 Splitting Hares, the Hair Dressers podcast starts now. Featuring Matt Beck, Christina Cavalcanti, Brian Hare, Drea Bolland, Thaddeus Bolland, and Justin Scott. This is Matt Beck from FreeSalonEducation.com. Welcome to episode 91 of Splitting Hares. I got Brian Hare, Drea Bolland, Justin Scott. Hey guys. Bad Bolland, and Christina Cavalcanti. We are here this evening. Yep. Lots of fun dinner adventures that we just had. I think we all just shoved a wrap down our throats faster than it's ever happened before. It was like a foreign convention up in here. So it's probably a million things in my teeth too, but whatever. I didn't even look. Well, I'm good. No, you're golden. OK, good. Drea. I already checked in the bathroom. See, she's the only responsible one. Christina, you look great. All right, so thank you to Millennium Systems International for always supporting this show. Also, demandforce.com slash FreeSalonEducation. This morning, I woke up, ran out of the house. Where are you going? I have to go do a webinar. I did a webinar with American Salon Magazine for Demand Force. So I did that this morning with Nina Kovner, me. Love her. Gordon Miller, and Michelle from Demand Force. Love it. I have a Demand Force question. Yeah. Really, it's a question that I was meant to ask you anyway, and it might as well ask it here. When people respond to the email and send something back, where does that go? It goes to my email. Well, I mean, is it for you to see? Or is it linked up with Yelp? Is there a thing for other customers to see incoming or what? When they respond, it depends on what email they respond to. Are you talking about the review? The after-the-service email. OK, that goes on to our reviews on our website. On SalonGratitude.com, yeah. So it goes on there, and then it also shows up. But as like its own link. OK, I was just curious because I got a really good one. Yeah. I was like, is this going anywhere? That's good. Yeah. It sounds like I worked on my mom, she's so happy. Yeah, they're constant. I mean, that's a thing we talked about today during the webinar. OK. I wanted to call it a podcast. During the webinar, we were talking about the reviews. And basically, we've had like 55 reviews in the last six months since we started this whole thing. So pretty awesome. I mean, it took us six years to get six reviews on Google. So it's a cool service. Check out demandforce.com slash freesaloneducation. Highly recommend it. Mizutani Scissors, if you haven't been on freesaloneducation.com, I totally revamped the entire website again. Now it's again one and the same as the educations on the site. The shop is on the site. It's all one. So there's no more shop FSE. I think if you go to that, it'll still take you there. But it's freesaloneducation.com. You can check out all of our cool scissors. We have a lot of products coming. We've been working hard on this. Quick, I forgot that earlier. It was nice to brought it up. I tried to go to freesaloneducation.com through my cell phone. I had a link to my Instagram, and it wouldn't directly go. And then I had an email as well. And other people said it wasn't directly linking them. So I changed it all to shop FSE, which brings you directly there still. But I don't know if that's. I know. And it's really weird. That's phone is doing the same thing. So I got to call them and figure out what's going on. Because that, for some reason, can't go to the website either. But if you go to shopfse.com, that brings you directly there. So if you want to change your links to shopfse.com, that brings you to which.com, any issue at all. All right, well, let's do that as a temporary thing. Because I went to shop FSE on Saturday when I ordered the new scissors. And it just took me there. I did. Yeah, it was fantastic. I want to thank Ms. Atani, because those are my women's there when I finally put it up, because I love with those shears. OK, so speaking of shears, we did come out with the second edition, the limited edition, FSE gold, matte gold scissor. We only have three left out of 15. So they sold quite a few. Yeah, yeah, we sold quite a few over the weekend. We've been on sale for about three days. We sold almost all of them. We will not make them again. That's the whole point. I want to keep designing a scissor. So this one we designed, it's a 6 and 1 half inch matte gold scissor with a matte black screw. And that was our own design, and that's what I want to keep doing. So we do limited amount. So you'll be one of 15 people in the world that have it. And I just want to keep doing it that way, because I think it's fun. My scissors are on sale right now. I'm on our website. I'm looking at it. There you go. Just want to let you know. My swivels are on sale for $900. Get it. Get it. Go get it. So yeah, so check out the shop. We've got a lot of cool products coming up, and we're going to be on there. MinervaBeauty.com. We have a review coming out tomorrow morning that Brian did on the shampoo sinks. So that video I finished the other day. So that's coming out. Long time ago. It was. That was the night I did that. We're backed up. That was the night that I did my Clipper maintenance video. Yeah. Well, we put them out, because I want to put out Minerva reviews every week. So I want them to be. So we have the sink review coming up with Brian. That'll be tomorrow morning at 8 AM. That'll launch out. And then, so check out MinervaBeauty.com. And SuperSilk, if you haven't tried SuperSilk yet, we've had a lot of people posting really cool results of SuperSilk online. So make sure, if you do a SuperSilk treatment, you hashtag it with SuperSilk. I want to see you guys putting it in the hair color and showing your results off, because it's really awesome. And you can buy that on there as well. That is pretty much it for that. The Hairpalooza looked like it was a success. Did you guys see any of the footage from that? I just saw a couple pictures. So congrats to those guys for putting on a really cool event. It looked like it was in like an old theater. And it just looked really neat. So there needs to be more events like that. Did they end up having a total of how well it went over? I don't know, but they had a picture of the line outside the door. So I mean, it definitely looked like it went well. So congratulations to those guys. And that's pretty much it. I don't have anything else. Sweet. Should we just get into sharing some beautiful things? I got some beautiful things to talk about. OK, here we go. A no, no. Hair industry news from Justin Scott. Oh, hello. We need to change that, too. Now everyone's pictures from the internet. Justin. It's news. You posted a picture, and you posted a picture. Right? Well, that smells like onion. But that's delicious. And you know all of the baseline education. Well, before we get into any of the photos, we're going to get into a story that actually Brian got and sent to me. Thanks, Brian. I got you, Boo. He caught this. It is from, where are we getting this from? TheNewYorkPost.com. So that's a little more legitimate in the world, besides like a beauty slingshot. We jumped right to The New York Post. All right. That's pretty good news. So celebrity hairstylist loses a critical ruling in a hair care lawsuit. I'm sure most people who've worked in salons have. It's like the Today Show. Yeah, they're holding signs out there. They're my flashboots. You guys missed it. They were white. All right. Most salons out there, aside from most of the corporate ones, have a do not compete policy. So one gentleman had two of his coworkers, his people worked with him. Wait, is that just one gentleman? It's a huge company. Well, I'm going to get to that. You want a crimony? Well, I didn't know. He gave you the story, and then he finishes it. Well, I thought you were going to lead with the