The right hair style and professional color work can improve your appearance and your attitude. You may have been thinking about a change, but have been avoiding it because it is not an easy thing to deal with. How do you end a relationship that is in many cases so personal that you may have developed a friendship with your stylist? Well if you are already thinking about it, you should probably already have done it months ago. The best way to approach the issue is to just be as truthful as you can without saying things that you know will hurt his or her feelings. Something like I just wanted to try out a new stylist that (my sister recommended, my husband gave me a gift certificate for, that is closer to my house,) or you pick out the language that is most appropriate for your situation. Another approach is to just not make another appointment with that stylist. I recommend the polite excuse as the better approach, but you have to decide what is right for you.
I have read a lot of articles that say, ask someone you know whose hairstyle you admire to find a new stylist. This can work just fine sometimes, but there are pitfalls too. Just because a stylist gets it right with one person, doesn't mean that they turn out great results on a consistent basis. Another thing to keep in mind is that your friends, workmates or acquaintances, will not necessarily want you talking to the stylist that they have been confiding in for years and may know more about their personal lives than any of their closest friends. You get the idea. To protect their privacy, they will often recommend someone else that they know like a relative or a friend in the business.
So do you select a salon first and then a stylist who works in that salon or select the stylist first and the salon is by default the one where he or she is currently working? Since we established in the beginning of this page, that we want only a special "talented" stylist working in a beautifully decorated and well equipped salon, this seems like a tough question. To answer it lets start with the different types of hair salons and who is likely to be working in each type. You don't often find the best stylists in chain owned or franchised salons because those stylists are usually new to the industry or part-timers and work on a commission with the salon taking a good portion of each day’s earnings. Really good stylists don't work at these salons but they probably did their apprenticeship and their training in one. After being in the industry for a while, the better stylists move on. Where do they go? The really good stylists, the ones with experience and a good clientele will move to a higher end salon that charges them rent for the chair or station and for the color, products, towels and just about everything that they use. They need a good following of loyal clients to support themselves and afford the cost of the rent on their station and all the supplies and extras that they must pay for.
Many salons advertise on the internet and some of the "rent a station" salons advertise on the web, but very few individual stylists actually have their own website. There are some stylist search sites that will help you find a stylist or salon in your area and if you look at more than a few you will find me listed there. The sad part is that they do not do any screening and anyone can get listed on the site by filling out the form. Most of the best stylists don't advertise their services anywhere because they have always been busy and have never needed to do anything other than good work to find new clients. Another factor is that these stylists just don’t know the first thing about how to use the internet as a marketing vehicle. I know that it certainly doesn't apply to me, I have been very fortunate to discover how to use this medium and have found some really great new clients, but most stylists don't know how and aren't too interested in learning. Many younger stylists are computer savvy, and if you are looking for that ultra young and hip look you can find them on the net, but not the more experienced stylists I know.
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