comes with a few things. It comes with some brushes, some 60-ounce of the new lightener that you're coming out with. The activators are weird. It's, I guess, like 10, 20, 30, and 40. It's too much. It's too complicated. So they have low, medium, and high. Low, medium, and high developers for one to five levels of lift. Okay. I think that's cool, though. Yeah. I mean, it's cool. But in a world where I just want to know, just for my own personal, I hope it says on there, at least what it is. Just so that I know. Because if I'm going to use Olaplex, I need to know for high, is it like a 30 or is it like a 40? What do I need to do to make sure that I can adjust? Makes sense. I'm sure it says somewhere on there. I'm just putting that out there. Yeah. Or it'll say how many levels of lift. I think it would be cool if we get away from that in general. I didn't know that they did that, but I think it's, I think it's cool. Like, why do we, what does 30 volume even really mean? Like, do we, if it was more of like a simpler way of saying it. I think it's just like an industry understanding at this point. It is. Yeah. Because they use higher developers than we do around the world. Yeah. They use 60 where they have 100 volume. 80, 120. But you can still buy those, but you just buy them to cut them. Yeah. To make whatever you want to. But the cool thing about this is it comes with three different size brushes to do your Bollywoods with. And those are not made by Pervana, right? No. This is all, well this is a whole kit with Pervana and him. These are the Guy Tang brushes though. It's Pervana plus Guy Tang. So it's both of them. Okay. I thought there was another company involved. I thought there was. Yeah. I thought from R or whatever. I thought there was, yeah. Yeah. But I know this, this is, well this is from, well it's produced by the Pervana. Yeah. Yeah. And brushes and bowls and all that. Yeah. So they're coming out with them. But I guess maybe they came together to make a small medium and large one for this. Okay. Not just regular color brushes. Okay. Kind of like the Bollybox has at least like the little tiny one. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm excited to try this. I know he has. Yeah, it's cool. It's a one to two ratio. It's Pervana recommended. Or one to one and a half ratio for like a thicker application. Yeah. But yeah. Very cool. So that should be fun. I'm excited to see what kind of things people come up with and create because of that. Yeah. All right. What else? We got some pictures. Sweet. Let's talk about some pictures. Yay. I don't know the order I sent them. I'm going to pull these up. So just tell me. I have to open them in email. I did them completely different today. Oh. Yeah. I made it easier. Yeah. I actually sent them. Which one's first, Chris? Via Apple. You can just say their name. I can make it out. Okay. Okay. We're going to go with Dillon Rhodes hair. Dillon Rhodes. What up? What up? Usually it's a pain in the butt when you see people posting so many images of a haircut that are never used. It's like three or four mirrored images of the same thing. This is cool though. You see every aspect of this haircut. Okay. It's very clean. You know, the hard parts on point. Fades nice. You don't see a lot of lines. There's so many men's haircuts that I wanted to use, but they just needed that little amount of clean up that people overlooked to kind of get them out of the chair. They think they're done, but they don't do that once over and use the mirror. So this one, it was nice. It was clean. It was fun. I like this picture a lot. You know, it's simple. I like it because you use the natural hair and the natural beard line. That's a huge thing for me. I hate when people cut into that to give that nice arch. Yeah. I even like the coloring of the picture. The whole picture looks cool. Yeah. Usually, again, when people do all the, what am I thinking of? Like the texturizers or whatever they put on the photos. The filters. They usually overdo it. Yeah, now you're right. That one's really nice. Yeah. This is going to be Alex Lopez. Oh, with two Xs. Yeah. Yep. And an underscore. This is just fun. Yeah. Climb is happy. The hair, it's not the usual slick back to the head. It has some texture to it. I was going to say, I like the little wave in the front. Yeah. The wave's cool. That kind of set it apart from a lot of other men's cut I was seeing. I was going to say that too. I hate you. We are just streamlined on right to this. Sweet. This is going to be the salon. CELIF mall. CELO Florida mall. Sure. I was just, as I was saying that, I was like, let me look at that. Anchor chick is one who did this. That was a before and after of this. Okay. So nice healthy haircut. Nice look. The blonde looks fantastic. I was just going to say the blonde looks healthy and amazing. Yeah. I'm really surprised that he was the same people. Yeah. I mean, they obviously are, but it's like, that's a big difference. Yeah, long that took. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. But what's really cool is that it's a salon posting work for the person and also tagging us in it. So it's not just the girl posting it. It's the whole salon she's working for, posting everybody's work using our hashtag, which is really cool to see. Very cool. The next one is going to be Angel. Angel Prado. Yep. Angel Prado. This is just clean. Yeah, it looks really good. Simple. You know, the style was nice. People do like this beautiful balayage work and then they just take a wand to it and wand it in the same direction on the whole head. You know what I mean? So let me ask you this question. Shoot. So if you guys were going to do this color, what would you use? How would you go about it from a lightening technique and then overall toning to get this tone? I probably would go, I mean, yeah, of course. Shocker. I had balayage. Yeah. Again with that one? Right. Yeah. I mean, obviously I would make sure that I don't get it too close to the head because it's got, obviously she's so dark that you want to leave enough root that as it grows in, the hair still looks fine. Right. And then, I mean, that looks like, obviously, just looking at that and recognizing it that clearly you've plowed through some previously colored hair that left you with some really warm, reddish, orangey tones. And I think it was toned down well. I mean, it's like, you left her with the lightness that I'm sure she was looking for, the warmth. You can't really take away all that warmth because as I zoom in on the picture, you can see around the middle of her hair, there's still some residual red that may have been their old color. And so if you were to completely ash that out, then you would still have the red ashy end. So I think it was, it's a very good realistic, I'm betting that was in one shot. Right. So that's pretty damn good for one shot. Yeah, it looks great. I mean, I would have done the same thing. I would have kept, you know, they had a nice tonal difference there where it wasn't so, so warm that it was unpleasant to look at. So that's why I'm very, I mean, I see they worked well with what they had. