Ep. 186 • How to Approach Curly v. Straight Hair Services w/ Leysa Carillo @leysahairandmakeup
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We continue our conversation with Leysa Carillo and discuss her difficulty retaining clients as she adjusted to life in the USA. Though curly-haired herself, she was not trained and versed in textured hair initially. We also get into the topic of curly vs. straight hair services and what you can do to learn and expand your clientele with textured hair.
This week's topics:
• Difficulty in retaining clients due to accent and background
• Learning to work on textured hair and expanding her clientele
• Common mistakes hairdressers make on textured/curly hair
• How she approaches a curly service vs straight service
• Her approach to pricing
• Who inspires her and what she would change about the industry
• Hair Horror Story!
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| 0:00.0 | When I say consultation go deep means you have to ask question what happened and you heard five years ago. |
| 0:06.2 | Because literally when you stretch that curl, that's literally how all that hair is going to be. |
| 0:12.4 | Hey, guys. My name's Charlie Gray. I'm Alison Al-Hamud. Hi, I'm Erica Keelan. It's Kia Artistically Neil. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kimberly Taye Hare and you're listening to The Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:23.1 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:25.0 | Thanks for joining. |
| 0:26.1 | Last week, I got into a little bit of what I'm seeing in the industry right now |
| 0:29.5 | between those who are thriving and those who are struggling. |
| 0:33.8 | In this intro today, I want to boil it down to a very, very simple concepts. |
| 0:39.3 | It's going to be shorter than last week. |
| 0:41.3 | I find that people who struggle oftentimes have the mindset that things are happening to them. |
| 0:49.3 | The world is doing things to them and causing them to fail. But this is not the way that I see it. |
| 0:56.5 | This is not the way that I've ever seen it. |
| 0:58.6 | And I don't think that that's the way that the world works. |
| 1:01.7 | I think that those who survive and thrive simply understand that the choices that they make, |
| 1:10.6 | the actions that they take are what caused them to |
| 1:14.1 | survive and thrive. They are not beholden to what the world or subject. They are not subject to what |
| 1:21.9 | the world does to them. They know that they have the choice to do A, B, C, at any given point in their day, |
| 1:32.0 | at any given point in their life. And the result, the accumulation of those choices is what |
| 1:39.6 | determines whether somebody survives or thrives. It's very much up to each one of us. I think I said that last |
| 1:47.2 | week. It's very much up to each one of us. And this to me is extremely optimistic, right? We are not |
| 1:55.6 | subject to what the world is doing to us. we have the choice to take certain actions which result |
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