Client Storytimes | Confessions Of A Hairstylist Now That It Doesnt Matter

Please don't come for me. Okay, I know like we all do bad things and things that we are ashamed of. Okay, I'm just being vocal about mine. Did anybody miss me, hey everyone. I feel like a completely different person. Y'All. Let me just tell you, I have an M.I.A, but it has not been for no other reason that life is just you know coming at me, and you know I got a lot of things to do all right. I'M pretty sure this is going to be like my check-in and then I'm gon na go ghost again, because I just literally cannot keep up with time and keep up with life, and this has been the first time I've done my hair um in like a whole Month and the first time I put makeup on, I hope you guys enjoy it, I'm enjoying looking at myself, looking like an actual human being so good to know um my hair is my hair is doing weird things. So sorry, if I keep messing with it, it's just it's just doing its thing, but anyway I thought I would come to y'all with um a few story times, because I was thinking about this for a while, and it's kind of like the little story times that, Like just don't make a it's not long enough to make it to a video and there's this one girl on Tick Tock and she does stories that keep her up at night like she explains like what keeps her up at night. Okay, so here's another story. Time of something that keeps me up at night, and it's like the embarrassing cringy stories that really do so. I wanted to go ahead and jump on that, but that bandwagon and tell y'all about clients and things that I did to them. That hit me up at night that I genuinely do like feel sorry for I'm genuinely embarrassed and they haven't left my mind. So let's go ahead and get into that because I just it's funny like talking about it now, but it's like really not funny when you think about it, so get what you need to get: let's go ahead and get right on into it. The first story is going to be, and I'm just gon na look Jasmine. I don't think you want me to say your name but Jasmine. You know exactly who you are. I'M sorry, I'm just going to start off this story by saying sorry. Okay with I know, and I'm laughing and I'm joking, but I mean this with my entire heart, my entire soul, okay, so boom. This was back when I was first apprenticing at the salon and I had to do models now. It was 50 models and things like that, so any kind of service, like was 50 any color service, was fifty dollars. Haircuts were free blow dries everything like all that was free. Now I went to school with Jasmine. Okay, like we were in school together but like we had classes together, but we were never like friends like we were not home girls. We followed each other on Instagram um. We knew each other because of like the different classes that we had together in high school, but we we didn't know each other. We were not cool like that. We were cool but like we were not cool like that. So I had posted on my um Instagram that I needed models and I wanted you know I just needed models to do some certain hair, colors DM me blah blah blah, and at this time I was posting a lot of blow dries and, as you guys can See I know how to lay somebody's hair, I'm telling you that is my only claim to fame. That is the one thing that no one could ever tell me about hair. I know how to get anybody's hair, silky, smooth and straight all right. So at this time I was, you know, posting a lot of blow dries, and this was with everybody I had. You know like black girls with really really kinky curly hair. I was having like the white girls with all the volume I was doing any and everybody's hair, because I love blow drying hair and I at this point in time I think I was like advertising how well I was doing hair like ethnic hair. So I was doing a lot of black women's hair and posting it, and I was doing a lot of Hispanic women. You know a lot of people with really thick coarse, curly hair. I was just on that wave so and I genuinely enjoy doing it like I. It'S so satisfying to me, and it's one of my favorite things to do so. Jasmine DMS me and she was like hey um. I see that you're doing this um. I was interested in wanting to know if you could do my hair, and so I was like yeah, of course like. What are you thinking about doing today, like what kind of style are you wanting to do blah blah blah, and she told me that she wanted to do like a blonde ombre, and then she just wanted a blowout now this was something it was just like. A hot mess like it was the whole day just was a hot mess, and I think I mentioned this before my manager that worked at the salon. Love her down and I like will always appreciate the opportunities that she gave me and like just the free reign that she gave me like. I honestly I'm very grateful for the salon and the people that I worked with while I was at that Salon, but my manager did not say no like it didn't matter what predicament she would put us in it wouldn't matter how uncomfortable she would make the client Or us as stylist, if somebody wanted something she would book it, and so obviously Jasmine has thick curly hair and she wanted a color and a blow dry. So obviously that takes that takes a long time for anybody, but it's especially for her type of hair. What she wanted and then how we need the time to blow dry, because I take my time when it comes to blow dry, because that's the biggest deal so to make a long story short. We went in and we you know, did