HIGHLIGHTS • "You'll Never Make a Living Doing Creative Color" w/ Hannah Mejia
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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After her first creative color client, @hannahdisconnected was told by her fellow stylists that vivids were a fad and she wouldn't make a living doing creative color for very long.
Over a decade later, Hannah is a 2024 BTC One Shot winner and part of the Danger Jones Creative Crew. We discuss her techniques & strategies for color application, as well her process for consultations with clients wanting to go vivid or transition to another vivid color.
We also discuss the evolution of hair shows, brand collabs & opportunies, and navigating the challenges of social media and client expectations.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey, hair gamers, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | Our location in Westwood is open now, and our location in Glendale is opening in just about a week or so. |
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| 0:23.1 | Check out those spaces, book a tour, and find your new hair home. |
| 0:27.6 | Also, our location in Encino Gateway will be opening as well as up in the Bay Area San |
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| 0:33.3 | So check those out. |
| 0:35.0 | All right. |
| 0:35.7 | On to our episode with Hannah Mejia, also known as Hannah Disconnected. |
| 0:41.0 | I remember them saying that so much of it had to do with just being aggressive on the lightning. |
| 0:48.7 | And a lot of people were afraid of being aggressive on the lightning, just roasting the hair to get it as light as possible. |
| 0:58.3 | Right. And then putting the color on top of it. And that's how they were getting, you know, those |
| 1:03.0 | results. And so it makes sense that in order to do it, you already had kind of the background on |
| 1:10.2 | lightning. Yeah. Yeah. you know, and that's when |
| 1:13.6 | I feel like that's when like, um, brays were a really big thing is when like the creative colorness |
| 1:19.0 | kind of took off and then like there was, there was umbraes and then like creative color, right? |
| 1:24.1 | And, um, and so it was kind of like, okay, which world world which world do i like want to like go with |
| 1:31.6 | right um and you know all the all the people in my salon i was working out at the time uh they were |
| 1:38.4 | all you know natural balliage umbrarae, everything. |
| 1:45.4 | And I was like, you know what? |
| 1:49.9 | I'm going to go over here and be different than all these people, you know. |
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