Chapter 11, Part 2 of Glimpses of Italian Society in the 18th Century, by Hester Lynch Piozzi. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Return to Milan, Part 2, Verona. The road from Padua Hither is a vile one. One can scarcely make twenty miles a day in any part of the Venetian state. Its senators accustomed to water carriage have little care for us who go by land. The balance while away is worse, however. And I'm glad once more to see sweet Verona. Patruchio and Catherine might easily have met with all the adventures related by Grimio on their journey thither. But when once arrived, she should have been contented. This city is as lovely as ever, more so than it was last April 12 month when the spring was sullen and backward.  We took leave of our learned friends here with concern, but hoped to see them again and tread the stucco floors, so prettily mottled and variegated they looked like the cold mock turtle soup exactly which London pastry cooks keep in their shops, ready for immediate use. What an odd thing is custom. Here is weather to fry wine in yet after exercise and in a state of most violent perspiration. No consequences followed the use of iced beverages, except the sense of pleasure resulting from them at the moment. Should a bath-bell indulge in such luxury after dancing down forty-couple at Mr Tyson's ball, we should expect to hear next day of her sudden surfeit at least, if not of her sudden death. Lying in ladies take the same liberty with their constitutions and say no harm comes of it. And when I tell them how differently we manage in England, cry, Vi pare che deve essere schiavito grande in quel paese della benedetta libertà. Note, we think there seems to be much slavery required from those who inhabit your fine free country of England. End note. Fine Muslim linen nicely got up is, however, say they, one of the things to be produced only in Great Britain and much to our Italian ladies admire it, though they dealt very charmingly with much less trouble-taken. I lent one lady at some place, I remember, my maid to show her, as she so wished it, how the operation of clear starching was performed. But as soon as it began, she laughed at the superfluous fatigue, as she called it, and her servants crossed themselves in every corner of the room with wonder that such niceties should be required. Well, they might, for I caught a great tall fellow ironing his lady's best neck-anchive with the warming pan here at Padua very quietly, and she was a woman of quality, too, and looked as lovely when the toilet was once performed, as if much more attention had been bestowed upon it. Mantua. We passed through Mantua the 18th of June, where nothing much attracted my notice, except a female figure in the street veiled from head to foot and covered wholly in black. She walked backward and forward along the same portion at the same street from one to three o'clock in the heat of the burning sun, her hand held out. But when I more from curiosity than any better motor put money in it, she threw it silently away, and the beggars picked it up but she held her hand again as before. This conduct in any town of England will be deemed madness or mistrust. The woman will be carried before a magistrate to give an account of herself should the mob forbid her un-case her till they came, or some charitable person would seize and carry her home, fill her pockets with money, and coax her out of the anecdotes of her past life to put in the magazine. Her print will be published, and many engravers struggle for its profits, the name at the bottom, anabella or disable matron. Our novels will be written without end and the circulating libraries would lend them out all the live long day. Things are differently carried on, however, at Mantua. I asked one shopkeeper, and she gravely replied, per divorcione, and took no further notice. Another to my inquiries, which appeared to him far odder than the woman's conduct, said, the lady was possibly doing a little penance. That he had not minded her till I spoke, but that perhaps it might be some woman of fashion who, having refused a poor person roughly on some occasion, was condemned by her confessor to try for a couple of hours what begging was and learn humanity from the experience of evil. The idea charmed me, while the man coolly said, all this was only his conjecture, but that such things were done too often to attract attention, and hoped such virtue was not rare enough to excite wonder. My just applause of such sentiments was stopped by the lucky de Place calling me to dinner, but he informed me that he had asked about the person whose behaviour struck me so, and could now tell me all there was to be known. She was a lady of quality, he said, who had lost a dear friend on the day some years past, and that she wore black for two hours ever since upon the anniversary. But that she would now change her dress, and I should see her in the evening at the opera. My recollecting that if this were her case, I ought to have been keeping her company, as no one ever lost a friend so dear to them as was my incomparable mother, who likewise left me to mourn her loss on this day, 13 years, spoiled my appetite, and took from me all power of meeting the lady at the theatre, Piercenza. Piercenza we found to offer us few objects of attention. An improvisatore, and not a very bad one, amused that time which would otherwise have been passed in limiting our paucity of entertainment, while his artful praises of England put me in a good humour, spite of the weather, which was too hot to bear. With all our lamentations about the heat, however, here is no cicada on the trees or luchola on the hedges as of Florence. The days are a little longer too, and the cope is school less abrupt in its departure. How often upon the ponte della Trinità have I secretly regretted the long-drawn evenings of an English summer, when the dewy nightfall refreshes the air, and silent dusk brings on a train of meditations uninspired by Italian skies. In this decided country all that is not broad day is dark night. All that is not loud mirth is penitence and grief. When the rain falls it falls in a torrent. When the sun shines it glows like a burning glass. Where the people are rich they stick gems in their very walls and make their chimneys of amethyst. Where they are poor they clasp your knees in an agony of pinching, want and display diseases which cannot be a day survived. Talking on about Italy in which there is no mediocrity and of England in which there is nothing else we arrived at Lodi where I began to rejoice in hearing the people cry Noko-Altre again in reply to our commands because we were now once more returned to the district and dialect of demilane where we have cool apartments and warm friends and where after an absence of 15 months we shall again see those acquaintance with whom we lived once before. A sensation always delightfully soothing even when one returns to less amiable scenes and less productive of innocent pleasure than these have been to me. Milan 21st of June 1786 After rejoicing over my house and my friends and asking a hundred questions and hearing a hundred stories of those long left after reciprocating common civilities and talking over common topics we observed how much the general look of Milan was improved in these last 15 months how the town was become neater the ordinary people smarter the roads around their city mended and the beggars cleared away from the streets. We did not find however that the people we talked to were at all charmed with these new advantages their convents demolished their processions put an end to the number of their priests of course contracted and their church plate carried by cartloads to the mint holidays forbidden and every saint's name erased from the calendar accepting only Saint Peter and Saint Paul whilst those shopkeepers who worked for monasteries and those musicians who some were played in oratorias are left to find employment how they can cloud the countenance of all and justly as such sudden and rough reforms shock the feelings of the multitude offend the delicacy of the nobles and make a general stagnation of business and of pleasure in a country where both depend upon religious functions clarify the clergy and to know ill-grounded apprehensions are being found in a few years more wholly useless and as such dismissed well whatever is done hastily can scarce to be done quite well and whether much has done a great part of it will doubtless be done wrong the considerable portion of all this however will be confessed useful and even necessary when the hour of violence on one side and prejudice on the other is passed away as the fire of London has been found beneficial by those who live in the newly restored town meantime I think the present precipitation indecent enough for my own part a thousand little errors would burn out of themselves where they suffered to die quietly away and when the morning breaks in naturally it is superfluous as awkward put the stars out with one's fingers like the hours in Guercino's Aurora footnote in the fine ceiling of the Palazzo Luravigia at Rome the hours which surround Aurora's chariot are employed in extinguishing the stars with their hands in footnote whoever therefore will be at pains a little to pick their principles not grasp them by the bunch we'll find as many unripe at one end I believe as there are rotten at the other for could we see these hasty innovators erecting public schools for the instruction of the poor or public workhouses for their employment did they unlock the treasure house of true religion by publishing the Bible in every dialect of their dominions and obliged their clergy to read it with the souls committed to their charge I should have a better idea of their sincerity and disinterested zeal for God's glory than they give by tearing down his statues or those of his Blessed Virgin Mother which Carlo Borromeo set up the folly of hanging churches with red damask would surely fade away of itself among people of good sense and good taste who could not long be simple enough to suppose that concealing Greek architecture with such transient finery and giving to God's house the air of a tattered theater couldn't any wise promote his service or their salvation many superstitious and many unmeaning ceremonies do die off every day because unsupported by reason or religion Dr. Carpani, a