HIGHLIGHTS • How Elevating a Service Can Lead to a New Business w/ Kelsey Jensen
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Kelsey Jensen @goddessglitterhair delves into the creation of her business and how her unique approach has set her apart in the market. She shares pricing strategies for the service and the techniques involved in applying hair tinsel. Kelsey also reflects on her early mistakes and the lessons learned along the way.
This Week's Topics:
• Early Experiences in the Hair Industry
• Challenges During COVID and Business Growth
• The Birth of Goddess Glitter Hair
• The Journey of Starting a Business
• Pricing Strategies for Hair Services
• Techniques and Methods for Application
• Balancing Business and Client Work
• Learning from Mistakes
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https://goddessglitterhair.com/
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| 0:00.0 | coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | Salon Republic has a new location in Encino opening up in just a few weeks. |
| 0:17.2 | So go to Saladrepublic.com or our link in bio to book a tour and check out that new space. |
| 0:23.4 | We also have a location in San Carlos up in the Bay Area. |
| 0:27.3 | That one is opening this fall so you can do a virtual tour to check out how that's going to look. |
| 0:32.4 | You can also book that as well at Salonrepublic.com. |
| 0:36.0 | All right, on to our episode with Kelsey Jensen. |
| 0:39.0 | Okay, so give us like an evolution of the business. So you tell us like first steps. |
| 0:46.7 | You have to get inventory. You've got to find a supplier, all that. Yeah. Yeah, I was, so, you know, it first started when I had seen hair tensile out in the world, and my dad's partner had it in her hair. And I was like, ooh, I like it. You know, I like it. I like sparkly things. I go to festivals. Like, I'm fun, you know. But it just didn't. I ordered some online some online and I got it in and I was like not it just wasn't the vibe for me it just looked a little chunky it just looked a little |
| 1:19.6 | just wasn't it you know and then I'm trying to figure out online how to do it and everything's just challenging and you're like, you know, watching a video |
| 1:28.2 | and you're rewinding it a million times and it's grainy, it's on YouTube and they're doing a |
| 1:32.2 | million different things. And then it's, so I was experimenting. So yeah, it started with me, you know, |
| 1:38.4 | just realizing that I wanted to improve that entire process. And so I needed to first, like, |
| 1:46.0 | order the actual strands themselves and compare different strands and then use a few different, like, methods and compare |
| 1:52.4 | those and then figure out kind of what tools were needed. And that was, you know, at the beginning |
| 1:57.7 | I had, I had the strands and I had a few tools, you know, |
| 2:02.7 | just like the bare basics of things to kind of get going. But yeah, I had to figure out how |
| 2:08.4 | to package things because I'm not just, nothing's coming like pre-packaged. It's not just |
| 2:13.0 | hair tinsel that I'm putting in a pretty package. So it was like, how do I do this? My dad is a contractor. |
| 2:18.3 | And so he helped me build this kind of machine that we have a couple of now that that help |
| 2:23.6 | practice or help, excuse me, that help package the product. Because you're dealing with fine |
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