Ep. 49 · The Right and Wrong Ways to Run a Salon w/@AmeliaHairMakeup
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
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🗓️ 27 August 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Eric interviews Atlanta color-correction expert Amelia Fugitt @AmeliaHairMakeup. They get into how to run a healthy commission salon, the difficulty of being a hairstylist, @processperfect, nightmare salon owners, decompressing, and her success on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the hair game. |
| 0:03.2 | This is an interview with Amelia Fuget, better known as Amelia Hair Makeup on Instagram. |
| 0:10.0 | Not Amelia Hair and makeup, just Amelia Hair Makeup. |
| 0:15.2 | She's a color correction expert who is educating at the Paul Mitchell Gathering where we did |
| 0:19.4 | this interview out in the open around a lot of attendees. She works with Jacob Conn in Atlanta and Jacob was lurking around during the interview. One might call it a guest appearance. Amelia's awesome. I hope you enjoy this. You told me your first question to him was like, what would you say to Donald Trump if he was here? And I was like, are you kidding me? Is that what it's going to be like? |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.3 | I didn't know. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh my God. |
| 0:41.3 | Well, who knows? So what if Donald Trump walks in the salon? Oh, God. And so he doesn't sit in Jacob's chair. He would make it through the door. Let's say... Let's say... I actually shouldn't say that. |
| 0:50.3 | Okay, this is an apolitical show. |
| 0:52.3 | Yes. |
| 0:53.3 | So you can't say anything apolitical. |
| 0:55.3 | Okay. |
| 0:56.3 | Positive or negative. |
| 0:57.3 | It has to be totally neutral. Okay, gotcha. Okay, so he sits down in your chair and Secret Service is there. So you feel like you have to cut his hair. Okay. Because otherwise they could like jail you. Yes. Or maybe kick you out of the country so what do you do what do I do |
| 1:13.3 | okay well first of all I don't do men's hair oh okay so anything I do is not gonna be |
| 1:21.1 | good like I don't know if I mean his hair is so bad does he have a man's hair cut |
| 1:25.5 | okay you know I don't even I think. I mean, it's just more of like, I mean, I don't know, those pictures of it in the wind? You're like, oh. There is no category. It's like up and over and no, yeah. I mean, how do you cut that? Like, what does it look like when it's like wet and down? That's the question. Think of a wet Donald Trump. How horrifying is that image? |
| 1:49.5 | Like orange spray tan like dripping down. Yeah. Terrifying. Maybe this is just part of |
| 1:54.9 | that whole like non-gender hairstyle thing. Maybe. Right? Okay, yeah. |
| 2:01.6 | He is emblematic of that whole non-gender hairstyle thing. |
| 2:05.6 | I would be really surprised if you would, you know. |
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