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. I bet it's one. I agree with Brian. I think the warmth in it is beautiful. I don't like having overly cool tones with having that dark of a base. Like I think this looks more natural. How would you do it? How would I do it? Either balayage or you could have gone in with TZ highlights as well doing that too. Okay. It's funny. I actually, I was uploading. There's no dark through the ends for TZ highlights though. It's like all those ends are like, I'm not telling you you're wrong. Yeah, but if you do it. You're just not right. Excuse me. I did see your TZ highlight. I was going through. I was uploading videos to a website that I'm going to talk about in a little bit. But the, I was uploading and I saw your TZ highlight. That was a long time ago that we shot that. Yeah. But it does have a great result. I think, yeah, I think that if you had, it is really bright on the ends on this one, but a TZ highlight is a way that you could approach to have this kind of look but balayaging would probably be my. It's just more. Easier too. Yeah. It's just you're going to put in a lot less work for a very similar outcome. Yeah. And you have a lot more consistency with that, I feel. Yeah. So I would, I would probably go that route as well. Cool. So balayage. All right. And the last one is going to be Kellyanne Mason. Delicious. This is just so much fun. Yeah. This is really cool. I shared this on, on our Instagram. You did? Yeah. Was it before after I posted it? It was a week or a week or two ago. Like a week ago. Okay. Yeah. I didn't, I didn't know if I saw that. It was a different version of this picture but I did share it because I thought it was awesome. I just loved the color scheme on this. Yeah. It was just, it, everything blended so nicely and I feel that with the way it was done, it can be lived in for a while. It's not one of those ones where it's cool for a photo and maybe a week or two and then it just mushes together and you're like, what did I do that? I love how it hits the bright point in the middle and then goes back dark again. Yeah. I mean that, that to me was so much different. That neon green ties it all together really nice. Yeah. That deep purple and that deep blue. It's amazing what kind of colors we can make now. And can I just say, good job wearing that shirt to go get this done to your hair because it makes it so perfect. I was going to say, I also like the knots in the second. And if you, and if you look at the bottom of it, it has like a really, it blends out to this, you could tell the ends of that hair have seen some stuff. So she did a really nice, you know, blending out with that gray and that light green at the bottom too. I saw somebody else posting those knots on some style and they were calling them like Mohawk knots or something. Is that what they're calling them now? Is that what the kids are saying? Is that what the kids are saying? I've never done these at the rock shows. I was going to say, I did something similar for New Year's Eve for my friend's hair last year. Okay. I dig it. I just personally am so not a fan of that style right now where you see girls take the top and like intentionally pull up the top and make it look like they didn't really intentionally do their hair and leave the rest. Like they were sectioning it for like foil or something. Well, like literally it'll be like just a lazy top knot, but they'll take this like perfectly fine horseshoe section and do it. Like I didn't do my hair, but it's so done. I'm like, no. Yes. We have a fan. We have, we have a, he needs a quarter. It's Hayden. That's their, that's theirs. Can you get up? He made them. Can you get that door? Do we have a key? We got it. She browsed a key. But uh, yeah, we just locked with the, with the hand lock, but that is all I have to do with the photos. Actually, I, hey Hayden. What's up bud? This is Matt and Christina's little dude. Um, but yeah, no, so that was fun. Actually on Monday I did a photo shoot for a clothing line run by a hairdresser. Oh yeah. I saw that. Yeah. It's called a, we were like, it's Justin modeling. It's called Jay Lace and it's really funny. They gave me this hat and it's fitting because it's a little straight blade and a J. I'm like, you guys made that just for me. But they didn't, but they did right now. But you know, there's a good time for a lot of cool clothes. And I was really weary. I was like, it's a friend of friends. I was like, what am I getting myself into? Right. So I was like, am I going to actually enjoy these clothes? Or are they going to be like half assed? And cause I didn't, of course I didn't look into any of it, but I got there and everything's printed on American apparel. So everything's super comfortable. Like the hat's done right. You know, it's impressive. Okay. So it was a lot of fun. Nice. And my tank top today. The news isn't done without the tank top. That tank top looks tight. It is. I put it on this morning as I was running out of the house. It used to fit me. It's an old clothing line I used to work for. And it is now no more. Right on. But still a dope tank top. Yep. Yeah. And that's the news. All right. Cool. Let's get into trending tresses with Dreia. Okay. All right. Boom, boom, boom. Get the 411 on Celebrity Hair Changes. Here's Trending Tresses with Dreia Boland. Okay. So we have a couple fun stories tonight. Our first one is Gigi Hadid. It looks like she's toned down her blonde a