learned lawyer, told me but today that here in Lombardy they had accustomed no longer ago than in his father's time of burying a great lord or possessor of lands with a ceremony of killing on his grave the favourite horse dog et cetera that he delighted him when alive a usage borrowed from the Oriental pagans who burn even the widows of the deceased upon their funeral pile and among our monuments in Westminster Abbey set in the days of darkness I have minded now and then the hawk and greyhound of a nobleman lying in marble at his feet some of our antiquarians should tell us if they killed them another odd divinity strikes me half a century ago there was an annual procession at Shrewsbury called by way of preeminence Shrewsbury show when a handsome young girl of about twelve years old rode round the town and wished prosperity to every trade assembled at the fair I forget what else made the amusement interesting but have heard my mother tell of the particular beauty of some wind who was ever after called the Queen because she had been carried in triumph as such on the day of Shrewsbury show now if nobody gives a better derivation of that old custom it may perhaps be found a dreg of the Romish superstition which as many years ago in various parts of Italy prompted people to dress up a pretty girl on the 25th of March other season dedicated the virgin and carry her in procession about the streets singing litanies to her etc and ending in profaneness of admiration the day begun in idleness and folly at Rome however no such indecorous absurdities are encouraged we saw a beautiful figure of the Madonna dressed for a picture of Guido Reni born about one day but no human creature in the street offered to kneel or gave one the slightest reason to say or suppose that she was worshipped some sweet hymns were sung in her praise as the procession moved slowly on but no impropriety could I discern who watched with great attention our good Italians here will not condescend to live a lie if now then they scruple not to tell them no man in this country pretends either to tenderness or indifference when he feels no disposition to be indifferent or tender and so removed are they from all affectation of sensibility or refinement that when the conceited Englishman starts back and pretended rapture from a Raphael he has perhaps little taste for it is difficult to persuade these sincere people that his transports are possibly put on only to deceive some of his countrymen who stand by who if he took no notice of so fine a picture would laugh and say he had been throwing his time away without making even the common and necessary improvements expected from every gentleman who travels through Italy it surely it is a choice delight to live with the everlasting scourge held over London and Bath of what will they think and what will they say has no existence and to reflect that I have now sojourned nearly two years in Italy and scarcely can name one conceited man or one affected woman with whom in any rank of life I have been in the least connected there is a natural loyalty among the Lombards with depression can scarcely extinguish or tyranny destroy and as I have said a thousand times they pretend to love no one they do love their rulers and rather grieve than growl at the afflictions caused by their rapacity I was told that I should find few discriminations of character in Italy but the contrary proves to be true and I do not wonder at it among those people who by being folded or driven all together in a flock as the French are with one fashion to serve for the whole society a man may easily contract a similarity of manners by rubbing down each asperity of character against his nearest neighbor no less plastic than himself but here where there is little apprehension of ridicule and little spirit of imitation monotonous tediousness is almost sure to be escaped the very word polite comes from polish I suppose and a Paris the place where you enjoy the veritable vernis a matin imperfection the people can scarcely be termed polished or even vanished they are glazed and everything slides off the exterior of course leaving the heart untouched it is the same thing with other productions of nature in caverns we see petrifactions shooting out in angular and eccentric forms because in castleton hole dame nature has fair play while the broad beach of Brighamston ever more battered by the same ocean exhibits only a heap of round pebbles and these round pebbles all alike End of chapter 11 part 2 Chapter 12 part 1 of glimpses of Italian society in the 18th century by Hester Lynch Piozzi this LibriVox recording is in the public domain Largo Maggiore returned to Verona part 1 we've got a country house for the remaining part of the hot weather upon the confines of the Milanese dominions where Switzerland first begins to bow her bleak head and soften gradually in the sunshine of Italian fertility from every walk and villa around this delightful spot one sees an assemblage of beauties ready to be met with and there is a resemblance in it to the Vale of Chluid which makes it still more interesting to me but we have obtained leave to spend a week of our destined village Gertura the Borromeum Palace, situated in the middle of Largo Maggiore on the island so truly turned iso la bella every step to which from our villa at Verese teams with new beauties and only once the sea to render it in point of view of mere landscape superior to anything we have seen yet our manner of living here is positively like nothing real and the fanciful description of Oriental magnificence with Sager's retirement in the Rambler to his palace on the Lake D'Ambia is all I have ever read that could come in competition with it for here is one barge full of friends from Milan another carrying a complete band of 13 of the best musicians in Italy to amuse ourselves and them with concerts every evening upon the water by moonlight while the inhabitants of these Elysian regions who live upon the banks come down in crowds to the shores glad to receive additional delight where satiety of pleasure seems the sole evil to be dreaded it is well known that the wild mountains of Savoy the rich plains of Lombardy the verdant past disappeared month and the pointed ups of Switzerland formed the limits of Largo Maggiore where upon a naked rock torn I trust from some surrounding hill or happily thrown up in the middle of the water by a subterranean volcano the Count Parmaio in the year 1613 began to carry earth and lay out a pretty garden which from that day has been perpetually improving till an appearance of eastern grandeur which it now wears is rendered still more charming by the studied elegance of art and the conveniences of common life the palace is constructed as if to realise Johnson's ideas in his Prince of Abyssinia the garden consists of ten terraces the walls of which are completely covered with orange, lemon and sedrati trees whose glowing colours and his fragrant scent are easily discerned at a considerable distance and the perfume particularly often reaches as far as the opposite shore nor are standards of the same plants wanting I measured one, not the largest in the grove which had been planted 105 years it was a full yard and a quarter round there were 46 of them set near each other and formed in a lightful shade the sedrati fruit grows as large as a late romana melon with us in England and everything one sees and everything one hears and everything one tastes brings to one's mind the fortunate islands and the golden age walks, woods and terraces within the island and a prospect of unequaled variety without make this a kind of fairy habitation so like something one has seen represented on theatres that my female companion cried out as we approached the place if we go any nearer now I'm sure it will all vanish into air there is solidity enough however a little village consisting of 18 fishermen's houses and a pretty church with a dozen of well-grown poplars before it together with the palace and garden composed the territory which comodiously contains 250 souls as the circuit is somewhat more than a measured mile and a half but not two miles in all and we have cannons to guide our canypso-like dominion for which Count Borromeo pays tribute to the king of Sardinia but has himself the right of raising men upon the mainland and of coining money at my can a little town amid the hollows of these rocks which present their regular fronts to the lake in a manner surprisingly beautiful he has three other islets on the same water for the change of amusement of which that named La Superiore is covered with a hamlet and Liesel Amadre with a wood full of game, guinea fowl and common poultry a summer house beside furnished with chints and containing so many apartments that I'm told the uncle of the present possessor having quarrelled with his wife and resolving in a pet to leave the world shut himself up on that little spot of earth and never touch the continent as I may call it for the last 17 years of his life let me add that he had there his church and his chaplain three musical professors in constant pay and a pretty yacht to row or sail and fetch in friends, physicians, etc. from the mainland his nephew has not the same taste at all seldom spending more than a week in that only once a year among his islands which I kept however quite in a princely style the family crest a unicorn made in white marble and of colossal greatness proudly overlooking ten broad terraces which rise in a pyramidal form from the water each wall richly covered with orange and lemon trees and every parapet concealed under thickly flowering shrubs of incessant variety as if every climate having culled to adorn this tiny spot more than a hundred beds are made in the palace which has likewise a water floor of infinite ingenuity and beautiful from being happily contrasted against the general splendor of the house itself I have seen no such effort of what we call taste since I left England as these apartments on the level with the lake exhibit being all roofed and wane-scattered with well-disposed shell work and decorated with fountains in a lively and pleasing manner some large history pieces adorn the walls of the vast room we dine in where though we never sit down fewer than twenty or twenty-five people to table all seem lost from the greatness of its size to the concert builds it in the evening it is the garden