Master Stylist Tips: How to be Lovely

Credit Paramount Pictures “Funny Face” (1957)

Behind the chair, we see women from all walks of life at all times of their lives. We speak about everything from the daily weather, pop-culture, modern musings, all the way down to the very depths of personal life stories. As stylists, we realize that the client in the chair isn’t only entrusting us with their crowning glory, but also the parts of their lives they choose to share. Client often entrust us with some of their most intimate concerns when in the chair, as hair health and wellness often coincides with healthy (or unhealthy) lifestyle choices. We see our clients through thick and thin (no pun intended), and even get to understand what makes them tick.

Regardless of the question they are actually asking, meaning aside from the targeted hair problem they wish to solve, they actually reveal what is most bothering them. What it is that makes them feel beautiful, and what hair color or cut makes them feel comfortable and why. Being the person to solve the problem for them helped bring perspective to my own understanding of what beauty is, and how the feeling of beauty is achieved for all women. As simple as the answer is, it’s not always easy to implement.

The most asked question as a stylist that lies beneath the surface is, “How can I see myself as a more beautiful person?”

Defining beauty can be difficult with the number of products that can fulfill our particular beauty needs, and can often feel as though beauty must be expensive or might be unnatural if I need this product to attain it. If I choose to enhance my look, would it be dishonest of me? Not only is it difficult to define beauty, the ways we choose to discriminate between what is ‘real’ beauty and ‘fake’ (a word I dislike greatly) lends more confusion than clarity to personal choice. Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder. Personal expressions of beauty that differ from the mainstream only enhance the larger understanding of what beauty could look like.

In my opinion, the question of “How to be beautiful” is only one that I can achieve with your full understanding of what you know to be beautiful about yourself. A hair consultation is our way of getting to understand what you feel is beautiful about you so that we can use our skills to create what you imagine.

To be a more beautiful person, be clear about what it is you understand to be beautiful about yourself.

Beauty is created through your clear personal definition of what you consider to be beautiful about yourself, and being that without the temptation of beauty discrimination. Though it can be easy to define yourself by the status quo, resist the temptation to do so. More rewarding than knowing what color or cut works well for your face shape, the definition of your personal beauty standards will be the clarity that creates your effervescent look.

From a Master Stylist,

C

xoxo

credits “Funny Face” Paramount Pictures (1957)