Hey guys, this is Matt Beck from FreeSalonEducation.com, episode 83 of Splitting Hares, everybody's hanging out. Yep. Enjoying the evening. Yep. We just had a lot of rain just happened. We had a wicked storm. Yeah. So, I got a little scared of the, I think the sound's still playing, Chris. It's on me. That's Matt. Her face is like, yeah, I already did mine. It's your fault. So, rain come through, I was actually worried about the signal, but I think it's gonna be okay, hopefully. So let us know if you guys are having issues, all of you live on with us. Thank you for being with us. We were just talking about, right before we went on, remember 81 episodes ago. When we were just praying that one person would watch this. And we have, you know, all of our friends on there who know a lot about us and we're assuming we're eating dinner. So we just had some pizza. We did. Yeah, we did. And yeah, so now we're ready to chat hair. And we have great segments coming up. We have Trending Tresses with Dreia. She's got some interesting stuff. Super excited about that. We're gonna get into some Lady Gaga stuff. And then Justin Scott's got some news, Brian's got the social, and we got everybody else hanging out. We got, so Brian Hare, Dreia Boland, Justin Scott, Thaddeus Boland, and Christina Cavalcanti. Can I just say, if anybody wants to have a good, hearty laugh, actually go back 81 episodes and watch episode two. Because that was the one where we did the long table here and Christina came and we had the one microphone that picked up like every bang on the table. And we gave Thad the noise maker app. Hey, I was told that I couldn't overdo it. Only one of our listeners thought that that was not so true. No, everybody that heard it thought it was the little true. All right, I want to stick with just one. Thad definitely overdid it. But you know what? It wasn't that Thad overdid it. It was that the sound effects were so bad that he just, he had fun. We got to give him that. The man had a good time. I had a free app. That was about it. My favorite episode is the first episode and we're just all piled around the color bra. Squished. Yeah. Squished. But got all of us. Well, I actually thought about it because me and Christina are going over the reinvention of the salon right now and just trying to figure out what we're doing. And we have six months left in our lease. So should we stay? Should we go? Who knows? But I thought, I keep thinking about, well, where are we going to...  Where are we going to put the podcast? You know, like I was thinking, well, now we have these cameras and we could hide everything into the color bar and then we really could all sit around the color bar again. You know, I'm trying to think of different ways that we can do it, but it's fun. Let's go to a bar. We're headed towards it. Let's go live from a bar somewhere. We should. We should do it from Brian's bar. Oh, yeah. You have a bar? In his basement. I live above two bars. Oh, yeah. Two bars. Because it's summertime. The tiki bar is open. I know. And we know no one's there.  On one nice evening. I literally lived the life of what's that show you like, how I met your mother. I literally... You like that show? I love that show.  He's hilarious. Chris, you've never watched that show, right? It's a good show. I've never seen that show. I was really disappointed with the ending. I realized that the ending is about the main person and not Neil Patrick Harris. So I was kind of... No. Fools. Christina and I watch that show. We curl up in our snow geese and watch it together. Where am I? I don't know. Where are you? You're probably here. You're probably here at Amazon and more things to put in here. To be honest. It's closing in. Yeah. Well, those lights, they're actually going up there. So... You know, we are doing a... Our buddy, Cyprian Popescu, has asked if you're having a bad hair day. No. He just really likes his new hat. I like my new hat this week. And I was actually... So I have been here the last two days filming. So get ready to see this hat for this 18 weeks. So I started thinking. I actually took the hat off for a video because I was like, I'm going to look exactly the same almost every day for the month of... Yeah, you should have brought a different jacket. I was going to say, that's going to be me in all of my videos. And t-shirt. Yeah. So I'm going to have a wardrobe. I'm like, share now. I'm going to have like 15 wardrobe changes. That's what Kelly and Michael did at the taping when they had to tape some... They did? Yeah. I mean, it makes sense. I wanted a t-shirt that says, I'm like, share. Yeah, back. Yeah. So I'm going to have to figure that out because that's a little weird. If I'm wearing the same hat and I'm in the same outfit every day. I feel like we can credit that quote to Sam Burns. Didn't she say that there was a lot of... Sam Burns would... Share music videos. Yeah, Sam Burns would... He'll never hear this probably because I'm sure he doesn't watch. But if he was watching, he would be loving life. That I just said I was the same as... Buy that t-shirt. That's for sure. All right. So I did film the last two days. I've got over... I think I have nine videos that I just did. So the one video a day, Monday through Friday, is going to happen. The podcast is Wednesday. So it's really, I have to create four videos a week. So I already have two weeks done. It'll launch next week. So I'm very excited for that. And I've got my new filming schedule. So I'll pass that out to you guys so that we can... Just let us know when you need us. Jump in and film some stuff as well. I mean, I would definitely want everybody to be involved in it. But I've found the schedule I think that it's going to work for me and being able to get content done. So we have... All right. Do you want to get right into... Anybody else have anything? Do you want to have a chat about everybody being the same as everybody else? Little thing we talked about earlier? What do you mean? What are we talking about? Cover band? Did you just get higher as you... Yeah, the stewie from The Family Guy. From The Family Guy. The Family Guy. Wait, can we just talk about Justin since now doing the Tosh.0 he's doing a different tank top every week. This summer, it's going to be... It's the summer of tank tops. I'm curious to see how long this lasts. I've got plenty of tank tops. I would be curious. I would be curious. If he runs out of tank tops, he'll just make cuts. I'll just start cutting sleeves. But my question is how focused are you going to be to remember which ones you've already worn? That's not a point. Okay. Let's talk about this because this was Minerva Beauty sent in some capes to us. Are they two razors or is it like a fun monster? I'm not sure. I got to ask them what this logo is. It's either two razors or something from Monsters Inc. Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not mad about either of those options. Yeah, I know. That's awesome both ways. So these capes, did you guys all use one today? I did. These are really good quality capes. I look forward to after the first wash, though. Yeah, what they feel. Fresh, stiff. Are they the same as the ones that are blank, too? Yeah. You can get this blank or you can get your logo and that's the whole point for an extra $5 a cape. I did like it. I got to tell you what I really like. I loved. I'm so happy that they're snaps instead of Velcro. The snaps are on point. They're hardcore. I'm still used to old snaps and I'm like, pop, pop. I went to go take it off my client earlier and I'm like, I'm having a Justin and Thad moment showing him the muscles. I'm busting this thing open so she can get free. He did four push-ups three weeks ago. I did. I'm strong. Not only do they have really awesome snaps, but I'm pretty sure they washed them in Rainex. I don't know if you guys had drops of water hit them, but they just beat up and just float right away. I stood my client in the corner and I hosed him down, actually. I'm not referencing, but I didn't want to say the worst. Who's your client? I don't know because I actually get the water out of their hair at the same time. I like to make things adventurous. I know. That light is going to fall on you. Thad, don't die.  At least I wouldn't lose any hair over it. I have no hair on the top of my head. I thought you said air. I was like, what are you talking about? I'll still be able to breathe. Wait, question. You might not know the answer, but now you have to get it. Wisconsin Donna wants to know, do they make white capes? I don't know. I will have that answer for next week. I told you to get white capes. That might be a good push to the website to check it out.  I love, first off, me and Thad took to do Wait. He's from Illinois. Me and Thad. I'm just kidding. I don't want to offend anyone out there. Because Brian's from Alabama and he knows how to say. That's a good point. I got no excuses. Thad and I took capes to the mall. When we first started when it was like the beer drinking cut the mannequin and when I got my jacket embroidered we've done it all. Thad took the capes to this guy in the mall the little kiosk that does embroidery stuff. It was outside the suit store probably suits they came off. More than the suits they were in the suit store. In 1995, per cape just for the embroidery. I got him a dress shirt for I can't spend less. You'll notice that you won't because you don't see them right now but the other capes that we got done were only outlined because it was too expensive to fill and it was like $49 to fill it in. The fact that you can get this for 5 bucks is pretty awesome. It's really good quality. It doesn't have the big huge but I liked it. I like how encompassing it is. It's a big cape. I've used a lot of capes.  Does it fit around Justin and Thad? It covers anything but our love. They have a white and gray striped one. It's big. She was solid she didn't get anything on her and it wrapped around and there was extra after it was fastened I was really happy. Who would have thought we'd get so excited about a cape? After using the velcro capes for a really long time. They have a white and gray striped cape but I can't find a white one.  White capes are good so long as they're only used for cutting. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to buy ten white capes. What I'm going to do is give them to you guys and we'll see in two months. They won't last.  No we don't. I can't even keep color off of the stations. Are you kidding me? Mine too pristine. They would never see color. That's true. They rhyme for a reason. I would use white capes during balayage and that's it. We have more stuff. I also wanted to come up with some new promotional things. We're going to be at Premiere Orlando this weekend. Me and Thad are. We're going to be throwing chairs. Underwhat improvements trying to hurt people. That I actually picked up a chair. Did you do curls? I held up an error. Will you get ten reps? Nuu. You worked 20 reps. So we're going to... He did 20 squats. We're going to be giving out New FSE buttons buttons. It's not a challenge. I So I thought her takes that home The only reason I want to go on oh, maybe we could do it with the But I want to go on I want to go on the prices right and request Like I don't I don't care about any other game Or the yodeling guy we're already Okay, so what yes, I screwed up and I ordered these gigantic buttons and they came to yesterday They're cool though. I want one. They're just big. Yeah, so you guys can definitely have one everyone in the world Okay, can we get one of you? So we have the FSE cutting ones so they have scissors on them They have puffins the Mizutani puffin the fantastic shear so they say FSE so if you guys want to grab one I'm so excited that they had the puffins on it almost as excited as I was and this one has the candy Shaw which I haven't even told her yet surprise. I'm gonna tell her in Orlando. I'm gonna give her one the FSE, but then it has the Sunlights paintbrushes on there, which makes me happy the hairbrushes makes me a lot of money Of course I ordered so many damn buttons to a lot of them you get a buddy You get like the wristbands all over again, of course the I love Mondays buttons Buttons don't talk like a ball and it just doesn't sound right and the FSE logo button the fist of fury So it's a good thing that I need you to put all of these on your shirt right now throwing them like ninja stars in Orlando. Oh That just happens She is on All right, so so we have some buttons that they're actually they'll be for sale on shop FSE. They're gonna be really cheap We're just one gets seventy-three We're just trying to get our money back on that but you can rock some buttons and there will be small ones That will go with it, which will make once we sell out it look more Mind you I got nips he was he bought this buttons. He's like I don't know maybe we should get a button machine That's like a frisbee. I think it's pretty safe to say Free pong tonight is getting a button. Yeah, you get a button.  Yeah Good consolation prize. Yeah, so no matter what are 40 pieces of flair you guys You can give us a tip to anybody works at front days who wrote that friend blaze Melissa G said flair. She's our new Does Melissa G get a pin for say that I said I'm gonna wear them like flair to work It's the waitress in you. All right, so we have um, maybe it's cuz I like Born to wait it's cuz you actually like flair flair. Yeah now here's the deal guys You actually have to wear those to work from now on that is don't yes I have a vest for you all I have a vest for you And you can you have to wear them you can spice up the vest however you want You know Justin I are gonna only wear the vest. Yes, I was gonna say I'm not wearing sure I don't Well, we were gonna button up a whole shirt for me to wear but And as long as those four damn buttons are on that shirt, I don't care. Let's just go pierce the nipples with them. Yeah How many sounds just came out of her mouth, I can't tell if she's excited She's hugging herself very So I want to say I'm gonna I'm gonna spread of plugs because we didn't were nervous, but I want to say we're not plugging it We need to do love plugs. No, we're giving love What's a love plug We need to find 69 all over again Okay, wait, wait, I want to hear I just got an idea cuz I'm watching and we we do have a lot of really fun People that we do gratefully love overseas. Yeah, we need to find some companies that we love that they can get in on the fun That's true. I'm seeing a few people over here that are upset cuz like Minerva only is an American website Like they can't do Minerva. You know what I'm gonna say right now. I know Ikea is every single Every single person that is on right now watching live email contest at Free salon education you have to do it by the end of tonight By tomorrow morning Midnight, they're a few they're ahead of us. So Matt, you're saying midnight 12 hours 12 hours from this moment right now email me at contest At free salon education comm your address. I don't care where you live in the world and I will send you for You may regret those words. I was gonna say no a million people online. There's like probably 20 20 watching now I know I know what he's saying we're gonna give him some love and I get I get what you're saying Let's do that. So it's a consolation prize. Let's get L'Oreal on board L'Oreal worldwide good luck We just found that's Justin Bieber right there Okay, I don't actually dislike people. I just think it's funny. All right Trending trust me sure. All right, let's uh, let's do this.  