 What's up guys welcome to today's vlog so on the vlog today what we're gonna be doing is a tour video so a lot of you guys have asked what the studio looks like what the new salon looks like all that you might have seen pictures of it but it's gonna be really fun to take you through it also tonight is podcast night so I'll be getting prepped for that so I'll show you guys our podcast setup so this can be a big tour video it's a big place so I'm excited to show you guys so I'm gonna take you guys this is the studio we'll get back to that I'll be working in here all day but I want to get the salon open before our clients get here and all that so let's go to the first room of the salon alright guys so I'm standing on the front of the salon right now it's very cold outside but I want to show you guys this is our driveway so we're actually kind of hidden which to me as a beginning business wouldn't be the greatest idea but now that we're an established business people know where we're at it works for us because it's hidden it's kind of secluded so it's a nice relaxing place so here's the front door so this is the first room that you enter when you come into salon gratitude this is our reception area we have a beverage area back there we have the reception desk there our retail and then through that door is the salon we'll go to that at the very end but here's a look at the reception area okay so the next room that we're gonna be walking into is our employee break room conference area it's where we can have our meetings and they can also get a break from their guests so that is this room right here so once you get through the employee break room conference room area then you get into the parlor that is our barber shop so let's get that turned on so I want to show you guys a couple of my favorite things about this room the first thing is the barber chairs this barber chair came from a nerve a beauty calm I love the fact that it has an old school look to it but brand new technology so you can lean your guests back you can trim their beards up you can give them a shave you can do whatever you want so these are the stations that we use from a nerve a beauty as well love the pattern the wood feel with also the metal we love that look for the barbershop has the mirror mounted on the wall it's got drawers for all of your stuff don't really have a lot of stuff and nice cabinetry for holding any of your stuff as well these are also for a salon so you could use it in both but I like being able to set up my clippers set up my combs everything like that having a little bit more counter space when this is a barbershop because you just have a lot more tools to work with then we got a nice little waiting area we got our tv a nice selection of adult beverages so that is the parlor room at salon gratitude now just around the corner I'm going to take you guys to our shampoo room we'll get that turned on so this is our shampoo room couple things I really love about this first off these are my nerve a beauty as well your guests gets to lay back nice it also has a head rest so her neck isn't getting pinched in the crease of the sink right here the cabinetry we got at Ikea Christina did this kind of custom countertop just a couple pieces of plywood over top of the Ikea stuff painted it black put the gold around it that turned out really cool holds all of our shampoo and everything got our hot towel warmer and then up here we actually have our toners so that while you're doing hair back here your shampooing you can actually pick a toner and use it on your gas another thing I love about this room is while you're relaxing getting shampooed you can actually look out into this beautiful view okay so that is our shampoo area or wash house whatever you want to call it now I'm going to take you guys to the main salon room a couple bathrooms okay so now we're entering the main salon floor at salon gratitude so I'm going to take you guys through a lot there's a lot to talk about in this room the first thing I want to talk about is the color bar and the cool thing about this is Christina built this all from the ground up from Ikea so it's really cool because it's very functional we still have some racks to put up in a few different things but for the most part it's a function in color bar the worst part was getting the plumbing put in but then after that it just takes time so Christina put that together it looks really awesome functions really well it's got a lot of room on it for people mixing color a couple cabinets we'll stop here a couple cabinets here for the salon product so what we use in the salon I want we wanted to keep them kind of concealed so they weren't out and everybody was looking at them all the time so we put them in here we have two different cabinets for that so this is our waiting area we got a few different chairs I believe Christina found these at some kind of home goods or something like that nice frilly pillows up there not much to talk about with the waiting area but some cool chairs now I've got these this equipment over here these are our color processors we have a few of them these two are the same these are newer models we got these from Minerva Beauty as well and then this one is our workhorse we got this from Minerva Beauty it's just a color processor so those of you that don't know what that is you put it over your highlights it's heat but it also helps open up the cuticle and just brighten the highlights so you can process color faster and just have a better workflow in the salon this is actually the station that I work at doing here in the salon so this chair obviously came from Minerva Beauty I love the simple feel of the chair Christina wanted to do this color and at first I was like I can't believe you're picking that color but when I saw everything kind of come together obviously the color works really well in here so so we got a working tray next to it we don't have cabinet stations and my big thing with that is it just keeps away the clutter so you can see in here everybody puts their stuff away at night and then when they get here in the morning when they need a blow dryer