 you can replay it on YouTube so if you just want to rewind it and then go back Drea literally when the music hits goes flying back in our seat. Yeah it's how I usually react. Oh all right welcome to splitting hairs episode 107 I got Brian here. Yep Drea Boland. Hey hey. Justin Scott. Hi. Thad Boland. Yep. And Christina Cavalcanti. Hi. Everyone's in the house tonight we got a lot of cool products to talk about. We have all kinds of things to talk about from from clippers to gifts that we've gotten today to bacterial infections. So thank you guys so much for tuning in those of you that are watching live. Melissa J is watching us from her kid's basketball game. She's gonna try to hear us. She's trying to hear us over all the noise in the gym. Nice. I hope he's winning. It's her kid. You guys got to squeak in the sneakers please. Middle school basketball practice not even. Oh yeah well I don't feel bad. Then everybody's a winner. Of course you're watching this. All right cool so thank you guys so much for tuning in all of you that are watching the show live we really appreciate every single one of you. We're passing notes. Oh yeah yeah. Big shout out this week. I wanted to give a shout out for Gary and the people of Scotland. The entire population of Scotland. Do you like me? Yes no maybe. Actually so Gary reached out to me last week wanted to buy some scissors. He couldn't buy some scissors so he said I'd better at least get a shout out on the show and the people of Scotland. We love this guy. We're trying we're working on it. So thank you Millennium Systems International actually. I know I don't. They had nothing to do with that. I don't know what's here. You want the knife. I know Thad's knife is like right there. So thanks. Everyone has knives. Good thing we're all in good. Tough neighborhood. I carry guns. All right so this came in the mail today. Millennium is. Do you know what it is. I don't know what it is but what if it's what if it's going to Paltrow's head like in seven. What's in the ball. It is perishable. You're just kidding. All right let's see what it is. So thank you to Millennium for whatever this is. My money is on Gwyneth Paltrow's head. I hope so. I mean thanks. Look at that. Oh you wanted the head. I wanted the head. I got a stick on my front yard and I just it's perfect for her head. Wait so it's cookies. Thank you Thad for getting that dirty joke. It's cookies and chalk sidewalk chalk. Well the only way to know if we're really thankful is to open them and start eating them right now. Go for it. Yeah you're on the basket. Christina you're so smart. Let's put the mints in that. Yeah because we won't have to. Well great on it. We can't hear you. Yeah sorry. Let's write random things on it. All right that's getting it out. All right so Millennium Systems International our favorite salon software ever send us some cookies. I want one with frosting. Please. That's better. Cookie and they're from Ohio from Cheryl's. They do this every year. They're so nice. Cut out cookie from Cheryl's. I feel like I feel like I should. Sorry Pudge Cake. I think we need some champagne. They'll be gone by tomorrow. We do. We have champagne behind you. Yeah. You're closest. It's so close right now. Just leave it on that camera. It's fine. Yeah. Is it the Brian camera. We don't need to interrupt music. God they're so soft. Yeah. Do you want a bite she said. All right cool. Do you want a bite. No it's OK. Does anybody want some cookies. All right so thank you again to Millennium. All right. Let's get into the show. We got a lot of things to talk about. A lot of things going on. We have Justin's news. Yeah we do. We have Drea's tresses. She's got some tresses today and Brian's social media stuff stuff. You guys kicked ass on the questions this week by the way. Yeah good job. And it was quick to over the last couple hours. A lot of questions came in. All right. Let's go over. I want to talk about these clippers. I ordered. OK. Last week I wanted to try them out. So I had tried this wall cordless designer clipper. Justin had it. Dang right. And he had had it for a while. We just talked about how walls re sent you a cord which now they're sending them with that new cord. Right. Yes. Awesome. Millennium you're the only one that's ever been able to keep him quiet. All right. And that's over now. Yeah. So more cookies cordless clipper from wall. I love this thing and I was using it on pretty much every haircut for the convenience being able to bounce from station to station and just turn it on and go right. I will say that the battery life was killer too. Yeah. Forever. Yeah. You guys were really trying to kill that bad boy and it took a minute. Yeah. I mean it took the cord breaking. We honestly we do a lot of men's cuts here a lot. So this would last four or five days. Right. Easily. Yeah. So pretty cool. But the power in this thing isn't the best. I wasn't. I didn't hate it completely until we got the other one. Right. And you felt like night and day. Yeah. So for a twenty dollar upgrade you can get the cordless sterling four. So pretty much same build same feel. But there's a lot more power. Yeah. I would still stick with I would still stick with the designer though. If you're using the kids cut OK. Just because it doesn't cut as fast. Right. And that's one reason you want to use that. Not just for kids cuts around the neckline but let me see it. Now what do you mean is fast. Yeah. The blade is a little quicker on this one. The motor is a little stronger. But when you when I do kids cuts I'll hold the clipper like this so I can still comb the hair while it's on and then comb it grab it and go over my fingers like this. So that way I don't have to worry about cutting myself or cutting a kid. So why wouldn't you want the blade to move as fast just because you want to cut it because I don't want to threaten to cut a child again. Like I did well. Yeah but either way. You just have I mean that cuts perfectly fine especially with kids here too. It's very rare that you have a super super thick course here. Usually the ones you're going to worry about cutting yourself with have that thin fine baby hair anyway. I do love the technique of using only a clipper with kids cuts though. I actually I tried that a couple weeks ago on a kid and just being able to cut over your fingers in your hand. I mean you can because there's no cord on this. It's so much easier. Yeah. So our my roommate John Kirchner says Justin do you like those better than the Masters. No. No. No. No. No it's just a question. No no no I know and I thought about it so we don't want to sound like we're saying oh my gosh these are the clipper to get. This is definitely like it's a very versatile clipper for a cordless. Yes a convenience because there's not the Masters are definitely and by convenience we mean laziness of not wanting to unplug a cord and plug it back in six feet away. Well no and things like the kids cuts and stuff like that and like there's certain men's hair that you honestly don't need the Masters. I mean I could I could have guys like David Bach come in here and use this on him all the time who has little hair very little hair or guys who are literally just getting a one to a two and quick one to have him at the door. Yeah. Yeah. You know I don't need the precision of a Wham Bam. But if you're going into fade hair and do things like that switch. Personally I stick with the Masters. Oh look at this that hashtag. Why do we let my hands like a serial killer wrote that. This is great. Actually that your cameras closer than mine. Totally appreciate the effort. Yeah. But you have psychotic child handwriting. Yeah. I will kill you in your sleep. Like