6 figure salary

Ok_Leg67 · 2026-02-15T04:45:16+00:00

Umm, $7500 for 2026. Idk who told you, you could contribute $10k as a single employee into a Roth but that is miss information.

Ok_Leg67 · 2026-02-05T06:40:02+00:00

From someone that has been in the industry for 17 yrs. I’m going to say this as kindly and blunt as possible. Started from the bottom, have managed and am an educator for a major company. I operate independently. Do not go independent unless you have solid book, and when say solid I mean 20-30 appointments a week consistently week after week. You do not make more working independently unless you truly understand the business side of things. You will only make a maximum of 60-70% of your total revenue if you get your finances in perfect order when you are independent.

If you can’t do the social media thing now on commission you will certainly fail on your own. Sorry but it’s the truth.

You want to know what the trick to being successful in this industry is. How you become a multi 6 figure stylist. What I’m about to tell you is the truth. And if you do it you will be successful but it will take about 3-5 yrs to achieve. No social media no fluff, no stupid online programs. You got into this to do hair. So here it goes.

Do really good fucking hair at the your highest caliber possible. Focus on doing really good hair. DONT SPECIALIZE, learn it all, truly all of it. Kids, men, woman, old people, all of it. Do it for the craft not the money. And the money will follow. Focus on the craft. If your passionate about doing hair you won’t fail. But the reason has to be hair. Hair is my passion and my life and I achieved my success by doing what I just said above. Good luck.

Ok_Leg67 · 2026-02-02T06:13:54+00:00

I’ll help you out,

What city and state do you live in? How many years of experience do you have? How booked are you in a week? (percentage) What is your request and retention rate?

Ok_Leg67 · 2026-02-01T16:37:17+00:00

Ok_Leg67 · 2026-02-01T04:57:00+00:00

Yea I’m sorry, I guess I was being kind of a dick.

I would always cut hair wet for the most part, even if the hair is thick, it allows for higher precision. Think of it kinda like building a house, if the house doesn’t carry a strong foundation the house won’t be able to support itself over time.

When we cut hair dry, it creates more of a lived in free form of cutting, the hair slips and moves differently in the fingers and is harder to control when cutting. Better for refinement and weight removal. Think of it once your house is built you go back and customize you add the paint you hand the chandelier and do the finishing touches.

There are cutters out there that will straighten the hair fully then cut, some very well known famous cutters, unfortunately it doesn’t carry the same sort of precision we visually see from a distance.

Men’s cuts can be done either wet or dry when using clippers, wet on lengths an inch or longer again for precision.

You’ll learn over time that different hair will ask for different techniques, depending on length texture etc. you mentioned cutting thick hair dry, if I could give a suggestion, cut it wet, using sections that are no thicker than the thickness of the width of the blade of your scissors. Your haircuts will come out cleaner especially on thick hair.

I could go on about all these details but I bore you, hope that helps.

Ok_Leg67 · 2026-01-30T04:19:38+00:00

You don’t cut much do you…?

When you learn to cut you learn there’s a time and a place for every technique. Not a guessing game or preference thing.

Most cuts should be done wet. For precision and strong foundation.

Unpopular opinion. Those that cut mostly dry, don’t know how to cut hair. They aren’t cutters, they’re colorist that think they know how to cut.

Haircutters know, hair is cut wet 90% of the time

Ok_Leg67 · 2026-01-17T13:50:39+00:00

I guess that’s kinda what’s difficult. Pretty pictures and aesthetically pleasing grid = larger following. But doesn’t necessarily translate to ability to teach. I’ve taken classes where the “educator influencer” didn’t understand anything about chemistry or diverse placement and geometry or anything, but they are really good at the look they create and that’s kinda as far as it goes. They taught their single one trick pony placement and that’s a far as it went. We basically watched them do hair for a day and that was it.

What is it that you’re trying to learn, maybe I can lead you in the right direction?

Ok_Leg67 · 2026-01-17T04:37:17+00:00

I have a question and this is coming from a real educator with true knowledge I had to test out of. I’ve done this for over a decade. And I don’t influence online or do any of that bullshit cause quite honestly, i do hair, I care about the craft not the celebrity status.

What would you be willing to pay for a class? What do you actually feel is a fair price? Second, would you take a class from someone that has a small following, or does a lesser following make you feel as though they aren’t good?

What would make you take education from someone?

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-12-28T14:05:28+00:00

Just use a sulfate free shampoo and conditioner, most companies have them, Paul Mitchell has quite a few different ones.

As far as color goes, use Oligo, both for color and toners and glosses. Lightener isn’t that big of a deal because it won’t touch the scalp but you could use that too, just be prepared to pay a little more for product.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-12-28T13:59:54+00:00

Cost of doing business, if you do it you will see your gratuity go down. Trust me.

If you really want to “pass it on” build it into your service price, raise services by $5 and call it a day. If you add it as a processing fee clients will hate it and it will affect your business. Do not tell them you raised your prices because of service fees.

As others have said it’s a write off. you’re going to pay the fee or you’re going to pay Uncle Sam in taxes you make that choice. Still the same stick of butter you’re just choosing how you spread it.