huge company that we're talking about. Well, we're going to get there. All right. Building it up. All right. This is super exciting. It's like an M. Night Shyamalan. I can't wait. All right. What is it? Orbe? Is it? Orbe. Orbe. There we go. I always say it wrong. Had two of their really critical coworkers that worked with the owner. They left and made their own product lines. And he tried to see them for $500,000 for their do not compete policy. And it was pretty, he lost. They won. They can go make their own. In the Supreme Court, wasn't it? Yeah. All the way out. The Supreme Court ruled against him saying. That's expensive. Yeah. And he spent a lot of money to get there. Which brings me to the whole story itself is that a lot of these places out there have these do not compete policies. But legally, do not compete policies. If Orbe can't win. Yeah. Do not compete policies aren't actually, there's so little areas for them to actually work. A lot of states actually, it's illegal for you to enforce a do not compete policy. And in states like New Jersey, if they don't want you to work in a certain mile radius, they legally have to pay you. Even if you don't work there, because you can't work in the area, that's fine. But they can't tell you can't make money. So some states, they have ways to get around it. Like they can't compete, but you can't tell them they can't live. Well, they're all going to have variations. It's illegal to keep somebody from earning an income everywhere. So I mean, I guess every state's probably, I wish I could phone my mom, the HR expert on everything. I'm sure there are certain states that have certain red tape you can kind of get around. I've just, I've seen no compete things. I've seen one work and every single other one fail. Yeah. I know it's difficult when, like I've seen a lot of stylists before they go to leave, they'll go to the computer and start printing out client information and whatnot. That is illegal. That is technically stealing from the salon. And that you can get held accountable for. But going and working for another salon isn't really going to stop you. Right. Good points. Usually, like the Do Not Give Me policies just handle in a geographical area where you can't work from the place you previously did. We're starting about time. Usually, it's like nowhere than a few years. Right. But if you can't work, you can't tell you that. Yeah, that's one of my fun stories. That's a good story. Right? Blomp, blomp, blomp. But yeah, now we're getting some photos. OK. You want to bring those up? The first one we have here is, I think that's an eye shows hair design. That was an awesome before and after. They posted actually, they posted that on our, I'm going to pull them up here. They posted this one on our Facebook wall for our community page. OK. And it was a really nice before and after. So I went and I found her Instagram. So that way, I could get her social media for everybody to go follow her after the show. But it's just real clean work. God, that's incredible before and after. And just like, if you just look at the hair itself and just look so much healthier, so much cleaner, it just looks in like a totally better condition than after photo. Like that's just kind of a no offense to whoever did it the first time. It's a little like of a basic boring ass blonde on the left. And that picture on the right is legit. Yeah, they went from basic. They went 10 years ago. They went from old foils to this nice, seamless, beautiful blonde that they have now. Well, also, if you look at that first picture, it also looks like that was a process of going blonde. Like you can definitely see where it's darker down at the bottom. You see the warmer tones of removing old color from there. So it definitely looks like. And the underneath almost looks like it was that old black, dark brown bottom. They probably did like a dark red or something underneath. So that's a. The transformation is beautiful. And it looks, the hair, you can just tell from the photo, the hair looks in great shape too. So that was a really fun one. Story. The next one is going to be from Hair Mentor. I just loved this photo. All right, it's just this photo. The haircut's fun. It's a razor cut he just did. He said he took a class, got inspired, wanted to try something new. Yeah, it looks so good. Bob looks great. The photo itself is my favorite part about it. I feel the photo is as good as the haircut. Well, he's just good at it, but I mean, he's great. Well, I was reading through his things and it was really cool because earlier you said products that we're going to be selling, taking photos of them yourself. Yeah. Him, he's only hanging up photos in his salon of work that he did. So Ruzal sends us photos, Paul Mitchell sends us photos. Everybody sends us photos of, you know, with our products, stuff like that, whoever, whatever product I use, they send you the things you hang on your wall and your windows. He's only using photos that he takes. Yeah, I like that. So I think that was really cool. You know, this photo is just, everything about this I love. What's really funny when we go to hair shows, like this past time I got Christina, we're walking through and we go by like the booth and it sells like the stock photos that are on the fabric that you hang up. I'm like, Christina, can we please have this for a while? I love that. It's so pretty. And the look on her face for the like split second she thought I was serious. It's like. Maybe if we go back to- That was so fantastic. Oh yeah, we're in New York. It was so good. Oh my God, oh my God, it's so pretty. Christina. Can we move the shop to Iowa and put this in the window? It'll be the newest trend. It's like the one that looks like an airbrush t-shirt from the early 90s. It's fantastic. Yeah. The next one we're gonna go to is, I think it's Natalie Hairdresser. They used our hashtag like all these other photos did but I found the coolest thing about this one is I went to go look at the caption and I couldn't read it at first. He's from Sweden. Okay. So this is awesome. This is one of the international people who follow us and- I'm gonna go to Sweden, everyone's blonde. Right? He said this kid, I read down a little more and he had like an English translation to it. Kid couldn't go on his vacation because his haircut was so bad. So he came and get a haircut. It was just a really good before and after. You know, he did it very well. Nice, clean kids cut. And that's a hard thing. People don't realize that. To get like a nice, good, clean tapered kid's haircut. Yeah, it's tough. They're moving around, their hair sucks sometimes. Work because it's so, you know, it's so fine. No, great cut. Good photos, cool story. Nice. Anybody? I actually have a, so this reminds me. I have this client who, he's actually an older man but he takes a razor blade and like a bic and he shaves his sideburns like that. No, no. Yeah, cause he gets this little bit of gray hair right here. So every time he comes in, it's completely shaved off and I have to, I have to try to fix that little fade in there. But I'm like, is it really that bad to have gray hair? Like to, Well, there's so many different solutions for that. Well, he's got his. It's called Bic. I have an older gentleman who you can tell. I've been doing his hair for years. I don't even bother telling him anymore cause I tried telling him and he's learning his lesson. But he cleans up his own neckline. Like I never have to do it. But the problem is like you can see where he turns this way and then gets what he can see and turns this way and shaves it all off. So he has this really far up, hard point in the back. So whenever I cut his hair, I just like try to fade that a little bit cause I don't want to shave like up to his occipital. It's got the