Behind The Mirror Glasgow Podcast
Oct 8, 2026 · 59 min · 16 segments
One of the biggest names in the hair industry, Fergal Doyle joins us for a seriously unmissable episode of Behind The Mirror. We get into the details of how to really show up for an interview does…
It's nerve-wracking for a lot of stylists though, isn't it? 'Cause that means, like, it's not just your skill, and they don't teach you that at college.
Nobody teaches you, by the way, you need to have a something of a personality.
You know, you can be a quiet person-
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm
...
but there needs to be something about you that's calming-
Be able to talk forward or something, yeah
... or soothing, or you're bubbly and you're laughable, or, like-
Mm-hmm
... laughable?
Mm-hmm.
We laugh at.
But no, um-
... is changing now from, uh, the, the, the curriculum in colleges and hairdressing academies, um, is suitable for setting people up with learning the right skills, but it's not adequate for today's hairdresser, where you have to be a bit of a clown and you have to learn to entertain on social media, and you have to sell yourself, and you have to learn marketing.
But can they actually go out there and get clients? And if you're a salon employer, um, like we are, y- you need to know that someone's gonna be able to get someone into their chair, entertain them for an hour whilst they're doing a haircut, and make them wanna come back again.
And that's an- another level that in 2026 that we, like, there's not a lot of people kinda teaching that in hairdressing.
But it's just another level of the type of skill that you have to have to do this job.
Well, they say that people come back for you-
... as well.
It's nerve-wracking for a lot of stylists though, isn't it? 'Cause that means, like, it's not just your skill, and they don't teach you that at college.
Nobody teaches you, by the way, you need to have a something of a personality.
You know, you can be a quiet person-
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm
...
but there needs to be something about you that's calming-
Be able to talk forward or something, yeah
... or soothing, or you're bubbly and you're laughable, or, like-
Mm-hmm
... laughable?
Mm-hmm.
We laugh at.
But no, um-
... is changing now from, uh, the, the, the curriculum in colleges and hairdressing academies, um, is suitable for setting people up with learning the right skills, but it's not adequate for today's hairdresser, where you have to be a bit of a clown and you have to learn to entertain on social media, and you have to sell yourself, and you have to learn marketing.
But can they actually go out there and get clients? And if you're a salon employer, um, like we are, y- you need to know that someone's gonna be able to get someone into their chair, entertain them for an hour whilst they're doing a haircut, and make them wanna come back again.
And that's an- another level that in 2026 that we, like, there's not a lot of people kinda teaching that in hairdressing.
But it's just another level of the type of skill that you have to have to do this job.
Well, they say that people come back for you-
... as well.
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