Ep. 144 • Becoming a Successful Session Hairstylist + An Action Plan for Racial Equality w/ Naeemah Lafond @naeemahlafond
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Naeemah LaFond explains the most effective tactics for getting into editorial work. We also get into her guide for how brands and industry decision makers can take action to better support black hairstylists.
We discuss:
• How she found her way to hair
• Editorial & Set Work: how to build your portfolio and get into the scene
• The experience of editorial work – New York Fashion Week
• Her role in education: what do students struggle with?
• Her guide on how to be more supportive & inclusive of black stylists
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| 0:00.0 | It's been difficult, but I've used that energy to pivot and try to affect change and the space that I can do it, which is the beauty space and the hair space. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, I'm Christina Kregel. I'm Maggie Mulhern from Modern Salon Media. Hi, I'm Eric Vaughn. Hello, Todd the Hair Fest, East of Land. This is Guy Tang, and welcome to the Hair Game Podcast. Hey, listener, I'm Eric Vaughn. Hello, Todd the Hair Fest East in the Land. This is Guy Tang and welcome to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:25.7 | Let's get straight to the Pod Lute giveaway. |
| 0:28.4 | This is a $150 Apple gift card who doesn't want one of those. |
| 0:33.4 | The winner is Chelsea v. The Hairstylist. |
| 0:37.3 | DM me, Chelsea at the Hairgame podcast Instagram with your email, and I'll send you the |
| 0:42.7 | $150 from Apple. |
| 0:44.6 | At the end of the show, I'll tell you what we're going to be given away next week and how |
| 0:48.2 | you can win it. |
| 0:49.2 | And now to Naima LaFond. |
| 0:52.7 | So I understand that this worked out pretty well because you were supposed to do an education, |
| 0:58.5 | a digital education for us on braided updews on Monday the 8th, but it got rescheduled. |
| 1:07.1 | So we're doing a podcast, which is going to drop on Monday the 8th instead. |
| 1:12.1 | That's perfect. |
| 1:13.0 | You get to know me first. |
| 1:14.1 | Exactly. |
| 1:14.8 | That's always better. |
| 1:16.3 | So I'm going to do the introduction, and you can correct me if I screw anything up. |
| 1:20.6 | Okay, you are Naima LaFond. |
| 1:23.4 | And by the way, I have to say that I'm very jealous that you got an Instagram handle with your complete name. |
| 1:30.9 | Because for somebody like me, Eric Taylor, that was probably never an option, even if I jumped on in the very beginning. |
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