 Good morning. Happy Tuesday. Welcome back to another vlog. My sleep schedule has been not the best the last few days I've been working on trying to get back to my normal sleeping schedule and earlier wake-up time It's been a little rough the last few mornings, but I'm excited because today is super sunny I'm one of those people I 100% get my energy and my life sourced from the Sun if I wake up in the morning And it's cloudy and dark outside. I will have the hardest time getting out of bed, but today It's really sunny and warm out. So I'm excited to start my day and have a good day I'm working at the salon today. So of course, I'm gonna bring you along It's gonna be a bit of a longer day for me though I have two clients that have a little bit of a gap between the two of them So I will probably not be done until around eight o'clock tonight The first client I have coming in is coming for a balayage and she came in several weeks ago for a haircut Her hair is really thick and dark naturally and when I first met her, we did her haircut We discussed her hair color and I have so many pretty Inspiration pictures anytime I've been scrolling through Instagram and I see a pretty color that is similar to what we discussed I've been saving it So I can't wait to show her the pictures that I saved and see what she thinks about that And it's just gonna be so pretty and she is just so nice and she also has gorgeous hair So it's gonna be a win-win like doing her hair is gonna be enjoyable and also You know hanging out with her and talking with her throughout the duration of the appointment will be good too That's the best when you have clients that you just click with and the conversation is just like really easy And just flows naturally because people ask me if I ever get nervous When I have a new client coming in for the first time and It kind of depends like most of the time nowadays that I am more experienced I'm more confident in not only my actual hair skills, but also my consultation skills I don't really get nervous, but I don't know some days I guess I kind of do a little bit because you just never know what to expect Especially if you haven't already done like a pre-consult with them And you don't even know what they look like or what their hair looks like you truly have no idea what's gonna walk through the door So sometimes that can be a little scary because it's like oh god Is this gonna end up being a crazy color correction? Do I have the appropriate amount of time blocked out for this person? And then you just never know what their personality is gonna be like are you gonna click with them? Are they gonna be nice? Do they have realistic expectations or are they gonna be you know? A little cuckoo and impossible to please Luckily, I feel like those clients have been like few and far between for me lately, but it definitely still happens You really just never know and that aspect of it can be a little bit nerve-wracking But like I said the more experience that you get you just kind of know how to handle those types of situations So even if you get a client that's difficult, you know how to handle it But it is nice when people can come in for an in-person Consultation or like this girl today come in for a haircut so we can consult about the color before the actual color appointment that way going into it I already know exactly what to expect and then my second client is actually one of my friends and It's been several months Since she got her hair done her hair is naturally pretty dark and she likes it to be super blonde Okay, makeup is done. I just had my usual routine that I've been doing recently with the color pop nude mood eyeshadow palette and I usually just mix these two bottom shades and use a little angled brush like that and I do a little wing with the eye shadow and then my lips. I had did Charlotte Tilbury pillow talk Liner and then I put this gloss on top or pixie in the shade sheer bros God if you guys saw my last or like two blogs ago When I toned my hair it's already been a little over two weeks since I had did that and I've been out in the sun. I don't know if you can tell I've been working on my summer tan And it has already faded back Pretty much to where it was at and my roots are starting to become noticeable again Trying to decide what to do. I do like the copper color But it's just really hard to maintain and to keep it like the perfect Even shade of copper that I like and then when my roots grow in they're so obvious So, I don't know part of me wants to just go brown again Like maybe not as dark as it was before but like a chocolatey brown Just saw it all over and then another part of me wants to do a balayage Because I kind of miss having the dimension and like the little money piece and all that like I just feel like that's fun for summer and then having the Dimension when I wear my hair curly is really pretty. But anyway, I blow-dried my hair last night So now I'm just kind of smoothing it out and putting a little flip on the ends. This is the wavy talk thermal brush thermal round brush that was Supervival on tic-tac a few months ago and I actually like this because it's not like a blow-dried brush that blows air out It just gets hot to the touch, but then it has these bristles that grip your hair So it gives you the look of a blowout and you can just do it on your hair dry Okay, there we go. Just a little something of a little flip on the ends and then I'm gonna do these earrings. I just got these last week at TJ Maxx The brand is Everry never heard of it before but they're so fun They remind me of like clip-on earrings my mom used to have back in the 90s But yeah, the TJ Maxx jewelry section has been good. I don't really go in there that often. I got these The same time how freaking cute these are from the house of Harlow brand So pretty I wore these last week You can tell I wear these to work a lot because in the little like