HIGHLIGHTS • What You Need to Succeed as a Bridal Stylist w/ Angela Catteneo
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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@beyondtheponytail Founder Angela Catteneo shares her insights as a bridal stylist, including the skills and traits necessary to thrive in this unique genre of hairstyling.
She also saw a need for a community where bridal stylists could come together. We discuss the evolution of Beyond The Ponytail, as well as the importance of education beyond styling.
This Week's Topics:
• Angela's Journey into Hairdressing
• The Birth of Beyond the Ponytail
• Challenges of Being a Bridal Stylist
• Navigating Bridal Client Relationships
• Preparation and Control in Bridal Styling
• Pricing Strategies
• Balancing Professionalism and Friendship
• Building a Community: Beyond the Ponytail
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| 0:00.0 | These are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey, Hairgamer's Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:20.2 | Salon Republic has a couple new locations |
| 0:21.9 | opening soon, one in Encino, California, as well as the Bay Area San Carlos. So go to Salon |
| 0:27.7 | Republic.com or our link in bio on the Hair Game podcast and book your tour for those. Check |
| 0:34.7 | them out and get dibs on your new space. All right, onto our episode with Angela Catenio. |
| 0:40.8 | So at this point, you would consider yourself a bridal stylist expert. |
| 0:46.8 | Yes. |
| 0:47.5 | And you've developed this community, but I want to talk a little bit more about what it's like to be a bridal stylist because we have a lot of |
| 0:56.6 | listeners, a vast majority of whom are hairstylists, and many of them, I would guess, don't, certainly |
| 1:06.7 | don't focus on weddings, or maybe not, never having actually done a wedding. So can we talk about |
| 1:15.8 | maybe the trickiest parts of being a bridal stylist that might surprise many salon hair |
| 1:23.8 | gestures? There's, you know, I always say when I, when I speak about, you know, the bridal |
| 1:30.2 | stylist and that as a career in this, in this industry, it takes a special person that |
| 1:37.0 | has a lot of patience and a lot of ability to overcome and be in control of a stressful situation. |
| 1:47.0 | So you have your skill level. |
| 1:50.0 | So I always say continue to get education. |
| 1:53.0 | If you have a love for updoes, most are afraid because of the skill level they might not be able to reproduce that particular |
| 2:03.6 | look how they want because it does take different steps to get to that finished result. |
| 2:09.6 | But they're also like being able to handle the pressure of working under a timeline |
| 2:16.6 | and be able to produce those results in a very beautiful |
| 2:22.3 | situation, but a very stressful situation. |
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