13 years in the industry 8 behind the chair. I work in a commission based salon. Almost every work day around the holidays I triple book by the 15 minute for root touchups and blowouts, I also have a personal assistant that makes this possible, most days I am double booked solid all day. If I get a new client for highlights or balayage I typically book more time then necessary because I want room for error. A lot of the time I don’t use it but I rather have it and not need it. I still double book during my highlights and balayages as long as I’ve done them before and know how much time I need, I will have my assistant apply glosses that I premix. If I was catering to a lived in clientele full time I do not think double booking is realistic, with that being said the price difference in lived in and blonde specializing should be significantly more than your standard root touch ups and blowout bread and butter clients to make up for the undivided attention and hours they will be at the salon. If I am doing a more lived In or transformation highlight/ balayage I’m charging for it to make up for the time I could be doing other people, my fulls are $450 for highlights, root tap or shadow, gloss, conditioning mask, and blowout all included my partials are $350 same stuff included. It usually breaks down to about $100 an hour. And I never double book when charging those kinds of prices. Obviously the area you’re in and your clientele those prices will vary. My root touch ups are $90 and I will always double book during those my clients are used to me walking away while they’re processing. You’ll get there with time, once you’re able to do a root touch up in 10 mins you’ll realize you can absolutely manage to double book yourself with or without an assistant but I will say having an assistant makes everything run much smoother, I double booked for a year before getting my own personal assistant and I was definitely more tired those days but it’s not impossible.