meanest rat tail in town. We should do a point of view video on that. We should do a point. We should just do all these photos. How the hell do you fix that? We should look at the camera. I'm going to be looking right in the camera. I'm going to go. We'll do a photos of all of these. Just make a coffee table book out of the haircuts that we got to deal with every day. That'll be a lot of fun. Sweet. The next we're going to move on to, good old number four is going to be textured and tousled. It's just a really good rose gold color I found. Good haircut, good photo. The only thing I didn't like about it is the background is way too close to the hair color. It looks like they filtered it a little too bright. See I think I like it. I think it takes away from the hair color itself. The only thing, cause I mean, I don't know if it's just me or my eyes being trippy cause I ate too fast. It looks like a yellowish background, which I think it sits well against the pink, but there's almost a little too much yellow in the hair. It like brings out that one curl right in your face. It brings out the yellow in that curl. I feel like it's like a white or a flat black or even like a gray. You would just accentuate that color so much more. And I love the actual photo of the hair though. Oh yeah, no. Cause it looks nice and clean and you know she's smiling, which is always a good thing. She's gonna get into the next part is that I thought I'd steal that from you. Yeah, thanks. That's one of my most important things that when I take photos of my guests is that they're smiling. You know, if that haircut looks great, but they don't look happy about it, I don't ever want to post that because that's not how I want to represent my work. Cause most people when you take a picture of them, they sit there like straight face, like a mug shot. What have you been going through? What's going on in life right now that when someone tells you to take pictures, like put your hands down. So you're saying no RBA. You're not holding up a clipboard, huh? You're saying no RBA. No, no resting bitch face. Oh, none of that please. I tell them to smile like you can smile and enjoy the loop. Usually you say to them, they like get this internal huge smile that they're holding in for a second cause they're enjoying it. And you know, that's one of the big things I liked about that. Matt was like real big fish face. Yeah, real big fish face. Who knows? And the last one is Trevor McAllister. I liked it because it's a clean cut. He's working with mannequins, which again, something I totally support. I love when people do this. They post the work on a mannequin, which is even better. It shows that they're continuing to try to learn new stuff. I liked that he has his head sheets in the background. And I, yep, thanks, stealing the thunder. You gotta get to the point. We gotta get you. I'm gonna have like all my points listed and I'm not gonna give anybody else a chance to talk. I'm gonna actually unplug everyone's stuff. Just do that, yes. Yeah, so those are my five of the week and... Justin, don't worry nobody. Good digging Justin, it's good. Thanks. Thank you everybody for using the hashtag. Great work this week. I'm very upset. I don't know if you guys heard about this. New York gave the food workers $15 an hour's minimum wage. That's just so I- The minimum wage across the board. Well no, right now it's food workers and then within the years they're gonna change it across the board to minimum wage. Yeah, I was just reading that because I was confused about that. So to all my New York hairdresser friends, sorry about that. That's a bummer for them. Oh, why is that a bummer? Because think about how much money they spent to go to school. Think about like if they have like a slow day or something. Some guys live in burgers making 15 bucks an hour. Yeah, but it's a good, it's a job. It's a job, yeah, sure. But I'm saying against the haircut community who spent time and money to get licensed and stuff, you guys got McDonald's. Then if they're working in New York they should be working really hard to make $15 an hour, I'm just saying. But yeah. They pay their $2,400 a month rent for their studio. All right, cool. That's the news. All right. My tank top today. Yeah, another tank top. It's another tank top. I made it. Good job. Let's cut some sleeves off things. Good job. Because you didn't have enough tank tops? No, they're in the wash and the other ones are on their way. I made this one with my hands. Yup. I sewed it myself. So, trending dresses, Dreia? Sure. I think so. Get the 411 on Celebrity Hair Changes. Here's Trending Tresses with Dreia Boland. All right, so first off, I have to give Brian credit because a lot of this week's Trending Tresses are because he got really excited and tagged me in them, so. Wow, okay, so cool. I was just going to say, you got Justin, his first article, you got Dreia some photos. I didn't do anything for myself. And everybody else hashtag the photos for Justin, so. Are you going to come over here and start flipping the videos for Christina and doing the sound for me too? No. Okay. Christina, we're safe. So our first photo is Olivia Munn, who is showing off her X-Men apocalypse hair. And my favorite part of this picture was Brian on Friday. Was it Friday? Yeah, it was Friday, he goes. I don't even know what today is. It was one day last week and he yelled at me, he goes, why was this not on Trending Tresses? Oh, that's right. And I go, because it was posted five hours ago. And he's like, all right, that's acceptable. It better be in this week's episode. Is this the purple? Yeah, it's the purple. Okay. So that's super fun. Very excited. She's doing Psylocke, which is my tattoo back here. Okay. I'm excited for this. I know, Justin and I are like, Brian, you should be wearing a tank top so you could have shown that off. Yeah, true. Okay. All right. So next week. Anyway, I thought that was fun. Support the X-Men. All right, next is Ashley Tisdale has chopped off all her hair and gone short. Oh yeah, this is that one. This is not short hair. This is collarbone length. Oh, okay. I was like, I don't see short hair anywhere. Okay. So, which I think is really funny because I guess that is short hair for her because she usually has extensions down to her back, but all the way down her back. What does she do again? She's an actress. Okay. Is she in something? What was she in? She was a Disney channel actress. Oh, okay. Hey man, we need batteries. But. The mouse dead. Okay, yep. Okay. Still on. Uh-oh. Hang on. Oh, okay. All right, so we want to go back to the purple. So how about that purple? So I really like the purple. I like that it looks kind of neat that the rest of her hair looks navy against it. I thought you were going to say Canadian. Why? I don't know. I just heard that. That doesn't make any sense. That's what I was curious about. Canadians not have purple hair? No, it looks, I'm excited. I mean, the character she's playing is purple hair. It's just very rich. Like it's not like just black next to the purple. It's a very rich blue. Olivia Mines been really cool the whole time she, since she took on this character, she's been awesome about making sure that, you know, she keeps everyone, like the fans in the loop of everything that she's doing with the character and the costume and the hair and all these great little teasers. I'm enjoying it. Yeah. Justin. Oh, we're still talking about the purple hair because of the batteries. I love it. I'm trying to stay as far away from the movie as possible though because I want to be like completely surprised about everything. Really? Because I feel like that's not going to really happen. Well, it happened with the Avengers. It happened with a lot of the other movies because I like, I'll catch a bit here or