CHANGING TIMES

  My overall look at the hair dressing industry at this time .

There was a time when a hair designer could make a six figure income . These days the average designer is lucky to be making 20 bucks an hour ( with there tips ) and allot are making less than that .

What caused this huge change ?

The change was solely caused by the emergence of quick no appointment type shops like SUPERCUTS - FANTASTIC SAMS -

COST CUTTERS - HAIR CUT STORE

( I use the phrase SHOPS because these types of hair businesses are not salons , they normally don't offer nails , message , facials , etc )

they are low budget businesses set up for the middle to lower class public or the guy that just isn't as concerned about his hair style .

This type of change to business approach is also apparent in just about every business segment in the US . Quality of product and the pampering of customers is being thrown to the wayside and being replaced by huge businesses run by one guy at the top sucking up all the money wall everyone else eats beans for breakfast lunch and dinner ( that's if they can afford dinner ) . There formula for success is getting rid of all the competition by low prices and in hens becoming the only one selling the product so the you ( the consumer ) is forced to buy from them .

The US is seemingly / silently turning socialistic .

what's next ? communism ? I thought that's what they were telling us we didn't want ? LOL ------ I'm confused .

AND SO IS EVERYONE ELSE ,

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The advanced hair design.net web site has been around since 2002 and we are happy to have recently acquired the .com version which will be dedicated to the world of hair transplantation .
We started noticing quite a while back that people typing in the key words ( advanced hair design ) into there search engines were not only looking for hair styling information , but were also interested in information on gaining hair they didn't have through hair transplanting methods . When we recently acquired the URL www.advancedhairdesign.com we decided to focus that site on the new modern types of hair transplantation .
In the old days hair transplants were extremely detectable . Most the time if you got within three to four feet of a person with the old style ( plugs ) methods of hair transplanting surgery you would see the plugs in the front of the hairline resembling a doll head .
As a hair stylist that has seen the current methods of hair transplantation I can tell you first hand that this has all changed . I have been in the middle of a hair cut and have had clients that have had these new procedures done tell me that their hair is a transplant and I did not detect it even when cutting their hair .
The days of the doll head plugs are gone . Today's hair transplantation is truly virtually undetectable .

Hair dressing industry badly hurt by economy

 Well gang the reports are in for 2008 . It seems the entire hair dressing industry is off on service sales by about 35 % , and product sales is even worse at 42 % off for the last two months of 2008 . This is a huge burden for us as cosmetologists to bare . When you are use to making a fairly decent living and then all of a sudden your making close to minimum wage , IT HURTS . My sympathies are with all of you as I know personally as a licensed California hairdresser that these are tuff times and they don't seem to be getting any better .
 In times like these we must figure out different approaches to our business .
 I personally am doing much more bartering for my services right now then ever before . A hair cut for a massage , or a hair coloring for a teeth cleaning . There are lots of things we can trade our services for,its always good to ask someone if there interested in bartering for your services if you want what they have to offer .I just did a hair coloring on my landlords wife for partial rent !
 all we can do is tuff it out . My advice ?  pull up a chair , crack open a brew , were going to be here for a while .