lot, but she is transitioning into the fantasy color world, as she said. So she has little pieces of blue going through her ends. Oh. She's cute. Who's she? Yeah. She's a model. Christina, I'm not seeing her on this feed. Where's she at? The blue. That. It looks like she's wearing a denim vest. It's just a little hint of fantasy color. I was like, oh no. I'll put that up there. Okay. I do like the entire transition of her blonde from her being that super gold blonde to now a little bit more toned down. I mean, that's also a completely different Instagram filter. Yeah. That too. Could be it too. But you know, that's what I'm liking about this picture. You go Gigi. I like her Instagram filter. That's what she likes. And then she doesn't care what you think. What's it called? So I was reading an article about most popular Instagram filters. Oh yeah. You went on it. You were so excited about this last week. Well, it's just amazing to me. Like there's certain filters that have the most likes of a filter. Makes sense. Yeah. So what is it? Interesting. I'll tell you. As a secret. I'll tell you later. I wasn't prepped for that. Keep going. All right. Nicole Scherzinger has cut off a couple inches and has a nice little summery brunette. I don't have her. You don't have her? No, I don't. Well, I'm looking at her. There's a hat. She's a big ugly hat on. That's Nicole Scherzinger. Yeah. I thought that was J-Lo. I thought it was J-Lo too. It's not. It's Nicole. Oh, wow. I like it. I like the balayage pieces. I like the richness of the color. She's super light. She used to have like jet black hair. Yeah. The pussycat doll days. Apparently she went through a breakup and this is what happened afterwards. Well, that was a great decision on her. Her hair looks great. She can pick up any of J-Lo's castoffs with that. Yup. That's my heart. And now, Khloe Kardashian is super, super blonde. There's no denying it whatsoever. She looks like Jenny McCarthy. I know. She's no longer dabbling in blonde. She's blonde. We're going to get our requests up. I want that blonde. You know, the flesh on the hair that makes it look, you know, see-through. I want that. Can you do that for me? On my level two? I want it today. But I think it's pretty. I think it's pretty. I like it. It's a good job. It's good blonde. Especially for Kardashian. I know, right? She looks like she has gray hair for roots there. A little bit. And then last but not least, Katherine Heigl is soups blonde. Soups blonde. I love it, but it looks so beat up. It's so processed. Yeah. There's nothing healthy about that whatsoever. But she's blonde. Well, good for her. Sweet. Fun. Yeah. I'm impressed. We got through that real quick. It was short and sweet. I didn't even hate on it. It's so exciting. I'm so happy. So the Instagram filter thinks that I got your text coming through. But Mayfair is the number one liked filter. That's a really cool one that hairdressers use to look like they did cool work. It kind of gives it a little shadowing and like a little pinkish feel. It's usually what most of my photos are. And what do you think? So number two, I'm not going to ask you anything. It's not like you have memorized, but no filter is number two. No filter. But no filters. My number one filter. I'm sure because you guys all take perfect pictures. I try not to do a filter when I'm doing like a hair color picture. Because it's like, yeah, you cheat and bastard. Yeah. Pretty much. That's favorite Instagram filter is the blur. Yeah. Say that is the blur filter. That used to be my favorite until you guys yell at me. Hey guys, I took a picture. You told me to use the filter. So I picked a filter and you're like, this sucks. All right. Let's get into Brian's social media. I love the dance. All right. That was fun. All right. So just a couple of things that I wanted to hit on that I took off of our Facebook before we get to the Instagram fun. Yes. We put up this evening. We have Emily Jane. It just asked you guys not ship internationally at all. I wanted to throw that at you. Yeah. I don't ship things at all. Yeah. We don't. The shop does not ship internationally because it's it's just too right now. It's just too difficult to do that. Yeah. And some companies don't like we carry different companies on the shop. So some companies like Mizutani. I can't sell worldwide because they have different distributors. I know some chemicals you can't ship. And chemicals you can't ship. So the volleyball doesn't ship. And so really what I would be shipping would be t-shirts and combs. Combs and and to ship a comb across the world is not. It doesn't make sense. I shipped I shipped to France for the first I've shipped across the world for the first time yesterday. Yeah. What a pain in the ass. Oh, it's a lot. Never again. It's it's a lot. And then you you know it's for a couple combs you know and you can't like so by the time you you pay for the shipping it's not. You're actually out of money. Yeah. So I I unfortunately that's the reality right now. But hopefully you know some day in the future if they want it they can bring us to England. We can ship from England and then I mean solution. So get the go fund me going and bring us over there. Yeah. It doesn't cost anything to put in our luggage. No. Just throwing that out there or wear it. Wear your t-shirt. Yeah. Well and now so so if you look on the site now another thing I've been doing over the last couple days is I have we now have hoodies available. What. So here's the deal. So as of an hour ago we have hoodies and we don't have hoodies. No. Here's the deal. So I found a company is really cool company out of San Francisco. And what they do is I send them to do the designs. They send it. It was easy for me to say. I send them the designs and they send me back like the image of what it would look like on the shirt. I picked the different shirts. I picked the different shirts. I pick the different shirts I want. And then I post them on and then every order that we make they ship it out. So it's it's a really cool thing. So it's just drop shit. So you don't have to have like so you have to buy 500 sweatshirts. Right. So we can make all different kinds of shirts is really the thing. So we have hoodies in like five different colors now. We have what is that sound. She's got bubble