there, but I'm not one to like read every article about it and watch every preview on it and see every behind the scenes. No, no, I want to. Did you sign up for Facebook again to get a video on what? Deadpool. Deadpool, yeah. But that was just a preview. That was just a preview of it. That was one single preview. And that's it. And it was beyond hilarious and it made my day a little better. So quit trying to make me miserable. God, you're so mean. Okay. All right, so we're moving on. That's the best moment ever. So now we're on Ashley Tisdale's fake short hair. Yeah, that's her fake short hair, which my guess is- No, it's not, but she's putting all over Instagram. She's like, look at my short hair. Short hair, don't care. She's like, bitch. Please. Right? I got short hair. Come at me, Ashley. Well, I guess when you're used to like 24 inches of extensions going in your hair, that- So she's always had short hair. She just doesn't have her fake long hair. Is the only difference? Yeah. But I think it's a cute cut. I do like the style of it. I like the tasseledness. I think it's fun. Meh. Meh. Yeah, that was the picture right before they put her 38 inch extensions back in. Her cape of hair. She's like, hey guys, you know, be real funny. This would be really funny if we take a picture now and then everybody thinks I have short hair and then I go out and cut their hair off. Yep. So Jose did ask about videos and how often we're doing the live classes. Justin wrote that we're not currently doing them, but I do have one scheduled for next Wednesday morning. Oh, cool. So there you go. Thanks. Awesome. Next Wednesday morning. Next Wednesday morning at 10 a.m., we're doing an FSE live, kicking it off again. It's gonna be once a month. Oh, okay. So we're gonna come up with a schedule. I'm gonna do haircutting next Wednesday and then we'll move through everybody and do the live classes once a month. So they'll probably be on Wednesday mornings. Awesome. Yay. All right, so next one is Dasha Polanco. Yep. And this is another fun one. She's from... I love it. Orange is the new black and she usually has pretty dark hair, but she also does change it up a lot. She's really good for that. She's been on our trending dresses every single time they finish filming for a season because she always goes crazy immediately afterwards. And I love it. The amount, the consistency of the blonde is fantastic. We can't see the roots in all fairness. In all fairness, we can't see the roots, that's true. But from what we can see in the picture, it does look very consistent. I mean, for a Hispanic woman, that is some Barbie ass hair right there. It looks good. Whoever did that, very good. So the next picture is Adam Levine has no hair. Okay. Which has been blowing up everywhere the fact that he shaved his head. I mean, he shaved his head before, right? But he did go... I mean, this is shorter than it was last time. I feel like there's a million things going on in this picture right now. And like, what the hell is he thinking and what is she thinking? Because his face is very serious. Hers is very awkward. Well, he posted this. It's like you and me sitting together. Kind of is. It's our photo from last week. He posted the picture and said, like the caption under it was, I think she likes me. So maybe that was what was going through his weirdly serious face. Okay. I like how you want the deeper meaning of the picture. No, it's just funny. What was the motivation behind this? But how do they feel? You like that picture? I do too. I'm not saying I don't like it. That's it. Tomorrow it's getting posted. I want to know more. You and Christina are reenacting this picture later. And it's going up. Dad, do you want to reenact it with me? All right, what else you got, Drew? All right, then we have Dougie Pointer. Love him. He is more famous in Europe than he is here. But what we know him from is he is Ellie Goulding's boyfriend. And he did a major chop and transformation on his hair. So he went from that super long surfer-like guy hair to shorter surfer-like guy hair. Okay. But I like that they're still a lot of texture to it. They're not trying to overcompensate anything. They're just keeping it nice and natural. Yeah, it's a fun cut. Yeah, I liked the photos. I love him. He's been my hair inspiration for years. Yeah, I can tell. Well, not this one. But I've always loved his hair. The look on Christina's face when he said that. Is his hair, wait, is his hair always longer? Or is it? It's been like super short, long, but it always looks really cool, but very effortless. Okay. Right now he has man bun extensions in, and Brian's like, damn it, I just cut my hair to be like him. I actually have a fake man bun that I just clipped to my short hair when I go home because I'm not ready to debut it to the world. But I wear a man bun. And that's the thing, did you guys know that? There's a man bun clip on wig they have on now. And you own this? Of course he does. Oh, I was like, and you haven't shared this with us? Justin, do you think I'd look good with that? Thad, you'd look fantastic with that. You know me better than that. There's literally nothing. I don't know you better than that. What I'm saying is, you know me better than that, there's literally nothing that I don't share with you guys. That's true. Yeah, it would have been sent here, Matt. I was gonna say, we would have signed for it on Tuesday. Do you remember the dreadlock extensions? And his pants that came today. Yeah, show the pants off. I don't know how. Which camera's gonna see my hair? That'll be the crotch camera, right there. You gotta move over some. No, I got him. There you go. Now your camera's all messed up. I love my p- Oh, now you're good. I wonder how much money the Rolling Stones are actually making from those pants or if they're just complete bootleg. Total bootleg. I don't know. They were cheap. So bootleg. I'm really comfy. All right. So last and final photo is Kelly Ripa has ditched her blue hair after only a week and moved into what they're calling an opal color. She's still adorable. Pretty, but I'm curious if it's the picture or if it's the fact that they couldn't get all the blue out, because if you look down at the bottom where the bevel starts, it looks a little green. Dirty. Yeah. Okay. I want to know what they're using in her hair to be putting these colors in and taking them out so quickly because this blue only lasted a week before they took it back to that. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I mean, we were talking about testing the Prevana color removers and a few different things. Yeah. I don't know. I gotta talk to somebody that's used them because, and if you guys have used them, make sure you post below. We'd love to hear which one you like, but we plan on testing these things. We just, if these damn companies would call us back, that would be nice. But other than that, I would like to get more information on. I'll work on that. Yeah. All right. And that's it. And that's it. We're done. Cool. Job, Dre. And I'm done. Okay, so we have like a rapid fire question and answer thing that, because Instagram blew up with questions. Before I did that, I got, we got two direct questions that were not, like if somebody put something up on the community page and then a hundred people answer it. Yeah. I feel like they probably got it. People direct message a question to us. Right. I just tell them we'll talk about it on the show. So I do have two that I just wanted to hit. Okay. Because we can give them answers. Can I punch you guys for one second? Yeah. What's happening on FSE, social media, FSE, social media? Submit your questions to Brian Hare on our Facebook community. Or by using the hashtag Free Salon Education. You can now continue the social talk. Thank you. That's