Oh, no, no, let's let's talk about that. I thought that was in the news And we're not doing trending dresses right now. Just kidding JK I Missed up the sound. All right trending dresses here comes I'm going on Here's trending dresses with Drea Bolland Drea Bolland It's me all right, so as we've seen widely across the social media this week is Lady Gaga has gone Super blonde and back to blonde. I gotta get you a better camera. Yeah Finally, thanks Like I've been thinking it for months No, I was just being appreciative that he was gonna do that. Anyway, this dashboard Police dashboard cam trying to do trending dresses All right, so we know that Lady Gaga has gone back to being super duper blonde Yeah, she has documented this entire process from start to finish on Instagram It took a total of 10 hours to do so as Brian informed me this right before the show started It was for her role in Sorry, so I work cited That's actually really that is kind of exciting. I watched this one. This one's supposed to be really good Lady This season supposed to be really good. Yeah, this season is supposed to be real good real good I'm a little monster. I was just mad.  He wears Gaga t-shirts. I question every day He wears Gaga t-shirts. She actually does. I really do Matt changed it from a share videos to a Gaga videos. Yeah, it's like Yep, you start wearing like different headdresses now That's why I started wearing backspace pockets. I don't know what I'm gonna do in life. Just to look like a boy You never know except anything you choose tomorrow might be the day that I do that Okay, what are you doing? I don't know. I have no idea. Oh my god All right, so we're gonna start off with her first picture showing her base color So I thought that was really cool because they noted that she's only ever been a dim. I permanent Brunette they've never used permanent color on her.  Yes The second photo is going into how they soften. They broke up the color They said they didn't tell us how they broke up her color, but they wanted to make sure it was told that They broke up her color. Where am I going here with all this? I Don't think they're in order Yeah, they are that but Yeah, the leopard's gun one. Oh, I didn't realize that was her still. Yeah This is the story of her going blonde. Okay, so So they broke up her blonde broke up the base They probably just used a color remover or something to just kind of lift any color molecules out which I thought was fun then They're going into detail over how they were using a virgin application of bleach versus doing balayage or anything like that because as I Can't you guys are distracting me Because as Gaga explained in her Instagram post that Balayage means sweeping motion Which would give a subtle highlighted effect, which was not what she was going for. I know that that made me so happy Like the exact definition of Balayage Gaga like just put out in her. I gotta be tearing it up. She's educating So Hair of Gaga. I'm sorry. I didn't say that properly Bolan Educating Education. All right. Anyway, so you can see in the photos that you know They stayed away from the hairline as they started this process They have the cotton in between each section the what the cotton Cotton um in the next picture. I love how completely saturated with bleach her hair is as they're going through everything And then you can see how they kept it away from her regrowth then going in separately to do the regrowth That's fun. You can even see a little little tiny Split ends there. So that was fun. This one from training dresses to quick tips Yes, but that's what's like. I mean this is a Information and she gave such incredible step-by-steps. It almost felt like a tutorial right and she was honest She was honest about the entire thing. So it's never well. We had with With Kim Kardashian right how she just kind of did it and it was like oh look at me I'm blonde no one's gonna show up and think that that was a quick $80 service that like oh and now she's blonde like they saw this took all day, right? So this was I just thought this was really cool how she went into such detail over it Then they talked about her toning process as Her scalp was on fire because of everything that they did to her hair You can even see how red it is I stole one of my favorite hashtags ever from her from her blonding process. It's Hashtag peroxide suicide. Yeah, love it. It's hilarious. And then they came out with this beautiful translucent Even consistent blonde that's sick, which It's stunning very a sick blonde right there and the fact that that came from colored brown hair But what and what I think is fantastic because Brian and I talked about it about in these pictures You can tell she has short hair during this entire process like it's not as if she has super long hair It's not even shoulder length like it's a short bob However, then they get it to blend flawlessly with her extensions color on tone everything flawless Roots to ends and I thought that was phenomenal Right super good. So that's that was my trending dresses That's all we're talking about today because I thought that was just so much fun. No, I think it's cool Like I know you follow a lot of celebrities Christina does I'm sure I think Brian does I don't know do we know but I follow celebrities and porn stars But but this is the thing you get to see them Christina, too Ah Cuz you're 12 If you said duty, I'd left to duty, but this is a thing like when you follow When you follow celebrities you get to see that the transformation and it took a long time She was posting those pictures. Yeah really spread out the other one that I want to throw up that I Like we don't have a picture of but was also all the rage speaking I'm talking about their process was Kaylee cooco. Just see her this week. Yeah, which I'm sorry I saw all these headlines about what a big deal it was because she did some pink in her hair and like She followed the trend of eyebrows.  Amazing about it was have you ever tried to bleach eyebrows? Yes, it's not hard. I've done it. Yeah, unfortunately We don't admit it. You put bleach near eyebrows Yeah, but it's quick. Yeah, and Way too far. I made myself look 95. I was 20 Yeah, I did that once so it was embarrassing. I'll do it again. I'll do it again. Who wants me to? I want you to right now So I was when I was on the radio I Lived in this really small town of like 700 people right and there was a hairdresser in town that hairdresser does everyone's hair, right? So I go there While I'm working the race radio station because I wanted some frosted tips So I go there she puts the cap on my head She pulls it through with the crochet thing right in the hook and she's pulling it out. You're just too cool.  