{"id":4587,"date":"2017-02-17T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:59:41","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-hairstylist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2017\/02\/17\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-hairstylist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of a Hairstylist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/02\/hair.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4588\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/02\/hair.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has dreams to be an envy, so she&#8217;s starving.\u00a0 You know, \u2018Covergirls eat nothing.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Alessia Cara sings these words in her song \u201cScars to your beautiful.\u201d\u00a0 These words ring true in the beauty industry.\u00a0 \u201cWomen will skip meals all week long to save money to get their hair done,\u201d Gale Bradley informs her students at DelMarVa Beauty Academy.\u00a0 In small-town Salisbury, Md., Salisbury University students hoard financial aid and beer money to make a trip to the salon for that new color they saved to their Pinterest board.\u00a0 What drives these sensible women to take desperate measures to ensure an appointment at their salon?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All hairstylists will tell you that, unofficially, they are also therapists.\u00a0 Every day, all day, clients come in and pour their hearts out to the scissor-wielding, color-slinging, makeover goddess who stands behind them, effortlessly changing their lives inside and out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don&#8217;t\u00a0 know what to about Derrick*.\u00a0 This last surgery has him so depressed.\u00a0 He&#8217;s just not acting like my son anymore,\u201d\u00a0 a client confided at her last appointment.\u00a0 After spending two hours with her, her stylist was able to cover up her gray, give her a fabulous cut and reassure her that everything would be OK and that she (the stylist) would reach out to Derrick (also one of her regular clients).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just the beauty services that are offered that bring these women (and men) in to the salon. It\u2019s the sense of companionship and reassurance that comes free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>Often, stylists earn more than just a paycheck.\u00a0 They are rewarded with changing someone\u2019s life.\u00a0 A bride on her wedding day can look at herself in the mirror after her hair and makeup are done and feel all the stress of the event melt away at the sight of her overwhelming beauty.\u00a0 A cancer patient who was tired and broken and feeling like the ugliest person alive broke down into tears after her haircut.\u00a0 \u201cI feel like I look like a woman again,\u201d she sobbed.<\/p>\n<p>Hairstylist may not be at the top of the Fortune 500 list of inspiring careers, but it is one that deserves praise.\u00a0 Every day these women and men deal with a revolving door of demands: physical, mental and chemical obstacles and an outpouring of emotions from their guests.\u00a0 They are a group of trusted individuals who strive to make a small part of everyone\u2019s day amazing.\u00a0 The last words of Alessia Cara\u2019s song are \u201cwe\u2019re stars, and we\u2019re beautiful.\u201d \u00a0And that\u2019s how stylists send their guests out, every time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Name has been changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShe has dreams to be an envy, so she&#8217;s starving.\u00a0 You know, \u2018Covergirls eat nothing.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Alessia Cara sings these words in her song \u201cScars to your beautiful.\u201d\u00a0 These words ring true in the beauty industry.\u00a0 \u201cWomen will skip meals all week long to save money to get their hair done,\u201d Gale Bradley informs her students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8910,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}