that's the same handwriting that Macaulay Culkin probably had in the good sign. Are they good. These cookies are phenomenal. Delicious. They're so here. You know I cancel the show. Let's just eat some cookies. Matt you need to get all up in that. I will trust me. Just put it in your mouth and tell me you love it. I ate kale all day. Christina was making the most delicious kale soup today. All right. So it's your cheat meal now. No. You can't have a cheat meal on the first day. I did a whole thing of Chinese. It's not a full meal. It's just a snack. All right. And then the last one that I purchased was the Andes or Andes. Whoever you are. And eyes and eyes. This is the slim line pro lie pro lie. I did see this was in bottom salon that this is their latest trimmer in less. I'm not sold on this thing. I actually I would like to return it. I didn't love. I don't love the build of this. It's very lightweight. It feels cheap. Yeah. Right. It feels like something I would shave my beard with honestly in the bath. I felt like you got that right. To shave your beard at like an event that you forgot everything at home. You haven't used that yet. Brian. Right now. I felt like I was going to break it when I want to go use it. Like I felt like I was going to snap the handle in half. Now with that being said I like a wider T liner. More of a T liner. Yeah. And but it has been nice. I mean it does cut nice. Yeah. So you can't complain about that. Some people like lighter products. If you do then maybe go with that one. It was. I don't know how many drops this is going to withstand. Yeah. I think it's a good way to put it. I will say though all three of these are fantastic for people who are either in school or in a salon where they're doing a lot of generic work. Not necessarily people are coming in for the fades. The tape up. Yeah. The nice clean woman thing of like a hard part or something. This is great tools to get people comfortable with using these tools. Also. Yeah. And it's amazing the battery life nowadays. Yeah. You have that versatility especially if you're in a situation like us where you're moving from station to station. I just don't like how it's so heavy down here. And this is like nothing. Yeah. There really is nothing in there. I don't think except the wire. It's going to break. It looks metal. And that's what I liked about when I saw it. And then when I ordered it it was Amazon. So I have already used it. Now here's the thing. Let me know if you guys like this kind of thing. I'd like to review some of these products. I'm enjoying just it. You know that. So if you like us doing that I'll keep doing it. I'd like to keep getting products and and trying them out in the salon real salon reality and then bringing them to review anything you send us. Yeah. Also. So that's that I want to get a flow be that is that a couple. We never talked about this. We never talked about this. No we had them and they were delicious and then the Christina smell this so good. I want to throw her one spiral it so there's a three amigos and the ESP so tell me tell me about this again. What do we know about this. He's our man. Good job. I'll just stuff my face. Joey Jones. Yo. Yo. I love him. He sent me a message. I forget whether it was Facebook or Instagram. He was like hey. I'm not close enough. No you're not. I tell everybody else get close to the mic and then I don't do it. Do it. Not as I do. He sent me a message and asked. Well he said that he appreciates everything that we do like like saying out like free education for information. And one of his hobbies slash second job is roasting coffee beans. So we're going to review it. It was damn delicious. Yeah. It was amazing. I think we had the ESP. Okay. The night of the show that we were supposed to. It was so good. It was especially nice. It was amazing. Very cool. So sorry for the delay. It was delicious. We did not forget. Yeah. I didn't get any. The look on Christina's face and she smelled it was pretty awesome. Yeah. There was no camera to catch it. But Christina wants to get like one of those coffee press things. French press. French press. That's how we made them. Yeah. It's so good. You gotta do it. Amazon. 17 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. But you got to get a glass and I am so nervous ordering anything glass on Amazon. Why? We've ordered several of them through Amazon and they come perfect. Several. Yep. You have lots of French presses at your house. Yes. He has a cabinet of French press. I ordered 17 French presses and they all came. I just don't like doing dishes. I do ones. Drea dropped the original one and then my dad ordered one but it was too small so I ordered a larger one. You broke it or something. I don't know how you did it. I didn't break it. So there you go. He did have some. We got a bowling fight. Good call. All right. I want a drone to bring me one. So how do we find that coffee on Instagram? It's... I can give you their... Joey Jones Yo. I don't know... It's Joey Jones Yo, right? Yeah. Well, that's who sent it to us. Right. It's Triple D Expresso. And... That's Triple D. I have their address. I don't know... Yeah. Why don't we just have them to go to Joey Jones thing? Yeah. Just go to Joey Jones. You can direct them. Yeah. Go find Joey Jones and give him a shot. I want some coffee. Yeah. Joey Jones Yo. Right. This coffee is good. All right. As soon as excited about the smell of this coffee. A couple more gifts. They have some avocado. They have some holiday things right now. So... Looks like a lunchbox. Putting it out there. Looks like a lunchbox. It looks like the Thermo lunchbox. It does. Gloria always takes on road trips. But the cool thing about this... So this is the Vibra straight flat iron. This is a good gift for somebody that you know. Right? So this isn't like... This isn't the professional iron. This is a pretty standard iron that somebody can't fry their hair with. Which is nice. Here in Kathy. Merry Christmas. So you get this cool carrying bag. And then it opens up and you have... You can put all of your thermal tools. Is that the kind of thermal where you can put it in hot and not worry about it? Yeah. I had... I had like a horrible premonition that the top of it was open. You're like, yeah, look, it can go like this. And I was just waiting for it. Everything to fall out. No, it stays in really nice. Right. So, oh, look at this too. Right. This is pretty cool. So it comes apart. Ooh. Ooh. Check it out. So... Pencil case. All right. What do we have in here though? Yeah. So this is cool. So you get the iron. I like the thermal pouch that you can only fit one thing. And if you go out and turn two things on, you're screwed. I stole towels from hotels. I'm totally digging the iron. I do. I wrapped it in a damp towel. Yep. I know. But I'm doing it when I'm going to someone else's hotel room, like a wedding party. I'm like, I'm taking this. I actually really... They re-did this. I really like the feel of this a lot. Really? Yeah. I think I want to sell them. It looks sexy. Look at it. Nice, vibrant, straight. Looks good. And then a bunch of super silk products in it. Oh, delicious. Yeah. It's like a cool little travel bag. It is delicious because they smell like grapefruit. What? Yeah. They smell like the grapefruit. The shape of the mixture smells like grapefruit. All right. Cool. So you can check that out. If you go to Supersilt.us, they have these kits available. So if you guys want to get one, pick one up for somebody that you love. With that website, Scotland can't buy that either. No. I think you... I don't know. Honestly, I don't know the answer to that. Sorry, Scotland. This is a U.S. company, but I do believe