HIGHLIGHTS • Hairstyling Trends & Their Evolution w/ Christian Awesome
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Hairdresser and educator @christianawesome started his career as a musician but transitioned to hairdressing for its flexibility and creativity. We chat about the evolution of hairstyling trends and the increasing complexity of the industry, as well as tailoring haircuts to each client's hair type, texture, bone structure, and maintenance level.
This Week's Topics:
• Transitioning from Music to Hair
• Working as an Educator
• Approach to Haircutting
• Evolution of Hairstyling Trends
• Specialization in the Hairdressing Industry
• Impact of Social Media on the Industry
• Balancing Creativity and Influences
• Finding Inspiration and Overcoming Creative Blocks
• Favorite Accounts for Creative Inspiration
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.7 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
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| 0:38.9 | All right, now on to the episode with Christian Awesome. |
| 0:43.1 | And so what is the process of moving from a behind-the-chair hairdresser to a, you know, |
| 0:49.9 | full-time employed educator at a hair school? |
| 0:53.7 | Do they run you through a training program? |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, they do. They run you through a bit of a training program. I mean, by the time that you |
| 1:00.0 | work in a school like that, you have to go through like a whole different series of different |
| 1:07.1 | classes in education. You have to get your hours the same way that you would if you're going |
| 1:10.0 | a caratology school, except this time to get your license as an educator. And so I had already done that before. So moving to the city, I already had my license to be able to teach in a school. So by the time I got there, the school hadn't taken on. They were brand new. They hadn't even opened the doors yet. So there were no students enrolled. So for the first three or four, |
| 1:27.6 | maybe six months, we were just creating our curriculum, our lesson plans, making sure that all |
| 1:32.5 | the moving parts kind of fit how they were supposed to so that by the time we did enroll students, |
| 1:37.6 | you know, it was a well-oil machine and there wasn't any, you know, any lag or gaps. |
| 1:43.3 | Got it. And I'm sure that there was a structure that was in place from other Paul |
| 1:48.1 | Mitchell schools. And then you guys kind of within that structure developed the curriculum. |
| 1:53.5 | That's super interesting. And probably a great experience to have that, you know, that time to work on that and kind of get yourself |
| 2:03.9 | in the mindset of being a full-time educator. All right. So the place opens and what was that like? |
| 2:09.8 | I mean, it was exciting. I mean, it was probably one of the coolest times, I think, in my career, |
| 2:15.6 | just the energy of being in a place |
| 2:17.8 | from the very beginning, before the doors are open. |
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