HIGHLIGHTS • Getting Out of Jail & Into Beauty School w/ Amber Marie
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
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Stylist and salon owner Amber Marie @duchessofthedolls struggled with addiction and found herself in trouble.... she shares her story finding rehab and the challenge of getting into school due to her past. We also discuss specific topics from her hairstylist brand & business platform Hair Money Mindset @digitalhighsociety, such as pricing formulas and tips to build your book.
This week's topics:
• How she came up with her IG name
• Her struggle with alcohol addiction
• Hair Money Mindset - Her brand & business building platform
- Pricing formulas to avoid charging with your heart
- Tips to build out your books digitally and in person
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, editor of the Hair Game podcast. We are doing highlights. Highlights is going to be a short Cliff Notes version of the full episode that will release right alongside it. So if you don't have enough time |
| 0:21.2 | to check out the full one or you just want to get an idea of what the full episode's going to be |
| 0:25.0 | about, you can check it out here. Let us know if you like them. We're going to be doing them |
| 0:28.7 | every week. This week, we're with Amber Marie, aka Duchess of the Dolls. First, I have to |
| 0:35.6 | know where you got the name, Duchess of the Dolls. |
| 0:39.7 | Fantastic question. |
| 0:41.1 | And I get this a lot. |
| 0:42.5 | So how it happened was I was building my Instagram since 2013. |
| 0:49.1 | In the beginning, I was just Ambermarie. |
| 0:52.0 | 8.8. |
| 0:52.9 | So just my name and building content around that. |
| 0:56.6 | And I was at my first behind the chair, which is BTC, for the One Shot Awards. |
| 1:02.7 | I was there as a creative artist. |
| 1:04.6 | And I was literally laying in my hotel room with one of my good friends, Kaylee. |
| 1:09.5 | And we were talking about how to become Instagram |
| 1:11.4 | famous. And during this time, early, that was early. That was, yeah. So, well, when I changed my name |
| 1:19.2 | was in 2017, and we were sitting there, and I was like, man, everybody has, like, these catchy names. |
| 1:25.3 | And I always kind of seen, like, the Beyonce Knowles with the Sasha Fiers |
| 1:29.8 | and all of these different really high-level creatives that had this identity outside of their |
| 1:37.2 | birth name. So my salon, located here in Texas, is all dolled up. So when I was thinking about like names that kind of like |
| 1:46.6 | flowed with that, I thought, I never wanted, I don't like the term queen, like quote unquote |
| 1:51.9 | queen, because, you know, queens are only queens when they're with kings and things like that. |
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