HIGHLIGHTS • How Saying 'Yes' to New Trends Brought Incredible Success w/ Sami Schneider
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Creative color expert and K18 collective member @samihairmagic found her niche in the hair industry early. When a client requested rainbow hair, she realized she enjoyed creative color and leaned into it.
We discuss the balance between fun and work in the hairdressing industry, why she 'breaks the rules' when it comes to color, and the importance of embracing individuality.
This Week's Topics:
- The Rise of Vivid Colors
- Education and Breaking the Rules
- Current Work and Content Creation
- The Balance of Fun and Work
- Navigating Social Media: TikTok vs Instagram
- Career Choices and Learning from Experience
- Embracing Individuality and Client Connections
- Crazy Client Stories and Salon Life
- Final Thoughts: Embrace Your Weirdness
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.9 | Hey, Hairgamer's Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Our locations in Westwood and Glendale are open, and our second one in Encino is opening soon. |
| 0:19.5 | So go to Salonrepublic.com or link in bio, book your tour for those and get first dibs on your new space. |
| 0:25.8 | Also, from time to time, you DM us with suggestions on who we should bring on as guests. |
| 0:31.1 | We love this. |
| 0:32.0 | So if there's someone you think we should bring on that we haven't yet, shoot us a DM at the Hairgame Podcast. |
| 0:37.9 | Let us know who they are. |
| 0:39.7 | All right, on to our episode with Sammy Schneider. |
| 0:44.0 | You know, when TikTok came out, I'll give you the kind of the foundation of this question. |
| 0:48.3 | When TikTok came out a couple years ago, maybe more than that, what, five years ago that kind of caught on, I was like, oh, God, okay, here's another thing that everybody has to do. |
| 0:59.0 | And, yeah, it might be fun, but there's a work element. |
| 1:02.9 | Somebody might not like it. |
| 1:04.3 | And so are they going to do it? |
| 1:06.0 | So my question to you is a hairdresser who is just barely staying above water on Instagram, you know, |
| 1:14.3 | with the posting and marketing themselves, right? What do you suggest to them with TikTok? |
| 1:20.9 | Do you recommend that they maybe split the little bit of time that they're spending on Instagram |
| 1:25.8 | and send it to to and spend it on |
| 1:28.7 | TikTok or do you recommend just no TikTok? What do you think? Well, first and foremost, I recommend |
| 1:36.3 | just having fun with it. I'm sorry. Allergies. There's your hypoallergetic cat. |
| 1:45.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.2 | Oh, my cat. |
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