that they sell... This is just irons and all that stuff. It should be fine. Scotland, reach out and we'll figure out how to get you one as well. Tell you what. Let me take it. I'll bring it to you. Yeah. You know what's awesome? I'm going to give away one of these if it lands on FSE today. That's awesome. You're going to give away that one? Yep. And sign it? Yeah. No. So that's pretty cool. So that's a cool gift for the holidays from Supersilk and Viberstreet. So many sprinkles in here. God, those cookies were a big deal. You... You know what's funny? And I love... This is like Marketing 101. Millennium sent those today. Like, they're not... They're very smart. They knew. They knew it. They're like crying but better. They know what's going on. They totally knew. All right. Cool. So... And they... And they tweeted out who's watching splitting hairs tonight. You know what? We're not giving you me, though. Here's some cookies. All right. Okay. So... Cookies. Anything else? And then we'll... Let's get into Justin's... We got stickers that are cool. We do have stickers. I actually brought those in for you guys. Aw. I have lots of them. And now it's on camera so I can't say... I didn't know we had those. Yeah. So that's actually the reason we got them. Stickers all over the place. We also upgraded our sweatshirts and t-shirts to... American Apparel? American Apparel. I always want to say American Crew. I don't know why. To American Crew. It's really awesome. Nope. I really want a sweatshirt. This is a dense ass whoopee pie. Yeah, they're delicious. Yeah, we didn't love the sweatshirts that were before. No one purchased one thing. Oh, they won't... Took them off real quick. So... Well, we did. We tested them. It seems like I bought one. Yeah. All right. That's that. So let's get into Justin's... News. News. Ew. Ew. You know what this reminds me of? And it's perfect for Justin, actually. This reminds me of... Me, myself, and Irene. When he goes crazy. That's funny. Really? I don't know what you're saying. That's prize-winning cow. That's how I felt the other day. It reminds me of Kids in the Hall. Kids in the Hall? I love that show. All right. Oh, I never heard the ending of it. Because you never let that finish. No, it never will. Yeah, we got some news. All right. Got some news. Let's see. At the end of this, everybody, we're going to have something for you to chat about. But let's get into... Let's get into some cool things I've seen. Some good fun work. Some hair. Some hair, some hair, some hair. The first one's going to be from Elliot. Elliot. Elliot. This was just a real fun transformation. God damn it, Justin, with this picture. That's later. Elliot, though, we're not making that sound to you. You did a beautiful transformation to this fun, fiery... Oh, that's pretty. It's like a sunset. Yeah. You know, it's just super clean. I like the fact that the before picture, he didn't like, you know, trash up the hair to make it look like, look at this beautiful transformation that he just said. Like, hey, look, this is what I started with, this is what I ended with. It looks really clean, really smooth. Makes me want a tequila sunrise. I really like... Yeah. I like the colors used. And especially for the root area, I like that the color used up there. Right? I'm not making that up. But you did do the roots darker, right? Yeah, darker. Yeah. But it looks like, too, is he used like two different tones up there. It looks like close to the root. It looks a little darker than the little mid-tone before it gets to the orange fiery thing. Red. Yeah. Yeah, that was cool. What do you guys think? You liked it? Yeah, I did. Did you enjoy that? Yeah, I liked it so much, I thought that we already showed it. I like it a lot. I did too at first, but I don't think we did because I went back to all the Instagrams. Yeah, I don't think we did either. The next one's going to be something we've had on here before. Lisa, who loves her balayage. I love this silver transformation. Yeah, it looks really nice, especially with the starting point. Yeah. You know, again, the root area looks really nice. The whole thing just looks really clean the way it was done. She kicked that red. Yeah, she did. I was going to say, I really like how the root is a darker gunmetal gray. And then it goes to that silverly blonde at the ends. Do you think it is? Or do you think that's light? I would like to think that it's the... Okay. Traya wants to believe. I think that's what it looks like. I'm going to go with Traya on that one. Yeah. The next one is a graveyard blonde, which is just a fun name. We just did a share of this. Not this, but this person. Super talented. Yeah, that's before and after. To make that hair look so soft. That's what the job is all about. Yeah, and he did a full 3.6. It was beautiful color transformation, the cut, the style. 3.6 is ending up where you started. I had it. 1.8 is... That's why I keep crying around. Yeah. Nevertheless, it's really nice. Yes. Good job graveyard. And I like his name too. It's an awesome name. Faded Ink. Oh, I love him. His work is always just so much fun. I love the expressions he does while he does cuts or takes off a ton of hair when he's doing an undercut or something. He helped me out in Vegas. Really? The last time that I went and worked, Paul Mitchell's show. He was working backstage as well, but in the barber section. And I had to make a big wig for Lucy. And I needed a cut, like super blunt. And I had... He was willing to come over and help me do it. And Clipper cut the hell out of it. So it was really cool. He's a really nice guy. His work always impresses me. And it makes me even happier that he's a nice guy. He's from Jersey. Really? Well, I feel like I knew that actually. We should get him on the show. He's not in Jersey anymore. Oh. Well, then leave him. He may have started in Jersey. He had another design. It was this one, but I wanted to get how he did the actual undercut. It wasn't just like... It was spiked. It looked like almost Lisa Simpson's head upside down. Okay. If you go and watch a video he did right before that. It shows it. It's a really cool sectioning he used. But yeah, I know. That was fun. It's a good time. We have two more. The next one is going to be Picasso. This is just super detail-oriented. I love this so much that I hate it. Oh, yeah. That's just so immaculate. The lines are so clean. I want to know how much time that took to get that so clean and precise. Yeah. I want to know how many times he practiced doing that. Like five. Probably. There's four other people in the background that are just like, I wish mine looked like that. No, like literally. I don't think you can do that on the first try. Maybe you can. No. This is this guy's favorite hair fit. Yeah. No, I mean, I feel like... He's in grade school. But that's the same thing. That's like saying, I feel like you look so smooth. I mean, I feel like one of those things where you take your time with it, you know, you'll get there. It just probably took a while. And again, the haircut itself, I don't want to take away from that. Like the fade is seamless too. All the way to skin. I think it's one of those hair tattoos. Yeah. Hashtag hair tattoo? Just kidding, Picasso. All right. There's a couple that are not the same size though. You guys see that, right? Really? We see that. We lost like a year over it then. Just saying. He didn't do it five times. That was his first time. It was really awesome, but not perfect. And Chris is like, it's awesome, but not perfect. So let's move on. No, it's awesome. Well, I have one more. This is a guy who I personally look up to for just like a lot of inspiration to do like great, fun