however more than the palace which deserves description he who has the care of it was born upon the island and never strayed further than four miles he tells me from the borders of his master's lake sure he must think the fall of man a fable he lives in Eden still how much must such a fellow be confounded in the midst of winter to London or to Paris and to sit down in fleet street or cruise St. Honoré that he understands his business so as to need no tuition from the habitants of either city may be seen by a fig tree which I found here engrafted on a lemon both bear fruit at the same moment while a vine curls up the stem of the lemon tree dangling her grapes in that delicious company with the parent satisfaction to herself and other inoculation of a moss rose upon an orange and a third of a carnation upon a cindrati tree gave me new knowledge of what the gardeners art aided by a happy climate could perform but when rowing round the lake with our band of music yesterday we touched at a country seat upon the side which joins the Milanese Dominion and I found myself with the currents and gooseberries by a kind family who having made their fortune in Amsterdam had imbibed some touch ideas we returned to our enchanted palace with music playing by our side I never saw a party of pleasure carried on so happily the weather was singularly bright and cleared the moon at full the French horns breaking the silence of the night invited Echo to answer them the nine days and we enjoyed 17 or 18 hours out of every 24 seemed nine minutes when we came home to our country house in the Verazotto versus and Sonnet saluted our arrival and congratulated our wedding day of the noblemen seats in the neighborhood it may indeed be remarked that however spacious the house and however splendid the furniture may prove upon examination however pompous the garden may be to the first glance and the terraces however magnificent spiders are seldom excluded from the mansion or weeds from the pleasure ground of the possessor a climate so warm would afford some excuse for this nastiness Coppone observed the inhabitants were at such an effect from a good cause or if one could flatter oneself that they themselves were hurt at it but when they gravely display an embroidered beard or counterpane worthy of arachnese fingers before her metamorphosis covered over by her present neighbors who can forbear laughing the gardener in two minutes arriving to assist you up slopes all wishing with a cat's tail and poppy while your friends cried here this is nature is it not pure nature note also natural and pretty quite in the English style but I'm disturbed from writing my book by the good gayity of our cheerful friends with whom we never sit down if you were than fourteen or fifteen to table I think surely never rise from it without many a genuine burst of honest merriment undisguised by affectation or fetid by restraint our gentlemen make improviser rhymes and cut comical faces go out to the field at the dinner and play at a sort of blind man's buff which they call breaking the pan go to the low ones in company arrange their minds as I see and compliment to the high ones but tell their opinions with a freedom I little expected to find mixed society is very rare among them almost unknown it seems but when they do mix at a country place like this the great are kind to do them justice and the little not servile they're making society easy to them for no human being suffers solitude so ill as does an Italian an English lady once made me observe that a cat never purrs when she is alone let her have what meat and warmth she will I think these social spirited Milanese are like her but I can hardly believe that there is existing a person who would not willingly prefer any company to none when we were at the islands three weeks ago a charming place says one of our companions note that is with a heap of friends about one in this manner but with one's own family me thinks that I and a good library of books this sweet lake to bathe in oh they cried all at once note oh God keep on from that end note this is national character why there are no birds of the watery kind coot spiled ducks cuggies upon these lakes nobody informs me I've been often told that that a Geneva swarms with them and it is but a very few miles off our people though have little care to ascertain such matters notice her at all to investigate effects and causes those who study among them study classic authors and learn rhetoric poetry too is by no means uncultivated at Milan but the Abate Perini satires are admirable and so esteemed by those who themselves know very well to write and how to judge common philosophy la physique as the French call it geography astronomy chemistry are oddly left behind somehow and it is to their ignorance of these matters that I'm apt to impute Italian credulity to which every wonder is welcome Lugano our past one day in Switzerland rowing to the little town Lugano over its pretty lake a fanciful traveller might be tempted to think he could discern some streaks of liberty in the manners of the people if it were but an innkeeper at his house we dined this may however be merely my own prejudice and somebody told me it was so we were shown on one side the water as he went across a small place called Campioni which is Ferro Amperiale and governed by the Padre Abate of a neighbouring convent who has power even over the lives of his subjects for six years at the exploration of which to him another despot of the day is chosen appointed I should have said and the last returns to his original state amenable however for any very shocking thing he may have done during the course of his dictatorship and no complaint has been ever made yet of any such governor so circumstances and appointed his conduct is commonly but too mild and clement this I thought worth remarking as one's feelings Lugano scorns absolute authority so I did the question asked in Italy three times a day I believe che principi bagui la sua residenza note what Prince makes his residence here end note replied that they were plagued with no principi at all while the 13 cantons protected all their subjects and though as the man expressed it only half of them were Christians and the other half were Christians no church or convent had ever wanted respect while their town regularly received a monthly governor from every canton and was perfectly contented with his ambulatory dominion here was the first gallows I have seen these two years they have a pretty commerce to it Lugano for the size of the place and the shopkeepers show that the mansion seldom observed in arbitrary states where quote content the bane of industry unquote soon needs people to neglect the trouble of getting for the pleasure of spending their money one therefore sees the inhabitants of Italian cities for the most part merry and cheerful or else pious and penitent little attentive to their shops but easily to loiter under their mistresses window with a guitar or rove about the streets at night with a pretty girl under their arms singing as they go or squeaking with the drawl accent if it is the time for masquerades broad avarice ambition are the vices of republican states and a cold climate idleness sensuality and revenge are the weeds of a warm country and monarchical governments if these people are not good they at least wish they were better they do not applaud their own conduct when their passions carry them too far they beat their bosoms at the foot of a crucifix in the street with no more hypocrisy than they beat a tambourine there perhaps with no more effect neither if no alteration of behaviour succeeds their contrition yet when an Englishman who was probably more ashamed of repenting than of sinning accuses them of false pretensions to pious fervour he wrongs them and would do well to repent himself end of chapter 12 part 1 chapter 12 part 2 of glimpses of Italian society in the 18th century by Hester Lynch Piozzi this libybox recording is in the public domain maggiore returned to Verona part 2 bergamot bergamot is built up a steep hill like lands downroaded by the buildings not so regular the prospect not inferior but of a different kind resembling that one seized from Mutum Hill in Kent but richer and presenting a variety beyond credibility scarce any water can be seen and that the plains of Lombardy are low and flat within the eye however one may count all the original blessings bestowed on humankind horn, wine, oil and fruit the enclosures being small too and the trees profus as the French call it no parterre was ever more beautifully disposed one of the fields surveyed from the summit of the hill where stands the Marquis's palace elegantly sheltered by a still higher rising ground behind it and commanding from every window of its stately front a view of prodigious extent and almost unmatched beauty as the diversification of colouring reminds one of nothing but the fine pavement at the Roman pantheon so curiously intersected are the patches grass and grain, flax and vines, arable and tilth in this happy disposition of earth and its most valuable products while not a hedge failed to afford perfume that fills the very air with fragrance from the sweet jesemond that twisting through it lends a weak support to the wild grapes which dangling in clusters in by ten thousand birds of the European species I believe below the size of a pigeon nor is the taking of these creatures by the rocolo to be left out from among the amusements of Brasian and Begamasque nobility nor is the eating of them when taken to be despised. Becaficos and Autolens are here in high perfection and it was from these northern districts of Italy I trust that Battalius and all the relaxing gluttons of antiquity got their curious dishes of singing bird pie etc. The rich scent of melons at every cottage door is another delicious proof of the climate's fertility and opulence where every sense is lost in every joy as Hughes expresses it and where in the delightful villa of our highly accomplished acquaintance the Marquis of Araceli we have passed ten days in all the pleasures which wit could invent, money, purchase or friendship bestow. The last nobleman who resided here farther to the present lord was Cavalier Cervante to the immortal Clalia Borromeo. His virtues and varieties of excellence would fill a volume could I clear my head of prejudice for such excellence as I find