I had leopard print hair I was spotted I was completely spotted and really now as a hairdresser I know that it bled Through the cap, right? I know that now But then she's like I just totally created leopard print on your head and I was like, oh my god That's so cool. And then I'm so I'm walking around with this like thinking wow. I'm so cool. I've leopard hair pop punk God right now. Yeah Well Christopher was telling me a story of he was doing his friend Same thing the cap comes up and then the bleach goes underneath and then they get Bleach spots here and then long so we don't do the cap anymore. Yeah, so wait. Is that possible? Maybe not in the next week But within the next two weeks first each to find our senior photo and bring that bad boy in so we can compare it Let's have that for training training. That's actually kind of impossible We don't have senior photos. Yeah.    Wait, did I tell you that Christina googled herself the other day? I googled myself because you were googling yourself. What is gonna come up? Did I Google myself?  I googled myself. I'm in there. We good. We all Google me. It comes up with a bunch of people I have a very popular name not even What what did this hat what happened you annunciate when you say Matt Beck for free salon education comm I just turned into like Dracula drop That was good one Matt, but one ball Matt Whatever I love you whatever I love you to Wisconsin on a set homeschooled. Yes, the Bollins were homeschooled. Yes That's a fact. That's a fact. Well, they say they were schooled They also say they're swimmers, but We're at home If you Google my name, you'll find a really nice Four-foot pool that they wait really? Yeah, their parents to relays with wait everybody Google fad. Yeah, wait. No, I'm googling It's just a picture swimming.  I wish I could pull up my screen right now FSE You have to step through all the free salon education and there's daddy's bull in that salon gratitude Athlete roster American swimming I'm not questioning it. I want to see it, but who do you swim for? You s swim team.  Oh the teams at the source We didn't go to the right you too. This is amazing that I'm actually very impressed So you all feel very comfortable in the ocean. Yeah, yeah Yes, oh when you Is Chris different me one of the things did you just Google yourself? Yeah, we're getting off track here Does it somebody has some news to say wait, I got plenty of news to talk about but God forbid we keep on track While we're all trying to Google that Brian is googling himself So what wait what what what came up? Is anybody's no Thank you for googling that looking up interesting things right now. So Okay, I'm like really excited, you know, there's you know my Facebook and my Instagram and stuff like that And then search is related to Brian here Brian hair Bally ash and that makes me really happy that that was one of the things that Google suggests That's right What all right, so? Public records what? Okay, all right, so we're You already have One two three, but three emails.  So are we gonna refocus and go back? Wait, what are we doing? We're doing a show. Yeah, we're not hanging out Oh, we're live right now Okay, dry it did just a trending trust Good job, Jaya, let's bring it back. Let's bring it back now. It's like what Brian always says. It's like hurting kittens Okay, so Justin Scott this guy this guy if I can find your industry news No From Justin Scott All right now. Let's let's get into this stuff. Let's get into this stuff I found some cool stuff this week one it doesn't necessarily obtain just to hair industry news But I feel it pertains to us because we don't really have this as most communities do It's about the health care The Obamacare thing has plagued a lot of hairdressers because it's just another bill We have to pay one way or another of money that we don't have to spend But in Congress is on the Supreme Court. I'm sorry is on the way to kind of Rewrite it because the way the Obamacare plan was rewritten is actually unconstitutional It makes it's kind of like a communistic plan where you have to pay and I have to pay for people who need it But we don't right the money's got to come from somewhere. Yeah So just long story short, they're trying to get rid of it and rewrite it properly But in doing so it's gonna really unbalance everything so it's gonna be a complete and total train wreck before it's any better Okay, but it's on the up and up to kind of yeah It's on the up and up to do good like the whole health care plan in general was made to make health care more affordable, right? Because industry should be conglomerate of nonsense. Yeah, well if you look at back back four years ago in Jersey To get insurance it would have been over four hundred dollars And that's depending on and even if you look at like from a business standpoint to get health care it's like They would just sum up what everyone's conditions are because they can't turn anyone away Well, no, that's what they were doing right. They were turning people in but now they were right But these still like my friend she does hair She pays like a hundred and eight dollars a month for health insurance, right? But that's under this Obamacare thing, but again like just so you know you were corrected It's affordable care act not officially called Obamacare Yeah, I know but I'm calling it obamacare. I know everybody refers to it as obamacare I mean, you are yeah, but just to be PC what I'm trying like Really happens is the penalty at the end of the year isn't as much as what you would be paying for the year So if you don't want to have yeah, take it for me. Don't take it for me if something happens It's a lot more to know Yeah, but your cup but then that depends on your coverage because we have I'm just I'm gonna pause this right now Before we go to a whole thing about insurance. I'm selling every no They're kind of changing it to kind of help us out in the long run, right? So let's move on how so to make it Constitutional so there was I'm saying so if you don't want it you don't have to get a penalty if you don't have it Oh, good. So that's like that's how it should be. Do that's perfect Do you think everybody who had to pay that penalty will get a refund now? No, they're never giving you what I wish I can get that really didn't you learn that homeschool Speaking of homeschool somebody did comment, so I guess you never had a crush on your teacher. Nope Now it's been weird So I'm hot for teacher falls on deaf ears for you. What wasn't from West Virginia? It's almost how it goes. I know I just sounded like my dad. I'm going to interrupt Justin's news with different news Somebody just said that they're gonna be buying hairs from Minerva because if you are confident in their quality and so are they I'm telling you. Oh, who's that? Someone from Minerva This age try also on oh Awesome. Okay. I love that. Yeah. Yep. I love Susie. Very cool. One of the greatest hugs. You'll ever get ever All right, cool. Okay. What else we got what else we got we got all kinds of goodies One article I read was people using snapchat now to contact their employees depending on their staff size I love this really I do too. Yeah, the article says the person in question. She runs She runs the staff of four salons, which have