HIGHLIGHTS • The Keys to Understanding Textured Hair w/ Dominique LyVar
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Texture Educator and @texturevsrace artist @kingdomofcurls_ developed his program to highlight the unique aspects of textured hair that can help hairdressers quickly understand how to approach a service. Dominique also emphasizes the need for authenticity in the beauty industry and reflects on the emotional aspects of hairdressing.
This Week's Topics:
• Career Journey and Transition to Education
• The Importance of Texture in Hairdressing
• Establishing Boundaries with Clients
• Navigating Client Relationships
• Education and Empowerment in the Industry
• Challenges and Conversations with Clients
• Industry Changes and Future Aspirations
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| 0:00.0 | These are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.7 | Hello everyone, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
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| 0:58.9 | All right, on to our episode with Dominique Lavaar. |
| 1:02.2 | Okay, so when you were making this transition, you had a lot of clients, enough clients to make you feel like, you know, you're, are you still doing |
| 1:12.0 | editorial work and freelancing type things? Yeah, yeah. I still sold now that I'm independent. I have |
| 1:17.8 | more freedom. Yeah. You know, so I'm able to work for Fashion Week. I'm able to do an editorial |
| 1:25.5 | shoot if they call for me, you know, and I don't have to ask somebody |
| 1:29.1 | for permission. Can I get this day off? Like, I don't think I will ever ask anybody for |
| 1:34.5 | to ask for a day off ever again, you know? So, you know, it was just that. Like, with everything |
| 1:42.0 | that I've done in the past, I wasn't able to mesh everything together, you know, because I just couldn't. I didn't have the time or the freedom to. Now I have all the freedom in the world. So I can, you know, say I have, you know, four days in the salon, the other days I'm educating or I'm traveling, |
| 2:03.5 | I'm teaching, whatever, whatever, you know, and I just didn't have that before. And now that |
| 2:10.4 | I've gotten a taste of that, I don't, I don't ever want to do that again. Yeah, you don't ever want |
| 2:16.7 | to go back. It makes a lot of sense, |
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