Ep. 410 • What Are Men Willing to Pay for an Elevated Haircut? w/ Carlos Ramos
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Men's cutting specialist & educator @sugarskulls creates a bespoke experience for his clients; we discuss what it takes to build a clientele of men looking for custom, elevated haircuts. We also discuss the evolution and current states of men's hairstyles, as well as navigating difficult conversations such as hair loss.
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| 0:00.0 | Most dudes haven't had somebody that talks to them about it. |
| 0:02.7 | What are you doing? |
| 0:03.4 | How do you style your hair? Hey, use these products. This is going to be good for you. Here, let me just photograph. Let me just show you what I can do. You can go home and rinse this if you don't like it. Hi, I'm Franco. This is Daniel Mason Jones. I'm celebrity stylist. Kaya Wright. This is Patricia Nicole, Painted Hair, and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:25.7 | Hey, everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:29.5 | If you were in the Seattle, Washington area, Salon and Public has a bunch of salons up there for you to find your new hair home. |
| 0:36.8 | Go check out SalonRepublic.com and go to locations |
| 0:40.2 | and you can see all of our locations up in the Seattle area. So check that out and become part of |
| 0:45.3 | the SR fam. All right, on to our episode with Carlos Sugar Skulls Ramos. What's going on, buddy? |
| 0:55.3 | What's up, man? |
| 0:55.8 | How are you? |
| 0:56.6 | I'm good. |
| 0:57.4 | So Carlos and I were just kind of catching him. |
| 1:00.2 | I mean, we see each other probably once every six or eight weeks or whatever. |
| 1:04.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.6 | Because you're working out of WeHo, Salon Republic WeHo, most of the time. |
| 1:10.3 | And so we still see each other. But this is pretty |
| 1:14.7 | cool because Carlos and I know each other. Most of these podcast episodes you listeners know, |
| 1:21.0 | the guests are typically people who I'm meeting for the first time. And I kind of like that |
| 1:25.9 | because I take my natural curiosity |
| 1:27.7 | into the conversation. Carlos and I met, I mean, going back probably eight years. And then it was |
| 1:36.0 | probably a year after we met that we did our first interview for the Hair Game Podcast, |
| 1:41.9 | which, by the way, started about eight years ago, 2017 in August is when the Hair Game podcast, which by the way started about eight years ago, |
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