here and my heart of partial regard which is in reality but grateful friendship just led you from me for so many favours received could I forget that we are now once more in the state of Venice where everything assumes an air of cheerfulness unknown to other places I might perhaps perceive that the fair at Bergamo differs little from a fair in England except that these cattle are whiter and ours larger how a score of good use now as Master Shallow says but I really did ask the price of a pair of good strong oxen for work and heard it was ten zikinis about half the price given of black water but ours are stutter and capable of rougher service it is strange to me where these creatures are kept all the rest of the year except at fair time one very seldom sees them and there's an actual employment of carting plowing etc nothing is so little animated by the sight of living creatures as an Italian prospect no sheep upon their hills no cattle grazing in their meadows no waterfowl swans ducks etc upon their lakes and when you leave Lombardy no birds flying in the air save only from time to time betwixt Florence and Bologna a solitary kite soaring over the Surly Appanines and breaking the immense void which fatigues the eye a ragged lad or wench too now and then leading a lean cow to pick among the hedges has a melancholy appearance the more so as it is always held fast by a string it struggles in vain to get loose these however are only consequences of luxuriant plenty for where the farmer makes four harvests of his grass and every other speck of ground is profitably covered with grain vines etc all possibility of open pasture which is precluded horses too so ornamental in an English landscape will never be set loose in an Italian one as they are all chevaux entier and cannot be trusted in troops together as ours are even if there was ground unenclosed for them to graze on like the common lands in Great Britain a nobleman's park is another object never to be seen or expected in a country where people would really be deserving much blame did they retain in their hands for mere amusement ten or twelve miles circuit of earth capable to produce two or three thousand pounds a year profit to their families beside making many tenants rich and happy in the meantime I will confess however that the absence of all these agreement gives a flatness and uniformity to the views which we cannot complain of in England but when Italians consider the cause they would have reason to be satisfied with the effect especially when vegetable nature flourishes in full perfection by every step crushes out perfume from the trodden herbs and those in the hedges dispense with delightful liberality of fragrance that enchants them hops and pyrocanthus cover the sides of every cottage and these scent of truffles attracts in the odor of melons gratifies one's nerves when driving among the habitations of fertile lombardy belan we are now cutting hay here for the last time this season and all the environs smell like spring on this 15th of September 1786 the autumnal tent however falls fast upon the trees which are already rich with the deep yellow hue a wintry feel upon the atmosphere early in the morning it looks about noon and a hollow wind towards the approach of night make it look like the very last week of October in England a mourness that summer is going the same circumstances prompt me whom I am about to forsake this her favourite region to provide furs flannels etc for the passing of those elps which look so formidable when covered with snow even at their present distance our swallows are calling their clamorous council around me while I write but the butterflies still flutter about in the middle of the day the grapes are going more wholesome as with us when the mornings begin to be frosty a desert however do not remind us of Tuscany the cherries here are not particularly fine and the peaches all part from the stone miserable things an English gardener would not send them to table the figs too were infinitely finer at leghorn and nectarines have I never seen at all well here is the opera begun again some merry wag about a cast I think has accommodated and adapted the old story of King Theodore to put in ridicule the present King of Sweden who is hated of the emperor for some political reasons of a get what and he of course patronizes the gesture our honest lombards however take no delight in mimicry and feel more discussed than pleasure when simplicity is insulted or distress made more corrosive by the bitterness of a scoffing spirit I have tried to see whether they would laugh at any oddity in their neighbour's manner but never could catch any except perhaps now and then a sly Roman who had a liking for it I see nothing absurd about the man says one gentleman everybody may have some peculiarity and most people have but such things make me no sport let us when we have a mind to laugh go and laugh at Punchinello from such critics therefore the King of Sweden is safe enough as they have not yet acquired the taste of hunting down royalty and crowing with infantile malice when possessed of the mean hope that they are able to pinch a noble heart this old fashioned country which detests the sight of suffering majesty his office theater performance calculated to divert them at the expense of a sovereign prince his character is clear from blame and his personal weaknesses are protected by his birth and merit while it is to his open, free and politely generous behaviour alone they owe the knowledge that he has such boy builds Paziello therefore cannot drive it down by his best music though the poor king of Sweden is a Lutheran too and if anything would make them meet him that would one by so ever sometimes prevents the commission of another and that same prevailing idea which prompts these prejudiced Romanists to conclude him doomed to everlasting torments who dares differ from them though in points of no real importance inspires them at the same time with such compassion for his supposed state of predestinated punishment is they rather inclined to defend him from further misery and kindly forbade to heap ridicule in this world upon a person who was sure to suffer eternal damnation in the other but the Spanish grandee who not only entertained but astonished us all one night with his conversation of Corini's casino in Venice is arrived here at Malayan and plays upon the violin he challenged acquaintance with this in the street Huff invited himself to our private concert last night and did us the honor to perform there with the skill of a professor the eager desire of Adela Tanti and the tediousness of a solitary student he continued to amaze delight and fatigues before long hours together he's a man of predigious talents and replete with variety of knowledge a new dance has been tried out here too but was not well received though it represents the terrible story which under Madame de Jean-Lise-Pen had such uncommon success among the reading world and is called La Cebolta Viva but as the duchess Gerefalco whose misfortune it commemorates is still alive the pantomime will probably be suppressed Gerefalco has relations at Malayan it seems and one lady distinguished for elegance of form and charms of voice and manner told me yesterday with equal sweetness spirit and propriety that though the king of Naples sent his soldiers to free his aunt from that horrible dungeon where she had been nine years confined yet if her miseries were to become the subject of stage representation she could hardly be even at ease with these reflections and many others excited by gratitude to private friends and general admiration of a country so justly esteemed we shall soon take our leave of Malayan famed for her truly hospitable disposition a temper of mind sometimes abused by travellers perhaps his birth and pretensions are seldom or ever inquired into whilst no people are more careful of keeping their rank in violet by never conversing unequal terms with the countrymen and woman of their own who cannot produce a proper length of ancestry I will not leave them though without another word or two about their language which though it sounded strangely course and broad to be sure as we returned home from Florence Rome and Venice I felt sincerely glad to hear again and have some notion by their way of pronouncing picchiere word used here to express everything that holds water that our picture was probably derived from it and the Abbate di Vecchio a polite scholar and an uncommonly agreeable companion seemed to think so too his knowledge of the English language joined to the singular power he has over his own elegant Tuscan tongue made me torment him with a variety of inquiries about these confusing dialects which leave me at last little chance to understand any whilst a child is called Bambino at Florence Putto at Venice Sciato at Bergamo and Creatura at Rome and at Milan they call a wench Tosa an apron is Grimbiule at Florence I think Traversa at Venice Biggarol at Brescia and some other parts of Lombardy Senale at Rome and at Milan Scorza a foreigner may well be distracted by varieties so striking but the turn and idiom differ ten times more still and I love to hear our Milanese call an oak robo rather than cherella somehow and tell a lady when dressed in white the tears Tuta in albedone Barona but it is time to leave all this and rejoice my third arrival at gay cheerful charming Barona with some sweet leave taking verses of followed us written by the fascist Sabate Ravazi a native of Rome but for many years an inhabitant of Milan his agreeable sonner should be lying ending with toto being upon a subject of general importance would serve as a better specimen of his abilities than lines dictated only by partial friendship but I hear that is already circulated about the world and printed in one of our magazines to them let him trust his fame they will pay my just debts we have now seen this enchanting spot in spring summer and autumn nor could winter self render it underlightful while uniting every charm and gratifying every sense Greek and Roman antiquities salute one of the gates Gothic remains render each place of worship venerable nature in her holiday dress decks the environs and society animates with intellectual fire the amiable inhabitants improvisation at this place pleases me far better than it did in Tuscany I truly learned about a Lorenzi astonishers all