the color for her. Everything was cool. I was shampooing her. I had put a conditioner on her and I had already I had previously had somebody else come in for a haircut now when I was doing Jasmine's hair. I was running really far behind in my schedule, so I messaged the girl that was supposed to come for her. Like appointment, I had messaged her and I was like hey I'm running a little bit behind. Can you come a little bit later and she was like yeah no problem, and so, while I had Jasmine, she was in the shampoo bowl. I had her putting in like a deep conditioner and then my manager was like Hey. Can you do this haircut like I booked you a haircut in between and I was like no like I'm with her like I I have to finish her and she was like. Oh I'll finish the I'll finish rinsing her and I'll finish getting the conditioner out, and then by that time you should be done with the haircut. She wanted me to do a whole haircut in the time that it takes for somebody to get a deep conditioning treatment. Girl, so I was like okay, I told Jasmine. I was like hey um, I'm going to leave you with this on and I'll be right back whatever I hate doing that. I absolutely because I know exactly how it feels as a client to just feel like you're. In the middle, like you want that Salon Service to be like about you and about your hair, you don't want it to feel like it's half ass and that's why I don't like double booking so she's in the in the shampoo bowl or whatever my manager is Giving her a massage she's doing all that stuff she's talking to her okay cool! I finished the haircut well in the time that I finished my haircut, the other girl, the appointment that I had shows up, so I go ahead and I'll take Jasmine back to the chair. I get her blow dry started. Well, as I'm doing the blow dry, my manager comes back and she's like hey. Your appointment is here and I was just like okay. Well, I told her to come a little bit later, so um just let her know that I'm still working on somebody else. Whatever my manager gets the bright idea to ask another stylist to finish Jasmine's hair - and this is where, like I say, I don't sleep well at night. This does keep me up. I think about this. Often, I'm telling you Jasmine. If you ever come across this video, when I tell you I'm genuinely sorry, I am genuinely sorry because I can just only imagine what it felt like, because I'm in the middle of doing Jasmine's, hair and then my manager brings the other person to the chair next To me to have her sit down, so I'm like hey, like I'm, I'm doing Jasmine hair right, I'm like whatever I don't know and I'm like hey how's it going like. What'S good yeah, okay, yeah, I'm gon na be right with you. Don'T worry, um yep just and her hair is not even halfway done like it's just not even halfway done so I have my manager who sat my client next to me, and I have the one that I'm like currently doing that I'm running behind on so literally As I'm working on her hair, my new client is sitting next to me. My manager grabs another stylist and was like Samantha. I have so, and so here, they're gon na go ahead and take over the service and like in that moment, I should have just like. I don't know I should have done a whole lot of things differently, but it was. It was like it was happening too fast and I was just going crazy. I don't know, but so the the other stylist takes over and I was like he's gon na go ahead and finish this out for you, but I'll make sure that once everything's done and finished like, I got you like whatever, and I just I remember saying that I was gon na come back and, like finish it off for her and everything, and to this day I feel terrible because it's like you didn't want that, like, oh, my God, can I be candid, can I just say: okay right so boom. You already know like when you have specific type of hair, I'm very specific on the people that I let touch my hair, so I can only imagine what it felt like as like a black girl to be like hey. I wanted you to do my hair. I didn't want this person, I don't know if this person could do my hair, I didn't know like that's, not who I came to see and like something, as particular as the blow dry like it's one thing for like somebody else's shampoo, the hair is one thing For somebody else to detangle it, but like really the blow dry, is like one of the prioritize parts of the service so like for you to just ditch me during this. The most important part I feel like and like the other stylist just didn't, do a good job and they like curled her hair, and it was just so terrible and, like you could see like bro, I'm literally doing my others. I felt so stupid because I'm like literally like I ditched you I'm working on this other client and then it's just like I see like your face like I see your disappointment, I'm trying not even to like look up at this point, because I'm also embarrassed and I'M just like ashamed and like I could just see that the other stylist like didn't do a good job and she, it was just so like a lot, and I honestly, when I tell y'all to this day like I just, could not get the courage to like. Even apologize like I and I was wrong, I was dead wrong and I, like I'm telling you that's why I feel guilty for it and I lose sleep over it and I just want to say Jasmine. I am sincerely sincerely sorry that you, like even you, reached out to me because you trusted me with the service and I just dropped the ball like. I really did, and I think about it often