Wanted to start a little blog, got a little distracted…

Ok so I logged into to my site builder because of something funny that happened in the salon today (ill circle back around to that in a moment) and as I was going through the different pages editing som behind the scenes parts of my site I saw the tab for the blog I “started” and went wooooooooooow in all the chaos of running a small business, being a mom, growing a new tiny human, caring for other various living things (my dog, chickens and some house plants that are absolutely suffering at the moment) I haven’t written in this so called blog since I decided to start it. A YEAR AGO, almost.

I definitely have a problem with being afraid to start things until I feel they are “perfect” but I lately have seen other people that are putting things out into the universe without it being exactly perfectly polished and I really like the idea of letting go of trying to make every single thing exactly perfect (thank you instagram and Pinterest for ruining my brain in a never ending quest for “perfection”). And I doubt anyone will ever even read this, which at the moment I find oddly comforting as I originally kind of just wanted this to be a place for putting random thought processes as related to my work and the hair world,and honestly as a way to have more like minded people find me and as an alternative to doing any vlogging because as much as I try, I am just not comfortable in front of the camera. I actually really don’t like talking to my phone as a way of reaching people and I don’t know if ill ever get used to it.

ok but enough of all that! I did actually come here to say something or to open up a conversation or to just vent into the void about some silly hair things.

so lately I have been getting this HUGE influx of prospective clients asking for “grey blending”. which like great wonderful! love new clients, but what most of them mean when the say grey blending is someone who has previous dark all over color, wanting to transition to all over grey, matching their natural grey pattern in a effort to eventually completely stop coloring their hair all together. great, and love that for them! but that’s not something I specialize in. to me, that would be “grey transitioning” or “grey matching”, “transitioning to all over grey”??? maybe I get too hung up on semantics, but its an incredibly labor intensive process and just not where my heart is at.

When I use the term “grey blending” i’m thinking of my clients who have some grey, we use highlights sometimes some lowlights to blend those grey either into a blonde, bronde or brunette look giving a polished appearance and distracting the eye from the greys, blending everything together a little more seamlessly, but not fully grey all over. or in some cases using demi permanent color to softly cover the grey. there is no magic solution to how to handle grey, that is how I like to do it and that’s what I like doing and that’s what my clients want. so I have been so puzzled as to why I all of a sudden have soooo many client requests for people wanting to go completely grey! I don’t have any visual content that suggests that is something that I do, and I guess this is always an ongoing issue with our industry and that is what exactly do we name the services that we do? how do we all get on the same page? is this like people calling foil highlights “balayage”? is this the internets way of telling me that I need to start specializing in a new service? haha I have no idea but I hope somehow, some way this blog helps what ever internet algorithm out there send the “transitioning to all over grey” people to the right stylist for them *cough* not me, and the people that want to softly cover or blend a little bit of grey somehow find me. i guess the moral of the story is, when in doubt check out the stylist social pages for images, and if you don’t see what you want, they probably don’t do that thing! or the other moral is that I don’t know how the internet works and i’m somehow misrepresenting myself online! either way I guess ill find out eventually

I hope who ever is reading this enjoyed the brain dump of an overstimulated over tired mom and business owner :)