Is the hair trade segregated? Being the proprietor of a high-end, full service, multicultural salon, I'm very accustomed to this ideology. I've been working in the trade for over twenty years and are available from a household of cosmetologists and barbers. My household owned a small hair salon, which made me have the want to sometime personal a salon; a full-service salon that catered to everybody.
I used to be having a dialogue with a shopper about the label salons obtain primarily based on race. He indicated that certainly the hair trade is segregated. He said that the hair trade and the church are two sectors the place segregation exists nonetheless as we speak. Some individuals don't assume {that a} Caucasian stylist is able to or has the understanding and creative capacity of with the ability to service ethnic hair. The identical can be considered in regards to an ethnic stylist. The idea is {that a} stylist of a sure ethnicity is proficient with their artist capacity pertaining solely to their race. This fantasy and perception is way from the reality however that is what the salon trade offers with frequently in the society that we live in.
My salon has a various workers that’s thought of the finest in the trade due to their range in ability set and talent to service all hair varieties. In as we speak's age, you wouldn’t assume segregation nonetheless exists however to a level it nonetheless does. It's nothing like in comparison with the 1950s and 1960s, however salons are nonetheless being labeled as "white" salons, "black" salons, and many others.
Is it honest to assume that the trade in a complete has allowed this thought course of to proceed? I don't assume a shopper strolling into an expert salon ought to need to ask the query of whether or not or not that salon can service a specific hair kind. Both that shopper has had a foul expertise or is aware of of somebody that has. This all must be addressed throughout the coaching, certification, and licensing phases of all cosmetologists.
Once I determined to open my salon I had in thoughts to have a multicultural salon. It was from my expertise that this was not the norm. Nonetheless, from a enterprise stand level, I noticed this idea as a no brainer.
As soon as a shopper, regardless the ethnicity, sits down in a stylist's chair to be serviced and the finish product is revealed, there ought to be no apprehension or uncertainty by the shopper due to ethnicity. The main focus now’s to erase the stereotype salons have inherited over the years and educate individuals about hair and never race. It's a difficult job however it may be achieved.