mind you like this happened in like 2017 2018 and I still think about it and I'm like damn like she, probably because I don't know she has social media anymore. I don't know what happened. Maybe she blocked me. I don't know after that I would have, but it's like. I have no idea where her life is now we're, like. We'Ve never been in communication, after that I haven't heard that she's like said anything bad about me, but I mean I completely understand that like if she did talk about about me like I get it like I'm but yeah. That'S the first story about the time that I, like I and the thing is like I don't know. If it was time management I should have just never been booked like the whole day was just terrible and I just really wish I could have redeemed myself and like I wish. I had the courage to like hit her back up and be like hey. I'M really sorry like. I know that that was not a pleasant experience and I know like and that's why I'm very big on like not double booking, I'm more of quality instead of quantity. If I have one client, I will take that entire day for that client to make sure it's done right, because I hate that Rush feeling and I hate that double booking and then, like hey I'll, be right back, hey I'll, be right back so like yes, that Was the first story and Jasmine, like I said: if you ever see this, if you still have Instagram, please DM me, I would love to just say uh. Sorry, like a personal apology to you and yeah, it was not a good look for me and I completely understand if you just hated me after that and yeah, not a good look. So the next story, this one yeah this one - was bad and I'm not saying like I'm saying this as like a learning experience for other people, I was a rookie. I did not know. I would never do any of the things that I'm doing. This is like early on in my career, so please don't come for me. Okay, I know like we all do bad things and things that we are ashamed of. Okay, I'm just being vocal about mine. So there was this woman who came in and she had really really curly hair like it was super super curly. It was like almost an afro, but not really so she had really curly hair and she comes in with these pictures of balayages and things like that. So me not thinking anything of it, I'm like oh, this is easy. This is cool like whatever I'll go ahead and I'll Balayage her hair, while straighten it Boom. Bang Pow like I, was very confident. I was overly confident in my abilities and my expertise, and so she just tells me she gives me like basic pictures of like a caramel Balayage, nothing too crazy, nothing like out of this world, and so I just go at it like I go ahead, I start Sectioning her hair - and I remember I asked her I was like: do you normally wear your hair curly, or do you wear it straight and she was like? Oh, I always wear it straight. So that was my biggest thing too. I shouldn't just like go off of exactly what the customer says like we'll get to that so, but that's a key component. She said that she always wears her hair straight, so the Balayage technique that I used was leaving hair out. I would take a section: do some little weaves tease it whatever put the Box, put the bleach on there cool, but there was a lot of space left out of the Balayage to give it like in my head. I thought it was giving it Dimension, but this is where this is. Where you need. You need to know what you're doing that's just point blank period. You need to know what you're doing and so I went through. I did the Balayage and I left hair out in between. I did not put her entire head in foils, so I go to wash her hair cool. I go to tone it. It was a nice blonde and I you know wrapped the hair up put, you know, put them back in the chair and I like turn her so like. I always turn my clients this way because it was easier to blow dry and I just like showing people what it looks like when it's done, because if you do hair, you know, like lighting the hair, wet people just want to look at their hair, and it's Just like, can you please just wait until it's done to like see what's going on, so her hair was curly and short when I removed the towel, her hair looked like polka dots like No Lie. Her hair wasn't an afro, but like low-key, it was, and she just had like little spots all over her hair, because a majority of it was blonde. But the spots that were left out for the Balayage Dimension part were black, so she literally had like polka dots of blonde and black. I like audibly gasp I was like and she turns around bro. Oh, my God. This was so embarrassing. She turned around so like she's right here right and I'm like and she's like, and so I turned her even more so like you literally couldn't see the mirror, and I was like oh I'm so sorry like, I just dropped something like I'm sorry and she was Like Oh, I thought you meant it was like my hair, like I thought you meant my hair or something happened. I was like no, no nothing's wrong with your hair. I I just dropped something I was lying because I was like, and so I asked her again. I was like Hey, like you mentioned, that you only wear your hair straight right and she was like yeah. I only wear my hair straight like from time to time. I wear a curly but like for the majority, I do wear it straight and I'm like thank God that I can just like deal with this right now. So I straightened her hair. Her hair looked beautiful straight okay, it looks normal. It looked great, looked magnificent, but to this day I