about 150 staff members Sarah akins. She's the director of business and development for zeno salons Uses as a tool and the way she uses it's really cool. Like she'll send personalized messages to stylists To congratulate them on hitting their numbers or something or you know They do like this whole thing where every female stylist has wore lipstick social to everybody like remember your lipstick stuff like that And I you know, it's just really cool because Um, it's really cool though because usually people get thank you We give like 20 bucks at the end of the week for For your numbers for wearing lipstick. I just see like a six second snapchat Wait, uh, I don't come to work this concept though when you said it earlier I didn't get the full details of it But I think um, I think snapchat's a cool way because It depends on your boss, I guess But when you think about because I think about bosses I've had in the past and I wouldn't want to wake up to a snapchat but um I think as a communication tool Yeah, instead of a text because text is difficult and sometimes you can read text the wrong way Um, I think snapchat's kind of cool because you could but how would it be different at the same time? It's video it's a 10 second video you can send or you could also text on it too But again, it makes oh see I don't use I don't use it, but I've seen other like, you know, I'm on it now to look at like claudia's now that she's in rome Why aren't we friends? Right? Yeah. Oh wait, I just accepted your friends with brian Wait, what? No, dreah said I said why aren't we I know I think I sent you one too. Mm-hmm So what's your snapchat? I think it's steanie. I don't know. No, it's more drawn out than that. I can't keep up I was like, you know what? I bet that's christina. I'm gonna accept it I don't even know. I do not even know how to work it I really don't and my niece is cracking up laughing at me. Oh I did add you dreah doesn't use snapchat very well I want to start using snapchat because of her cats like you would look you know, I don't I need a lesson on it But I'm trying to ask like what is that it's longer than a text message. So what is like, well, that would be the Quick it's a quick way to send when you could do a quick video. I use that. I think of it as a video thing It's for teenagers just saying hey guys Can you make sure that this this and this gets done today and congratulations to blah blah blah? But at the same time the person in question here has 150 people that she has to get something across to you Real quicks rather than sending like an email to everybody you're going on facebook This is a quick. Oh, hey guys. This is happening. And you know, usually most people have snapchats and automatic update or But what if they don't look at it?  Yeah, you're notified that you have a snapchat and then you open it And it'll tell like if you send me something christina, you'll know whether I opened it or not Hold on. So it's different than a text. I don't have to hit everyone that I want it to go to No, you can put a if you want it directly to them. Yes So it would be the same as a text then this time like No, but you say you say it to us and then you tap everybody you wanted on where you don't have to rewrite it out every time Well, I could do that in a text too, but this will show you who saw it. Yes, I can Why I can't do mess texting you freeze my phone. I'm blocking everyone He's he has an android, but anyway Yeah, but so you but christina if you sent all right So look you send out a snap to all of us on staff Right, we all get a notification saying you got a snap from christina, but it will also show you who saw it and who didn't So is it also a thing where I can just hit Like I couldn't Schedule it to go to all you have a group. You can have a group. I don't know if you can schedule it though But you can have a group. Oh, you can have a group Okay, that's what I meant, but you have to pick that group just like a text message I'm asking you know the group you unless or everyone else sees it, right? Oh, yeah, no, you can have it you choose no Over confused she's asking can you do just a group? Yes, you can do just a group Yes, but that wouldn't be good for sending out saying hey, can you guys do this and like having like a list of things to do Because it disappears So people are asking what's our snapchat names? Justin's so angry that he's bringing up this news and then we're asking about it and he doesn't want to talk about it Well, no, it's like hey, this is this is the news, but let's not go into how to work a snap Let's go into briefly that they're using it to contact employees. So we have employees and I'm asking about it. Yeah You're actually informing our bosses. I don't know if you guys know this So I figured they already knew how to work it. No, we've never used snapchat. I didn't know that Yeah, there might be followers that haven't used it either They're really not that old, but here's aren't you older? No, I'm older than everyone here. I am. I'm not old, but I'm kind of old I didn't you do have computers in high school. So I'm kind of old I'm so but here's the computers in high school either. We just everyone needs to realize we had a computer We have our like I didn't have a clue the purpose Hang on. Hang on the purpose of segments is to bring up conversation. Oh, of course, but you're shutting down the conversation So I'm just quiet. No, and then because you did that about the insurance too Yeah, but I felt like the insurance gonna get way out of no I was trying to explain something you said something about somebody buying insurance for 180 a month Because she had to but you don't have to pay that much a year if you're willing to then just pay the penalty at the end of the year Justin the people need to know You want to finish the news that let's do Well, let's move to the next story snapchat. I think it's a good idea. So wait Apparently it's a great idea, but we can't learn how to use it for our employees Wait, but for those of us that have it our fans are asking Justin. What's your snapchat? Our fans are asking for the name You've got your You're gonna get a lot of car rides and a lot of complaining about traffic. Oh, yeah Draya, what's your snapchat? I mean mine's straight a 2289 same as instagram consistency. Perfect. You know what mine's the same too hairstyle Let's get off snapchat. What's the next thing? No people ask Christina. Hang on. We're answering our fans questions Justin I'm gonna work for it Christina's like Brian's not gonna get the next person tell me to be quiet their game equal Their volume down so their mic doesn't work. I didn't try to be quiet.  