Your Hairstylist Hates This | Pet Peeves Of A Hair Stylist

Hey everyone welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new, so in today's video i'm going to be going over my pet peeves as a hairstylist. So this is just for fun. It'S not to offend anybody or anything. We all have things that are jobs that we consider to be pet peeves, so these are mine, so without any further ado, i'm just going to get right into it. So my first pet peeve is lateness. I can't say when a client is late and they're nonchalant about it or they're just late on a regular basis or something like that. I'M pretty lenient about it from time to time, depending on the reason that they're late, because i get that things come up and things happen or whatever. But i just can't stand when a client doesn't tell me that they're gon na be late or some clients will tell me after they're, already late, that they're gon na be late like. Why tell me 15 minutes past your appointment time that you're gon na be running late? You know what i mean when a client is late, it pushes back your entire day and then i'm going to be late with my next client, my next client. So i either have to not take you and lose that job or mess up my entire day. You put me in a very tough position if you're going to be late along with that, i can't stand last-minute cancellations. Why cancel me the morning of your appointment or moments before your appointment? I don't get that, but people do that. This is the reason why a lot of places have cancellation policies, because if you don't show up and there's not enough time for me to book that spot with somebody else, then i just lost out on all this time that i could have been working. So if you book a four hour service with me and then you decide, you want to come the morning of or like the hour before, who am i gon na book in that time? In that short amount of time, you know what i mean. What what am i gon na do with all that space and following that is my biggest pet peeve, which is no call no show. So that's when you don't show up to your appointment and you don't even tell me you're not coming and i'm just sitting there waiting on you and you're, not answering your phone and then i'm calling you back and you're ignoring my calls. Why do that? If you can't make it just say it, i have zero tolerance for no shows. If you ever know, show me for an appointment. You will never book with me ever again. Usually, when somebody knows shows me, they don't even bother trying to book again, but there are some people who would actually try and book again in the future and act like it never happened and never even addressed that they never showed up to their last appointment. And i also had to tell them that i'll no longer have availability for them because of their last no-show appointment, and i wish them the best of luck in finding a new hair. Stylist. I'Ve even heard people say out of their mouths that they would book an appointment, not with not my clients, but i've heard people say this that they'll book an appointment and they just want to know if they have a spot if they do decide that they want To get their service done, but if they don't, they just won't go, but they just want to hold a spot for themselves. Do you know how selfish that is, because that's a spot that somebody else could have had that's a spot that that stylist could have had to be making money with somebody else, but you're just going to stand them up? Why do that to somebody? That'S so rude! Someone considered that's my biggest biggest pet peeve, another one, and this is a huge one for me, and i don't know if a lot of stylists hate this, but i'm sure they do and it's when i'm doing somebody's hair and they just look up at me and They just randomly go so what else do you plan on doing with your life or something along those lines? That basically implies that me doing. Hair is not a wise career or i'm obviously just doing this as a side job or until something better comes up. I don't know why it's so hard for people to understand that being a hairdresser is a career and there is a lot of money in it and i'm sick of having to explain that to people. I don't even explain to anybody anymore. I just say no. This is what i want to do. I leave it at that. I hate that conversation. It just makes no sense coming from a client, because i'm here doing your hair you're sitting in my share, expecting me to make you look good you're, paying me your money and then you're really going to turn around and talk about. But you should be doing something else where where's the logic in that. Where is that, and it's just nosy and rude? Why would you ever tell somebody what else you want to do with your life? Why are you just going to make the assumption that i'm not doing okay? That'S not your business. The next one is the entourage. Please, if you are getting your hair done at a salon, do not bring a whole paparazzi with you. I know a lot of times when people are getting their hair done for a special occasion like a sweet 16 or something they like everybody to come and take pictures of every little step of their day. But it's actually really inconvenient to come into a salon with your friends and your sisters and your aunts and your mom and your best friend and your cousins. It'S very, very inconsiderate. It'S very rude! There'S no space for all that. Stylists only have one chair in front of them and there's a reason for that. We don't have a whole bench around us. If you're gon na have people come with, you at least do with the courtesy of staying in the waiting area, but there's been times when i've had people come in with crowds and they'll all be around me talking laughing being rude and obnoxious to everybody else, they Have their cameras out and it's like? First of all, i need some elbow room. Second of all, you're in everybody's space, not just mine, you're, also messing up the client and the stylist. Next to me, just it's very it's too many people. You can't do that. Obviously i don't deal with that anymore because of covet, and you can't bring people with you, but when the world goes back to normal, please keep in mind that it's very inconsiderate to bring a ton of people with you to your service. Just just you alone. That'S fine, that's good enough. Another pet peeve is when people bring children with them and okay. No, i shouldn't say that i love kids. I don't mind people bringing their kids with them, but your kids have to be behaved, because i understand that you don't always have a sitter and you really want to get your hair done and nobody can watch the kids. I get that, but please make sure that your kids are sitting in one spot or at least staying contained. You know what i mean