think about like what she probably thought as soon as she went home like as soon as she went home to wash her hair and saw that she has polka dog and then I think about it, I'm like She better not go to the pool she better, not go to the beach. She better, not go. She better not go anywhere with her hair curly, because the way I just messed up and gave her polka dots, it's inexcusable, it is. It is so and like y'all, don't even understand I, as I'm saying this story, I'm literally picturing because I Loki feel like I have photographic memory, but like that's, not the point, but I can literally see her polka dotted hair, so embarrassing, freaking in embarrassing and, like That'S the thing like that's what I'm saying like you should really just know your level of expertise, and you should really like, because when I tell y'all I used to have like all the people that, like always said, I don't trust people with my hair. I don't like I had a lot of black clientele. I had a lot of Hispanic clientele, and so it's just like all the people that are already like weary of letting other people touch their hair, especially someone who's. Not like. Okay, hello. You have a black girl who has a non-black girl doing her hair, like obviously my work said something for you to entrust me with your hair, and I just I did awful. Oh my god. Do you guys see why, like? I still feel the way that I feel back then. I just feel it now because it's just like dang, I really just dropped the ball, and I really. I am one of the reasons why that person has like hair salon. Ptsd like oh, my God. This is getting me hot, just thinking about it and y'all don't understand like I may come across a type of way, and I know by the comments that I get the way that I come across to certain people, but I genuinely feel bad about things like I'm. Not one of those people that can like let things go very easily like I do think about it. So when, especially when it's myself when I self-reflect - and I realize like this - is my fault - and I feel this overwhelming amount of Shame and guilt like it eats me up. Okay, I don't. I do not sleep at night because of it, so it's just like Jasmine. I once again I'll, never stop apologizing. I'M sorry for the experience that you went through um when you try to get your hair done by me, and I don't remember this woman's name. I don't even know like that was like the one and done she never came back to me. So I can only imagine, like she probably did see her hair in polka dots when she got home which Fair um. She never came back to me, but I do. I think about it a lot and The Last Story that I wanted to include. I waited for this to be the last one, because, if you're still here, this is like tea, I guess this one hits a little bit closer to home. All right so y'all know that I had a friend and we fell out and she goes by Paris on my channel this I'll just tell you all the story. So Paris had extensions. She, you know she always wore either tapings or she would wear like um, drawer tape ends and she would wear like the clip-ins, so I sometimes do would do paris's hair. So every now and again she wasn't really like. She didn't always ask me to do her. Hair, but she was also very like free. She should just let anybody play in her hair. Her hair was really thin and fine, so she would always wear tabins. I would do her tables. Sometimes I would help her um with her highlights. I would help her sometimes do her hair. There was one specific day she had these clip in extensions and there was one day she was in the bathroom. She was like, Hey Samantha. Can you help me? This is when we lived together. Oh that that's a key component. This is when we lived together, so maybe she did have a reason to just like never want to live with me again, whatever that's in the past, so she asked me she was wearing her hair. She was like Hey Samantha. Can you help me with my extensions and I was like sure what's up she was like? Can you cut the hair um? That'S like uneven Okay. So this was a very big miscommunication, because when she said, can you cut my hair to make sure that it's even I understood extensions included. So there was like a little p like little pieces of her actual hair that were like overlapping with the extensions that was just like a fine little like one two, but I understood she wanted me to like even out the the hair like. I don't remember what exactly I thought like I interpreted from what she said, so I just took it as like evening, all of it out, so I'm literally cutting her clipping extensions like I'm cutting them like off. Okay, and I cut like a significant amount. It wasn't like I didn't chop it off, but her extensions were long and so like I was thinking I was evening it out, so I cut a significant amount of her extensions and so, as I'm doing she like stops really fast and she was like what are You doing, and I was like I'm cutting, I'm cutting your hair. Am I not? Is that not what you want she's like? Are you cutting the extensions and I was like yeah? Is that not what you wanted me to do? She was like Samantha and, like the hurt, this is not funny the hurt in her voice and in her face when she got up and looked into the mirror and saw that I, like literally cut her extensions. She was like no, I meant for you to just like cut my hair, like I was wondering why it sounded so loud like and why I was taking so long like. I didn't want you to like cut the extensions, and so I felt so bad