Recommendations From a Hairstylist

Shiny, thick, healthy, these are a few of the descriptive terms used when women are describing their wants for their hair.
Day in and day out as a hair stylist you hear these words from your clients, your sole aim as a hair stylist is to work with your client and help educate them as to how to achieve their goals for their hair.

A Hair Stylist will ask you various questions during your consultation and your entire hair appointment in general. In doing this we learn more about your hair type and your lifestyle like what happens outside of the salon. How often are you shampooing? Is the shampoo correct for your hair type? Do you style Everyday? Are you using correct heat protectant and styling products? Are you Oily? Dry? Do you touch your hair a lot? Go to the gym? Tie your hair up? Sleep with wet hair? Stand on your head and rub your tummy (got ya there didn’t I)

From Questions like these and similar. we determine the best suited array of products for YOU and only you not your best friend, sister or mother.

So you now have a situation. Your stylist who has just spent close to 3 hours perfecting your colour after the last disaster received from another salon? or your stylist who has been doing your hair for the last 6-12 months in which your hair has never looked better? or the stylist who's racked up close to 15 years of hairstyles on your head? the stylist who you now consider a friend perhaps? has gone out of their way to take a product, that they have spent their personal time completing the training for off of the shelf and handed it to you.

They then continue to spend another 5-10 minutes while their next client waits patiently. Explaining the benefits this product has and how it is tailored to YOUR HAIR,
"wow" you say "
that sounds fantastic"
then you cleverly brush off what your stylist has said with one of the following polite phrases
"Thanks, i’ll think about it"
"I'm OK for now, maybe next time"
or the classic
"i’ll come back and grab it"
'$34 for shampoo' you think to yourself, 'no way would I ever spend that' as you head to your local Woolworths or Coles and grab a $14-$20 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner jam packed with all the good stuff such as dishwashing liquid and Silicone.

Now later that week you jump in the shower eager to use your delicious 'apple fragranced' shampoo you purchased. However to your surprise after shampooing your hair with this great product that you seen Eva Longoria Shampoo with on TV, your beautiful creamy blonde hair is now a slight shade of yellow or your shiny brunette tint now has a patchiness too it. Feeling majorly ripped off that the colour you paid $100-$200 for now resembles something similar to what the next door neighbor did 'for a great price' a couple years back, you call your stylist. “
You have changed products”
“you didn't apply my colour properly” “
you didn't let my Blonde process long enough'”
a few of the accusations you throw out at your stylist.

Feeling once again slightly defeated your stylist will respond with "what did you wash your hair with?" And as you flashback to the moment when your stylist carefully explained to you the effects of using non salon products you assure them you used
"only the best" or
"i can't remember the name but Its definitely from a salon"

Now as a stylist we hear that change of tone in your voice and we know.
We know that the colour you not only "wasted your money on" but the 15 minutes we spent on a consultation, the 1 hour foiling, teasing, sectioning, applying colour, the 5 minutes at the basin, the 45 minutes Styling and then we have those 10 crucial minutes as our next client sat waiting, as we crossed our legs trying not to think about the fact we have needed to pee for three hours, as we try to ignore the rumble of our stomachs because we have not yet had a chance to eat for the day or the fact our legs are tired, our backs are tired and we are tired, tired of our hard work and time being wasted!

So please remember when you stroll down that isle at the local supermarket, for every time you purchase (sorry for being frank) a bottle of pure shit, you're killing a hairstylist's Vibe and if there's one thing this world is in need of besides peace, love and brown rice of course, it's more killer hairstylist's

With Love Morgan Drew xx