men's barbering. Just keeps me to kind of keeps me focused on men's barbering and not like styling or anything else. Slothon, he works at Hollywood's Barbershop. It's just, if you've never heard of Hollywood, it's one of the most like traditional, but like Hollywood. Yeah. It's a traditional proper gentleman's barbershop. And this guy always does beautiful work. Here you can see it's one of my favorite ways to do a skin fade. That first picture is gross. The neck beard? Yes. This is one of the smoothest ways to do like a proper skin fade where you fade up and down and just straight blade from there on out. It's seamless. That's the last haircut I got over my buddy Jeremy when he did it on me. This is how he always practices it. What does that hold fast Barbershop? Overflowing. It's the same feel in there that you get in Hollywood. It's a nice traditional, good stuff on the wall. You feel like everybody hanging out there. It's a fun time. It's a place I'd like to work if I wasn't here. That was in California. But again, this guy's work is always clean. It's always nice. He takes pictures. Everybody does. Even kids. You have kids smiling on there with a proper haircut. So it's nice to see that. Those are my styles of the week. Now we're getting some fun stuff. Some fun stuff. Is it really fun? It's fun to see their reactions to it. That's gross. It's disgusting. I had this article pop up on my Facebook page from the hairstylist university. There's a forum, one of them. It's all over Facebook. Now it's all over Facebook. This girl put a hair tie on her wrist. I'm bringing some pictures that gross everybody out. The first one's got to be these two lumps that it started out as. She put a hair tie on her wrist. She thought it was like a spider bite or something. So she went to the doctor. They looked at it. They gave her antibiotics at home. The next day it got even bigger. So she went back and they sent her to another. Christina can't even look at it. I know. I saw the girl. Huh? It was on the news. I saw Christina and the doctor. Yeah. So she goes back the next day saying it hurts so bad. They immediately send her to another hospital to emergency surgery. Surprised that she doesn't have sepsis, which is like blood poisoning. And then when they finally got in there to like examine everything, they're surprised that did like interfere or get into her bone or tendons or anything. She had like a huge bacterial infection because she got a scratch from one of these little sparkly hair ties. And when it scratched her, it let this bacteria into her skin which caused a ton of damage. So everybody... The hell is in her hair that it was in her hair tie? Well, she said she... She said she only used it for like a day or two. So it could have been whatever, wherever these things came from. This is why Justin hates glitter. Yeah. You see? I was just gonna say that. Glitter kills. So... Hold on. She's alive. Was she wearing this hair tie the entire time? Or did she like take the hair tie off and like it just continued to get worse? Obviously she wore this for a year. On the same wrist. In the 1990s scrunchie. That's what I'm saying. That had never been washed, so we know. The article said she only had it on for two days. If you're putting a scrunchie on your wrist. Who wears a scrunchie on your wrist? That's what you get. Did you see that? That's disgusting. Oh yeah. So don't wear hair ties on your wrist. You gotta take it off. You can't wear that stuff. What are you wearing a scrunchie on your wrist for? Wear a bracelet. Get a freaking apple watch. No, honestly, people do wear hair ties as... No, I know. No, listen because even... Listen. No, at a Cosmoprof, like right at the register, they sell now hair ties that are meant to also look like bracelets for girls. Not anymore. Really? It's not just girls. They've been backwardered. I'm rocking it. No, seriously. They just had them there and I... Did you buy some? I did and I just killed Michelle's niece. Well, you just killed Michelle's niece. You're like, I need those bags. I have one on my restaurant. But here's the thing though. Those ones that you're sorry about. The ones you're talking about are made of cloth though. I don't see that scratching you. No, the one... Like the deadly glitter one. What happens is... I used to wear the deadly glitter one. Whether or not how clean you are and your things are, that's where that happens. Just look at certain people that get like other bacterial infections that might not clean your clothes on the regular. You know, like... Wait, you're supposed to clean your clothes. I mean... No fad. Chewing on his beard. But yeah, they are making those hair ties now to go both as a hair tie and bracelet. Yeah, okay. Smart. That picture's not up there the whole time, right? No. Christina actually never posted it. Can that be the thumbnail for this week's episode? Everyone's like... When I saw that, there was a disclaimer. Like, are you sure you want to look at this graphic? I'm like, no, every one of our viewers definitely wants to see this. Yeah. You know that we don't have a disclaimer at the beginning of this? Yeah, it's not on there anymore. And my last thing, I'm going to chit-chat about, you guys can kind of jump in on this. Anybody who's watching, please feel free to comment to whoever's watching the chat. Thanks. I saw an article on one... Again, one of those other hair forms. And a little photo that I found was the client before and after. The title read, the moment when you get on Facebook and see that your client box-colored her ombre. You know the one you did last month that you worn would take a few sessions before it was the color she wanted? I hate that. It makes me so sad, especially because she was a client that came in almost every two weeks for something. First picture was the selfie saying she loved it. And the next picture was her with some super dark, brown, black hair. Did you post the other one up by accident? No, I'm looking at it. Yeah, so, I mean, what do you guys feel about that? Have you had clients that have pulled stunts on you where you gave them disclaimers of, hey, your hair's not going to be this way that you want it? I mean that. Didn't you have a similar incident recently? I was going to say I have a client. This is that's it. This is that's post. No, I do have a client who she likes to, when she gets bored, she'll, I can't get in. She'll just start going to Sally's or CVS or whatever. And then she's upset that we can't get her hair the way that she wants it because we're constantly taking steps backwards before we can take steps forward. All right. You just sound like Paula Abdul. Yes! I don't know how to take that. Somebody get him a cat. DJ Scott cat. No, but look at this picture. Like, clearly she's a young girl. Paula Abdul is a singer. And I'm really happy that when she tried to do this herself, the ends have clearly soaked up way too much of the box color and they look black and they're just ruined forever now. That's what you get. Deuces. They just start singing? No, please calm down. I've never heard that sing. No, I did. Karaoke. It's not very good. Oh, yeah. Anybody on the chat? Anybody chiming in? It should have cycled through with the laughs. Nothing? All right. Well, nothing. They don't care. That's my news. I'm a cookie. We actually have robots that watch this show every week. It's actually just me hitting Enter a thousand times. You have 12 laptops at home. Refresh. Refresh. People are chilling. People are enjoying the show. So the thumbs down is when you start to nod off and you move slightly to the right. Can everyone just give a thumbs up to the show right now? I did. Thanks. Everyone else? I'd