who hear him by repeating not singing a series of admirably just and well-digested thoughts which he and he alone possesses the power of arranging suddenly as if by magic and methodically as if by study to rhymes the most melodious and most varied while the abbey Bert Holler of the University of Pavia gives one pleasure by the same talent in a manner totally different singing his unpremeditated strains to the accompaniment of a harpsichord round which stand a little chorus of friends who interpolate from time to time two lines of a well-known song to which he pleasingly adapts his compositions and goes on gracing the barren subject and adorning it with every possible decoration of wit and every desirable elegance of sentiment nothing can surely surpass the happy promptitude of his expression unless it is the brilliancy of his genius but I will not be seduced by the pleasures of praising my sweet friends of Arona to lengthen this chapter with further panagery upon a place I leave with the truest tenderness and with the sincerest regret but the correspondence I hope long to maintain with the charming contestant Mosconi must compensate what it can for the loss of her agreeable coterie where my most delightful evenings have been spent where so many topics of English literature have been discussed where Lorenzi read Tasso to us of an afternoon Bert Holler made verses and the Cavalier Pinde Monte conversed where the three graces as they are called joined their sweet voices to sing when satiety of pleasure made us change our mode of being happy and kept one from ever wishing to hear anything else by Countess Caminati, Zangbianchi's duets with the only tenor fit to accompany a voice so touching and taste so refined his creed as a ipsum non amat note whoever sees the without being smitten with extraordinary passion must I think be incapable of loving even himself end note indeed I never saw people live so pleasingly together as these do the women apparently delighting in each other's company without mean rivalry or envy of those accomplishments which are commonly bestowed by heaven with diversity enough for all to have this share the world surely affords room for everybody's talents would everybody that possessed them but think so and were malice and affectation once completely banished from cultivated society Verona might be found in many places perhaps she is now confined I think to the sweet state of Venice chapter 12 part 2 end of Grimces of Italian society in the 18th century by Hester Lynch Pianzi


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Featuring Matt Beck, Christina Cavalcanti, Brian Haer, and Carly Wareheim to today's episode is powered by MinervaBeauty.com. What's up guys? Welcome to episode four of Splitting Hares, the Free Salon Education podcast. I'm here with Brian Haer, Carly Wareheim, Christina Cavalcanti, and I'm Matt Beck. So welcome to the show, guys. Today we're going to be focusing on, I don't know why I just said that. That's literally. It's not a class. It's a tutorial. We know what we can focus. We'll focus. OK, shout out to MinervaBeauty for sponsoring the show. So I want to make sure that you guys are subscribing to the channel because we did get a good amount again of listens and watches. But stay inconsistent. So we've got to grow the show. So make sure if you can hit the like, subscribe and notification bell. So you know when we go live so you guys can join us. We've got quite a few people on here. We're going live vertically today. So we'll see how that goes. See if we can get some more people and then also subscribe on Apple podcast and Spotify so you can listen to us. That's probably the best way to do it on your way to work or whatever. So let's see. So comments from last episode. We had a few people commenting. Make sure that you let us know what you think of the show. Somebody said, my haircuts are the same for everyone. So we were talking about the gendered neutral pricing, which we moved to in the salon. And so they were saying that their haircuts are the same for everyone. They book an hour and it's rare that it takes them longer. So I guess they just take an hour for every. Yeah, I've seen places that do that like no matter who it is. They make sure that there's enough tailoring that it takes the full hour. So I mean, that's a that's a solution to the problem. Yeah, for sure. Chris, can you turn my mic up just a little bit? Number two, thanks. And then Diana Poy Thress says she's enjoying hearing y'all do the podcast again. Thanks for the education knowledge. You give stylists through your tutorial videos, podcasts and shares, etc. Y'all rock. So thank you to her. And then somebody said gender based or Jessica said gender based pricing is illegal in the state of California, which I knew that that's been a long time. I think like that. I don't think I knew that. You didn't know that? No. Yeah. So they've been they had to and I think that was more just, you know, so men and women aren't paying different. But I know even back in the day, I think I went to a Robert Croming Salon and they they didn't have a different price. It was just haircut in California. So yeah, so that's that's kind of what happened on the show. How's it been? How do you feel like the conversation's been since we shifted that? I mean, I know a lot didn't change really. And that's what I want people to understand that we move to it.  But it's like it. I think my biggest thing, the biggest shift I had is it just made me kind of proud that we're doing that now. Like I reached out to the mother that I mentioned on the last episode just to let her know like that this is this is how we're doing it now. We had the conversation and we realized, yeah, this is the good way to go. And she said it brought a tear to her eye and she was very happy to come here. Yeah, nice. And yeah. So and that's what people need to realize is when we were charging, we were charging kind of based on time already, but we were just labeling it. And now you just take away the label, but you're consistently still working on a timeframe of if it's a 60 minute haircut, you're charging this. And if it's 30 minutes or whatever, you're charging a different different price. So let us know what you think in the comments about that. And if you have made that shift or if you're thinking about it, let us know on there. We can guide you through it. Yeah. We have a couple of people, like a couple more people in the chat. Heck, yeah. Selena from Pennsylvania. Hey, so are we Sally, Laura, Ivy's watching from the Philippines. And Misty, shout out to a new to the broadcast member. Oh, awesome. Shout out. Welcome, sweet. So first thing we're going to talk about today, Beyonce showing off a bunch of hairstyles on the internet yesterday. She's going to be on the cover of C.R. Fashion Book. Thought this was interesting. I guess she was on the cover a decade ago. And so now she's coming back. She, you know, she's launching the hair care line, which we are going to talk about. You've used it now. I've started. You started. I just got my spray bottle yesterday so I can do the deep conditioner this weekend. Yeah. I think our goal on this show is to not ever really just throw opinions out for no reason. So doing a little more research on it. I ordered mine. You did order it. Yeah. So I'd like to use it. They you can go in and read on the website, the products, and then you can also do a quiz. So I took the quiz and I'm going to get the products that they recommended. Oh, sweet. Nice. My mic is going in and out, echoing. It's echoing. Yeah. Unless it's my headphones. It's your headphones. OK, sweet. As long as it's not anything you have to edit out later. Yeah, that's why I didn't want to give you those headphones. But all right, we're good to your inner voice. I know. It's like, don't say. It's quiet. That inner saboteur. So do you want to show the images? Yeah. Of what she was putting out there yesterday. So this is one of my favorite ones, I thought. So I thought I did. I do like the shortness of it. I like the kind of moldy feel of it. She said she always wanted an asymmetrical haircut. So I thought that was interesting. What do you guys think? I I like this one. I look at all of them. It's funny, what it made me think is like, wow, she looks good in all these looks, all the colors, like the red looks really good. And it just made me immediately think back to Charlie's Angels to the movie like from early 2000s because I remember in that movie, they put them in different colored wigs. And I thought, wow, like when you get the color right, anybody can be any color. Like no one would have ever pictured Beyonce as a redhead or Lucy Lou is a blonde.  Anybody can be anything. You just got to get the color right. And I think this was a great example because these are wild looks that are so not what you would ever see her in. But if you do it right, I feel like it's all about the tones of the of the color and also their makeup. Yeah, the makeup like that purpley, mauve color looks great with what that is, you know, and her skin tone and everything. But yeah, I agree. Yeah, she looks good in anything. Well, because she's smart. Like, I'm sure there was probably a wig or two that they tried for this photo shoot. They're like, these photos will not see the light of day. What do you think, Carly? I mean, I like it. I I'm curious to see with her hairline, like how involved is she? That's a big thing when it comes to like celebrities, when they start doing like makeup brands, some celebrities are very like hands on in their brand. Others just kind of slap their name on it and call it their hairline. So I'm just curious to see like how much how involved she is in with her. I definitely feel like she's been. So I mean, it's the launch of it. So obviously she's going to be more more present about it. But the fact that her mother did own a hair salon and that kind of background, I feel like makes me think she'll be more involved. But I think so. And I think culturally, too. Her hair has been a big deal for her. And when you're on the website, it feels it doesn't feel like. Just so Susan's like Beyonce wears wigs, so it's never her real hair. We we see, but we're we all know that. We're just saying what we think what we think looks well. Where's the receipts? Well, I just didn't know if anyone was confused that we thought that she actually did that to her. Yeah, yeah, we know we know that. I think it's cool. That's why when you said that she said she was one day symmetrical, I'm like, then why didn't she? Well, when she was a kid. Oh, got it. Yeah. Yeah. So now she can because she can, you know. No, but what I was going to say to Carly's point, like when you go to the website, it doesn't feel like. A beyond like that's not front and center that this is a Beyonce thing, but it still kind of has that vibe that I mean, not that I think she's like in the lab with beakers doing like chemistry, but it definitely feels like a passion project. Like the vibe that it gives. Yeah. And I like the name of it, too, sacred. Yeah. It looks it's cool. We have a couple more looks. This one, see, come on. Like you get that right. Anybody could be a redhead. You just got to get the red, right? Yeah, she has like the gold on with it. I feel like it's just complimentary. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good lesson for everybody. Like what you guys were saying a little bit ago, like just matching that all up, it makes a big difference. I actually just had to do that when I took the pink and the dark out of my hair. I had to like go buy different makeup because the makeup that I had was dark to compliment the dark hair. And now I'm lighter and I had to go like buy browns and gold and all that. So yeah, but I like it. That's good. Sweet. And then there's one more. It took me a minute to realize that it wasn't the same as the other one. I was like, oh, wait, this one's blonde. All right. Yeah. The ones way more ashy. Like what was just like the over the shoulder, like long and then nothing. I was like, is this? No, it's not. It's different. OK, cool. I like it. Good for her. It is funny. Like when we when like any brand puts out collections, they usually have like a Burnett, a redhead and a blonde.   It's going to be exactly just showing. I like the visual of that even more like, you know, the point that we're trying to make here, I guess. Those were all pretty editorial looks, too. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, no one's coming into the salons. Could you do this for me? I love her like honey blonde. Just I don't know. I just love her big hair. Yeah, cool. You just love big hair in general. I do. Which is a perfect segue into the next one. So true. This is just a funny video, you know, just to kind of brighten your day a little bit, but it's this toddler goes viral for her epic Golden Girls inspired hairstyle. So you can see her. And then, Chris, that second, see the sound things that are happened at the bottom of the screen, that second one, if you turn it down, that's the music to that video. Just it stopped already, but. Oh, we'll sing it. Oh, my God. And her name is Evelyn. That's so cute. I found this account. Did you guys look at the account? No, OK, so I just wanted it to be pure and that's it. OK, all right. So maybe we should keep it pure, but it's just funny because they went from like, I think it's her parents, you know, who had an account and they were making videos and being funny and stuff. And then it just explodes. Like the first post of her and this and then now they're posting like the last 17 videos have been Golden Girls theme and her doing something. Yeah, well, when you find your thing. Yeah, and they all have millions of views. I loved watching Golden Girls and 227 and Amen back in the 80s. I don't know. I still watch Golden Girls. I love it too. Like I forget it like bounces. Oh, I'm serious. Like it bounces from streaming services and I always follow it and we'll start at the beginning. And it's just one of those like you can put on any episode and let it run. They had good lessons that they were teaching back in the 80s that still hold true today. It was a wonderful bonding thing for my grandmother and I because there's not much that we could agree on to watch together. I'm like, all right, Golden Girls, let's go. We'll both enjoy this. There you go. All right, so I hope you guys enjoyed that video. We did. Oh yeah, we did. It was funny. Okay, so quiz time. Oh man. Oh no. Skipped over that one in the outline. Christina has the quiz question. Sorry, I've had it. That's okay. So... We'll just bop. So we've decided also that this is gonna be an ongoing score. So Christina was closest to the answer last week with 1940. So we're playing Price is Right rules. Sort of, yeah, on some things. It depends on the question. Or I can just do the questions every week. I don't care. You guys can play. It's up to you. Okay, so in 1964, the Beatles came to the US from their native England. Their music became All the Rage. So did their hairstyle. 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So make sure you don't miss out on the next date coming up for more information about Mevo on Tour or to register for upcoming conference. Please visit mevo.com slash mevo dash on dash tour. Now back to the show. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, like if you hadn't asked me, I could have told you. Oh, my God. I mean, I probably would have said inverted, or like not inverted, I just would have said a bull cut, but now I'm like. Moptop or something. That sounds right. Hey, yes. How was I right? Let's go, Brian. Moptop. Yeah, I called the Justin Bieber, but that's just because. I don't think in 64 they called it that. I don't think his parents were born in 64. Nice job, Brian. Hey, cool. All right, so I got a tally. I'm gonna retire while I'm back. Tracy was the first one to get it. Wow, Tracy. Yeah. I can't see the chat, so. And it's good to see you guys again. It's been a while. All right, so the third thing we want to discuss today, dermatologist explains why switching your parting is good for you. I know Brian's gonna be very excited about this story. Passionate. Yeah, passionate about it. So you can take that middle part and now shift it because it's actually healthier for your hair. Basically they're saying that the more you switch your part, the less consistently you'll be blow drying and the sun will be hitting that spot and all this stuff. They're saying switching it up is actually good. What do you guys feel about that? I totally agree. Like I read that and all of their points, I was like, yeah, like a dermatologist is actually giving good hairdresser advice because it is true. Like if it's always going that way, you're always going to style it that way. It's going to get the most attention. However you're doing it, whether it's blow dry or flat iron or whatever, it made me laugh because I had a client, we had to switch her part because she was real into the money piece and after a while, that hair could not take the money piece bleaching anymore. She's like, so what do we do? I was like, I'll switch your part to the other side and start over and so we did.  So there's lots of benefits to it. Yeah, and they're saying like that's why when people are constantly pulling their hair back, stretching it out, that's why it kind of, it's just the consistency of constantly doing the same thing over and over again, it wears down on the hair. Who's the model, Naomi Campbell? That like that started to happen like crazy too when she like showed it, like how far back her hairline was from doing that for so long. It was like, whoa. Tyra Banks? Right. No, I don't think, No, she just had her hairline was like me. Yeah, okay.  She'll come for you. No, I just don't want to do that. No, I feel like it was Naomi Campbell and there was a whole like thing about that back in the day, but I- That's what Tracy said. I've seen a woman that must have had her middle part since the 60s and she had a three inch scalp showing. Oh, ah. See, I have a client. I'm trying to get her to move her part from the center because I can always find it because it's tan. Just it's constant.  Her part line is the same color as her face because she's always worn it in the center. And I'm like- That's what I was gonna say. Like I always have to remember to bring a hat or put some block on because my part will, being outside my middle part, just get sunburned. Yeah. I just like looking back at like old pictures and seeing how far my part has come more towards the center. So who knows, maybe in like another five years it'll be like full center part. So right now it is just off center. We'll get that. We'll get you there.  When I was 18 years old, we went to Disney World and like spent very little time like getting ready in the morning. So I would just like, while it's wet from the shower just throw a whole bunch of gel in it.  And you know, like when you just wet gel hair and like run your fingers through it, it just has that weird pattern. I got so sunburned everywhere in between all the parts of my curls that there was no way to like style it that that wouldn't happen the next day.  It was so bad. Oh, so don't do that. Couple pictures, I guess we'll just throw up there. Taylor Swift is making it cool. I guess is what they're saying for putting it on the side part. And then also Olivia. Ruddy. I'm glad I'm, look, I love a center part. I mean the center part. I love a side part also because I like bigger hair. And like it's easier to get bigger hair when you've got a side partner piling more hair through the center of the head. Like I'm happy. I'm here. I'm here for it and I'm happy. I'm here for it. Brian here for it. All right. And then last thing to talk about today is the Rachel is trending again thanks to Zendaya. Yup. So it's funny because I did this, the Rachel haircut maybe last year because they were saying that Hailey Bieber was wearing it, which in hers was similar to Zendaya's here. And I don't think they're very similar to the Rachel at all.  