like: don't allow your kids to run around the entire shop and then be like kids right. No, no wrong. I get that! Kids are kids and they get bored and they get antsy and they're gon na do what kids do and try and find something to make themselves interested. I feel like it's. The parents obligation to make sure that they're behaving and not getting anybody else's way, bring something for them to do like you're sitting there on your phone keeping yourself occupied on social media and watching your youtube videos. Meanwhile, your kids are sitting there for hours bored out of your mind out of their mind, bring something for them to do so that they're not left with nothing to do but run around and touch things, and not even that. But there's a lot of danger and kids just running around the shops: they can touch a hot curling iron. They can grab scissors and run with them. They can trip over a wire. Why and that's nobody's responsibility, but yours if you have to bring kids with you, please keep an eye on them. Please keep them under control, so the next pet peeve is the friends and family discount. I always knew that you can't depend on friends to be your best clients. We would like to think that you can depend on your friends, but the truth of the matter. Is you really can't and that's fine, that's, okay! You don't have to come to me because i'm your friend, but if you do come to me, don't expect me to give you a discount, because you know me because you're friends with me, because first of all, are you really my friend? If you want me to work for less money, especially because these are the ones who would usually go to some other stylist, which is fine but they'll, go to their other styles and pay full price, no complaints whatsoever. But then one day they might be low on their funds and they're going to be like. Oh, i really need my hair done, but i don't have the money. Let me see if i can hit up kelsey and see if she'll do me a favor? No, definitely not why. Why would you want to work for less money just because you know somebody? Why would you expect me to do that? Are you really my friend if you want me to do that? The next one is another big one and that's people who want to complain about pricing. I always say: there's a stylus for everybody, and i mean that, especially when it comes to pricing. If you go to a stylist - and you don't agree with their prices - go to different stylists simple as that there is always a cheaper style of somewhere around the world. Just look around for them. There'S no point in sitting up in front of one stylist and telling them to bring down their prices. Just for you. If you don't want to pay what i'm charging go to someone else, because i'm not budging. I put a lot of thought into my pricing. I don't just pick numbers out of the sky and put it on my menu. I know what my service is worth. I know how much time and effort it takes me. I know how well i can execute this style. I know the products i need to use for it. I think about all that when i calculate my pricing, so when you pay for a service, you are getting your money's worth, but if you don't want to see that then just go to somebody else, you don't have to come to me. Nobody is forcing you to sit in my chair, so feel free to move on, i'm not going to be mad. I will not be mad because i don't want to be known as that stylist who has discounts and who has cheap prices. I don't people come to me because they can save money. I want people to come to me because i do good work and if you're not that client, you are free to go, spread your wings and fly. Oh another big one that i deal with is flirting. I have male clients because i do braids, so i have a lot of men who come with me and get braids, and that means they're sitting in my chair for about an hour and a half to two hours, usually and not all of them. But a lot of my male clients do try flirting with me and i don't like it. I would like to say that i'm at least flattered, but i'm really not. I just want to do my work and be done. A lot of my clients come to my house, and i have a tv where i work and a lot of times, they'll try and use that as an excuse to stay longer, they'll be like oh, when we're done. We can just chill and watch movies for a minute or we can go out and get something to eat or always try to add more to their service and even when they text me to book. Another appointment, there's always a whole bunch of unnecessary compliments and lines that they don't need to use just to book. An appointment and it's just unwanted attention, and i really really don't like it. And the sad thing is that if i don't react to the way that they want me to a lot of times, they don't come back to me and obviously i don't care, because if that's, the only reason you were coming to me was because you want something More than your braids - and i don't really want you, but i just don't like dealing with that in the first place. I just want to do my job and be done. That'S it nothing further than that. You are just my client and that's it, and the final pet peeve that i have here is the know-it-all or, as i like, to call the youtube graduate. These are the people who watch a couple, youtube videos and think that they know everything about doing, hair or doing nails or any type of service. And then they come to somebody else for that service, and you want to sit there and tell your styles. What to do if you know what to do and they're going to go on and tell about how much you know and everything. Why are you sitting in my chair? Well, isn't this a waste of money for you that just makes no sense and i could go on and on and on about that, but i'm not going to but respect like it's one thing you want to tell me like if you want to be specific about How you want your style, but don't tell me what to do. As i didn't already know what i was doing, don't try and talk down to me. You know, like some people, just don't know where to draw the line. So that's all the pet peeves that i have to share today again. This is not to offend anybody. It was just for fun. I just wanted to share it, and i want to do a reverse version of this video, where i talk about pet peeves that clients have with their hair stylist, because i feel like we hairstyles also have room for improvements, and we might also have habits that we're Not aware that we need to break so, if you guys have any suggestions for that, leave that in the comments below and then i'll do my own research as well and then talk about my personal experiences from being a client but um yeah. I want to do that, so it's not one-sided, unbiased. You know, but that's it for this video hope you guys enjoyed thanks for watching and i'll talk to you guys next time bye, you