the director of this cruise ship. That's right. All right. So we got a question that I just wanted us to hit on. I know that it's been answered in random places, but now here it is at one spot. Karina has asked, I have a question about super silk. I saw in your videos that you mentioned you could incorporate it with colors. How would you go about doing this? And I know that you've used it in color even more than me. So there's no official, this is exactly how the company says to do it yet, right? Yeah, we wrote that. So here it is. I was there for that. Yeah. I wasn't. So here, I was on the phone and they were launching it in LA, but basically we tested this and came up with the whole thing. So what it is, super silk is silk protein. And basically you can add it to hair color. Now there is kind of a protocol to it. It's not complicated. So I'll just run it down real quick. Basically the best way to do it is one spray of super silk professional solution per ounce of color. So if you do four ounces of color, four sprays. You don't want to go over that. Now does that mean color and developer? It's a four ounce bowl? All together. All ounces of workable product. Whatever your total ounces are, it's one spray per ounce. Then in lightener, no more than two sprays. Total. No matter how much you're using, it just works better. The problem is the more sprays you do, it starts to, the lightener will start to kind of expand. It doesn't affect the lightener. It's just the consistency of it changes a bit. So I honestly, I don't even know if you necessarily need to put it in the lightener, but you can if you want to. I say put it in your toners, put it in your color. And then the only other thing is that, so that's with permanent hair color and high lift is one spray per ounce of super silk. With Demi Color, we found that if you apply the Demi Color and then you just spray super silk over top of it and then brush the Demi through, if you want to apply it that way. Or you can apply it on its own. I mean it was intended to be on its own. It's just really cool that we can add it to a color service and you still get great results and you get super silk all done at once. So it's a professional application and you're getting that silk protein put into the hair while you do it. I have actually a funny story about one of my clients. This better be funny. That was so funny, Dad. Okay, sorry, go. So we tried it on her when we were first trying this out and she loved it. She came back and she's like, that treatment that we did last time is absolutely amazing, yada, yada, yada. Get close, Dad. She couldn't remember the exact details of it. Okay. So I looked at her history and I'm like, hmm, there's nothing on her history. Because it was when we were trying it out and we gave it as a comp. And I came back to her and I'm like, well, good news is I found out, I know what we did on your hair. Bad news is we did do it as a comp treatment because we're trying it out. This is how much it costs. And she just goes, well, I guess that's gonna be okay. All right, that's good. Because it worked amazing. I had no phrase, loved it, the color was awesome. So we're doing it again. Yeah, awesome. And that's the cool thing. I mean, you're putting something in hair color, the process that you're already doing in the hair. That's what I love about it. This is not like Olaplex. This is the thing that I want to get across to everyone. It's very hard to sell silk protein treatment and not have it be like a keratin treatment or have it be like Olaplex because you're putting two different things. I use Olaplex and super silk in my hair color. At the same time, it works fantastic. Two different jobs. They do two totally different jobs. So add your silk protein to the hair color. And then what you have to do is once it's done, you're gonna shampoo it. You're gonna add the leave-in conditioner. You're gonna blow it dry. And then you have to finish it with an iron work because iron helps kind of seal it into the cuticle. But then you can wash it that day. You can do whatever you want. You can color it again if you want to. You can do it up to. You can do it up to if you want to. You can do anything you want. But so go ahead, have fun with it. The great thing is super silk is $69 for the kit. And that kit will do up to 5,000 to 7,000 full treatments per bottle and it comes with three bottles. So you're talking 21 treatments that could be $250 treatments if you wanted them to be. In a box, it's $69. So it's such a huge deal. And if you wanna just use it for hair color, you're gonna get hundreds of uses out of it. $30 to every bowl of hair color that you do. And you're gonna see your average ticket going up just by using super silk. So I'm really excited to be a part of that. The company and the adventure of it because it's a whole different avenue of silk. There is no silk protein treatments. I mean, silk protein is one thing. There's no treatments that actually contain frizz that aren't a permanent treatment. And that's what you have to explain to your guests is that Olaplex is dealing with the hair on the inside. It's changing the chemical makeup of the hair for the better. Well, it's adding extra bonds. Yeah, to the hair. So it's gonna keep that hair a little stronger or as strong as it is at that point of service. Whereas the super silk is just overlaying on the outside of it and just kinda closing everything in and making it happy. Yeah, and the other great thing about super silk though, there are two different bonds in super silk. One that goes into the interior of the hair and one that sits on the exterior. So you are getting both of those benefits but Olaplex is a bond multiplier that is helping with bonds that break which happens in every chemical service that we do. So super silk isn't stopping bonds from breaking. It's basically like a nice shine coating that you're putting on the hair with real silk protein. So that's really the big differences. Yeah. You good? Yeah, that's a pretty, yeah. Think we're good with that. That'll do it. Pretty sure that covered it. It's like killing a housefly with a hand grenade. Yeah. You're not sure if you understand. Can we just do it one more time? Yeah. All right, somebody asked, actually Matt, this is for you. I'm interested in the refurbished shear on the FSC website you're calling Acro Tape M Slider. I'm a bit confused which shear it actually is because my research is showing there's either Acro Tape M or Acro Tape Slider, not a combo. Yeah. Does this one have one of them each blade? So here's the cool thing about the refurbished or the factory outlet that are on the shop. You get a Mizutani scissor for about half the price you would pay normally. The only place you can get them is on freeselineeducation.com. That's something that we're going to do. Kiyoshi and Mizutani. The refurbished or factory outlet are maybe scissors that they've come out with once. Tried it. Tried it, and maybe it wasn't a big seller. I don't know. How's it made of texture scissors? Yeah, they've combined a lot of different things to create different scissors. So if it's a factory outlet, that means that it wasn't ever used by anybody but they just never sold it. If it's a refurbished, that means it was used lightly and then they re-completely refurbished it. Lovingly. Yeah. And then put it back up there. So the refurbished or the factory outlet, they're all up there. And I was actually so upset because there was this 5.8 inch knife, Mizutani scissor, Acro knife that I put up there. And the whole time I was staring at it, I was like, I want to buy this. I want to buy this if it doesn't sell on a day. And then I woke up this morning to an alert that said it was sold. And I was like, oh, lucky. I bought it. Lucky person. But it's really cool. You never