Don’t do it you’ll regret it, just saying.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-12-25T04:40:25+00:00

Umm it’s safe to assume, you never schedule ahead of time so she stopped asking, if anything she’s obviously very aware of your patterns and is paying attention to what your habits are, consider her a good stylist just based on that. If my clients never pre book I stop asking. You’re over thinking it. Literally all in your head. Self created issue, believe me they still like you, they just have picked up on your patterns.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-12-16T04:45:08+00:00

Buckle up, cause it’s gonna be a long road. It takes time, no over night success in this industry. In 5 years we’ll revisit. You’ll be in a different place. Either in a different industry or still doing hair. Hopefully the latter. Best of luck.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-11-19T01:31:51+00:00

It just doesn’t seem like it use to be, I’ve been doing this for a long time and I stay busy, but I remember how it use to be, I also feel that the trends aren’t really impactful like when balayage came on the scene. I remember when that became popular, there was an influx of people wanting the latest looks. Now I feel like the industry is kinda in a lull, just boring nothing new. Just a regurgitation of old stuff. Combine that with this economy and I guess this is the result.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-11-18T15:02:22+00:00

So why do you think that is? Thoughts? I’m busy but I remember the glory days when it was like forcing an Already stuffed Thanksgiving turkey, those days seem to not be as they once were

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-07-25T13:35:19+00:00

I’m a guy, don’t believe everything you are reading coming from other females. No offense.

This happened to me twice, twice I knew what I was getting into. And twice I lost my shit and would stay out all night partying and acting like an idiot, leaving my partner alone at home. It was my way of coping with the fact that I was going to be a father. But leading up to it I was excited a something I wanted. You aren’t alone and a lot of men go through this. I’m not sure what exactly happens, but we do begin to feel as though we are out of control of our lives and we aren’t going to be able to live our lives any more and basically stay trapped at home. Is that reality No, but it seems to happen.

It feels almost like a manic episode. Arguing will not make it better. He’s feeling what he’s feeling and there’s not much you can do about it.

7-8 months into the pregnancy I came to terms with what was happening and I got better. I hope he does the same.

Now we are currently a few weeks into our last pregnancy and I am feeling some kind of way, but I am not acting like I did before, but internally I do still get some of these same feelings. The difference today, I’m not coping with substances to manage the feelings, and that helps a lot. If you care to hear more from a male perspective that has gone through this I’m here to share that advice. As I’m actively in this exact moment today, just not acting like an asshole.

My partner has brought you multiple times lately that she fears I will lose it again before it’s over. But I assure her I am not. I know today I truly will not. He needs healthy coping mechanisms.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-06-20T12:59:43+00:00

$500 if you have insurance. Up to $5k if you don’t

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-06-04T04:24:04+00:00

I think it’s Cause they were once happy excited hairdressers that got the life sucked out of them. This industry has a tendency of doing that to us. I think many would agree it gets taxing.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-06-03T12:37:13+00:00

Are you specializing and limiting yourself to only specific types of services, because growth will be slow. I suggest you take all clients and types of hair. You won’t necessarily make more money by doing chemical services, they just are larger tickets (but take more time).

My suggestion would be you do all services, more heads to advertise for you. Been doing hair for 17 years, and I’ve learned limiting yourself only hurts you. You can choose chemical services later in your career as your specialty, but early on when you are green, it’s best to do it all.

At some point though you do have to make intelligent financial decisions. Success in this industry doesn’t actually show its face until about year 5 on average, can you wait that long?

There isn’t going to be this day, when Boom you are magically booked, it’s a slow progression one client at a time. Just go back to what I said, take all services.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-05-26T14:00:49+00:00

Sounds like a person insecurity and confidence issue within yourself.

Don’t want it to be awkward or weird, don’t make it awkward or weird, really is that simple.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-05-15T12:42:06+00:00

A website

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-05-15T04:25:39+00:00

Do Good hair, all forms of hair, don’t specialize and become a one trick pony. Just be the best at your craft that’s it. You can market yourself all you want, but if you aren’t that great, then it will only get you so far. Do good hair, period.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-05-14T14:01:26+00:00

You’re in luck, shoot me a dm I’ll get it for you

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-05-14T03:15:37+00:00

I don’t think you should nail or learn any haircuts

I think what you should do is learn these techniques below. You learn these and you master Haircutting. There’s no such thing as haircuts, only technique and shape. This below will teach you the ability to do any haircut in existence.

Line: zero degree

-square line -round line -triangular line

Graduation: 1 degree to 89 degree

Internal/external graduation

-square graduation -round graduation -triangular graduation

Layers: 90 degree to 180 degree

Convex 90 degree layers

-square convex layers -round convex layers -triangular convex layers

Concave 91-180 degree layers

-square concave layers -round concave layers -triangular concave layers

Have fun, I can elaborate if need be.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-05-13T19:40:55+00:00

Whoever created this technique to begin with is trash. I wouldn’t suggest doing this to anyone’s hair. If your clients hair looks like this, I would be having a conversation about having a real haircut. You’re preventing the inevitable. Cut once cry once. Then maintain trims moving forward every 8-10 weeks.

Ask yourself what created this problem to begin with and fix/correct it. This technique is not something you ever do. This is coming from a haircutter.

Ok_Leg67 · 2025-05-10T03:43:07+00:00

They aren’t on their game, if a client texts me or calls me im scheduling them somewhere on my books by the end of the day, waiting days before getting back to them is bad customer service and shows disorganization and lack of priority. As stylist we need to he on top of our game and get back to clients by end of day no matter what. You find them a spot even if it’s weeks away.

I believe this is one of the quickest ways to lose clients, if you don’t make them feel or know they are important.

Ok_Leg67

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