In the past few weeks, I've learned one of the most important aspects of my job: I am an actress.
In theory, hairdressers are free therapists. Well, or the price of a haircut. While we work people unload upon us all the dramas on their lives. Cheating husbands, nights out on the town, insane children, and the list goes on and on and on.
We come out from the back room with a smile on our face, no matter how sick or tired or sad we are feeling that day.
As a person who wears their emotions on their sleeves and all over her face, this lesson is perhaps the hardest I have learned in this job yet.
The lesson learned here? We are performers paid well to do the job of making other people feel special, good about themselves, and happy. A salon is a place to relax, enjoy yourself, and leave feeling pampered and pretty. We are there to make them laugh, lend a kind ear, and a cheerful smile.
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