They have an appearance of it. It's the same length, but the style is a little bit different. It's definitely more naturally worn. I just feel like this article picked the worst Rachel hair look because the initial Rachel hair that I remember was a little bit more like Zendaya. Okay. How it kind of flipped. Did like the flip and was down to her shoulder. That's what I think is so interesting about these two images is how the styling of it modernizes it. Like that picture of Jennifer Aniston with the makeup and the pin in the hair. Cause I was looking saying, wow, look at that giant bump in the back. Like that's what keeps it from being modern. But then in this Zendaya picture, she's got the same bump in the back, but because of how it's styled, it just makes it so much more modern. Like not bringing it in like that. Yeah. Cause like that's the height back there. It's like longer in the front still. The layers, you know. Yeah, it doesn't have quite as many layers. But Rachel's was a little bit longer than what this picture is showing and did that whole flip out. Yeah. Maybe this is like the initial cut or something. The day she got it done. The day, yeah. Maybe. She has this now. On set. Jen. Oh yeah, she got her hair cut now. I was surprised you didn't put it. Oh, I didn't know. I love it. She looks really good. She presented Adam Sandler's award on the People's Choice Awards. And that was when I saw it. And yeah, I was like, I love it. Cause I feel like she's had long hair for so long. So when people want it and they go into the salon, Matt, how would you tell them to describe that haircut now? So the way that I would go about that haircut is really, so the layering in the front, obviously you're going to be pulling if you separate front and back, right? So I would say it's a layered front face frame, short face frame. I would say that it's shoulder length and then but I definitely would like shorter pieces in the front. I guess I would describe it in that way. And then I think probably more square layers in the back ish because you want them to kind of be balanced across in the back, but I don't think you want like a rounded look. Yeah, there's definitely a lot more structure to that than the softness. I think that's kind of what makes that haircut is that it is very structured and it falls and looks like that. It doesn't look PC and textured. It's basically a beauty school haircut done to a T and then it falls like that. It doesn't have a lot of flow, it sits. Yeah, yeah, so I was trying to find it. So that's how to describe when you go into your hairdressing. One haircut that just sits, I don't want it to flow. It's trying to find the modern. Oh, for people. So is this kind of what we're saying? Yeah, yeah. Okay, I can show it on the screen later in the edit but okay, I like that haircut. I feel like it's definitely like a very tame haircut. Like that's a haircut that I feel like everybody asked for. Yeah. Is that, so I don't, but I wouldn't compare that as much to what they're trying to say. I think maybe more of the Rachel that Christina was talking about that she liked instead of this, they keep showing this picture of this cut, right? So, yeah, all right. Cool. Cool, so we need to spin the wheel. Would you say Darlene just wanted to know if it actually helps if the client brings a pick of what she wants? That's a great question. 100%. Yes. Because if I've learned anything behind the chair, it's that no two people describe the same thing the same way. Whether it's a cut or it's a color, I wanna know where your head is at, bring the picture and then I'm gonna ask, okay, what about this do you like?  So pictures are the best. But make sure you're bringing a picture that is like your hair type because there have been times where like someone with pinned straight hair has showed me super curly cut and I'm like, you're not gonna get this because you don't have that hair type. I try when over the years, I will recommend to my clients certain celebrities to go look for. The biggest one that I do is when I have clients in that same situation where it's very straight, very, very fine, I'll send them, I'm like, go look at pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow.  Yeah, that's good. That's a good point. And bringing in multiple pictures is also good. Like if you have a few that you like certain things of because you don't have to have an overall style and then also multiple angles of one person's look that you like. And then also showing multiple pictures can help with the fact that sometimes we see a hairstyle from the front and we think we like it. And as a hairdresser, we know we can go in and cut that haircut but you might not actually like the way it looks on her when she was doing, when she was walking on the street this other day or like you might see it more in real life.  Their celebrity stylists are really good at styling haircuts. And be ready to hear that they have a lot of extensions. Oh my gosh. My clients, wait, they do? Yeah, no one. If you've ever liked someone's hair, they have extensions in. Yeah. Not everyone for the most part. 100% of the time when you're like, oh, their hair is so great. It's not all theirs. No one's that lucky to be famous and have full hair. Plus like, that's really good at cutting and we were looking at photos of like a haircut he should do or just like what's going on now online and I kept saying, oh, I like that one. Oh, I like that one. Oh, that one's cool. He's like, you really like, I think it was square. And he's like, you do not like round haircuts at all. And I said, but I think you gave me one. I think I did it. I think you've had all of them at this point. All right, cool. What was the name of it? The mop top. Let's do that one, Christina. Oh my gosh. What's up, guys? Let me tell you about formulate.co. Slash Matt Beck. If you're looking for customized formulation, something that fits your hair and skin type perfectly, then go to formulate.co slash Matt Beck, take the free quiz, figure out what's going on with your hair and get that perfect formula sent straight to you. And it doesn't stop there.  We don't need the same shampoo and conditioner in the summer as we do in the winter. Conditions are different. Your skin acts different. Your hair acts different. So make sure if you want to have perfect skin and hair, go to formulate.co slash Matt Beck and sign up today. All right, so yeah, I ask people to comment every week. If you comment in the YouTube video or if you leave a review on Apple Podcasts, then you can spin the wheel. That's the best way. And then if there isn't anybody in that, then we got to go to the live chat. So let's go with the live chat. Who wants to spin the wheel? First one to say I do is going to spin. We have 75 people listening in live today. That's all. That's pretty sweet. OK, while I'm waiting, Tina Yates says she loves hearing. Oh, Misty. Misty. Misty's spinning the wheel. But she does say, Tina says she loves hearing our point of view just so, you know, shouting out everyone. Awesome. Misty has the opportunity to win a free formulation from formulate.co. Also, Minerva Beauty is giving away a Thera gun from their website. And then Mevo, too, is giving away tickets to their Mevo on tour that's all over the country. So you can win that.  You can win, Brian. OK. Oh my god. If you could only hear the music and see yourself at the same time. A comb. Awesome. Let's go. A little comb package. Yes. Comb clip package from Freestyle Education. Yes. Nice. Combs. That's my favorite comb. That was the longest squad I've ever done. I love our combs. The colors, they're pretty. Me, too. Brian, Darlene said, you made her day. Aw, was it the squat? It was everything. Janelle said, hey, from Australia. Misty said, thanks, and she'll send that info over. Oh, cool. I love. Janelle is such an Australian name. Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy. Like, that just feels Australian. I love that. I don't know. Janelle? Yeah. Maybe I knew another Janelle in my life that was also from Australia. I knew it done now, not a genre. From Australia? Nope. From Woodhall. Cool. All right. That's it. That's the show. All right. Bye. All right, guys. So thank you, everyone, for tuning in. If you tuned in live, thank you so much. If you're watching this later, then you can tune in live with us every Friday around 10 AM. And make sure you subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, so you can listen to us on your way to work. That's the best way, especially Fridays being on live is a little bit hard for hairdressers. So we did have quite a few people on the chat today. So thank you, guys. You can follow Brian on Instagram. I almost forgot which arm it was. Hairstyle, I'm trying to get it in there for you. Whatever. That's fine. Just find me. In the regular video, it'll be different. Here at my Carly C. And then everything for us is at Free Salon Education. Again, thank you, guys. And we will see you on the next.  Misty, just tell her the email again. Info. Oh, info at freesaloneducation.com. And Tracy, we have her email and everything. Maybe you got her mixed up with something else. She's still waiting for her package. So I'll double check if that was shipped out for her. Oh, OK. Cool. Awesome. Thanks, guys. All right, thank you, guys. We'll see you later. Bye.


every narcissist does this at the end of a relationship yes this is something that every narcissist will do and they will do it at the end of every relationship this can also help you to identify whether or not you were dealing with a narcissist but does it really matter because you got to think maybe you were just dealing with a toxic person and that is bad enough someone who was intended to harm you and you will know if someone was intended to harm you by how you feel at the end of the relationship I've said before the narcissist leaves the relationship with a lot more than they came in with the victim or target leaves the relationship with a lot less than what they came in with and typically the victim or target comes into the relationship with a lot more than what the narcissist has to give and this can be in every aspect of their character and in and of their lives it may even include money and you will find that this is always the same thing it's always the same and it makes it so easy for you to identify what you were dealing with because by the end of it all you've got to do is take a look in the mirror and look at how your happiness and health has faded away there's your evidence right there how do you feel you're experiencing a lot of anxiety stress maybe even depression and you've only got to look at your bank account and what it was before you met them or when you first met them and then take a look at how it is at the end of the relationship that should tell you everything you need to know you don't need any closure you don't need any validation just look at the effects that they've had you know on your life I should tell you everything that you need to know but if that still isn't enough I can tell you that every narcissist will do this at the