Ep. 387 • "You'll Never Make a Living Doing Creative Color" w/ Hannah Mejia
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
After her first creative color client, @hannahdisconnected was told by her fellow stylists that vivids were a fad and she wouldn't make a living doing creative color for very long.
Over a decade later, Hannah is a 2024 BTC One Shot winner and part of the Danger Jones Creative Crew. We discuss her techniques & strategies for color application, as well her process for consultations with clients wanting to go vivid or transition to another vivid color.
We also discuss the evolution of hair shows, brand collabs & opportunies, and navigating the challenges of social media and client expectations.
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| 0:00.0 | And you know, all the people in my salon I was working out at the time, they were all, you know, natural, baliage, |
| 0:09.1 | Ombray, everything. And I was like, you know what? I'm going to be, I'm going to go over here and be |
| 0:14.8 | different than all these people, you know. |
| 0:17.9 | Hi, everyone. My name is Kirill Harefucker. It's Duchess of the Dolls. |
| 0:21.5 | This is your boy Wesley Palmer. |
| 0:23.0 | My name is Caitlin Ford. |
| 0:24.2 | Hi, it's You Ney Damtu, and you are listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:31.9 | Hey, hair gamers, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:35.6 | Our location in Westwood is open now, and our location |
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| 0:44.0 | or our link in bio, check out those spaces, book a tour, and find your new hair home. |
| 0:50.7 | Also, our location in Encino Gateway will be opening as well as up in the Bay Area San Carlos. |
| 0:56.4 | So check those out. |
| 0:58.1 | All right, on to our episode with Hannah Mejia, also known as Hannah Disconnected. |
| 1:03.7 | So for those who don't know you, I don't know if there are many listeners who don't know you, although Hannah did say, and I don't know if this is, this made it into the first part |
| 1:13.9 | of the episode, but this is Hannah's first podcast episode, which I was saying I'm very surprised |
| 1:20.1 | at because you've been very popular for a long time. |
| 1:24.6 | And of course, that's no indication of your age. I think before we started recording, I said |
| 1:31.4 | that, you know, you've been around, you've been popular for a long time. And then she's like, |
| 1:37.1 | well, but I'm still up and coming, you know, everyone wants to be thought of as, you know, |
| 1:41.9 | very up and coming still. And I think you are. |
| 1:45.0 | You're still very young. |
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