wrap over there. Christina. I think you should probably shout out to the company. Or maybe not. I think it's level one. It's like level I don't know yet. I'll say it next week because I'm not sure when we're all wearing when they send us because I'm a large and they should just you know. No you don't send them. I'm going to order them because I want to see what they you know they're sending me some. So that'll be good. And then we can you know take pictures other pictures with us having them on itself as well. Delicious. I look often to the distance in these as well. Yeah. There is tank tops as well Justin. There's my Justin bottling face. If you want me to use it. Dead on. I learned everything I knew from Brian guys. He taught me everything. I said to him this morning I was like I've seen you model better faces than that. You look like confused in these pictures. It was probably four hours into the shoot and he was hungry and. No the shoot you take four hours the kid is the one who the photographer was like a friend of friend who's like OK we're going to do this and like really he's like click click we're done moving on like when you do like a really high pitch fast noise around a dog and he's like. He looked kind of like. The sweatshirts look great Matt. You look like you were dumb like you were making it. This hat George. I'm wearing the hat. Ouch. No you are smart but the face looks like you're like. I've had all the rabbits. Wow. I've had all the rabbits. Yeah. What. Yeah. OK. But now the sweatshirts look awesome I just saw them on the computer. I want a white one. Right. They're all different colors. There's puffins. Monday's sweatshirts. We have this logo sweatshirts. We have everything. Scissor logo shirts. I like the color girls shirts. I'm really excited about that. Your muscle shirts now buddy. You got all the girlies. Yeah. Or did that a girl shirt. I like want all of these. They're cool right. So we'll. I know we're getting for Christmas. Right. And that's it. All right so sorry Brian. What's up. No it's cool. Our buddy Alex humans asked us a question. Basically he's putting together a color project for a salon and the only white hair color swatches that he can find it from Pivot Point. But the cost of shipping ends up being more than the cost of what I'm actually purchasing. And that's a little too much. So does anyone know where else he could acquire those. I feel like that's something that I've seen at like Cosmoprop or something like that. Like you can find them. Yeah. I don't know. I know Pivot Point has them. That's all I know. Yeah. He can call it himself. Yeah. A couple of years ago I looked into them. They're they are kind of hard to find and you do end up paying more for shipping than the actual cost of them. Yeah. So unfortunately. So Matt what you should get out of manufacturing next is white swatches. I was going to say I should work with Pivot Point because I could probably sell them but so you could buy like five t-shirts and those and then you get free shipping. So all right brilliant. All right. Hey Zeus said on last week's show. Is there any chance that I'll become successful doing hair nails and makeup or will either one become dominant over time. I I've known a few people that have tried to do all of them at the beginning of the career and then for one reason or another whether it's passion or money or skill end up really just sort of choosing a route. Yeah. Over another one. Yeah. Like I'm I thought makeup was really cool but I was absolutely shit at it. So I stopped. Yeah. But if you were good at all three I mean. Yeah. But then it comes down to because I've known hairdressers that tried to do both nails and hair in the same place and it just comes down to they had to choose because of. Yeah. You're all over the yeah you'd be like running back and forth to do you know manicure and then coming back while it it ends up. I mean if you can make it work. What I would do is get them in my chair. Okay. All right so what color we want to put on your hair what color do you want on your nails and then I would get I haven't figured out the nails while we're putting the color on and then while the process is please just picture Matt rolling up the thing like this. Pinky out trying to paint some nails. Yeah. I'll put the polish on polish the process then. You could do while they're in the shampoo. While they're you would not even do that while they're processing how are you going to do the other three men's cuts that you have booked on top Matt you're in your care. Matt you're a nail art can be a little I wasn't doing both now. No I cheated on my nail thing. You too. I did have to squeeze a manicure and while my person's color was processing so that was super annoying. I learned how to sign my teacher's initials during a beauty school. I did that too. For nails. I did all the nails. I actually was like yep 20 done this month. That was easy. I won a competition for nail art actually. Swear to God. Yeah. I did all the nails. I did all the nails. I did like one. Well good luck if you want to do all three. Yeah. I would love I think it'd be awesome. I think if you can do it do it. But like he said the advice is I think we got the advice across trying. Yeah. I would figure out what you love to do. Yeah. And that's the best way to do it. Yeah. Do all three and be great at it. And then we eat himself out of whatever he wants to do and what he doesn't either the passion or the money. You're building one of them up. Yeah. I mean. Good call. Everybody does it. All right. Okay. Good luck in life. We got you. Derek DiRizzo asked has anyone tried sponge lights and how do you feel about it? I put this up where I brought this up because I don't even know what that is. Sponge lights. Yeah. Or do I and don't know that they're using a sponge now to do like sponge lights is like a big thing now. It's what the kids sponge lights is very popular now. Guy Tang's doing it. I mean I've done stuff with sponges but what is what is this? Or is this the same thing that we've done? It's what we did a long time ago. Okay. Like it's just it's highlighting with the sponge. Okay. Yeah. A long long time but but Guy Tang is very, very famous in the industry and started coloring the sponge. So now everyone's like because people that never saw