crevices. There's these tiny little hairs and Can't forget my perfume I've really been into the Amberie cherry from dossier lately. Okay, so here is my outfit for the day Don't mind my messy room. The whole apartment is a mess. I have laundry. This is not even dirty laundry This is a pile of clean laundry. My brother was in town for Easter weekend So, yeah, I just did not get any of my chores done. Anyway, here's the outfit for today This top is from Old Navy pants are from Aira pastel and then the shoes are from Target and I know it's probably dangerous to wear an all-white outfit to go work in a hair salon But I'm gonna try my best to be careful both of my clients today are just getting highlights So it's just gonna be bleach. So hopefully the clothes will be fine I'm gonna grab my stuff and head out of here. I will see you at the salon So this was client number one's hair before like I said, she's got a lot of it She's really thick beautiful hair and she does have some old kind of faded grown-out highlights from a couple years ago but the goal was to give her beautiful ribbons of like a coppery brown kind of color but keep it really low maintenance and blended Dimensional so I did a full head of TZ lights a combination of TZ lights with T slices So that would still be blended and soft towards the top But you would definitely get those pops of color on the ends and it turned out so beautiful. I'm obsessed. She loved it Amazing and then this was my friend Madison's hair as you can see it was quite grown out and a little bit more Solid so her grow out was you know more noticeable and she had a lot of dimension that was left in the back She wanted to get rid of the dimension make the ends completely solid and just make it Brighter and more icy so you can see her roots. I just blurred them out so beautifully So she's still super super blonde, but it'll be a softer more seamless grow out. It's just so pretty I'm obsessed. Good afternoon. It's the next day. It is already Almost 230. I'm telling you it's something about those really big hair appointments Like I can work an eight to ten hour shift and have like four standard appointments and feel fine But if I have like one or two really big appointments, it just completely Drains the life out of me. I'm very grateful that today. I Don't have to work today actually on Monday I was looking at the weather for the week and planning out what I was gonna do when and I knew it was gonna be raining all day today So today was the day I plan to just stay home and clean the apartment So I'm grateful that today I can just stay home and I have stuff that I need to do But there's no time crunch for it. So yeah slept in very late today and I'm still in my pajamas I was about to go lay in bed Just watch YouTube videos on my laptop. Maybe watch a movie or something I turned the AC up So that is blasting right now and it is so cold and that's just what I want to do like I want to have the AC turned up and get under the covers and just get cozy and Watch some YouTube videos relax So that's what I'm gonna do It's gonna be the perfect day to like recharge my social battery too because I'm just gonna stay home and not talk to anybody Love these days Needed yesterday. I'm feeling really good today Well rested social battery is charged on full. So I'm making myself a cappuccino this morning Look at that. So beautiful Pour in my Espresso and then I'm gonna put a little bit Little bit of sugar and then we got our steamed milk And I'm gonna put a little bit of cinnamon on top amazing delicious I need to remember to take an allergy pill before I leave Apollo is intense this year and I have my windows open because it's so nice outside and I want to get the fresh air But it is making me sneeze like crazy. It is several hours later. It's almost 130 I finally put my laundry away. Let me show you all that laundry gone Put everything away Closet is all nice and organized again But I'm getting ready now to go to my friend Haley's house We are going to make dinner and some drinks and just hang out and then we're going to a tea pain concert I'm so excited. There is this big festival that they do here in Wilmington every year called the Azalea festival And this is like my third spring Living here and this is gonna be my first time Going to it and they always have a bunch of different concerts this year One of the concerts is a TV concert and I'm especially looking forward to it because it's Thursday today Tomorrow, I'm gonna be home all day. I have computer work stuff I need to do like, you know some admin things But I don't have to be in the salon So I feel like I can actually go out tonight and have a good time let loose stay out late That's the one thing that kind of sucks about working on Saturdays if my friends want to go out and do something Friday night, I'll have work the next morning So I gotta, you know, be careful. Especially now as I'm getting older My body can't bounce back from sleep deprivation and being out all night drinking need way more time to recover nowadays So, yeah, that'll be fun. I'm not entirely sure what time the concert supposed to end at or if there's gonna be stuff going on Afterwards if we're gonna end up staying out We can kind of just like let the night take us the only thing that's kind of a bummer is it's been So warm and beautiful. I don't mean it is a beautiful day It's really sunny and it's not cold but I think the high is only supposed to be in like the low to mid 60s and then the low tonight Is gonna drop down to like the 40s It just figures like the last two nights even at nine o'clock. It was still warm out Be nice if tonight would have been like that too, but whatever. Okay, makeup is done Except for lips, but I'm about to do my hair and I thought I would show you how I'm doing it because I know I get requested to share Hair tutorials and I feel like slick backs Parted slick backs specifically have been