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The Hair Game

Ep. 403 • You CAN Do Vivid Hair in a Small Town! w/ Jen Guido

The Hair Game

Salon Republic

Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Business

4.9571 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Olaplex pro artist award winner @jenthehairmagician fills her books with over 70% vivid clients living in a small suburb. We chat about how she built and maintains her clientele, how they handled her increasing prices twice in one year, and the challenges of being a lefty.

This Week's Topics:

• Growing Up in the Hair Industry
Navigating Left-Handed Challenges in Hairdressing
The Current State of the Vivid Hair Market
Transitioning from Commission to Indie
Managing Demand and Pricing Strategies
Client Reactions to Pricing Changes
The Shift to Hourly Pricing
Managing Client Expectations
Self-Care in the Service Industry

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Everyone's got their own story, so I can't say that it's absolutely impossible that this is true, but I don't think the small town excuse is real. I don't.

0:10.6

Hi, I'm Maddie Conrad. I'm Tabitha Calfi. Hi, I'm Mustafa Avesi. I'm Andrew Does Here.

0:15.1

Hi, my name is Kelly O'Leary, and you are listening to The Hair Game Podcast.

0:23.3

Hey, hair gamers. Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game Podcast.

0:27.6

Salon Public has a new location coming this fall in Philadelphia, our first one on the

0:32.3

East Coast. Go to Salonanurn Public.com or our link in bio.

0:36.6

You can get a virtual tour scheduled.

0:38.8

We'll show you around the space virtually.

0:40.5

Let you know our amenities and let you get dibs on your new hair home.

0:45.4

All right.

0:45.8

On to our episode with Jen Guido, Jen the Hair Magician.

0:50.6

Hey, Jen.

0:51.4

How you doing?

0:52.4

I'm doing great.

0:53.2

How are you?

0:54.1

I'm doing great. So you're in Chicago land, and this is now, we're in June.

1:00.0

And so what is it like in Chicago in June? Is the weather turned nice?

1:04.0

Chicago and June has been very unpredictable this year. I want to say it's like spring is still kind of springing. We've been

1:12.3

getting thunderstorms. We've been getting rain. It's being 80 and then it's being 60. It's being all

1:18.9

sorts of things. So I guess that is predictable for Chicagoland, but normally it would be nicer by now.

1:24.4

Okay. All right. So I've never actually experienced the windy city, as everybody calls it, so windy, because I've never been there when it's windy, which I guess is during the wintertime, right? Yeah. I mean, it can just be windy at multiple times per year, but specifically the wintertime is awful when it's windy. It hurts. Really? Because it's cold, too?

1:46.0

Yeah, like it bites. It bites your skin. Wow. I spent a spring break in New York City one year,

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