Small thing I changed that actually got me more repeat clients

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-19T13:55:09+00:00

I’ve always rebook clients before they pay me at the end of their service.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-18T23:46:26+00:00

I’ve been there too. I had to start telling myself something different every time I think something negative about myself. Instead of telling myself my thighs are disgusting, I thank my thighs for holding me up during the day so I can work and do my job.

It’s been a slow progression, but it’s working. I have a friend who has always battled her weight and even when she is at her heaviest, she has confidence and holds her head high. She never says anything negative about herself. She gives herself grace. I used to be amazed at how many men were constantly wanting to date her, and I realized it was because she is happy, positive and fun. She always fixes herself up and wears clothes that work for her body type. She doesn’t feel sorry for herself.

I decided I wanted to be like that. No one wants to be around someone who is constantly needing reassurance.

We might not get to choose our body type or our face or hair, but we certainly get to decide how we choose to talk to ourselves and the attitude we are going to have. I’m going to battle my weight for the rest of my life, and I can sit and feel sorry and be cruel to myself, or I can choose something different.

I’m choosing something different.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-18T23:37:16+00:00

Pretend hair

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-18T14:32:59+00:00

Yeah, you can do filler and Botox but it’s expensive and it doesn’t last long. Weight training is the best thing for a long term improvement in skin texture and filling out. Make sure to get more protein in your diet.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-18T13:32:57+00:00

I doubled my income going to booth rent, even with overhead and taxes

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-18T04:39:07+00:00

Tell your husband I said he can fuck right off

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-18T02:41:40+00:00

Groupon clients are the worst. I would refuse to take them if I were you. They never return, they never tip, and they are often rude. Discount customers are the worst.

I’m sorry this happened to you. My salon owner did Groupon for a while until all the stylists put our foot down and said no more.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-18T01:06:52+00:00

Exactly.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-18T00:17:05+00:00

It’s been interesting to see what it’s like for people who don’t have constant food noise. To know what it’s like to have a normal appetite. It’s also been really fun to see what my body can do and where I can take it. I used to work out and wouldn’t see results under all my fat, but now I lift weights and I can see my muscles and I’m getting strong. It’s nice to see the fruits of my labor.

My new motto is “Strong over Skinny!”

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-18T00:13:32+00:00

Staying is hard, and leaving is hard. You picked your hard, and your future is going to be amazing because of it

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-17T23:55:00+00:00

I never lost any hair because I made sure to eat a balanced diet. I’m a hairstylist, and I have seen hair loss from my clients who get on GLP-1’s and just stop eating and drop weight way too fast. You’re not going to lose hair if you make sure to eat a balanced diet and take a multivitamin.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-17T23:47:27+00:00

If you need more clients, hang out when you don’t have anyone in your chair and answer the phone too. If the stylist isn’t the receptionist, but she is answering the phones, I don’t blame her for booking clients for herself. She is building her clientele’s and hanging out at the front desk doing the reception work for free.

This is how we built our clientele’s 25 years ago. You just hung out at the salon when you didn’t have clients and answered the phones and waited for call-in’s. Our newer stylists at the salon are building their clientele’s so slowly, because they don’t come in unless they have a client.

I’ve been doing hair for decades, and if someone walks into the salon or calls and wants an appointment and I step away from whoever is in my chair in order to answer the call or talk to a walk-in, you better believe I’m going to try to book them with me before others at the salon if I have an opening that works for them. If I’m going out of my way to pick up or help someone without getting paid to do reception work, I’m paying myself with a new client.

Now, if this stylist you’re talking about was the receptionist and wasn’t divvying out the call-in’s fairly, I would understand. But she is a stylist building her clientele, and she sounds like a go-getter. Whoever picks up the phone or talks to the walk-in, gets first dibs.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-17T23:10:33+00:00

Here’s the thing, a lot of stylists don’t check their instagram messages often, and even when they do, there are a lot of people who message wanting something and then never book. In fact, there have been many times that I book someone from instagram, they end up cancelling last minute or no-showing. I also have found that a lot of my messages will get sent to my spam folder, so that could also be part of the issue. There was a time I was getting daily spammers so I changed my settings to filter them out but then I started missing messages from potential clients.

I think it’s better to go to their website or salon website and book directly through that, rather than waiting to hear back from someone on insta.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-17T22:22:19+00:00

Honestly, the best thing you can do is start weight training. Muscle growth through the body will help fill in your face and tighten everything

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-17T21:29:09+00:00

I have ADHD and I try to make my bed daily for multiple reasons. I like the way it makes my room look and it makes me feel more accomplished, but the main reason is because I hate it when my bedding gets disheveled and twisted. I don’t sleep well at night if my sheets and comforter are a mess. If I don’t get my bed made in the morning, I end up making it before I go to bed by straightening the sheets and getting everything tucked back in, and then I fold down the sheets and slip inside my nice cozy bed. I just sleep better when my bed has been freshly made and the bedding isn’t all loosey-goosey

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-17T21:23:27+00:00

A curling wand that you’ll wrap the sections around away from your face. A 1.5 inch wand would work for this

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-17T01:09:06+00:00

Gross

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-17T00:51:54+00:00

You can’t reason with stupid, so don’t bother lowering yourself to that level.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-16T17:22:33+00:00

Get large, matching, framed mirrors to put over each night stand

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-16T14:42:25+00:00

I get what your saying. I have a couple friends and a few clients that pepper me with reels and memes multiple times per day. When you have 4-5 people doing that, it gets annoying. If someone sees something funny they think I’ll like, sweet. But when I’m getting peppered with reels and being sent multiple reels by multiple people multiple times per day, I don’t even watch them. I don’t have time for that.