requested So I'm gonna show you how we do it first things first though because I want to do half up and I'll leave The bottom down so first I'm going to load up my hair with dry shampoo the IGK charcoal detox is my absolute favorite I Soak up all that oil when I am doing a slick back and I want to keep a part I will take a Chunk like this. It does not have to be exact, but just leave some of this out This is going to Hold your part clip that out of the way You want to get yourself a brush like this with bristles like this this one's from Amazon Super expensive. I'll put a link in the description But you could get this anywhere, but this is gonna get like really good grit on your hair and Allow you to really pull it back Tight. I usually like to just kind of follow like where my ears are at and Then just see how much hair that leaves down and then I obviously can't see the back of my head But I'm gonna just take my finger Across and try to make a straight ish parting I'm sure it's not straight at all, but it's fine actually I'm gonna ponytail off The bottom that I'm leaving out now that that is section of the leg I'm gonna grab All the hair that is gonna go in my ponytail Brush that out. You obviously want to make sure before you do this that you don't have any tangles in your hair I am going to get this hair wet This one it's wet. It just Slicks down better So now I have that my ponytail all pulled back There's a little bit of lumps and bumps and now I'm gonna grab this brush and I'm gonna just look back and then Grab it with your hands So there we go now that is pulled back make sure it's like at the height where you want it to be Now I'm gonna let these front pieces down now. I'm gonna take This bottom section out. So I have the hair tie for that and I'm just gonna tie this off Into a ponytail Again wet this Top and just brush it So that it's nice and smooth and just pull it back Into that ponytail like that. So I'm gonna do the same thing on this side I'm gonna pull these pieces like behind the ponytail So they're kind of like wrapped around make sure it's slipped back everything is flat and then take a second hair tie and I actually Want this to be a bun so Not gonna pull it all the way through it's gonna do a little like tapknot Situation Wet these ends. I like to have like the little pieces that kind of stick out on the side and then once you have It the way you want it as far as like the positioning and it's all good and you've got Majority of the lumps and bumps out now. I am taking this got-to-be glued hair gel and I am gonna just Gently I rubbed it between my hands and I'm just gently passing it over the top and Just pushing back on the hair and then I'm gonna take some On the little ends if you you know like these little pieces that stick out this is Jalentanu is like So you can make those stick out however you want Okay, now that The top part is done. I am gonna go over the bottom hair that I left out with that wavy top brush again Just flip the ends And then I'm gonna take hairspray and this is really gonna just set everything in place This way, you know, like my hair is not Going to budge. It is going to be secure. So even if it is crazy windy my hair is not going anywhere the palmichile neuro Finishing spray love this stuff. It smells so good, too There is the hair for the evening. I feel so like Spice Girls 90s early 2000s kind of vibes. Okay. Here is my outfit. Sorry that it's a little bit dark The leather jacket is from H&M. These pants are from Express. I'll try to get some clips tonight But uh, no promises. Trying to live in the moment and whatnot I didn't end up vlogging anything yesterday because I just didn't do anything exciting It was another day where I just stayed home got computer work done washed my hair. Oh my god You should have saw this like back I wish I got a clip of it when I came home and took my hair down It still just stayed exactly as it is basically she was secure So definitely had to wash that and I got more laundry done Washed all my bed sheets that kind of stuff So it was like a little bit of a reset day sort of but the concert was really fun But today I'm working up the salon. I'm a little bit nervous my hair stylist Instincts are tingling a little bit because my day is fully booked. It was fully booked a few days ago But my first client Cancelled so I had my morning open and then yesterday The front desk booked someone with me for this morning and this is a new client She was booked for a highlight and haircut But then the front desk person added a note saying client says she has severely bleached damaged hair so like that's strange and a red flag to me and We require having a credit card on file for our cancellation policy. There is no card on file This note says that the credit card form was sent to this person to fill out. She obviously never filled it out. I am really Nervous because a I don't even know this person's gonna show up B if she does show up I have no idea what to expect. I don't know if It's gonna be the right fit for me if what she's gonna want is going to be realistic or you know like I just like there's a lot of Weirdness like I'm getting red flags from this and I texted the front desk girl and she Hasn't answered me yet. So I'm wondering I kind of feel like I should just call the salon because I'm not sure Who's working today? I feel like I should just call the salon see who's there and be like hey Can you call this girl and like just confirm that she's planning on coming because I oh my god Obviously, it's not okay to not share your appointment ever But like if it's the last person of the day then it's like alright Well, I'll go home now at least but when it's your first one of the day or like right in the middle of your day Oh that is I wanted to share this For any of my fellow hairstylists, especially if you are a newer stylist or if you're in Cosmetology school or anything like that. I