know what's going to be up there. So it's always different. The answer is that might actually be a combo of the two? It probably is a combo of the two that they had tried out or made at one point but don't make anymore. All right. And then before we go into the Instagram ones because somebody just put something up in the box. Yeah. Saying they have issues with round brush getting tangled in the hair every time I practice doing curls to the round brush and blow dryer. Any advice? I, all I can say is make sure before you try to actually curl the hair that it's completely dry. Like when I do that, you want to sit there. You want to work the brush, but don't work. Like don't worry about trying to spin it and curl it and all that until it's done and dry. Like everything's nice and smooth. The hair is shiny. And then once it's done where you could just let go and then move on to the next section that's when you run it down through the end. Make sure there's enough elevation to capture any of the layering that might be above that section and then roll it up and then just slowly spin it out. I hope that helps. And that's awesome. That's awesome too. I'm not going to steal this from you. You wrote, I saw what you wrote. Yeah. You can go. It's fine. So the other thing could be the brush that they're using. So if the brush is getting caught in the brush or the hair is getting caught in the brush it could also be you have the wrong type of round brush. Or a poorly made brush. A poorly made brush or a different type of brush. But I'm going to say it's probably a more poorly made brush that has more of a ledge on it so hair gets caught in it as well. So look at those two things. What Brian said and then that. Well, what I was going to say is section size and control too. Making sure you have a clean section and making sure your section's not larger than your brush. That's going to be a big help as far as even if no matter what type of brush you have if you're using the right size section for that brush you're not going to see it tangle and get caught. Right on. Yeah, sweet. I think that's any possible answer that we could do for them. Yeah, there you go. Three angles. All right. So now the Instagram there's a lot here. Are there specific ones that you want to go over? You know what? They were flowing in so fast I didn't get to read all of them. Super flow. So why don't we just fire them off and then for like one person answer for each. Let's just do a rapid thing. Somebody will jump on it, whoever jumps on it really with this crowd. You might want to delegate who gets to answer it. Okay. How about you ask the question and then we'll aim at it someone. Okay. I'll be, I'll do this. This is my segment. You get it. I'm gonna be able to still ask me a question. Here we go. All right. Let's see. What are some of the simple ways I can teach my clients to maintain or achieve healthy hair? Drea. One? That's right. One, I was texting. No, I was looking for the questions. I'm reading them to you, love. I know, but I like looking at them too. So what I would say to maintain healthy hair, regular hair appointments, proper products being used in their hair as well as... How do you teach them? How do I teach them? That's what the question is. How do you teach them to maintain? How do I teach them? All right. Well, I talk about daily rituals. So whether or not they are, whether they shampoo their hair every single day, how they style their hair. I talk it through the style itself as to when I put the product in, why we're using what, that way they get the education behind it and then they can go from there. Okay, kick ass. Cool, good. Mast. As the senior person here, you're getting this one. What advice or information would you give to a newly licensed stylist that you wish someone would have told you? I think I've said this before. The biggest thing I wish somebody would have told me is that more focusing on the relationship and talking to guests. That would have been, I was so worried about being fancy with haircutting and all of that stuff. I wish I would have been taught that the focus is the whole experience in that. Right, I like that. Justin. Yeah. I do lots of men's haircutting. Whenever I finish a haircut in style, there's always a little hair stuck on the neck by sweat. What are easy ways to get rid of those little hairs? The best thing I can refer, and this is what I like to do a lot in my men's cuts, is do it the complete opposite. I don't know why people always thought that you have to finish a haircut with an edger and clean everything up. I personally like to start most of my men's haircuts edging out the whole hairline around the ears. If I can, you know, if it's a cleanup or a nice quick cut doing the eyebrows, make sure you don't forget that and usually especially in warmer types of the year, stuff like that, they do come in sweaty, brush them off, you're usually a quick blow dryer, but I edge them out first, then I do the whole haircut. So that way you have a nice, clean line to work with and also the tighter you go on men's cuts I've set up before, it's really hard to get a nice, perfect neckline. If you're going to like a one-closed guard all the way to like a no guard or a zero, you don't see it as clear rather as... Just like I had to redirect, the question is what are easy ways to get rid of those little hairs no matter the length? You're gonna start with the edger first. No, the loose cut hairs. Oh, from sticking to them? Yeah. Oh, just use it. I always put a towel. I thought you meant like they weren't seeing them because they were stuck. Yeah, no, no. I was with you, but... I always tuck a towel between their shirt and the cape. So when I'm done, I take that towel and I wipe down that whole area. You can use some powder too. We're powder, but if you use powder, you wanna make sure you're using a towel just for them because those brushes are just gross. Yeah, not the brush. Yeah, don't use the brush. Don't use the brush. No brush. It's disgusting. All right, Christina, get your mic ready. Tristan K. Shabbat has said, what's everyone's favorite drink? Actually, Christina, I'm just gonna throw it to you because she also said it's my birthday on Sunday. Can I get a shout out pretty please? So you just say happy birthday to Tristan. Happy birthday, Tristan. Because we haven't heard your voice yet today and we love your voice. Happy birthday. You have the best voice on the show with your peach roots on your part. Okay, let's see. All right, you guys can actually both tackle this one, Matt and Christina. What marketing tactics did you use when you open your salon? I'm a newly licensed stylist in a brand new salon and we are slow. So when you guys first took over and got this bitch off the ground, what were some of the ways that you tackle that? Do you wanna start? That face says no. Well, not necessarily advertising, but what did you guys do to really, because you guys had to go against an old reputation and salon name. I think the biggest thing probably goes back to what Matt said about the experience. We took every staff member at that time. They were used to bad habits, I think, and we kind of redirected them to what and how we wanted the salon experience to be here. And Matt, you pumped out a lot of education to them. Yeah, we did a lot of education. I think just teaching and educating them on that was probably the best thing for us. It was really tough. I mean, we had a lot of people that didn't work out and we had all that. We've talked about this before, but it was because a lot of people have different visions of things, and when you're in a salon, if for some reason your vision isn't working with everyone else, then it's not gonna work out. And so that's what you're trying to look for and I saw some other questions that are maybe coming up, but it was more like when you look at owning a salon, it's all about keeping everyone together and working towards a goal together. And that's what I would say more than anything because once you have that, then the reviews come in, the referrals come in, all of that, when people are all happy and working together, then everything is in place. You just have to keep that. And that's one of the hardest things to keep. But just focus on that. All right, cool. That kind of also answers all of our Porter's question of, I'm guessing that answers. He said, what do you wish you'd known in your first year of business that you know now? Yeah, same thing. All right, cool. I probably would have made decisions quicker too because a lot of things like you get scared about whether you let an employee go or there's different things that maybe drug out a little bit longer than it should have because I think I would have gotten. But that's something we just learned from owning it for the, yeah. That's something that I think you have to go through because everything is always growing. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. That really, yeah. You need all those experiences, yeah. So. I like it. Someone says, how can I maintain the best bleach result without damaged hair or client hair? Olaplex, I'll answer it. Yeah, done. Olaplex does a fantastic job. I mean, we've bleached Christina's hair like, she's so blonde right now. She really is. So blonde. We've bleached my hair so much, you can't even. We still need to bleach it again, but three times, right? All over your head? Three or four? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you're Brazilian, let's not forget. Yeah, she's got soups blonde. Your hair really does not follow any lines of physics. It's not even real. Let's see. Wait, Justin, there was one that I wanted for you. She headbutted a microphone. What about Thad? You got one on the other side. How do I do it all the time? Thad, actually, yes, this is a good one for you. Thad, someone's asked, when do you use a razor and when not? Because I see you more than anybody else these days doing razor cuts, so that's a good one for you. I'm liking to use them like other than my shorter women's haircuts, so that way it stays soft, as well as, because like a nice PC texture without having to worry about cutting too much out. So I like to use it on shorter haircuts. I see that. That's kicking ass with some short ladies' haircuts. I saw your client, the blonde that I like with the really short hair. I saw her this morning in Starbucks. And to me, one of the greatest things that makes me feel like I'm doing a good job is when I see my clients out in their real life and their hair still looks good. Like they can do it themselves. Good for you. It made me happy. I'm congratulating Thad first. We're congratulating all of us. She looked fantastic this morning, so good job. But yeah. Good job to you too, Justin. With the shorter PC or haircuts, any time somebody has fine hair and you want to give them some texture but are worried that you're going to be taking out too much weight if you bring out your texturizing shears or like cutting in some texture with your regular shears. You know, you give her a good point. I've never seen somebody so comfortable just ripping through it like a pair of shears. Like a lot of people take the small section. They're very, very hesitant to like cut off too much too little. That just blows right through them. It's awesome. Let's drop that. Thanks. I mean, I do take small sections, but I think. Yeah, but you're not so hesitant to just cut. I'm not saying you grab the entire back of your head. That doesn't even section anything. It just holds them up. She goes at it. Edward says her hands. She went on it. Edward Ridd. For the record, I do. But I think what allows me to go through them so quickly is because I am using a straight blade, which we're allowed to use, but in some states, you're not allowed to do that. All right. Tristan's online. Yeah, yeah. Happy birthday. Didn't know. So she actually heard you say, whoop, whoop, whoop. Little is the purpose. That's how I say happy birthday. All right. There's a few more. I feel like if we hit on this one and we actually turn it into, we can each throw in on it if you'd like, then that'll knock out a few of the other semi-related questions. Okay. Then we can spin the wheel. Yeah. They've asked, what is the most valuable lesson you can give to an assistant to keep the passion? And I think there are so many angles to hit that from as someone who's had assistance or been assistance or owned a salon that has assistance. Okay. I mean, as the boss, how would you like to hit that one first? So I read this question earlier and I think that if you're having problems inspiring an assistant. Assisting them. No. Don't think twice. Assistants are the easiest thing to inspire. The problem is we treat assistants like in the wrong way and we make them go do everything for us and we don't teach them. So if you have an assistant that is not inspired in a salon, I think it's your fault. I don't think it's the assistant. Now, with that being said, there are some bad seeds out there. I'm not gonna say that every assistant is perfect, but I would look at yourself. I would honestly look at yourself first and then look at the assistant because the assistant is there. They took a job to learn from you. So they want a career like you. So they look up to you already and if you already start pushing them off doing things that you just don't want to do and not teaching them what they came there to learn, then they're not gonna be inspired. So I would look at yourself first and then fire them if you want to. My thing was I was an assistant in a place that had really, really strict rules, like Gestapo kind of rules on the assistants and we stayed inspired. That was sort of how they weeded us out. The people that just said, oh, I want to do hair versus the people that really wanted to do hair. And we sort of inspired ourselves because of that hard pressing thumb down on crushing our will to live when we were just trying to learn how to do hair. So Brian, Matt's saying to nurture them and you're saying to start. No, I'm saying because. Because we were broken like that. Like I had to inspire myself. Thank God that when I wasn't getting my ass kicked for absolutely no reason by my douche of a boss, I was, I had a great person that I was following that kept me inspired by insisting that I learned everything. Like she did not touch a single thing without me knowing why she was doing it. She made me understand every color that she would mix, every toner, everything and I got why. So it's really just sort of piggybacking off of that that I've seen it where so long as you're a part of it and not just a slave that's getting yelled at because of how the Kleenexes are hanging out of the box in the bathroom, then that's how they're gonna stay inspired. They're here to be hairdressers, treat them like hairdressers and not cleaning ladies. And if you are an assistant, look for the person that really inspires you and latch on to them because that, you don't find those people very often. Those people that really wanna help you. A lot of people are in it for them. So when you find that person that's willing to share with you, then I would hook up and attach them. That was Sam Burns, the guy that I worked for here. The reason I attached to him at that hair show in Iowa was because he was putting me on stage in front of people. He was allowing me as a beauty school kid to do things that most people weren't allowing anybody to do. So I jumped on with him right away because that's the person you wanna connect with. So just make sure either way, but... I latch to you because I