it like we started doing it like well but they didn't get it out to the world. True. That technique yeah that came out to us educators and then whatever educator decided to show it to people they did but it didn't but Guy Tang says something now over the internet and it's like I must Wow. A lot of people came down from the mountain. A lot of people see it at once so it becomes popular so now he's traveling doing sponge lights stuff. It's highlighting the sponge. He asked what sponge you used back when I was doing this stuff I would just get the ones from Home Depot the ones that used the stain wood because they were nice and firm and you could wash them and use them a bunch of times and still yeah Michaels has a good thing a bag of them a different kind of textures and sizes or you can probably pay $30 for the for the hair color one I don't know I don't know what it looks like yet so we'll get back to you how about that one sponge is to sponge light with maybe Justin I got one on here let's hear it Justice Boyer Callan said I took apart my wall 2000 clippers that I got in my Cosmetology kit to clean them they were gross on the inside but now when I have them closed with the guard on they're loud any advice let me think the wall those I believe there is an adjuster on the side and you have to tighten just how loud it is so usually it's like a flat head little play plastic screw on the side of it that didn't come off when you took the face plate off if you go to adjust that with a flat head screwdriver or a butter knife whatever you got you will hear it change do it while it's on though that might be it also that way you can hear it change yeah that's why it's like tuning the actual machine that's why when I have mine on you can't even hear properly when you put the blade back on I took the blade off he might have left some of the loose in there too when he said it's open right no when they're on oh and they're on in general yeah so I'm sorry it's when I have them closed with the guard on okay so he might have made the teeth too close to the guard itself so when you adjust the actual cutting blade remember we made a video about that about like six months ago about how to against the cutting guard and if the teeth on the blade itself are too close to the cutting blade then when you close it the plastic overlaps and hits it and that's making the sound so he probably has to just readjust the blade no boom mic drop and then the last one I wanted to hit on shittity said thanks for the show love it someone needs to take the word like out of that vocabulary or at least make it a drinking game I love that comment I challenge you we do it's just that we drink afterwards I haven't heard that like like like like like okay now I have I hadn't heard it all week start drinking after he read that comment and it's the first time you've been here all week that's true I was actually talking to Brian because I I only see that once a week but I didn't hear him say it when I saw him I don't feel like I say it that much but apparently I do yeah Thad you say it a lot maybe it was just during that description last time maybe alright so what else we got on that end if you want to go to the Instagram questions okay so here we go ready let's I'm going to start at the top and work my way down because otherwise I get confused anyway so alright so here by Alexis Forrest says random but where do you actually go to ask the question oh yeah I answered that my question is where do you ask a question alright so Janelle Arlene says we have had some big changes in our salon and we have had a lot of people leave how do you deal with staff staying positive about the place they work I love the place and company and it's hard to keep other coworkers positive and focused on hair I mean we we've talked about this before I think this industry is tough to keep people positive I would say that over the last six years we've kept some people positive and some people we haven't and sometimes I think in certain scenarios somebody's just not going to be happy I think you have to with your staff always give them something to look forward to I think is a big thing education is a big thing I know me and Christina were just talking in the car yesterday or today I forget I don't even know what day it is about education even with you guys because we have focused on creating education it would be nice to figure out how to do some kind of education or something so you know I think you just have to stay focused as a salon owner on change things bring new things in yeah yeah and you know just trying to involve everything I don't know what do you guys think you are stylists what do you think keeps you motivated as a stylist and when you're feeling not motivated what do you do besides bitch to each other you know what I mean I think we've gone over this a little bit before it's just what keeps firing our ass like I said I personally look to you or Brian or Dre about what you're doing and how cool you know that is right I look to other sources of inspiration to make me think what I want to try next yeah you know so that's what works for me and I think it's probably easier for you because you haven't been here as long as everyone else so you're probably discovering a lot of things like me, Brian me and that me and that have been working together now for what 43 years 5 years yeah I think this August will be 5 years actually now yeah it's August yeah I think this pretty much because I think it was like around like between the 10th and the 15th that I moved up here did anyone notice that was 6 times that it said like and you know Andrea you guys have both been here for a while so it's one of those things like we've been around each other a lot we've seen what everybody does so what do you guys think as you've spent more than 3 years in the salon what keeps you motivated or what do you do through that finding different focuses yeah I mean like some years it'll be you shift harder on watching this number grow or you work on seeing I know something that I've looked at in the past that I don't think about all the time but I might every 6 months go you know let's see you know what kind of numbers am I doing this year yeah you know set a goal for the whole year or the week or the month it's like you guys