Okay, did we get our snap? Somebody got muted Oh Next one. So go ahead, jesson. I lost my place. I have to find it Okay, now do you want to talk about men's styles or do you want to talk about? I think everybody else Men's styles. Yeah. Okay, cool Well, men's styles are gonna be two different things Um Apparently men are now keeping their hair longer Uh to kind of keep like a very versatile look apparently Um, kind of like longer pompadour style that almost a man bun, but not quite What I just chopped off I guess Um, and the reason it's you like a couple different looks one being like a really polished look one being like a kind Uh texturized thrown around look and one being a what do they call it a uh rocky? Where is it? Who is talking about this? Um the person talking about it It's one of the people who's working Do you have images for these? I don't I have no images I heard a tag today from matt's client that goes with this what you're saying like the more grown out look That I never heard and I thought it was so cool. They were calling each other flow bros. Yeah Like for guys that had the flow That's apparently the term that the kids are using today. Yeah, so I had a yeah I had a client today. He was getting his haircut for prom Who which is crazy because I've been cutting his hair for a long time and he's like He's like, yeah, I got to get rid of the flow, bro He's like, that's what all the what all the guys have right now And uh, and I think it's the undercut growing out. Yeah, and they're referring to it as this flowy flow So yeah, that rocky vitelli who's a global director, uh for uh fruit systems Oh, yeah Said there's three different types that they're really working with which makes sense because you see guys doing this where they have that Polish that texture to it, but then they have like a really high fashion if they want to Do it And then if they want to use like a really hard pomade they can have that nice slick back kind of like bad ass look Um, yeah So you're saying that a lot of guys are going to be going that trend Which it looks like because it's just the nature of a hairstyle You have that, you know that high-end tight pompadour that's real, you know short Then everybody starts growing out getting lazy But the one thing I've been seeing a lot of Editorial videos and different stylists making them about guys hair And they put so much work into the style We can barely get our guests who've been coming to us for a while and you guys even longer than me Use a blow dryer They're using hairspray and texturizing cream and a paste and then they're using a flat iron and So I feel like a lot of the expectations of what the industry says is going to be happening isn't actually really Possible for like a basic guy who's going to come in every two to three weeks get his hair cut I think it's the industry is looking way too into I think I see more tutorials for like runway hair or fashion shoot hair than actually Hair that you're going to cut and your client's going to be very happy to do it home as well Yeah, but I think um, I think I I do Sort of think when you look at like andrew does hair and all of that it's it's showing guys um One way to make their hair different, you know Like if they're having a trouble with a calyx or something like that It's finding that way showing them how to use a blow dryer to make that go away. Of course, you know, and I think I think if you Do I think a guy's going to use a round brush? Probably not, you know, it's not it's not going to happen for the most part I think with that style you can do with any kind of brush in any ways Jesus I haven't been throwing my phone everywhere, but I think um, I think it's very important to coach the guys And I do think we're in kind of a movement guys are using more product. I think even in this salon Look at the new rusell that we just brought in with the The pink rusell smells so good. It smells so good It's it's got a great hold to it it's sold out We sold 12 of them within the first three days and I'm still in there on backwater I'm waiting for them to come in like guys are really interested in product Um, and I think they would be more interested in a blow dryer if they were taught more exactly I have a few come back to me and they they've gone down with that blow dryer Yeah, but I don't think I have one male guest who would pick up a flat iron after they No, I mean not and that's and that's what I'm getting at. It's not every day. No, no, no Yeah, so you guys all agree with me. All right Agreed And the last thing I want to chat about Is this one article and I was talking to you about it. Um, patrick mclover mcluver Um, I think it's mclover mclover mclovin mclovin. So patrick mclovin wrote this And it's entitled stop uh coverband hairdressers And this is about He says that pretty much anybody who comes in with a photo And shows the photo to you and says do Or it's a balayage or highlights or that exact haircut and you do that you're just copy whatever they did Which in reality is not really It wasn't possible to Not do that to make your guest happy you can do you can do a a variation of it Um, but in the end of the day, you're still doing what they showed you in that photo and using that photo as something to jump off from Yeah, but towards towards the end of the article though. He does go into say use Social media to show your work so that they way they want to see your work and bring your work into you Which I think is the only productive thing I took out of that entire article Yeah, because right now is the only time I've ever seen it that Able for guests to see your work on your instagram say hey do this to me Right, but otherwise we're doing the same stuff over and over again that everybody else has already done But at the same time you're not you don't have the same starting ground as what that picture was You're doing the identical thing. You're doing whatever it needs to achieve a similar effect I think the middle step of that is you know having that conversation. Okay. This is what it is for Kim Kardashian Now let's talk about a realistic You version of that And then that's that's where that comes in because I mean you're not her and you're not but you know, it's funny When Christina actually brought this article up to me on our hike to the high point of new hope She brought up the article. I didn't know who it was Patrick he put out a video recently of the pixel color technique, which he did not come up with So how can you write an article about hairdressers being cover artists and then put out a video On a trend, he had this epiphany. Hold on. He had this epiphany after he got all the comments on his pixel video That's exactly what happened. Poorly doing the pixel technique That somebody else came up with and then you're going to talk about hairdressers being cover artists and you're an original You're not an original. I highly disagree with this because If your client shows you a picture of Kim Kardashian Your client does not have Kim's hair.  You're not playing with the same chords. You're not hitting the same notes. Are you hitting a protein bar? At least wait, I just want to say thank you fad for finishing the cheer before you had that rant Otherwise she would have been covered Exactly that's the thing what are you gonna say? Well, what I was gonna say is It's the trend right now like you your clients wants the trend That's what the reality of the situation is. Yeah, you're gonna customize a look for it But I do hair differently than Brian does hair We can look at the same picture and come up with 10 different ways to achieve the same thing Right, and that's where the creativity comes from it. It's not necessarily Recreating new looks for every single person or creating a new trend Because there's only so many ways to cut hair. There's only so many ways to color hair No one's creating anything. We all know that there's there's two haircuts Actually, there's nine. Well, there's two basics One length and an elevated hair. That's debatable But I mean like I don't see him breaking ground and not for nothing. You can't make your client happy If they want to come in how they bring a picture with a nice soft ombre What are you gonna do if they're foils in their hair and make them green?  