HOW TO BE A NEW YORK CITY HAIRSTYLIST

Have you ever dreamed of being a hairstylist in New York?

Well then your like many who dream this dream

But....

I will tell you, this job is not for the faint hearted

Most of the famous styling houses start you off as an assistant 

For about two years you will be shampooing, mixing color, blow drying for a stylist with a large clientele

This will be a learning process

For all of you straight out of beauty school or new to our industry

A seasoned stylist will never take this job

Hell, they won't even hire you if you have too many years under your belt

The seasoned stylist will very rarely jump from salon to salon as I have over the years

But I did it so I could write about life as a stylist all over Manhattan 

It was more like a study for me

To see what was REALLY going on in New York City on the hair scene

Not everything I saw or was exposed to was pleasant

Some salons in the running for reality TV!

Some salon owners or managers not having a clue what the Hell their doing

To work at Vidal Sassoon, Frederic Fakki, DramaticsNYC, Bumble & Bumble and a few others I'm sure to be forgetting you start off at the shampoo bowl

All of them will provide you advanced education

Which is A l w a y s a plus

When you stop learning in our business you need to just leave the industry 

I'm a real hairdresser 

I've stood behind the chair for the last 

30 years

At this point I'm more interested in the psychology behind what we do

And the wants and needs of this new client we are servicing

The client of today is well educated

And they are knowledgable 

We need to be always an educated step above them