love Christina. I know. That's what I would do too. Thanks for that. Sorry, Draya, go. Oh, okay, I was just gonna say, finding that right salon and that right team to be a part of, that's what's gonna make a difference because I know the salon I started as an assistant on, we had, yeah, we had our assistant duties, we had to clean and shampoo and all that stuff, but when we weren't busy, the other stylist would help teach you things. We'd grab mannequins, they'd show you how to do things. I had one stylist who, her favorite game that we'd play is when I would help her do a blow-dry and I had to mimic what she did and it had to look just as good as her side did and that's the challenges that you have to help inspire the assistants to be better. No. Cool. Yeah. I've actually never been an assistant. I lied to get my first hair job. I faked it till I made it and I worked from there. Yeah, I actually never did hair before here. No, but I've worked in plenty of places with assistants and just like you're saying, you just wanna keep them motivated. You're like, if you're in a place, you know, I'll put it to the tattoo industry. As an apprentice, you know what your jobs are, you know what the bigger picture is and you gotta stay hungry. You have to know your place, you gotta be really humble about what you're doing. You have to know that even if you get told you suck nine out of 10 times, you're gonna, you're gonna mess things up, you're gonna, and you're gonna do good when you do good and you're gonna work up, you stay hungry and you have to inspire yourself. If you're losing the inspiration, you have to figure out why. Right. Cause if you can't... And that's what that is. The question here is asking us how do we keep people from getting to that point. You, I feel that everybody's in this industry for this reason. Whether you come in blind thinking, I don't know what I want to do, but I want to do hair, you latch onto one thing. So even when I was a teacher, I would know the one thing every one of my students really loved. So they didn't want to do all the stupid book work, but they loved that one thing. Let's say there's a blow-dryzer, they love nail art. That was what I would almost reward them with. So you get that stupid stuff done. At the end of the day, we'll work on this one haircut that you love a lot. We'll work on like a color technique. So it's almost like rewarding them just to kind of keep them, keep them like a light at the end of the tunnel. Jane Matz can ask if we have assistance here. No. No. We work together. I was just saying, we almost assist each other. Yeah. We need a bowl mix, someone fixes a bowl. You need to blow it real quick. So I'm gonna help you out. Yeah. We work together. I mean, there's always somebody for the most part. I mean, there are times where everybody is busy and it's more and more as we move forward. We're really busy. Like really busy. And then she said, words of wisdom on hiring one, go to the most reputable hair school around you and just pick them out yourself. It's like buying a puppy. Yeah. Do a class for them and find that one that attaches to you. Yeah. So you just raise their hands and ask them questions. Yeah. Who doesn't touch your cell phone. The one who's sitting up front like this. Yeah. That's the best way to do it. Yeah. Get that one. Or the one who's sitting and back getting insulted saying that you can't do that with your scissors. That took a few years. Yeah, but you weren't an assistant. No, it's chill. Yeah. But I was also shot down the first time I met him. And look at you now. True. So. Here we are. All right, so we're good? I think so. We beat that horse to death. I think I was good. Let's spin this wheel. Let's give away some stuff. Cool. I'm going to, so I put up a picture on Instagram which I've been doing every week as a little contest for you guys. So this one was a little barber collection of combs this week. Ooh, I didn't see that. So I did the, what is it? The 209? The 209, definitely. I'm trying to think of the other one, the other barber comb, the flexible one. Why can't I? Oh, the really thin, the really tiny one? Why can't I think of the number? The barber one? Yeah. 69. So there's two YS Park combs in there and then a couple other combs and some pins. So that is going out to our pal Jordan R. Cox. There you go. The 69 comb. He's been, he shared the photo a bunch. He's, he's been supporting what we've been doing. So Jordan, you get the combs. We support you too, Mr. Cox. Make sure that you email me your address at contest at freeselineeducation.com and I'll get those out to you. And thank you to everyone else that shared all of this with their friends. That's what it's all about is growing this community. So I appreciate everyone doing that. Let's pick somebody from the questions to spin the wheel. So it doesn't mean that they had the best question. It's just somebody that asked the question. Are you picking it? I want to pick. I'm not going to pick it. Ready? You're going to hold it and then go with this. That one. What did I pick? He did his entire hard drive. So Noel Garciak? I'm going to say. What is this? Noel Garciak? Oh yeah. Yes. We'll go with that. I think that, I think that's close. Hey, here's a fun fact. I didn't teach her. I never taught her. She says, I do hair. Love of Ada. Wife to a goofy and handsome man. All right. Can I spend now? Yes. Oh wait. So we have Millennium. Yes. Nope. Yes, go ahead. Millennium Systems International, three months free of Mevo. We have the Sunlight's Bollyush Bolly Box, which is the coolest box you'll ever get. MinervaBeauty.com, awesome prizes from them. We also have $100 off scissors. Amika, Super Silk Box, Donald Scott carving comb, T-shirts, all kinds of stuff. I can't wait to reveal the new ones. Here we go, Dryad. What do they get? T-shirt. A T-shirt. All right. I haven't given one of those away in a while. You know what's cool though, Noel? If you want, I have a couple new shirts that will be coming out. What? So I'm basing them off of the buttons. So with the color brush and then the scissor. So we can, so that'll be coming up. So, that, can you grab the wheel? So congratulations to Noel. It's on Instagram. I just like the noise. At Noel Garciak. We're going to go with that. Good luck spelling it. We're going to get a comment and put your name. So Noel, email me contest at freesaloneducation.com. Your address and I will get you out a T-shirt. Congrats. Congrats. So that sums up the night. Anything? Anything else? I'm solid. If you want anything specific for us to answer, then just direct message it on freesaloneducation. If you want to open it up to the community, do it right on the page. Yeah, and I can't wait to reveal soon all the new possibilities on the next wheel. It's freaking awesome. I just can't wait for the next wheel. Lots of new prizes. We have also the, there's a forum, a new forum on freesaloneducation.com. So if you want to get involved in that as well, you can. All you have to do is create an account. Follow us on everything, freesaloneducation from Periscope to Instagram to YouTube to Facebook and at Salon Education on Twitter. That's pretty much it. Follow Brian Herr. Herrstyle, H-I-R-E. Dre Day 2289. Justin. I am Justin Scott. Thad. I don't know, I'm not. Thad Bollin' Ice. What? And Christina is. Under Scorstini. Under Scorstini. And that's it. No interviews this week, guys, but be on the lookout for lots of interviews. I've been putting them up all week on our YouTube channel. Thank you guys so much for the support. We'll see you guys next week right here on Splitting Hares. Thanks. Are there's no anything that? No. Watch Splitting Hares. The Hair Dressers Podcast. Live every Wednesday night at 7.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Or as close as we can get it.