said constantly changing you have to find what you need to change to constantly keep inspiring yourself yeah whether it's finding a new inspiration or finding a new motivation or whatever I've seen you guys work with each other like there's always one of you who's always got a fire learner has to do something cool and everybody else jumps on that wagon which is awesome there's like friendly competition between in the salon yeah yeah and that's and that's another cool thing because when you look at as a stylist I think where people get trapped is they they start thinking about and blaming other people for what they don't have and they need to realize like you can be as busy as you want you can do as much hair as you want there's no one holding you back by yourself unless you know unless there's you know people are being unprofessional and all that but in the salon business nowadays especially with the studios that opened up and all these different things and these opportunities that you have all you have to do is stay focused on you and what you do and help the people around you and you'll stay inspired yeah I think that like the focus and like the positivity from the staff yeah and will come from the staff at least like from a business standpoint if like the salon owners are keeping up with the business that they're taking care of it like if they see something that needs to be done they take care of it make sure everybody has 20 volume yeah otherwise which hey we got 20 volume since the last show but um you know like I feel like a stylist needs to like stay positive stay focused like based off of notness like looking into the industry can give you inspiration but also like looking into your personal life so like setting up a vacation like setting goals for like a new car setting a new goal for a new house that everything you're saying is like fantastic I just hear every time you say like now like like like like like like like like like like setting up goals set ups for yourself that way you're always going to be striving to get millennium get millennium because then you're going to be able see your numbers like Brian was talking about get mevo because it's awesome yeah we do the competition every week for all your numbers so you all are looking at it and win a little bit of money did I tell you guys that so I'm starting the beta testing of mevo and like next week nope you said you told us that you're getting the beta testing but you just said stroke I did I can't even think right now but yeah so we're starting the beta testing so we're going to be using it all month and then next month we will have I bet any question you can answer you could totally answer us in code but since you have to talk right now it's so hard for you I think in computer okay rapid fire rapid fire time yeah he actually sees life as the matrix that he's not he's Neo okay we get it okay Yasmin Marcel hi guys love your show my question is how do you promote your business in a new community I'm guessing like if you move somewhere yeah if you have a new business no there's a new community she didn't create the community she created the business so Facebook Facebook is okay yeah I think you're get out oh go ahead I was going to say get out and involved in the community get your face out there find a person make friends make friends make friends make friends in the community I do her stage a very large incident in front of the shop so it's behind all of the newscasts and but yeah getting involved I think with the other businesses in town or just becoming friends with people like get out and like Brian said go to find waitresses and do people's hair that are seen are around a lot of people or like that one or two moms from a local school yeah you know that all their kids that are in every single no not for kids yeah like that are in every single group like that those couple of moms that are very involved like that's always a good thing the influential find the most attractive the blogger mom yeah I was waiting for that to come out this week but then again I think your website you don't have to spend a ton of money but I think it should look be informative and have like reviews up and cause we get a lot of hits from yelp a lot of yelp calls we get are from the yelp pages true story cool alright so next don't have rapid firing Dreya says when you're cutting a bob I'm aware of my elbow position but how should your body be position for the section before and over the ear I always have trouble on right side since you're cutting from front to back unlike the left wait can you please do a reading at my wedding do you want me to read you can read them there's no period so I it's just one big long sentence kind of like how I talk with there's no commas today and I was just rapid firing everything in my mouth but nobody was going on I'm not gonna stop now and then your arm is up in the air and my elbow and my back was turned and the bob was in a nice reverse crane look from I learned in the yoga class I'm going all over the place in my head okay wait so when you're cutting a bob I'm aware of the elbow position when you're on the right side of the head body position done while cutting a bob wait unlike the left which is the back which is the back to front so when you're on the right side of the head and you're going that way what's your body position when you're on the right side of the head cutting a bob she gets it on this side what do you do on this side because she's afraid that be since you're going from the back to the front over here going from right to left from you know back to short I always start in the back cut my line and I work back to front so body position would be the same so working back to front yeah on this side yeah when you cut this way you're actually going from long to short instead of short to long unless you do back hand yeah I would do back hand okay that's the answer moving on yes yep your hand yeah your hand's moving yeah okay what are your thoughts on brazilian blowouts anybody awful I'm sorry Christina I don't have I know it's brazilian but yeah she's going to knife us after the show I'm sorry anything that when the country of origin outlaws it that should be like a clue to America to maybe stop brazil it's outlawed in brazil it's unhealthy for