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I think it sounds like you really need to go on a training course. Not so much for the technical stuff, but for your confidence! I remember what it was like being completely new to colouring and all that anxiety over it, and it all went away as soon as I started paying my own money to be taught...

I’m a mobile hairdresser and have been for 10 years, I’m considering finally setting up a base somewhere that’s not in my home, but don’t want to rent a chair in someone’s salon either. I’m thinking of doing what a lot of beauty therapists do, rent a ‘treatment room’ style mini hair studio with...

I’m a busy mobile hairdresser and spent approx 8 years building my business up, my partner and I have been trying for a baby and I found out yesterday I’m pregnant! I’m so excited, but I have a bit of anxiety about work. I’m back tomorrow after the weekend and my job involves a lot of heavy...

I ran a successful and busy mobile hair business for 9 years, and recently decided I want to work from one place and have everyone come to me, so I’m going to be renting a chair in a local salon. This is due to the physical strains of mobile work with carrying heavy bags about, dealing with...

Well I often do two clients at once so while a colour is developing, I’m doing their friend’s/mum’s haircut etc. My eventual plan is to have a home salon (I don’t want to go back to working in someone else’s salon again- don’t think I could!) but I don’t have the space right now. I live in a...

The people in my area who rent a chair all do a percentage, probably 50/50?? (This is in London). But I think you should go for it, you sound ready! I’m mobile and took the same leap about 8 years ago, never looked back. Good luck xx

I like salon services colouring gowns (even though I don’t just use them for colouring)

This sounds like a crazy problem to have, but I’ve been mobile Hairdressing for 8 years now (after 8 years of salon work) and it’s fair to say that my business is now very successful. I’ve worked out the best ways to get new clients, how to keep them, how to make them happy etc. I’m earning a...

I suppose it must depend on the type of clientele. I have close relationships with a lot of my clients too, but not to the point where I would bring my private life with me to their houses and potentially ‘bring down’ their haircut experience (not that it always would, obviously). I charge quite...

...but I’d be polite if the hairdresser asked me of course, so I’d let them bring the baby that one time and then probably not have them do my hair again. There are plenty of hairdressers out there that don’t bring their children to appointments. It wouldn’t be acceptable in a salon so it’s not...

I know quite a lot of people who don’t love babies, including me! I think it would be highly unprofessional and you have to remember that even though they’re long term clients, they still deserve the best treatment possible. I would absolutely hate it if anyone other than my close friends...

I’m a 34 yr old mobile hairstylist and have been for 8 years, having worked in salons for 8 years prior to that. I have managed to build a very successful business and it currently works well in my life. However, I can’t see myself doing it forever and it’s very physically tiring, lugging all...

....my other question was how easy is it to get new clients to a home salon. I currently have a steady stream of new clients each month that find me through google, social media, my business cards and various other advertising methods. Would strangers actually want to come to someone else’s house??

I’m a 34 yr old mobile hairstylist and have been for 8 years, having worked in salons for 8 years prior to that. I have managed to build a very successful business and it currently works well in my life. However, I can’t see myself doing it forever and it’s very physically tiring, lugging all...

What I can imagine working best is if I temporarily had my clients coming to my house, but I’m not sure a lot of them would because I travel pretty far to some of them I reckon if I suggested them coming to me I’d lose them.

Hi, I’ve been hairdressing for a total of 16 years, the last 8 I’ve been running a successful mobile business, travelling fairly far and wide from my home town (all within 35 min drive). I’m now 34 and thinking about starting a family, it’s got me thinking about how I would manage whilst...