like to see it growing. It's not what they mean. All right. Yeah, that's my news. All right. Cool. Thanks, Justin. Thanks, John. That's my news and now I'm a cookie. I don't want to chew on the microphone. All right. Dreia. Trending Tresses. For a photo shoot for a paper magazine, which I think her hair literally looks like plastic in this photo. I think it's a cool shot, but. Like there's a bag over it. Yeah. Like it looks weird to me. We should put a bag up her head. Which one? Parasectrum. Oh, I see it. Yeah. It's like plasticky looking. Yeah. Yeah. So that was interesting. We got a ton of gel. It's a good look. I know. I was going to say there's a lot. What's she been doing turning into plastic? She's awesome. I follow her on Instagram. So I know everything she's doing. She's doing a lot of DJing now. DJing? Really? Makes sense. Weren't they paying her like $200,000 just to show up? So now they're like making her do something when she shows up. Yeah. You know what? You're here. One night they just put her to work. Hit the tables. Yeah. Wow. Here. Just pull your iPhone in for a little bit. She's someone famous. Yeah. Not a singer. Just so you know. Just so she was for a second. As a quick backup real quick. Because Justin wanted a little feedback. Yeah. On his thing. And I actually kind of like this. Colorful chemist said, I started telling clients if they box color their hair, I won't touch it for a year. It's reduced the number of at home disasters. I like that. Wow. Okay. We allowed to do that. Whatever. And now this episode cannot be played on YouTube. No. It's okay. I would actually like to play music on here. And it's not like YouTube pays for the show anyway. It's not like we can't send her $20 for the rights to that song. What is she doing now? Yeah. She's so happy that that just happened. Her ears are ringing. She's like, someone played that. And it wasn't family guy making fun of me somehow. All right. Cool. So. All right. So that's fun. And then Rose McGowan has. McGowan. McGowan. Sorry. Has shaved her head. God, I love her. I like it. She was uploading pictures to her Instagram and saying, no hair. Don't care. Honestly, it's liberated. So. I know the feeling. She keeps calling it hashtag alien chic. Yeah. That's according to Weaver and Aliens. Get it? I forgot about her. Brian, do you know why she shaved her head? Fine. She could have all of my attention. I don't know if it was for something or if she just did it, but I like it. It's fine. She's getting a lot of attention for it. So that's. I mean, it makes her eyes and lips look gigantic. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, people don't like it that much. She only got 10,000 likes in one week. That's not bad. If we're not doing anything since Jawbreaker, that's not that bad. But here's the thing though. She has 8,000 likes on a two day old photo of her with no hair. Don't care. Oh, she does. Those last five days were pretty slow. It really cuts out at that point. All right. All right. And Kylie Jenner has debuted a new wig, which is pretty. It's like an emerald green color. Can we just finally remove that with a weed whacker like neck up? I got to tell you, somebody posted something. Oh, I know who it was. F. Jerry posted up a picture of her with this hair and a red hoodie on next to a picture of a bottle of sriracha saying who wore it better. Yeah. I love him. So my favorite thing about this picture though is you can actually see at the hairline where this seam is for. Get your lace front right. Yep. Yes. So usually she does. You don't see that on her. That's awful. But it's bad in this picture and that's my favorite part of it. It looks Frankensteiny. Yeah. It's there. Look, Maxine. See you. Green Frankenstein. It's fitting. It's great. All right. All right. And then our last picture is of Naomi Campbell, who has chopped off her hair into a fun little. Different wig. Yeah. It is different. But it's chopped shorter. I don't think that's her hair, Traya. She usually has much longer hair in her fake hair. Okay. It's not as short. And I like it. I think it looks good. I like that it's not a super blunt bob that it has a lot of texture to it. So. Reminds me of Tina from Bob's Burgers. Or you could go there. That's fine too. All right. Good job, Traya. Do I get mad? That's it. I'm done. All right. Let's get into it. Brian. Stop. I didn't set you up. Okay. Okay. Okay. Ellen. Brian. Brian's on a sugar high. I am. I am jacked. I never eat sweets like that. Are you guys going to go right into everything all the time? Yeah. Okay. No break. Relax. No break. That's my break dance. Are those cookies gone? Millennium. Is that more? Yeah. We need another batch. All right. Huh. There you go. All right. So if anyone's wondering where this comes from, you have to follow us on Instagram because Matt puts up a thing before the show saying let's do questions. I think you're going to talk about babies. Yeah. Yeah. Totes. All right. So first off we got J. Vincent 612 saying I'm having trouble motivating some of my more seasoned stylists. Even when I teach classes they're obviously disinterested no matter the subject. Any suggestions on how to motivate them to be excited about this amazing profession we're in. At one of my old salons I worked. There were several women there that were much older that had been doing it for a very long time. And it's like they were split down the middle. There were ones that were still super fired up when they came in every day and then the ones that like you just couldn't wait until they finally said they were retiring. And the ones that were fired up were the ones that because I was still very new like fresh out of school. So I was all about like every actual hair show and they were always the ones coming with. I know like classes in the salon will motivate some people but you know doing hair shows whatever company you go with when they have like their big yearly event kind of hair show going to that kind of stuff because you kind of can't come out of that not motivated somehow. Like there's something for everyone. Like when you do a class it's you know hopefully everyone picks it up but in a place like a hair show there's everyone can find something if you're still interested in the business at all. Yeah. It's my advice. I think that's good advice. I mean there's not much. I've even Christine is excited. I mean I haven't. I hope that those girls actually like Washington. I hope they saw your cake. I've never had any. We haven't had anybody like work for us that hasn't been. It's been like a seasoned kind of unmotivated person obviously because everybody that works here is younger and a bunch of noobs. Yeah noobs and you got to keep them busy. And pay them. Yeah. We wouldn't know about that because we're millennial You got to keep people busy but you also I think it's it's more of the environment as well. Like for for me it's always been like. You know when when somebody seems people get unmotivated it happens you know. So it's. That you can't like you got to see those people getting unmotivated. Like if if for some reason they're getting unmotivated and you're not paying attention to that and then it's gone for a while. Like for instance as long as you're not going out of your way to unmotivate someone. If you chose this industry as your career shouldn't you be looking like taking some responsibility of that on your own. Yeah. Well I think. I think. They're just doing their job. And. Don't you ever think of too like when did the world become that way. Like for instance as long as you're not going out of your way to unmotivate someone. If you chose this industry as your career shouldn't you know what I mean. I