I'm too cool to give you this haircut that this celebrity has had so I'm going to do what I want to do At first game black hair color from now on So it's just fun. It's just funny. I think it's one of those things it just you know evolves into what it is, but it I didn't know that's who it was and that just to me is like it's just fun, but People what are you gonna do? What else it's all my news.  Oh, and a happy note And in on a happy and in on a happy Rock the cure cut-a-thon start soon. I don't know if anybody knows about this. What is that last monday, may 18th salon participated in a rock the cure cut-a-thon to help the city of hope raise funds to fight cancer um able to do it on that day you can still have your own cut-a-thon and You can send in that money anytime during the 2015 year to be part of the drive And if you go through june 8th and like you send your donation in they'll actually put you in a drunk to win a trip to vegas All right, so that's uh pretty cool cool throw it out there All right, are we going into social social sure social What's happening on fse social media fse social media submit your questions to brian hair on our facebook community or by using the hashtag free salon education All right, yay All right, so I thought it would be kind of fun. You have our phone, right? Someone has a phone nearby So there was not a whole lot of feedback from last week. So I decided to post a Day and I figured a fun way to Start off would be if I ask it Okay, and if anybody wants to call in then they can go ahead and get all up in this live with us All right. I'm ready Matt you're ready. You got the phone. I got it. All right. So first question then phone number. Okay You're good. I was gonna say do you want to get the phone number out before you start asking so that people know it Well, I can read one or two while we see if anybody calls them. They probably won't Uh, so I said question for today Uh, I want to know how do you actually handle situations where clients contact you outside of the salon phone number? Whether it's social media, text calls, etc. Do you handle it as normal booking?  So some of the answers that we got for this Uh, one of the first ones I gave my personal most of my clients It's a way of treating them not as a client, but one of my friends aside from that It's easier to reach me and book for an appointment.  Yeah, like I think you should be able to separate Here we go. Somebody's calling him. All right. Who is it? What do we got? Hello? Hello, hello Hello, we might have to unmute them Hello, oh geez Hey, how are you? Cyprian Uh, chris, can you push down the auxiliary the blue one? Yeah, that one Yeah, how are you? All good Excellent Wow, good morning He gets a pin. Okay, so you want to you get it? All right, so what do you do in this situation where people are contacting you outside of calling the salon to make an appointment? um, usually I do Uh, I do Sometime I I talk with them and I Establish a new meeting Yeah, okay And that works for you Can I just say good morning guys Can I just say I'm so happy to talk to you you you have been a follower of ours for a long time So thank you for that Thank you guys And we're gonna did you email for all the info? Did you email me? Yeah? Okay. All right. All right fantastic. Well, thank you so much for calling in Thank you as well. Uh, about the the question. Um, lately I I haven't worked in a salon and I'm doing more like, uh, in color like, uh, home calls Okay, and Uh, most of the time I go in Uh, fix them at their house or at their place or whatever. All right, and just charge extra for my trouble Okay Good to know Yeah, so you're doing a lot of freelance work and that so that works for you doing the calls and all that stuff All right. Are you in a salon? Yeah Uh, not right now because uh, I'm back home in Romania and and congratulations I'm uh, thank you very much something else some papers for my wife with Resident permit and stuff like that. So okay, cool bunch of bureaucracy All right. Well, good luck with everything. Yeah. Thanks for calling on the I feel like that's kind of like when you open up your own business like Man, I were talking about this because of a shop that opened up in town that Justin and I went to twice once they were closed just because it was like one of their like daily like That's just when they're closed the second time they're closed because of a vacation And I asked like did you and Christina even like think about taking a vacation like the first year you own this salon? So like I would imagine the same thing like like you would not like Turn away any phone calls or text messages or facebook messages Yeah If you're doing like home calls or you just opened up a studio Well, you look at so new hope and and he yeah, he did ask me that question earlier New hope is a town. It's a tourist town So we have on the weekends, you know Probably 500 to a thousand people I would say that come to new hope Lambertville on the weekend and walk around with their family um And and he's talking about a shop that just opened up And they are already closed all the cells beef to go on vacation On the busiest time like this is now when it's getting busy and in the winter You're not going to have any customers whatsoever And that's where and then he asked me that question. I said well me and Christina We just went on our first real vacation last year We we went to the Outer Banks. We had a great time at the beach We hadn't done anything like that It was like one of the most relaxing summers ever and that was five years into owning that was far from like being open For two months and then deciding man, this is tough. So so that's you know, that's When you open a business you can't you just can't and you got to wait until Though the day when you feel comfortable to do that right and I I think like my my main reason for asking that is just because I It was tough for me when I moved from another salon to here I had a very full book and when I came here. I made sure that my clients Had Many ways to reach me So now I think it's gotten to a point where You know some of them I have no problem, you know with with people reaching out to me, whether it's through Facebook or text message or anything But at the same time they know my schedule is Wednesday But when I get a text message or a Facebook message at 1 a.m Monday night It's like I get this like anxiety because I don't know what to do because I want to take care of them But there's nothing that I can do. Well, there's no so I just I'm like, ah, call this along and I can't help you. I'm sorry Well, and I I think that that you did exactly what we were just talking about as far as like The opposite of what this other shop did of taking a vacation right away You made yourself available, but now you've been here for a while You've like built yourself a reputation and now you're sort of like saying, okay This is fine. This is fine like while the dust the dust settled Uh for me moving from one salon to the next but The salon has two phone numbers or two A lot of people are working right now. Please give them a shout Right, and that's what I do on Tuesdays. I'm like, I'm not at this alone, but I have some friends that are Yeah, I think I'm gonna call the bookie an appointment. I