What is a day in the life of a hairdresser like?
An average day in the life of a hairdresser let's take an assistant first. They would come in 45 minutes before the first client would enter the salon and their tasks would be basically to clean the salon to get it presentable. Which would mean any dishes or cups that had been used from the previous day would be cleaned up, the floor would be wiped over, mirrors would be cleaned, making sure that all the tools were in the right place making the place look spic and span. Which then the clients then would enter the salon and they would mainly for the most part be washing hair for the stylists. Making teas and coffees for the clients and providing them and also sweeping the floor because there's nothing worse even though hair obviously falls on the floor there's nothing worse than seeing a floor that hasn't been swept for a long time. So constant sweeping the floor and then there's helping clients on with their coats and you know being courteous to clients, shampooing as I mentioned. It sounds very menial but A. someone's got to do it and B. that's how you learn and I to this day still sweep the floor, I help clients on with their coats, I do the occasional shampoo myself and make coffees. And my philosophy is if I can do that menial stuff so can you but I'm teaching you the right way and for me that's my philosophy. Now a typical stylist day you've become a stylist and all of sudden that one day you've been an assistant and then you've passed your test or exam or what ever it is. And bang you're a stylist your world changes you become seemingly more important and juniors will look up to you and they want to be like you and you don't have to sweep the floor or it's not compulsory, You don't have to shampoo your own clients it's not compulsory. So you live a little bit of a grander life and obviously your job is to cut and style people's hair throughout the day. So it's not as demanding sort of physically in the sense that you know doing menial tasks but you have a bigger responsibility and that is the client in front of you. Where the assistant doesn't have that same sort of responsibility of messing somebody's hair up whereas the stylist does. So it's different pressure but that's what pretty much what stylists do everyday obviously cut and style hair.
