Bonus Episode: Hairstylist Chris McMillan for Covid-19 Relief
Fat Mascara
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🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Celebrity stylist and salon owner Chris McMillan joins us for a bonus podcast dedicated to salon workers and beauty professionals: Revenue from audio sponsorships of this episode will be donated to the Professional Beauty Association’s Covid-19 Relief Fund.* Chris offers tips for cutting off “old energy” (a.k.a., your hair), shares personal stories (and industry gossip!), discusses his collaboration with Drunk Elephant, and talks about how he and his stylists and employees are getting through this time.
*Visit probeauty.org to learn more about the fund. Licensed beauty professionals in the U.S.A. can visit www.probeauty.org/pba-charities/covid-19-relief-fund to apply for emergency relief grants.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to Fat Mascara. I am Jess. I'm Jen. We are very excited about this episode for a couple of reasons. We are very excited about this episode for a couple of reasons. One, we have the most fabulous |
| 0:16.0 | guess, Chris McMillan, Celebrity Hairstylist. We've been trying to get him for a while and he is on the show live well I mean it's not live when you're |
| 0:24.4 | hearing this but we recorded with him in real time he was sitting on his couch out in |
| 0:30.3 | LA it was really cool really fun chat but also this is a very special episode because |
| 0:35.8 | we're dedicating it to the salon workers the cosmetologist everyone who is |
| 0:40.7 | affected by COVID. |
| 0:43.2 | We are donating the proceeds from the audio sponsorships |
| 0:46.6 | for this podcast to the Professional Beauty Association's |
| 0:49.7 | COVID-19 Relief Fund. |
| 0:51.9 | Yeah, so the other reason we're dedicating it to you guys, |
| 0:54.5 | I just want everybody to be aware of where |
| 0:56.9 | the art salon workers and people that we love in this industry are right now. |
| 1:00.4 | There's about 770,000 people employed as barbers, hair stylists, and cosmetologists and |
| 1:06.0 | cosmetologists and get this. They earn on average just under $28,000 a year. A lot of these people are |
| 1:11.5 | independent contractors, they work day |
| 1:14.0 | to day, and that's a lot less than the average national salary here in the United |
| 1:18.0 | States. Again, we know we have international listeners, but this is, I'm just talking about our U. our US barbers and stylists. The average salary here |
| 1:26.2 | is like $54,000 and they're making a lot less than that and really the majority of these people |
| 1:31.4 | are unable to work right now. |
| 1:33.6 | So this relief fund, tell us about it, Jess. |
| 1:36.6 | The relief fund we're donating to is run again by the Professional Beauty Association or |
| 1:40.9 | PBA. |
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