Ep. 179 • Secrets of the On-Set Scene w/ Ray Christopher @hair4kicks
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Daytime Emmy winner and AIA nominee Ray Christopher took an early opportunity on set with Prince and never looked back. He discusses with us the highs and lows of set life, and what it takes to be successful in this highly coveted sector of our industry.
This Week's Topics:
• How an early gig on-set with Prince vaulted his career
• Balancing in-salon work and set work
• A day in the life of regular on-set work
• Winning the emmy for 'The Real'
• Advice for getting into the on-set scene
• Future goals: developing product line and movie work
• The effect of COVID on him and set work
• People inspiring him right now
• His Hair Horror Story!
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| 0:00.0 | You have to choose it. It's something you have to choose and pray that it chooses you back. |
| 0:06.3 | Because a lot of times you could choose it. You could work very hard. You could really, really want it. And it's still not work out for you. It's honestly a luck of the draw. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, this is Nina Covener with Passion Squared. This is Anthony Pauso's. I'm Jessica Warburton. |
| 0:20.1 | Hey, this is Ryan Whedon. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:27.5 | We are still open in California, and that is really, really great news. |
| 0:31.2 | Everything seems to be trending in the right direction. |
| 0:33.7 | Fingers crossed that it continues that way. |
| 0:37.1 | Speaking of being open, we just opened two new |
| 0:39.5 | salons, one in Linwood, Washington, just north of Seattle, and one in Sunnyvale, California, |
| 0:46.3 | just south, it's in the Bay Area, south of San Francisco, in the Silicon Valley area. It's gorgeous. |
| 0:51.9 | Both of them are gorgeous. For more information, go to |
| 0:54.7 | salonrepublic.com. If you know anybody who works in those areas, I would greatly appreciate it |
| 1:00.6 | if you tell them about our new salons there. Podalute giveaway time. This week's potterloot is |
| 1:07.7 | the GHD Pro hair dryer, and the winner is Gingy bread. |
| 1:13.6 | That's it, just Gingy, Gingy bread. |
| 1:16.6 | I was about to say for some reason I was going to put hair at the end, but it's just Gingy bread, G-I-N-Gy |
| 1:22.6 | bread. |
| 1:23.6 | DM me at the Hair Game podcast and let me know that you heard me call your name and I will send |
| 1:28.7 | you the GHD Pro hair dryer. |
| 1:31.4 | At the end of the show, I'll tell you what we're going to be given away next week and how |
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