like I was just like. Oh my God, I'm really sorry like I thought you meant like to. I thought you meant to even it out like that was my bad, like I'm really sorry so I was like I'm sorry um I'll pay for your new extensions like I'll. Get you new extensions, oh so this is where, like so all right. That happened. Let'S say that happened on a Monday: it was like a Friday me and her just got off of work and she was like hey. You want to go, get dinner, so we go and we get dinner. We didn't speak about the extension things I was like. You know I apologize, I said I was gon na, buy her new ones. Okay, cool, like it wasn't a big deal like she didn't make it a video Paris. Doesn'T she didn't really make it a thing? So we go to the restaurant, we go like eat whatever, and she was like: Hey, I'm gon na stop by Sally's real quick and I was like okay cool and she was like. Can you come inside with me and I was like yeah? Okay, like whatever y'all, know, the extensions that I said that I would buy to place, she went to Sally's to buy the box of extensions well. This is where I just I just sucked at the person like. I really am truly genuinely did not have the money like I didn't have and they were like a hundred dollars. Okay, so like I did not have the hundred dollars to give her to buy her the extensions and like most people right like this, isn't funny most people when you owe somebody money or like something like that. You just don't even show your face right, but I lived with her and if it was any other situation or any other person with like a right headspace, you just wouldn't go in the store, like you would just say, like oh I'll stay in the car, whatever, Like no, I literally got out of this the car into the hair store with her, and I was literally right there watching her like. I was standing at the register with her while she was paying for the extensions that she needed to buy, because I cut hers off that I offered to pay for and I'm watching her pay for them herself. It'S still, you know Paris, but I will like girl. I have money now, okay, so, like I owe you a hundred dollars like, I will fine, if you ever come across this video Paris, you know exactly who you are, and anybody that knows Paris that watches my videos. I mean you could contact her. I think we're in like separate point in times in our lives, but I will, to this day like I will unblock you to send you the hundred dollars. I'Ll, probably send you 150 for the amount of time that it took me to admit to this and like address it, but I will like we don't have to speak. You can literally just um. I think you have my number still. You can just sell request me. 150 and I'll send it to you, we don't even have to interact, we don't have to talk. I don't know exactly what it's for, because I do. I owe you a hundred dollars and that I will I'll stand on that. I owe you a hundred dollars, because not only did I cut your extensions and offer to pay for them, I literally watched you purchase the same ones that I was supposed to replace, and that is on me. That is that one forever that has been y'all. That has been on my conscience for years, like I'm a terrible person for that, because it's like, I was telling my sister like it's one thing for you to just like: okay yeah. I said I would pay for them, but like whatever never did like, but it's another for me to just stand next to you and watch you pay for something that I that Zell requests me a hundred dollars. Cash app request me a hundred dollars. You, like, I got money now. Okay, I was struggling and I I didn't have the heart to say that I didn't have the money to replace them, especially the day that you wanted to go to the beauty supply store, but um. I have money now so um. I sincerely apologize for that. I had I don't I never forgot it. I didn't, you know put that under the rug. I just couldn't get myself to say that I didn't have the money and that I knew that I was very much wrong, so I don't like being indebted to people, so please reach out get your 100, so we can just end this forever for me to feel Better about myself, yeah guys. That was the three stories that definitely keep me up at night. I feel like I just spoke to a priest, and I just got these confessions off my chest and I hope you guys enjoy this video. It'S a little bit more light-hearted. Please don't take it serious, like I'm so dead ass when I say like I'm sorry to those that were affected by my poor decision making and my actions sincerely um, but I just thought I would you know we all go through things in life. We are not everybody, you know, I mean hello, people we're not perfect. Okay, so everybody does things that they're ashamed of. Not many people are gon na, make a YouTube video about them. So that's why we're here enjoy haha laugh a little bit reach out to me. If you were finding for financial compensation, you are affected by my. I don't know pores actions and stuff and hopefully you guys know um, don't double book, don't um, don't do a Balayage and leave hair out with people that pretty much have an afro because you'll get polka dots and don't cut people's extensions when you're broke and don't Have the money to replace them and if you do don't go inside the store with them when they're gon na purchase the new ones that you ruined anyway? I hope you guys enjoyed this video. It was so much fun to be back and just have a little laugh with you guys, and I will see you in my next one bye, foreign