promise I think it's different if somebody sends you a picture or you know Wants to kind of like I think actual booking. Yeah actual booking though Oh, I think it does need to go through this a lot like right. I think being available for clients through social media is one thing but We don't have access to our books. I agree and I kind of dig this. What do you say? Do this I'll put out a question next week. Yeah, I like it and then see if we can get a call in Have a little chat about a round table. Yeah, I think it's cool. I think that um I think there is a time and place for customers and we've said this before I mean you there's no reason to book an appointment while you're out and about Anywhere, you know, right like have a card give it or put in the information for the salon and have them call the salon You know and it's not that you shouldn't stay connected with them I don't know you should afterwards but but definitely putting the information of the the salon and have them call you And make an appointment. I I just don't No one ever shows up when you book an appointment at a bar or a restaurant or anything So, um, I wouldn't waste your time and I would I would enjoy your off time That's the whole point of being a hairstylist and not a salon owner Is that when you're out and about you can talk about the salon for a second But then, you know, you go on with your day and you enjoy life, you know, so I would definitely say Yeah, don't be I agree. Yeah So cool. Thanks guys We'll get social next week All right, anything else? No, so we're gonna do Wheel which we are we spending the wait. No, we're not doing the wheel. Remember? Oh, yeah, we haven't written on the wheel anymore So we're good I made the mental note While saying I'm like, nope. We're not doing the wheel. I'm not bringing it over. All right. No wheel So it's got a call and pick. All right, let's do this. So call in one or eight six six fse live eight six six Is it eight four four? Yeah eight four four fs I try to get our eight six six, but Four if eight four four doesn't work to the eight six six It might not be us though. All right eight four four fse live Call in now. We're going to uh play the beer pong That was actually a test to see who is actually listening in the past couple of weeks Well, sipperyan knew because he called in Yeah, that's right. We didn't even give out the the number beforehand We didn't and he called in so if you want to play that it's He had a competitive edge because he's paying attention in the past weeks So we're going to do the same rules so it'll be pick a person So any of us to throw the balls each ball Is a price so it says it under the cup if you bank it off the window Oh You're still doing this. Heck yeah, we are. Yeah, that's awesome So if you bank it off the window and it goes into the cup then you get But they have to pick uh, which shots are hit off the window, right? Yeah So I can live with that. All right. Let's see Let's see what we got here. I think sipperyan's calling in Yeah Which is oh, wait, he stopped Oh, I lost Fran has requested the wheel to be back. Oh really? Hey, mrs. Dre is spinning it. Oh geez All right, let's see um did dre pay him to say that I did not pay anybody to say was there a wire transfer or paypal a transfer that we don't know about that uh All right, let's uh, all right incoming call Whoever this is it's all right. It's a claudia. No, I think hello Hey, how are you? All right sipp, we're gonna do this But I think there's certain companies that for some reason will not send overseas. Okay, so we're going to We're going to play this with you I'm gonna send you a lot of buttons.  All right, sweet. All right. So who do you want to throw the ball? Well, I know that was training so we go with that Smart move. All right, sweet. All right Here we go. Do you want to walk them through it? Wait walk what through what through what's happening? Oh, yeah. All right. So thad's got three balls to throw Your potential prize is on the bottom, but like we said, we'll see how that goes You can either choose to have him throw it straight in or bank it off the wall If you bank it off the wall, what do you get? Oh, yeah, you get a $50 gift card to Come if you ask him to bank it off the wall and he may And you got to call it each time. So for the first ball, what do you want to do?  All right that here we go first one Oh Nothing He gets a pin though. Sorry about it Here we go.  All right third ball.  Just see what happens Nah, still nothing, but you got some buttons. I'm sorry, but you got some buttons Thad I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I filled you with false hope by telling you how hard thad practiced Apparently thad buckles under pressure and now we know for a fact.  I know off the wall It's a lot of pressure. He's got like 95 lights. He played for his high school's jv basketball team Oh sip, thank you so much. We're uh, I have your address.  All right, I feel bad All right, thanks. Bye from like earlier like I had like on the spot of the window Like where like it was going in each time. Yeah, I could well. I guess that that might be it is that it's dark So like like I like my I've lost the g spot moved So I was like trying to like hit like the right point to like have a bounce right in the cup and it just wasn't happening I'm so sorry. So sip gets flair. Okay. Sorry flair. Yes Sorry melissa melissa She's right. She's correcting us. It's flair. You know what on shop fse. I'm gonna sell it as flair Make sure you don't get It's fine. I don't even care. It's worth it. It's worth it. Yeah on instagram. I have a hashtag flair hit the floor Nice hashtag flair spill. All right All right, so uh, that's it. That's the show Who's the honor student in the bowling house with scots and dana wants to know I gotta tell you all all the jokes you want to come up with Keep coming And I've probably already heard just say But we haven't so we want to enjoy them. We want to know All right, so follows that at bad bonus on instagram brian hair uh on instagram and twitter and snapchat as hairstyle hir e style jaya 2289 joston chris at underscores And follow us at free salon education. We um, yeah, we are gonna be in orlando this weekend So if you guys get a chance stop by And we'd love to say hi to you. We're gonna interview. We have uh martino lined up donald scott um We have oh man What's that? Yes, yes Sorry, i'm gonna pull up the list because it's just Easier. Yes wallace barlow. Thank you. Um, Jenny wolf from Solas salon studios is going to be sitting in donald scott martino. I'm working on getting uh I think sam via couldn't uh, there's a couple more people we're working on Martin parson's i'm working on as well. So hopefully, you know, we'll have even more people But we have a lot of great people lined up. So definitely stop by the millennium systems international booth Uh, thank you to demandforce.com Check them out to manforce.com slash free salon education more videos coming up with them and uh, minerva beauty millennium brocado All kinds of stuff. Uh, no interview today. So we will have more interviews coming up next week We're filming more in florida. So thank you guys so much for watching episode 83 We'll see you next week right here on splitting hairs Watch splitting hairs the hairdresser's podcast live every wednesday night at 7 30 p.m. Eastern standard time or as close as we can get it