miss_eve
Senior Stylist
RANT ALERT
I'm feeling really insecure and low in confidence. How does everyone else cope with the day to day stresses of hairdressing. Its getting so bad I'm not really enjoying my craft anymore.
I'm in a high end salon and the prices reflect that. This is pressure considering I've only been hairdressing for 3 years.
We use a brand of colour in the salon called Kemon and it is just awful. After working with Wella and loving it and it being so reliable and the training you get up at the academy is brilliant, I'm now working with this awful organic brand where the training is only in Italy. We had some of the reps come down for a morning a few months ago and the technique training from the reps was great but the colours were not.
For example I did a root stretch the other day and used 6.1 (ash), 8.78 (violet blue) to get the coolest level 7 I could. It came out brassy AF and the lady complained. And that is how its going, the toners dont work and if they do they're left on for 20mins (not good when you're trying to keep to a time frame) I did a root regrowth today with their "beige" tone level 9 and it came out like a 8/7 in wella and the lady has a stressful time as she watches it get darker and darker and redder and redder in the mirror whilst developing. Its so unreliable and I'm stressed out like crazy. Thankfully the salon manager knows the colours are unreliable but the owners wont change as we are an organic salon.
Clients that dont know what they want and then show you unrealistic pictures of what they think they might want and after you explain that its not quite achievable with their hair and you recommend something that suits them and they agree only for them to call up or worse facebook post that they're unhappy with their hair and its too mumsy.
I am at my wits end but I love hairdressing so much and I am so much more confident when I'm working from home with Wella. I dont want to give this up but I cant deal with anymore complaints, I've had 5 in 5 months and its totally unacceptable.
What do I do???
I'm feeling really insecure and low in confidence. How does everyone else cope with the day to day stresses of hairdressing. Its getting so bad I'm not really enjoying my craft anymore.
I'm in a high end salon and the prices reflect that. This is pressure considering I've only been hairdressing for 3 years.
We use a brand of colour in the salon called Kemon and it is just awful. After working with Wella and loving it and it being so reliable and the training you get up at the academy is brilliant, I'm now working with this awful organic brand where the training is only in Italy. We had some of the reps come down for a morning a few months ago and the technique training from the reps was great but the colours were not.
For example I did a root stretch the other day and used 6.1 (ash), 8.78 (violet blue) to get the coolest level 7 I could. It came out brassy AF and the lady complained. And that is how its going, the toners dont work and if they do they're left on for 20mins (not good when you're trying to keep to a time frame) I did a root regrowth today with their "beige" tone level 9 and it came out like a 8/7 in wella and the lady has a stressful time as she watches it get darker and darker and redder and redder in the mirror whilst developing. Its so unreliable and I'm stressed out like crazy. Thankfully the salon manager knows the colours are unreliable but the owners wont change as we are an organic salon.
Clients that dont know what they want and then show you unrealistic pictures of what they think they might want and after you explain that its not quite achievable with their hair and you recommend something that suits them and they agree only for them to call up or worse facebook post that they're unhappy with their hair and its too mumsy.
I am at my wits end but I love hairdressing so much and I am so much more confident when I'm working from home with Wella. I dont want to give this up but I cant deal with anymore complaints, I've had 5 in 5 months and its totally unacceptable.
What do I do???
