Wrap Up 10.16.26

First of all, let's talk about, uh, Ulta doing people's hair.

So if you have been on the internet in any way, shape, or form in the last, I wanna say it's, it's probably been, like, four years that they've been talking about this, how today's hairstylists are not yesterday's hairstylists, right? And this, the, the, the discourse is essentially that it's hell go- getting beauty services these days, because a lot of people are really unprofessional.

Uh, the big beauty YouTube, um, boom of, gosh, I think it says heyday in 2016.

Either way, people, a lot of people do beauty services without being licensed, without working in salons, and so they just do them.

And I'm, I, I'm not gonna knock the hustlers.

If you know how to fucking braid, bitch, you can, you could build a life, [laughs] okay? If you know how to fucking braid, shit.

I wish I knew how to fucking braid.

I'd quit my job right now.

But, but because of that, there's a certain bedside manner that's pretty much gone.

Now you go to book and, first of all, you're booking, you're going to be in someone's house most of the time.

It's every now and then a s- salon suite, but a lot of times in someone's house, which is not a problem for me.

Um, I've, I've been getting my hair braided in people's houses since I was a fucking little kid.

I don't care about that.

But they are charging, uh, high-end salon prices in their mama's kitchen, and that's, th- those things don't go together.

Uh, but yeah.

So you're gonna be in someone's house, so they're not gonna give you the, the address right away.

Even if it's a salon suite, they're not gonna give you the address of where you're going.

You, you won't find that out until right before the fuck you're supposed to go.

There's a deposit, obviously, which makes sense.

You're doing business with someone you don't know on the internet, right? And there's a list of fucking rules, and you need to come with your hair already washed and dried and blown out and all these other things that just are, are not salon culture.

I'm speaking p-particularly as a Black woman.

Salon culture was very different.

Uh, you would have your stylist that you saw every two weeks for, like, 20 fucking years.

My mother is still seeing the same woman that used to do our hair when we were little.

The same woman, her name is Yvette.