think. There's also the chance that she's talking about like people. I think she's being very nice when she's saying more seasoned. And saying like older people. Critchity old people. That might have. Unmotivating. Yeah. Like they might have come from the era where this wasn't necessarily like the career choice that they were dying for. And just sort of like something they fell into. Yeah. Because there is a lot of people out there that just they chose this job. Just to kind of have a. Job like something to do something to do and something like. You know to keep them busy. But they don't necessarily look at it as like this crazy career where they want to check their goals and they want to go to classes and they want to do it. Like some people just don't want to. It's a job. Passion. And that's the thing where. Like on them. That's personally fine as long as they're not bringing somebody else. Yeah. That's why they wouldn't work here. You know. Right. Yeah. But you can only work except that person for so long. You know like you can only even if it's just a person who's unmotivated who's just there to cut hair and go home. Right. It kind of like drags you down a little bit. Right. I don't know because I don't feel like it's necessarily because they're not motivated to go to classes. Means that they're an unhappy person. There was a stylist that I worked with in. Maryland that. She literally came in. She worked really hard. She was a perfectionist with what she did. But she. Never came to any of the insulin trainings. Right. She wouldn't go to the hair shows. She's like I don't have time for this and I'm not going to. Right. But it wasn't she wasn't an unhappy person. She was a very talented hairstylist. She just. Didn't seek her inspiration from those. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't think that's what they're really asking about. Like that's a whole I wouldn't think of her and I wouldn't work next to me unmotivated. Unmotivated. Yeah. Person again who's just in there like. Yeah. Yeah. What a larger problem. Maybe the problem is the solution is to talk to them and like. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And if you work in a salon with with quite a few people if the majority is that type of person I mean that's one of those things where. You need to take responsibility and do something about it. Yeah. That's what the question is how. How. Yeah. That's not the place for you to work. Yeah. Obviously because you can't. Yeah. But this is an owner. Right. Brian. Who's asking. With. I bet we could find out really fast. Some of my more seasoned stylist so it sounds like. Yeah. House. I mean it's honestly one of those things where. You have to say to them. You know you either. You have to. They don't even have to do necessarily the class that you come up with what you want them to do. If you want them to just be happier. And be more positive at work then you have to talk to them. And make them be more positive at work. And if they're not. Then they can't work there anymore. Because. You're looking at a long term thing. You need to have a positive staff. Because. The success of a salon is based on positive people. I think. Because. People walk in and they know when a bunch of people don't get along. There's some negativity like. Anybody can feel that when they walk into a building. Or a business. So. And when things don't run correctly. So you really need to make sure that. You. You talk to those people. And if they don't change then. I think it was Robert Cronin's I said if you can't change your people change your people. And that really is like. Yeah. It's true. Like you. You just have to. A business owner can make the road to success more fun. But they can't necessarily make their employees motivated. You have to have motivated people. You can't make people want something. Like they either want it or they don't. That's where the old. You can show them. You know. But. Yeah. That's where the old saying you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Right. Unless. Kick that horse in the ass. Make the bubble stop though. Or you work him so hard that he's just so thirsty. There's. All right. Moving on. Yeah. That's like there has to be a way to get that horse to drink. Yeah. We'll figure it out. That Dan horse will drink. And if it won't drink then you. That's like you just. Find another. Okay. We're moving on. Next question. You go find a pony. Go find a cow. Janelle Arlene asked do you guys do anything special. Or extra for your guests for the holidays. We show. We need to talk about this. Find a way to fit him in somehow. I know. So. I did have some I worked with someone that used to do something. Yeah. I've seen people do it as well. And we have done. You don't even know what I was going to say. No but done something for people. No I don't. But. The woman that worked next to me she used to for like. That smaller like core group of people that. You know the ones that you always think of when you think of like my most loyal. She'd look at her book and there maybe be like. One or two a day. She'd look up to the front desk and buy like a twenty five dollar gift card to give him that. She's like cuz. I mean they get it back nothing is twenty five dollars so they're going to put it towards something and go over. So it was sort of just a. A way to say thank you but not. Break yourself. Yeah. Well yeah and I talked about this. This week on my little podcast thing and we were talking about. The. The like the biggest gifts that you get and what do you do. When you get those gifts you know. And. I think it's a good thing like if you look at some person that always gives you like. Whatever you. Like a hundred dollar tip every year or something like that. You need to remember you remember that person you always do. So maybe come up with something I think that's a good idea gift certificate because. You do get it back. But it's a little bonus for them you know you don't get you know. You kind of get it back but. Yeah I mean. But it's a good that's a good twenty five dollar gift. Kind of cool Starbucks it's a gift card. To me. Yeah and that's cool that's a good idea because I said maybe go get a ten dollar gift certificate for Starbucks or something just to have on hand. That if somebody gives you something. You know that I did it a couple of times once people were very they were really thankful I mean it's it's sort of a. A finite discount. Yeah one time. Coupon. Yeah but. Nice. It's cool people liked it. Okay. Um. Do you want to beat that some more. No I think we're good. Huh. What. Do you want to chime in you got some. It's so rare we get to hear your beautiful voice. Yeah. She's doing her Chewbacca impression. Okay. Beauty rush five three one I'm really in a toss up as to if I should go into a departmentalized or non-departmentalized salon. I want to be a master colorist but don't want to pigeonhole myself either so I just want to know pros and cons you may have for this. Uh. I don't know like I. I can think of pros and cons of both especially if you wanting to be a colorist. I've worked with people that have done. Departmentalized stuff and like there was one woman probably the. The one hairdresser that I've worked with that did that's made more money than any other hairdresser I've ever worked with was just a colorist. It takes significantly longer to build a solid book. If you're just a colorist because if you think of it every single human being on earth pretty much calm down gets a haircut. Not everybody gets their hair cut. I still get my hair cut. I know. I was just going to say I've convinced haircut people to start getting color. Right. And but like I wouldn't have