still try to give people benefit of the doubt I just feel like that's only fair And I hope that I always stay that way like I don't want to become this like you know miserable jaded person that Just assumes the worst out of everybody But I have learned over the years doing hair and dealing with people and dealing with shady people and getting Taking advantage of and screwed over and all that kind of stuff. You just get These instinctual feelings and you just know What feels right and what doesn't a quick little update. I texted the person that is doing the front desk today It's not the same person that was there yesterday who booked this client asked her if she could call My first client's I was like, yeah, I don't know. I just have like a sketchy feeling and We don't have her card on file. So can you just call her and just confirm that she's planning on coming? she said she called her twice and No answer. I called twice went straight to a voicemail, but I left a message That is on a good sign if I had spoke to this fight myself When I was booking like first of all, I would say hey We need your card information on file in order to book an appointment So I wouldn't have even booked it without the card information first But then I also would have just clarified like the appointment will not be confirmed Until we have your credit card on file So your stylist is not going to show up unless we have your card information on file Because now Like a big part of me is telling me to just not even bother going in because I really have a strong feeling That she's not going to show up. But then what if she does that's gonna make me look bad because as far as the client knows She has an appointment that's booked So you would assume and expect your stylist to be there either way today will be a good day Because my other two clients are super nice and it's gonna be easy I'm not like this is gonna be the easiest Salon day I've had in a long time because I'm not doing a crap ton of foiling and dealing with a lot of hair By the way here is my outfit for the day actually feel really cute and it's really comfy So I am loving this outfit and I just threw it together super fast this Set the shirt and pants. I actually got from Amazon I'll link it down below and then this shirt is from Urban Outfitters I just tucked it up because it's really big and oversized. It's actually kind of like a t-shirt dress So I tucked it into my bra, and then I'm wearing my high-top Converse, I'll see you at the salon so to my surprise My first client ended up calling the salon as I was about to leave and said she was on her way So normally I swear I Try to give people benefit of the doubt and I feel like there's been so many times where I Will feel kind of naive like oh, yeah, it'll be fine. They'll show up and then they don't So this was the first that I was like just had the instinct that she wasn't gonna show and then she did But this was her hair before so she had just been getting like bleach and tones Very high maintenance color and her hair really like was not that damaged I mean it was a little bit. It was kind of over processed But just what you would expect from someone that's like a platinum blonde all over So what she wanted was something that was gonna be a little bit more low maintenance So she wouldn't have to be bleaching her hair as frequently So I did little baby lights around her hairline to brighten those up And then everything else in between I actually painted on a low light And I just dragged it down a few inches from her root just so we could soften up and blur That like root area So I did a root smudge and a gloss on her hair after that and this was the final hair It was so stunning like I even Kind of blew myself away to be honest and she loved it. She ended up being so nice So thank God Christ is averted and then my second client is actually my friend's mom She is amazing super easy as you can see she doesn't really have a lot of hair And she only comes and gets her hair done a couple times a year So I just do a bunch of fine baby lights all over just so that it's really low maintenance and blended and easy And this was her final hair super pretty give her a little bit of a money piece She's been liking that and then my third client came in for a Malibu CPR treatment so it was a two-step process I did the Malibu color disruptor first and then followed by the CPR treatment Basically she had really really dark hair naturally has dark hair went and got it lightened somewhere else didn't like it felt like it was really uneven and it felt really damaged and Yeah, so we've just it's just been kind of a journey This was step one in the process to kind of remove the dark color She had because that was that was the thing she didn't like the lighter color So she put a dark box color on it so I wanted to remove that kind of see what we were working with give her a nice haircut and I'm excited to see where we go from here Hello, it is Many hours later. It is like nine o'clock now. I was going to maybe go meet up with my friend downtown, but we don't feel like it at all like the thought of going out right now and it's kind of cold out and I Just want to get cozy in bed, but my clients went really well that girl did not know show She showed up and she was actually really cool I was a little nervous because I wasn't sure she was a little hard to read But she ended up being really cool And she loved her hair in the end her sister came to pick her up and she loved her hair and she ended up looking in Appointment with me. Yeah, it was just a good day. Like it was very smooth. It flowed. Well, I was able to clean as I go And everyone was just really cool and nice. I'm gonna go change it to my pajamas and go lay in bed I'm gonna wrap up this vlog here. Thank you guys so much for watching Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss my next video and I'll see you really soon Bye