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The 2019 hair show in Columbus taught me more in one afternoon than 3 years of beauty school
I was 24 and barely out of school, working at a small salon in Dayton, when my boss dragged me to a trade show in Columbus back in 2019. I figured it would just be booths selling shears and a bunch of people handing out samples, but then I wandered into a cut demo by a stylist who had been behind the chair for 31 years. She did this dry cutting thing on a curly haired model right on stage, no water bottle in sight, just talking through why she maps the curl pattern before she ever picks up scissors. I had never seen anyone cut curl by curl like that, and she kept saying you have to follow the hair instead of fighting it. I went back to Dayton and tried it on a client named Renee with 3B hair who always left unhappy, and she actually smiled at the mirror for the first time. That one hour changed how I approach every curly client now, and I still do it dry unless there is a real reason not to. Has anyone else had a random demo at a show completely rewrite how they cut?
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tyler_bell7d ago
Taught me more in one afternoon than 3 years of beauty school" is a bold claim and honestly I am not buying that it was the haircut itself that did it. Sounds like you were ready to actually learn something that day instead of sitting in a classroom, and the timing just lined up with a client who finally gave you real feedback. One demo does not undo three years of training, it just gave you a nudge you were already looking for. I have seen plenty of people come back from these shows all fired up and then drop the new method within a month when it gets busy. The fact that you stuck with it probably says more about you than about that stylist on stage. Dry cutting curls is a solid trick, sure, but calling one hour life changing feels like a lot when the real work happened back in Dayton.
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