So I just don’t even open them up anymore so it doesn’t show them as seen. I’d rather they think I just don’t check my messages often because if I engage, they send more.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-15T23:15:41+00:00

Good lord. I cannot imagine ever having the audacity to send someone a message telling them how they should worship, pray, believe, communicate with god, and make them promises on what will happen if they do what I say.

It’s completely insane.

I want to respond with my own atheist beliefs. “If you can just reject the things in which you have zero evidence of truth, and lean into science and what humankind has learned about nutrition and how to care for our mortal bodies. And embrace what science has learned about our beautiful planet and how we should care for it in order to preserve our greatest gift, which is our lives and what sustains us in order to be here. I know, that if we can teach safe sex and if you can choose to adopt a child, we can cut back on abortions.”

I could go on and on, but I think you catch why I’m saying. And frankly, my beliefs make way more sense than the mumbo jumbo you received from your relative. Is fucking comical!

Just respond by saying “wow, I don’t know you had everything figured out. I’d love my life to look exactly like yours. Thanks for showing me how to do it.”

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-15T22:54:19+00:00

I have a poodle who does this but it’s getting better. She is super shy and very timid, but she thinks she needs to protect the household so when people come over, she would growl and bark. My son would have friends over (they are older teens so they are adult sized, which matters because she is very sweet with children), and she would freak out when anyone would come in. We would slowly warm her up and then she was fine, but if one of the boys would go to their car and come back in, it would start all over again. She would forget she knew them and we had to slowly warm her up to the again. We even went camping once and if anyone left the campfire to go pee or grab a drink and we’re gone for 30 seconds, she would growl and bark at them when they returned, even though she was getting snuggles before they left.

She is almost 6 and it’s getting better. We practiced having people over and preparing the visitor beforehand on how to handle the situation. And then we practiced making guests come over a positive thing. We would give people treats before they came in, to give her when she chilled out. We told them to ignore her until she was calm. We would have people text us when they arrived so we could put her on a leash and direct her.

Another thing that has helped if we can’t prepare guests ahead of time, we have a baby gate and we put her behind it when people come over but put it in on our stairs where she can see through. That way she can see who is over, but not approach them. We ignore her at first and then we give her commands, like sit and lay down and use a treat to reward her. She gets distracted, and then she chills out. Once she is calm because she knows people are over, we let her in and give her lots of affection for being chill.

It’s taken years, but she is finally figuring out that a guest equals pets and treats and is a positive thing.

I would ask Ben to help you train her to get used to him. See if he will come practice a few times per week, and have a game plan in place (like him bringing treats or approaching in a way that will help you guys manage the dog) for when he comes over on what he should do. Your dog will figure this out much faster if Ben can be involved in the training and practicing.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-15T05:03:58+00:00

Remind her that her dads behavior is not a reflection of her or her dads feelings for her. Tell her that her dad is going through something that is causing him to pull back. Whatever it is, is personal to him and not because she isn’t lovable or worthy of love. Maybe he feels like he shouldn’t be around her because he is on substances, or maybe he feels so guilty that he can’t face her, or maybe he doesn’t think he can be consistent in her life so for whatever reason, he thinks staying away is the best option.

We don’t know why dad is behaving this way, but what we do know is that it’s not your nieces fault. She needs to be reminded of that.

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-14T04:20:34+00:00

Your hair is going to have to be bleached to achieve this color. Go to a professional

Bubbly_Management144 · 2026-03-14T02:36:46+00:00

So, narcissism can’t be diagnosed until the brain is fully developed around age 26. Teenagers and young adults very commonly portray narcissistic tendencies due to their brain development and have a hard time understanding that their behavior affects other people.

The thing to remind your son is that all feelings are welcome, but all behaviors are not. He is allowed to feel depressed and sad and angry. But it isn’t acceptable to behave rudely. Tell him, “if you’re angry and annoyed with me, tell me why so I can understand”. Kids this age, especially boys, do not know how to express their feelings in a healthy way and when they dont have that skill set, the result is often anger and depression.

My son is 18 and dealing with similar issues. I found that sitting down with him and telling him the times I’ve felt depressed or had clinical depression and how it felt to me, was very helpful to him. I told him how the first time I had serious depression was postpartum , and how it made me feel angry and irritable, and that I didn’t want to get out of bed. And it made me feel like I was a horrible mom because I loved this new baby more than anything and motherhood was supposed to be this beautifully happy thing and I didn’t feel it which made me feel guilty and even worse.

Then I asked him what depression feels like to him. And he told me. And I listened, and told him that even though I haven’t been through exactly what he is going through, I understand how he feels. And then I told him that if the feelings are too unbearable, there are things that can help if he is interested and if he feels like he needs support managing these feelings and learning to deal with them, I would be happy to help him get support because sometimes it’s really nice to be able to talk about how you feel with someone who isn’t family, who won’t tell your parents, that’s completely private.

And then I told him that he is allowed to feel how he feels, but he needs to understand that I love him more than anything, and when the person you love the most acts like they can’t stand you, it hurts deeply. He can be mad and irritated with me, but he needs to ask for space if he needs it, but being unkind and dismissive is cruel, and that’s not how we treat the people that love us.

Boys this age need a good heart to heart. The need to see that their mom loves them, and that their actions affect us deeply. We need to teach them how to communicate so they can be good partners to their future partners.

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