you to work you didn't hear you didn't hear about this you would all die and you're not nearly in a fennelation a whole new hope for a brazilian blowout I personally think there's safer ways to get a better look of it in Justin's opinion you would die we also don't have a high we would all die yes I wouldn't be straight edge anymore alright so Megan Megan Lay she says when you go to a hair show do you prefer technical classes business classes or a good mix of both mix mix what is the embarrassing what is the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you in the salon I have a good one what my foot was broken a couple years ago and I had to sit in the chair all the time to cut hair I was wearing a pair of drop crotch pants much like these now except they were made of actual pants material not like the stretchy material that these no it was just like cheap shitty pants like bang and I'm sitting there doing the haircut and I'm like realizing that I can't really like get this correctly because my legs will only go so far and as I'm doing the haircut all of a sudden it's not a rip it's not anything it's this like boom sound and I'm like what was that and I sort of like moved to the side to look around my client the entire dropped crotch just friggin exploded like a firecracker and I'm like that's the underwear like that is complete I'm sitting here basically not wearing pants in my crotch at all I had to take a cutting cape and drape it over my lap so that I was not flashing the 12 year old girl whose hair I was cutting for the rest of the day so now I only get drop crotch pants that I can stretch in alright anybody else have one actually I had where same story very similar actually she was the 10 year old did you share with us she scored for no I was getting my haircut exposed screw on the stool that I was sitting on and I actually ripped my jeans in the back oh my god yeah it was awful it's your flesh okay yeah it was it's your flesh okay that's why you should buy Minerva and thank god I had a really long shirt on so it didn't matter but it was awful awkward how did it cut your jeans and not your leg I'm not sure to this day how that happened they were like that when she put them on you know skank alright anybody else I'm good I'm never embarrassed never embarrassed I actually I can't think of one I've been trying to think of one you know it's embarrassing like when you cut people I think when you thought to yourself why aren't these shears cutting oh and I did I told the story before of how I melted plastic on that lady's hair yeah alright we're good then um I'm sure there has been a lot of I just can't buy everything he does so he's never embarrassed I can't think of one there's a reason I did that I meant to light your hair on fire what? get over it it's a new way to cut salt on YouTube I'm not embarrassed actually last week I used too much mirrors wait somebody wrote so Luther writes underneath that I cut off my client's sideburns because I was thinking about food sounds like something I would say another question from Avery how many corners does a square layer have I don't know if that's a serious question is this a riddle? it's a riddle that sounds like a punchline hear the riddler alright hair by Alexis but at least answer him in case it was serious you said three I was joking well there's not a square layer in a square layer well there's not a square there's no set number of layers there's not a square layer is there in my dialogue there's no there's a square shape not a square layer so but some people in beauty school they it's a square layer I don't know what that means I think they're talking about the corners are they talking like I want one layer two layers three layers type deal no I think like in beauty school you hold the hair straight out from the head and you cut straight up and straight out and they call it a square yeah right so I know that part but I was just wondering like where I'm confused by the question you got two on that one well that's why we clarified the question there is no square layer there's a square shape and there's four corners on a square shape case closed okay moving on alright what is the best we did that can you share examples of a diplomatic way to consult with a guest who has unrealistic expectations for their hair I just talked to them about like what they're looking for as well as like explaining to them like their density and their texture and why it's like if it will work it will work if it won't work it won't work and why yeah I think just like what they're willing to do at home and styling it is like we can do a lot of stuff here but if they're not going to be doing that at home it doesn't matter how I cut it right get real with that yeah real talk now he's got his own segment it's a new segment get real with that what grinds my keys get like with that alright so basic education with your guests I had a client that who's insistent on that I could cut the curl out of her yeah yeah you could I got a pair of clippers she wanted a round brush and not use a smoothing knife alright cool so yo bear mu knows it says as a newbie to our industry what would you say are crucial goals to have in the first few years of trying to build a client's home be open to everything yeah don't decide right off the bat what you're not going to do try everything yep get yours ever say no ever yeah and I think the first few years of the hardest is watching your numbers watch your your retention rate and your rebooking percentage and your services per guest and as long as you watch those three things you're going to see yourself growing no matter what and Brian what's the most important part work next to the most attractive person well obviously or be the most attractive person okay last one in my salon we offer the option for no blow dry so blow dry costs extra I really don't like to let my clients walk out with a wet head because I usually like to finish a cut dry where are some good ways to get your clients to agree to the extra charge to ensure a finished polished cut without sounding like you're trying to sell them something wait they don't even blow dry for a cut I know I think they should probably explain it I don't blow dry for color but never explain it how like dry cutting is personalizing their