Join us as we sit down with Black Girl Curls/Cut It Kinky's own coordinator Andra aka HairCousin as we chat her journey to and through cosmetology school.

From Black CurlMagic Digital Salon member to licensed cosmetologist and Cut It Kinky Mastermind member in less than a year. Shakera aka The Cuse Curlfriend chats exponentially leveling up her new beauty career.

In this episode we sit down with Cut It Kinky Assistant Stylist Asia Walker to chart her short journey from from being Aeleise's new client in 2015 to being a premier curl artist in Southern California in 2020. The rules have changed.

All ofa sudden everybody is a texture expert. Join us as we discuss what is really happening in the beauty industry in 2020

Everybody is trying to hustle but what aboutyoukr business. Are you hustling or are you scaling? But what is scaling? Scaling a business means setting the stage to enable and support growth in your company. It means having the ability to grow without being hampered. It requires planning, some funding and the right systems, staff, processes, technology and partners. Hustling is over. We can't outwork Rona.

Where the beauty industry attempts to segregate and category black stylists It’s insulting to our talent and a lazy attempt at diversity. Black stylists are cutting specialists, color geniuses, curl artists, natural hair gurus, chemical +thermal rearranging experts, pioneering educators, and far more than token representation. The beauty industry is currently being pushed into a place that is long overdue. The industry as a whole has a responsibility to recognize the full depth and breadth...

Texture is not this foreign thing that you didn't learn in cosmetology school Everything you learned in the first few months of cosmetology school prepared you for a solid career working on all hair in the cosmetology industry

This conversation is about the the tight curl experience in salon and what you can do to craft a more vinculsieve curl business. Why is this topic near and dear to us? For the last 4 years we have been engaging digitally with thousands of tight curl folks around the globe in our #30DHD and Black curl magic programs. As those participants worked through our content they wanted to find curl artists near them to have their serviced. We started recommending curl artists we knew and knew about...

We were hype for 2020, then Corona came along and the entire industry has had to rethink how we work and who we work with. This is a new normal because we get to decide for ourselves what normal is. Normal doesn't mean being exhausted, resentful, exploitative. We chat about designing business that revolve around how we want to live, not around how the industry has always operated.

The underside of social media can get to even the strongest person. We chat about how we set boundaries with the content we share.

How did we get from the beginning of the free #30DayHairDetox challenge to where we are now?

Cut It Kinky started as a Beta Test in 2018.Two years later we've trained more than 100 curl artists. In this episode we break down what we think is important for aspiring independent beauty educators to know.

You can do whatever you want to as long as you can prove that you can do it. You can build your own table and eat at it on Al Gore's internet. We explore what is really keeping beauty industry on the fringes new technologies that can assist in our exponential growth.

Curly Cutting is an art and a science. It’s a way of seeing hair that is completely different from how most cosmetologists are taught to see hair There are a ton of misconceptions that curly cuts aren't precision cuts, that you can’t see the ends of the hair, that damage is left after the cut. We chat the most popular methods that we're familiar with and explain why we felt the need to create Cut It Kinky specifically to address tighter, kinkier curls.

As professionals how do we determine our worth and place a value on out attention, time, and money?

This journey has never been about our hair. We haven't shared much about our hair because we don't center our hair in the work we do. Everything has always been about leading our clients digital and IRL to their own curl goals. We keep hair care simple by simply cleansing, conditioning, and styling. In this episode we chat about what we're feeling about out hair right now and what 2020 holds for the fate of our curls.

We go behind the scenes with Cut It Kinky Alumni and Mentor stylists Roni from Pasadena, CA and Sonnie from Dallas, TX to chat about how their careers behind and beyond the chair have shifted since attending their first Cut It Kinky Live Workshop. *This session was recorded at Hazel O. Salon in Alexandria, VA www.hazelosalon.com. Hazel O. is a dope loft salon with facilities to host professional technical classes and workshops.

Some of you have been wondering why we are not in a permanent salon space. This is what happens when things fall apart and what we are doing to recover.

For so many years we've been told that salon ownership is the natural progression of a dope stylist's career. In this episode we examine what ownership is and what having responsibility for a physical commercial space really means.

We regularly get asked if we will travel to different locations to do hair. As a stylist it can be an ego boost for your services to be in high demand. In this episode we through a huge bucket of ice water on the sexy idea of being a traveling hairstylist. We also explain what we're doing to solve the problem many consumers have around finding a competent curl stylist

When visiting a curl stylist do you as the consumer have realistic expectations? In this episode we chat understanding stylists menus, pricing, and deliverables to expect during your salon appointment.

We had so many reasons to not want business partners, but somehow ended up building a dope business over the last 4 years. this episode throws the curtains back on what our past business experiences were and how we work together without driving each other (too) crazy.

All these new haircare lines and everybody still has dry hair. We keep seeing bandaid products debut but where’s the rehabilitation of behaviors and thought processes surrounding natural hair? 

Crowdsourcing your haircare and why we can't do a thorough enough consultation over the public internet to tell you what to use on your hair. If you're tired of getting sent off about your hair this episode is for you. We will not contribute to irresponsibility of the internet.