had that opportunity if I didn't. Right. It would take longer to build just a colorist book. I because a good friend of mine also she's a cutter and a departmentalized salon and I went there and like met some of the people that she works with. And I don't think I would ever be happy if I was just a colorist because I would miss blowing out hair. Like I said something to that. I said that to one of the colorists and she laughed. She's like I haven't blown out hair since Beauty School. I'm like I would hate that. I don't know if I'd necessarily miss that. I'd miss seeing the like the like just doing a root touch up and then be like all right next. Yeah. I like doing it all. I think it's really just more what makes you happy about this. Yeah. It's what makes you happy. I think the most of it like you look at don't be a $15 haircutter and only do haircuts like you have to figure it out like your friend. I know as well. She her haircuts are more expensive. Oh yeah. And that's all she does all day which is great because she can take time. Well because she's a cutter she's allowed to be a styler as well. So and that's on that you do cuts blow drives and updos. OK. Or just color. Right. And so I think you can make money either way. But you're definitely going to make money quicker. Like I said you'll build quicker that way. But you know it's again a long term commitment what you're trying to build and what you want your goal to be. And right now I would love to just be a hair cutter. But I have so many clients to get color. What am I going to do say. Oh now I just cut hair. Sorry. You know so I think if you want to your end game is I want to do one thing then I don't think I think you should start because you know it's going to take some time. Yeah. Well. Good talk. That go. I was going to say I think it's interesting to like the point of view that Brian was thinking of as far as how difficult it is to build your book as just like colorist. I was thinking how difficult it would be just to be like just a cutter. It's yeah sure you might have like more people coming in but color tickets definitely cost way more. Yeah. But if you had a hundred dollar haircut or a hundred fifty dollar haircut and every hour you'd be fine. And if you were a specialized hair cutter you could have a hundred dollar haircut. Like Matt is a specialized curly hair cutter because we have another client coming in and a month and a half when you have your next appointment open to get a curly haircut. Correct. But like even if you're single colors only cost like 60 bucks compared to your hundred dollar haircut if you get four of those people. I think we're doing too many what ifs right now. That's true. But that's what she's asking like what are some pros and cons. And really I think what it is you just need to know one would you be happy only doing one thing. Yeah. Because I'm I'm getting the impression that Beauty Rush might be a little bit earlier on in her career. Yeah. Like to be thinking about that. And I think especially early on it's it's too soon to tell. Like give it a chance try do everything and say oh my God I hate doing color color. I really hate doing haircuts. But no for a fax. Like don't just assume. I mean that's a great way to build that. Endless book you want to build of just color to. You know it's just got to give him in the door one way or another. And if you're going to sit around all day for that one color a week it's. Yeah. You're not going to be able handle it. I mean look at me in beauty school I told the barber I didn't want to work which is what do women's hair. Right. You never know. Yeah. So. Exactly. Dabbling it all get your feet wet. Yeah. Good call. All right Jordan Cox hair. I'm a little bit sensitive. Cookies. Yep cookies always. I always found stories are always what worked for me. Like rather than just giving information relating whatever I wanted to talk about to real life. That's why I think educators that are also stylists or at least have been stylists for some time are much more effective educators. Yeah. Yeah. So that's my take. Yeah I I think you just got to make sure I mean me. I've been in classes where. There's no way you're reaching that Mike pull that down. Come on get in there. Visual. Visual. Yeah. Remember like you did like the plate. Yeah. We've done the Play-Doh we've done. But that's like the visual learner. I think you have to get the you have to hit everyone. Yeah. You have to hit the visual learner and the people who do it just by touching things and the people who do it by listening to you and writing things down like there's your basic three. Yeah. So I think a lot of hair probably are visual artists. Yeah. Yeah. I would say a lot of them I mean there are some that are very like they write like every single. They won't they don't even barely touch anything because they're just writing down the entire time. They barely even get the haircut done on the mannequin because I think they feel like they need to write it. Yeah. Yeah. So much. That's why I like my. Learning groups. Yeah. I liked my well being an educator just gave me an excuse to buy the little projector that hooked up to my iPad. Yeah. But people like that. Yeah. I always had a projector with me because I like the visual and now nowadays like I feel like as long as. You know go with the stories I think when you relate it to something it works the visual things that we've done in classes. Don't try to be. This is something Christina says to me every time that I go out but just just be yourself. And and you know don't don't try to pretend like you know something that you don't know I think people read that really fast. And I think a lot of educators jump into a classroom and just start like you know randomly talking. I think the success that we had with classes and we worked for a product company but I don't think we really. I followed the. You feel out. Yeah you feel out the place. Right. And what they want to learn ask a lot of questions at the beginning like a consultation. And then once you start teaching then you're really going to start you know figuring out what they like you know. Right. And just teach a lot and you and you'll get better and better. Well and I think just to sort of clarify a little bit better when I say tell stories. I think the reason that stories worked for me is because I use them to make them relatable. The fastest way to just absolutely turn me off to an educator trying to tell me something is when it comes across as they think they're up on some kind of pedestal talking down to me. Yeah. And then absolute suck it like I don't care anything else you have to say. So I always approached every one of my classes like look the only reason I can tell you how to do this is because I have effed it up so many times. Right. Like that I figured I had to not screw it up. So I'm just trying to keep you from not having to stumble as many times. Brian's actually guilty of his entire class telling you how bad he is. Sure. It happens. We taught in somewhere in New Jersey. It's just not that long ago we hadn't taught together in quite a while. And I was like Brian you really don't have to tell everyone how bad you are the entire time. But but you do relate and it's what works for you. And you always have successful classes. So thanks. You know. So it works. So just be yourself. Whatever works for you do it. And but be have visuals and and all that. And don't be a douche on a mountain top. Yeah. Exactly. It's my support. All right. Maybe one more. Well Veronica ScissorHands has a quick one and then then we what there's one more I wanted to pass it because it's easy. What's the best way to get involved in platform