Yes everyone has to start somewhere but a proper college course or salon training programme should be the starting point.
Using professional colour chemicals without adequate underpinning knowledge is potentially very dangerous and because there are no proper regulations, some people think it’s not that big a deal.
Have none of you ever had to correct a client’s hair who has tried to bleach it themselves or worse still, they let a friend with limited hairdressing experience use pro brand bleach with 40 vol.?
Have you ever had to deal with a client with weeping scalp burns?
Haven’t you ever wondered why some of your clients are terrified of having bleach but are perfectly ok with a highlift (with 12%) because they wrongly think that’s safer?
I think my post was very restrained compared to what I’d like to have written.