It all starts out innocently enough, you did all of your friends hair when you were a teenager. It was fun not a job, you loved it! When everyone else was going to college you went to beauty school. It's only nine months and a state test. Time goes buy you graduate and become an assistant. As the years pass you want more, you want to own your Own salon.
What's the problem you ask?? It's called GREED!!! Okay so you work in a salon. First of all some people think (how I have no fucking idea) that the hairdresser/nail tech gets all the money that is charged in a service. NO we don't!! Stylists make a percentage in some very rare cases they also make an hourly, but again that is very rare. So your service is $100 okay a stylist gets between 30 and 40% of that. Understandably the receptionist, assistant have to get paid the lights, water, gas etc. Okay fine. Now the son-of-a-bitch who owns the place starts trying to figure out how to make more money off of you. In the first salon I worked in it was called "deducts". Deducts salon fee, customer fee or whatever bullshit name they give it it is an extra 1 to 5% deduction from your commission. So you really aren't getting that 30% it's more like 25. Now the owner can tell you it's for shampoo, coffee for customers or whatever other lie they want until you see them driving a new BMW. Amazing how that once green assistant forgot what it was like to limp home the first time you worked a 10 hour day. Your hands hurting from being dry and cracked back killing you, now all you can think of is how to fuck over all the other stylists to make an extra buck. You can now buy your bigger house, car more clothes and hopefully one day choke on all of it.
The next dirty little secret about Salon owners is that some of them have never even been to beauty school. Realizing that the beauty business can be a money maker you find a stylist who is willing to let you basically use their license and you're in business. And there is no real way to regulate it, all a matter of paperwork. So all of the salon decisions are made by a businessman/woman. What's wrong with that you ask?? I'll tell you. Your color didn't come out right?? That's because the Owner is trying to save money and hasn't ordered color in a few weeks. So when you go to mix you do your best and say a prayer to the hair Gods and pray that the color comes out right. You don't dare tell the customer that you don't have the right color, not unless you want to find a new job.
And don't think for a minute that the owner who Did go to hair school won't pull the same shit. Trust me. A good friend works in a place where in the interest of being cheap won't order product to sell. How the fuck can you make money on retail when you have no retail to fucking sell!!?? No hair spray for an entire summer. No lip gloss, a big summer seller for the WHOLE summer. What kind of bullshit is that? I have seen it happen. While highlighting a manager in my department (I work in a corporate salon) she said to me "OH there is something to this hair thing you do". Yes you fucking bitch contrary to popular belief a well trained chimpanzee can't do what I do. I do believe that one could do your job though.
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