work. This Veronica. Again I think we've answered this before really just whatever company you want to work with talk to your distributor because by now pretty much every company has it written down how to go about doing this. They have the the times to audition the places all that stuff and there's a certain path that you can take but your distributor is usually the person who comes and takes your order is going to know how to do it. Yeah. And just be really care like go in to that whole thing with low expectation like when you say platform I get freaked out by people because when I said platform I meant I wanted to say platform but you're going to you're going to start teaching in salon classes right. And if you're lucky you will get the opportunity to you know work air shows which doesn't really mean that you're lucky actually in salon classes after a while you'll learn that the in salon classes are way better than being up in front of you know Yeah. At a hair show yelling at everyone. There are sometimes when like the I know the show comes and goes and as stressful and as insane as those were like it was kind of fun it's a great experience like when the weekends finally over and you can sleep for 20 straight hours it was like that was crazy that was fun I'm glad I don't have to do it again per year but I look forward to doing it again next year. Yeah. All right and then last because we're running out of time red 0688 says can I buy the blades for Donald Scott razors from you or will any feather razor blade work for them. No you can't use any feather razor blade but we will have the blades available soon that'll be in our next order so that has to be actual Donald Scott blades. Yeah and those will be available probably within a week because I think the other one is jam up I tried doing that when I was in school and super exciting first off our scissors will be here Friday from Japan that's exciting so nice and sharpened which was the first time we sharpened them in a year over a year two years man those scissors it's going to be amazing two years because it's going to be awesome Christmas so yeah two years we went with our scissors did not get them sharpened they went to Japan they're brand new oh my god they're in the states they're on their way back if anybody wants to send care packages of gauze to Brian you can find our website no kidding I've got so used to the 5.5s and now I'm going to go back to my 6s yeah bye knuckles I'm working on that gel foam don't worry Mizetani has some really cool products I'm excited about and tonight I'm launching their brand new scissor at 12 midnight the black smith solid scissor which has the DB 20 looking ball bearing oh ok and then more of a straight kind of solid that looks nice is that the one you put the delicious picture up on that was the titanium version the regular steel version will be up and you can pre-order the new scissor coming out can I just say that you look like an adorable little child because you're tapping both feet but it looks like you're dangling your feet like you can't reach the floor which is really funny who are we picking for the wheel I picked what was random but hold on is it me because I was dangling here all I could see is that dangling this feet let's go with beauty rush sun lights balayage products on the wheel all this stuff is on shop fse we have the Jay Lace Jay Lace some fun stuff from them hoodies hats I'm not sure exactly what they're giving away but we have some fun stuff they're shipping with me you yes Justin Ola Plex is on the wheel it's funny that it's also with the FSEs are too Parker straight blades ergo brushes let's see Donald Scott razors carving comb give away MinervaBeauty.com we're sitting in their awesome furniture right now and the stations and all that they're giving away something cool FSE is giving away the super silk by the straight kit and Amika is giving away always something awesome Millennium's giving cookies Millennium Millennium will send Charlie's to your house or Cheryl's not Charlie's I love talking about and Millennium is three months free of their new software Mevo and then Mizetani we still have not given away the scissors which ones are they I don't even know so it's a pair of Mizetani scissors it's gonna be by random one of ours it's whatever we have left you know whenever they took out a clown pass I hope I win I think that's oh and the mainstream is giving away 100% so that is an app an on demand if you're looking for some extra work and you want to go out and drive to people's houses and cut their hair mainstream is a new app you can sign up for people will summon you and then you go to their house and you get paid right through the app 80% of what you do on the road so if you want to start being a traveling hairdresser mainstream is a way to go M-A-N-E S-T-R-E-E-M is the app you can sign up use FSE in the code and you'll be ready to roll and they're giving away 100% of services for the first month and you get included in a $500 drawing M-A-N-E holy cow is that it you have enough too I think that's it alright and who's who are we spending for me I said it I know I just want to be able to say it at the end Beauty Rush 531 Beauty Rush 531 here we go give it a spin Dre it's going it's going Oh Amika I swear what is it I don't know what they give away something different every time but I bet it smells good oh it's going to be awesome yeah they always give away good products thank you to Amika all you have to do is email us contest at freesaloneducation.com your address and we'll forward it to Amika so congratulations on that that sums up the show check out freesaloneducation.com we have a ton of cool stuff on there and also I just spent the last two days just making everything look really good so I think we have the coolest shopping experience ever and we have the coolest video section we have the coolest stuff on the interwebs I believe it's a really it looks good it looks good on your phone it looks good on your computer so many different things wait a tick are we still doing the video contest we are doing the video contest there's only a month left get on that people have been submitting the videos but make sure to submit them on fsetube.tv and you could win thousand bucks and a brand new pair of scissors I hope I win I love that Christina still has her headphones on and they're not plugged in and she's dancing around she does that at home too I think it's just so she can't hear me talk earmuffs it's like when you're at the gym but you forgot your or your battery dies on your ipod you just keep the headphones on and nobody bothers you oh that's a good idea you've never done that no my battery doesn't die because I charge it before I go but I don't go to the gym because there is no way I just plug my headphones in like when I walk around like to the grocery store and she doesn't realize the cord's dragging behind him you just gotta make sure the cord's in your pocket okay or plugged into your phone still alright that's it anything else let us know in the comments below what products you'd like to see me purchase and reveal so I would love love to purchase some more stuff and try out some new cool things and that's pretty much it I would like you to purchase a squat rack to see how that works yes and a bench press we need you to share this video with your friends we are making more and more videos we have more stuff coming out hopefully soon Dreya I know I just remembered let's come up after this so Dreya has a really cool video we just have to voice it over so we will let's do that and we'll get that in the next couple days and then hopefully 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