they plug it in when you're not using blow dryer you put it away and it just keeps this on nice and clean this is our mirror the thing I love about this these are customized because we got them from Minerva but it was a dark wood and it had a black trim Christina sanded off the dark wood and then painted the gold trim on there to kind of go with the feeling they also weren't double-sided it was really hard to find double-sided mirrors so we connected them with a little connector the two mirrors together they hang it's nice and heavy so it doesn't move a lot and we also got the chains and painted them gold to match everything as well all the light fixtures we found online except for that one we found locally but just nice neutral lighting now I'm going to take you over this is our color area this is where we color our guest hair and the reason we have a different area for coloring it does open up the stations a little bit but also we got these mats behind it helps keep color off the floor we got these carts at Minerva as well it has the foil holder you can also place some other stuff there you can color up to four bowls in there so pretty cool setup we got a more simple chair for the color area as well so it's just a sleeker feel so we put three of those here and then this is the view from the outside behind the salon so that is the salon tour I hope you guys like it also this is where we do all of our shots for our gratitude salon official instagram page so if you guys want to check that out we use the diva ring light I get a lot of questions on how what lighting to use when taking pictures for instagram that thing works really well also the fact that we have these skylights overhead helps during the day a lot because you get the overhead lighting and then you get the front lighting there plus a white wall which really helps I think that's pretty much it I'll do an updated tour sometime as well but I wanted to give you guys this first look uh everything that we have going on now let's get back over to the studio this is Christina's office but I'm not going to show it to you yet because it's not done and she would probably be upset now we're gonna go through this is also a lounge area which has just a lot of boxes and a lot of stuff because we are still putting it together so this is a bathroom another bathroom it's kind of like the employee bathroom and then we have the studio entrance here the red light means that I'm filming so that's usually the sign that people don't go into so over here I have the product shelves these these shelves I put in so I could just have easy access to the products I need to use in the videos things that I like some of my favorite things so it's just easy I can mix it on here and put it all together so back here is kind of an exciting thing this right here is our live production studio so everything that we do we can put live on the internet everything it's over there everything it's over there all of it can be live on the internet with a click of a button which is really nice this is a tv monitor so anything that we're doing live you can see on that tv also have a big tv back there near my desk that you can see from the studio space and that is also a monitor you can see what you're doing live as well we have another monitor here I have some more Minerva beauty equipment here another chair here and then also this is a really cool thing that we're actually putting in the parlor this is a big old not old big new it's a big light up barber pole which I'm in love with it mounts to the wall this thing's got to be I mean I'm six foot tall so it's almost six feet tall so a pretty sweet addition I don't even have any idea how much that is Minerva sent it for me to review but I love the thing and I can't take it out of my office even though I should put it in the salon okay so next thing I want to talk about is the logo that's back here behind us this is the free salon education logo like most of you guys know but the cool thing about this this room was a Pilates studio so because it was a Pilates studio this was all mirror this whole thing so what I did was I had it wrapped with a matte black finish and left the logo out so it looks like we did a mirrored logo but really it was just a mirror that we covered now this is the podcast table podcast logo is on it all the microphones we use road podcasting microphones all of that stuff runs over to where I sit on the podcast so this is where we do the sound so we run the sound of the studio live so we can run all the different microphones run music through here my laptop hooks up to all of this stuff and then this is all of our headphone monitoring all that stuff under here so I can basically sit in this spot and run all the sound and everything for the show and then Christina sits over there and runs all the live video these are all the different cameras we use 5d mark fours for the shots of each of us so we use kino flow lighting for for the whole studio for the podcast setup and also for the studio setup it's just the best lighting that that I can find that I know about and it works really really well and then this is my desk it's a little bit of a mess but I use a 27 inch iMac for editing the videos and also this big screen which helps with video editing you just have a lot more space to work with so I like that setup I also do all of my voiceover work with the road podcaster mic the usb mic plugs right into the computer got some old cameras here some lenses the drone and that is pretty much it that is the tour of the studio so there's a lot going on and obviously I skipped over things very quickly but if you guys want to know anything else or you saw something that I didn't talk about post it in the comments below I would love to answer your questions on anything that I can so thank you guys so much for joining me on this tour I hope you guys enjoyed the tour of the studio I know it's kind of a lot to take in but hopefully it gives you guys some ideas uh or at least shows you guys kind of where we work so hope you like it if you did like it hit the like button hit the subscribe button I'll see you guys