haircut like it's that much better it's like you know for some people you have to do it for that haircut that's perfect when they wake up the next day yeah I would personally try to I would get your salon owner to listen to this and I would say what I think it's dumb that it's not personally just for a haircut a haircut should look beautiful coming out like how do you there's no reason not to blow dry some good luck well unless they come in 50 minutes late for their exact hour haircut today is not the owner so I think I would really try to figure out how you can work at least into the haircut raise your haircut prices a little bit and include the blow dry because there's no reason I don't think any haircuts finish without dry cutting it so I have one client who insists on leaving with a wet head and I cringe every single time after I cut her hair but it's also what it is so I would definitely try to work that into your price if not just talk about the importance of it and maybe you can include it in your price because you like to dry haircut there you go just quote them with that already I mean we have different levels of pricing here but then you would still have to get the owner to be like the owner would have to say okay and that would be why wouldn't they do I mean well that was I've seen in places where the stylists are kind of just whatever the boss is like and in a situation like that where we charge it's so a la carte like that and some stylists that don't offer a haircut without the blow dry like that's so for me a haircut is going to be whatever the cost of those two together is and that just is what it is yeah I guess or just go with somebody else like if that's the blow dry so if you don't want to come with me that's fine but if you do it's going to cost this because you're getting a blow dry with your haircut I just would assume from the question that it was already mentioned to incorporate it in a price like that just makes sense but maybe not for some people I don't know so some people work in the corporate places where it's just not because a lot of the corporate places it is that a la carte like that would have already been an option if she already is coming to us as an owner for herself to incorporate it maybe yeah but so try that I mean if you're in a corporate place like that I mean a lot of the times owners in situations like that or managers whoever they don't care well if it's corporate it might be corporate work so the owner of that store might not have it say maybe so we never know try it let us know how it goes yeah it's tough alright so great questions thank you guys for following us on Instagram with that now I'm going to pick Drea because not this Drea what they're listening and they said they hadn't gone to the owner yet Christina so there you go good luck alright so I'm going to pick Drea from Instagram because she has an awesome name she has an awesome name but I messed her question up so much that I'm just going to let her spin that was the that was the question that I read and I couldn't understand that well so Drea is going to spin we have Millennium Systems International three months free of Mevo a Bolly Box from Sunlight's Bollyage we have Donald Scott Carving Comb Oleplex Traveler's Kit Ergo we have MinervaBeauty.com Super Silk Kit Amika Blow-Dryer did an amazing Super Silk today and what? you did do 100 off Mizutani Scissors is that it? cool even Matt liked my Super Silk today yeah the Super Silk looked great it looked really good and the winner Mevo Mevo alright congratulations Boop Boop alright Drea good job dad if you email me contest at freecelaneducation.com email me email me and then I'll forward your email to Millennium and they'll hook you up with three months free of their new Mevo software Super awesome. So thank you to Millennium for that. I think that's pretty much it guys Good show Yes, I do can you pop that up there So for the last two days, um I've been trying to figure out the next step in the free salon education comm website And I've always wanted it to be something Like a community but really just where people can share their education videos a lot more people are getting up on YouTube and Creating education. I want free salon education to be a hub where all hairdressers can share Education videos so created FSE tube. I believe is the name for now. It is is it up. Do you have it up on the screen Chris? So if you go to free salon education comm click the FSE tube link, it'll take you to the new website It's awesome. I loaded 300 videos on there over the last day They're all they're all categorized. Don't have its own web address. It will ours. It will it's it's being put through right now So it takes like 48 hours. So you will be able to go to FSE tube comm There it is eventually but as of right now, just go to free salon education comm click on FSE tube create an account if you Create hair videos or if even if you don't because you can comment and share and do all that stuff on there as well They're organized. There's a ton of videos on there and I want to get all of my hairdresser friends From all over the place to start posting their videos on there because I want it to become You know the place to go. This looks fantastic Looks cool, right good job. Thanks. So So I'm really excited about it So if you are a hairdresser and you like making videos Maybe your hairdresser and you've never made a video But you want to start FSE tube is gonna be a really cool new place to hang out trust me do it with us We're the people you want to start with yeah, it'll be fun And it's easy because you put the video you have to put the video on YouTube Which is a good place to put it it can do a lot of great things for you But then you take that link and you put it into FSE tube and hairdressers will watch it and that's you know That's our goal. So I hope you guys go sign up. It's free It's all free. So just get on there start sharing your education and And that's it. Um anybody Anything else feel good. I feel fantastic. All right, cool. So follow Brian here Oh crap, I left YouTube Follow me everything is hairstyle HIR e-style dry. Yeah dry day two two eight nine Hi, I'm Justin Scott Christina Under score steeney. I am bad bullets. Oh my god. 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