I can give you recipes for brioche, for breads, for fancy molecular cuisine,
but you won’t get a recipe for your hair colour.
Very often, if not daily we hear the phrase “successful recipes”, which of course refers to cooking!!!
But in this article I will tell you about the successful baptismal recipes…
and how not to fall into the trap of not revealing the secret of your success.
Oh that lady… and there are many, we’re just going to talk about the lady today
who came in with her battered “tricolore” hair.
How disappointed she looked with the look on their faces.
After telling us in detail about the previous hairdresser’s malpractice
and her own desperate attempts at home to fix the incorrigible roundheads
in her comfortable chair with a look of disbelief.
For our part, we studied the situation, we put down all our technical knowledge and experience… and lo and behold the miracle!
The result was very satisfactory and the client, looking at herself in the mirror, regained her lost smile.
and self-confidence.
New name on our customer list. Madam, give me the prescription.
And while we all believe that a new name for a satisfied customer
came to add to our clientele comes the magic moment…
“Could you please write down the recipe with the colour codes?”
I know, I know, moment of embarrassment and two choices.
Or you refuse to provide the coveted codes, explaining the reasons for refusal
Or you give your recipe for success and let it go to the blessing of God and Mary.
Usually the second option is accompanied by the mistaken, in my estimation, thought that “it’s not boring” will paint itself,
but she’ll come in for a haircut or a hairstyle now and then… Let’s not lose her completely.
And yet, this lady, after the next times she does her experiments with our recipe at her home and after the result
will not be, as is logical, the same as the hairdresser’s, it will not return to you.
She will go to her next victim hairdresser and talk about your own poor workmanship in the result that she created.
Wise thoughts and recipes only in our own archive.
So you should be to her and to any lady who thinks that your art and her technique can be integrated with your art.
and experience, explain to her politely the reasons for your refusal, give her the magic formula.
Every paint to look beautiful aesthetically is a whole philosophy behind it.
It is countless hours of education, professional training and of course a technique, which cannot simply be said
to “come on, she’s a waffle.”
It resembles the art of the painter who carefully selects the colours and with the skill of his movements spreads them on his canvas,
to achieve the aesthetic absolute.
Painting is not just about the colour, it’s about the right touches, it’s about time, it’s about knowledge, it’s about experience.
It is an art, like many others, where it must be taught and perfected with experience.
Our belief.
Believe in this maxim first and tell every customer who asks you for the recipe,
that every profession is special and unique and that not everyone can do it just by observing it.
This knowledge and experience of yours resulted in what she was pleased with.
If he still tells you….
But the last one gave me the recipe…
You remind her of the state of her hair colour when she came to you or ask her politely,
why she changed the previous one and came to you.
So in conclusion, I want to say that our art is not for charisma or recipes for cookies that you can easily find on the internet.
The art of hairdressing and especially in the hairdressing salon, requires infinite knowledge in colorimetry, mathematics and of course experience.
It is not given away…
Yours sincerely
Elizabeth Makri
