Am I being totally unreasonable to think that in a salon of self employed hairdressers you don't ask other stylists how to colour!
I consider myself a very experienced colour technician. I am the only one in my salon to do level 3 and have plenty of experience doing correctional colours.
My issue is... They book themselves in a colour correction, or a change.. e.g full head bleach the client then requested a warm brown. The stylist finished the consultation and came straight over to me asking how to do it, what colour to use. Didn't even realise she would need to pre pig. When my boss and all the other stylists are there watching I feel like I have to give advice so she doesn't mess it up, but I feel really that that sort of stuff should be booked in with myself. Not only does it look totally unprofessional to the client, I'm annoyed at telling everybody what and how to do it!!
Several times I've found myself running across the salon when a stylist had turned a hair green or I've seen someone trying to apply bleach and 12% to the scalp.
Do I let them mess up.although that gives the salon a bad reputation. Do I keep helping even though I feel they should be my clients or at least I hate being asked constantly. We get though a million tubes of double base in our salon because as soon as anyone sees 1 grey hair they slap dull double base on.
Another point is there is getting to be tension between me and the other stylists as I cover their clients when they are on holiday and choose a Much better colour. Or correct their mistakes and the client normally rebooks with myself. Thus, I'm now being accused of stealing clients! I'm at my wits end here.
Hope this doesn't sound horrible, sorry for the long post!!
And yes I've suggested colouring courses! They've been on a couple of one day ones, makes no difference lol x
I consider myself a very experienced colour technician. I am the only one in my salon to do level 3 and have plenty of experience doing correctional colours.
My issue is... They book themselves in a colour correction, or a change.. e.g full head bleach the client then requested a warm brown. The stylist finished the consultation and came straight over to me asking how to do it, what colour to use. Didn't even realise she would need to pre pig. When my boss and all the other stylists are there watching I feel like I have to give advice so she doesn't mess it up, but I feel really that that sort of stuff should be booked in with myself. Not only does it look totally unprofessional to the client, I'm annoyed at telling everybody what and how to do it!!
Several times I've found myself running across the salon when a stylist had turned a hair green or I've seen someone trying to apply bleach and 12% to the scalp.
Do I let them mess up.although that gives the salon a bad reputation. Do I keep helping even though I feel they should be my clients or at least I hate being asked constantly. We get though a million tubes of double base in our salon because as soon as anyone sees 1 grey hair they slap dull double base on.
Another point is there is getting to be tension between me and the other stylists as I cover their clients when they are on holiday and choose a Much better colour. Or correct their mistakes and the client normally rebooks with myself. Thus, I'm now being accused of stealing clients! I'm at my wits end here.
Hope this doesn't sound horrible, sorry for the long post!!
And yes I've suggested colouring courses! They've been on a couple of one day ones, makes no difference lol x