HIGHLIGHTS • Want a Revolution? Start One Yourself w/ Ashlie Ferguson
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
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Salon Owner & educator Ashlie Ferguson @snowconehead wanted a better convention.... so she created one herself! She shares details about her upcoming convention - @revbeautycon - aimed at providing real education for stylists, highlighting indie brands and educators.
Ashlie also touches on the role of effective consultations, assistants in the salon, and the impact of physical injuries on stylists.
This Week's Topics:
• Education and Early Career
• Bond Builders and Product Experience
• The Impact of Mass Marketing on Hair Products
• Client Preferences: The Shift Towards Low Maintenance Styles
• Consultation Dynamics: Understanding Client Needs
• Balancing Client Consultations and Scheduling
• The Role of Assistants in Hair Styling
• Dealing with Physical Injuries in the Industry
• Changing Client Perceptions on Pricing
• @RevBeautyCon: A New Kind of Convention
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| 0:00.0 | These are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:09.4 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | Salon Public has a new location opening very soon in Encino. |
| 0:18.9 | Go to SalonRepublic.com or our link in bio, book your tour and check that out. |
| 0:24.2 | We also have one opening in San Carlos in the Bay Area this fall, as well as one in Philadelphia, |
| 0:29.9 | our first East Coast Salon. That one's opening up in the fall too, so go to Salonermpublic.com |
| 0:35.6 | and check out those new spaces and book a tour. |
| 0:39.8 | All right, onto our episode with Ashley Ferguson. |
| 0:44.1 | There's been, call it what you will, controversy or maybe different perspectives on how much an assistant should be, you know, how often they should |
| 0:58.3 | have their hands on your client's head. And, you know, a lot of us want to be able to scale |
| 1:05.4 | our time and experience and relationships, and we want, we need assistance to help us do that. |
| 1:10.4 | A lot of clients don't want |
| 1:12.2 | an assistant, aka maybe somebody less experienced or new, or certainly somebody may be less |
| 1:18.3 | familiar to them, doing some of the work that they think they're paying you to do. Have you had, |
| 1:25.2 | have you run into any of these issues? So I feel like I'm the controversy, |
| 1:31.0 | like I'm the thing that the internet probably hates, but I believe that my assistants |
| 1:36.7 | deserve to learn hair, hands on every day and not just be folding towels, but I have the |
| 1:43.9 | proper conversation with my |
| 1:45.5 | staff, with clients about it. I'm not like, and I'll just walk my assistant up and start |
| 1:49.9 | slapping color on and then and then leave the client there. I'm like, hey, I have an assistant |
| 1:55.0 | who's helping me. I am training her. I have went through these steps to get her to this level |
| 1:59.7 | that she can be hands on |
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