end of a relationship and what they will do is they will blame you the victim or target they will blame the other person in the relationship they won't take accountability for anything and in fact they will act as though they did everything right they were just trying to help you they couldn't do enough for you and they will act as though nothing you did was good enough and you could have given them the world I know many of you did I've heard from many of my clients and everything that they did for the narcissist they took them into their home they gave them every day maybe even cooked their own meals for them they kept the house clean they washed their clothes washed the dishes every day they took care of the children they took them on trips they gave them all of their money until they had nothing left and until they got stuck in a situation where maybe they lost their job they lost all of their family their friends they lost everything in the process of just trying to help this person they lost it all and that still wasn't enough and if you ask the narcissist what about everything I did for you they will turn around and say that you did nothing or they might just say okay you did this I didn't enjoy it so it doesn't count because they just can't eat bread it they give you credit then that gives you the power you feel as though okay I fulfilled my role now I get to look at you and what you're doing what are you doing for me what have you done after everything I've done so of course they don't want to give you that because they already know that they're not about anything they never intended on bringing anything to you other than an illusion and a false character that is all that they intended on bringing to you and despite that it's crazy as it sounds because I know many of you I know it's not about how much money you spend so much although it is as well if you work hard for it and you intended it for it to go to a good purpose you may have spent thousands millions you may have taken them into your home or bought for your children you may have made sure that foods was on your daughters or sons plates every day and every day you are going to work you are working hard to make sure that the narcissist and the children had what they needed even if you didn't even if you didn't get what you wanted in life you still made sure that they had everything they needed at your expense and it may have even got to the point where they pushed you past your limits and you were spending more than you could afford many of you may have even taken out loans we've borrowed money just to try and help them and yet when they came into the relationship with you they were acted as though they were going to help you but what did they ever do to do for you all they did was abuse you manipulate you deceive you future fake they used up everything you had and they left you behind like you were nothing by the end of it you lost it all the same thing happens every time it's always the same it's like you've worked hard all your life on yourself physical appearance the way you look go to the gym every day take special care of yourself and you work hard every day you go to your job you make money put it in your savings savings account you make sure you don't spend too much because you're thinking about the future you're thinking about the children's future as well and you develop all of these connections these relationships with other people could be business it could be family it could be friendships it could be anything but you make sure you have that as well because you understand that a support network is very important and you want to be there for other people just as you would want them to be there for you which is good that's how it should be but then I say this was not thinking like that of course they were not thinking about the future or even your children's future they were just thinking about how can I get myself into this person's life and drain them of everything they've got in the shortest amount of time possible without them even knowing until it's too late that's exactly what they were thinking and honestly I into this day I struggle to understand how anyone can even think like that because every time that I've got in a relationship with anyone my mindset is always I want to leave this person in a better position than they were before I met them at the very least if the relationship does end for whatever reason but if that's not the case then yes I would love to build a future with this person a sustainable future not where we just throw everything in the trash as soon as possible because I understand that certain things should be valued especially our futures because the world doesn't just end with us keeps going so we can't just think about ourselves we can't just constantly think about what do I want in this moment right now what about tomorrow what about next year what about in 10 years what's gonna happen then but that's just the way these narcissists are they're self-absorbed and they lack empathy they only care about themselves they don't care about taking care of you or anyone else if they did then they would do the right thing so yes you are on your own and by the end of the relationship you will realize that because a lot of people in this world are not thinking this way they honestly don't care about the future they're not thinking like that but of course they understand that it's bad this is not a good way to live your life yes they understand that so they will try to cover it up they will do all these things to you and yet somehow they will always find a way to get away with it they will blame you for everything and they will try to get everyone else to see you in the same way which believe it or not it's not difficult for them to do a lot of times because a lot of people are actually very stupid so despite the fact that in the past before you met them you may have had a stable job a stable income and it could have been so clear the path that you were heading to and what you were trying to achieve what you were trying to accomplish and despite a lot of people will still side with the narcissist because many of them are narcissistic as well I know only that but a lot of people just don't care they just only care about themselves and whatever benefits them whatever makes them look good whatever gives them the most power so yes you are walking a very lonely path and if you haven't realized that yet you will realize it when it's all over when you find yourself on your own some situations with no house no car no money your children have been taken away from you and your ex narcissistic wife or husband is now living in your house with another man another woman who is around your children maybe they're sitting on your couch driving your car and there's nothing anyone can do about it you can try and take it to court and call the police you can do whatever you want but most of these systems are narcissistic as well so guess who they're gonna side with not you which is why of course these channels have so much engagement millions of people on the world of watching these videos they're subscribed to these channels because we all recognize that there is a serious problem in society today and we've had enough of it we've had enough of the lies the manipulations we've had enough of being cheated and robbed we've had enough of that we're just desiring something normal something sustainable something long-term that's where we get up every day and we do our best we work hard every day for a reason not just for right now for a future the truth is a lot of people didn't even care about that they're just in it to get what they can get and then get out as quickly as possible before you figure them out yes sadly that is how a lot of people think these days and that's why we find these communities because we realize that we are alone if we were not alone if we had support networks people who cared about us these communities wouldn't even exist there would be no purpose for them what would be the point if someone came into your life and they cheated to you they robbed you they destroyed your life they took your children away from you they used you for all of your money they stole from you they did all these things if this was a good world run by good people who actually cared about us all of these problems would be resolved but clearly they're not being resolved because just look at how even just myself without even mentioning all of the thousands of other channels on this topic just my channel alone has already achieved over a hundred and sixty five thousand subscribers and over 40 million views which would tell us everything that we need to know and yes everyone is going through the exact same thing you are not alone you are not alone at all it's happening to far more people than you think it really is a lot of innocent people's lives are being destroyed and for no good reason genuine people who honestly just desire a future with someone and these are just people who are just looking for someone to take care of them no they're looking to take care of someone and build a future with them and yet they still get destroyed but yes this is what narcissists will do at the end they all do it they all blame you every narcissist will do this in the game that is how you know what you were dealing with that should wake you up but yes fortunately we do have our support network you and they are able to provide this information to you yeah I mean this information it is very helpful unfortunately it may not help you to get back the time that you lost the money you lost maybe even the children you lost may not help you to get that back because as I said the way the the courts and the systems are set up they are set up against good people a narcissist tend to be the ones who win but this information should help us to protect ourselves from finding narcissists in the future to prevent it from happening again so that's what it's intended to do and yes I hope this information is helpful for you for this please give it a thumbs up down below I know this wasn't the most positive message but sometimes you just got to keep it real you got to keep it true and I understand what you're going through I've been through it myself but yes thank you all for the support let me know your thoughts down in the car section and I will talk to you in another one