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Hey Curl Pros! Welcome to our little corner of this podcast world where facts are favored over opinions and food goes in our bellies.
We are Aeleise (left) and Aishia (right), founders of Cut It Kinky + Black Girl Curls, licensed practicing natural hair stylists, brand agnostic curl educators, moms to tiny humans, upsetters of the Internet, and just your overall snarky aunties who really know our 'ish.
Curls Disrupted was started because mainstream beauty outlets weren’t teaching relevant or accurate to the women that look just like us. Women who spend thousands of dollars yearly and still unsatisfied with their natural texture and the services and products marketed to them.
We just want to give DOPE A** hair to natural hair wearers and set a quality standard for professional curl services and service providers. Join us as we disrupt the curl paradigm.
To learn more about us go to:
Consumer http://www.blackcurlmagic.com
Licensed Professionals http://www.cutitkinky.com
We are Aeleise (left) and Aishia (right), founders of Cut It Kinky + Black Girl Curls, licensed practicing natural hair stylists, brand agnostic curl educators, moms to tiny humans, upsetters of the Internet, and just your overall snarky aunties who really know our 'ish.
Curls Disrupted was started because mainstream beauty outlets weren’t teaching relevant or accurate to the women that look just like us. Women who spend thousands of dollars yearly and still unsatisfied with their natural texture and the services and products marketed to them.
We just want to give DOPE A** hair to natural hair wearers and set a quality standard for professional curl services and service providers. Join us as we disrupt the curl paradigm.
To learn more about us go to:
Consumer http://www.blackcurlmagic.com
Licensed Professionals http://www.cutitkinky.com
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2Nearly 4 years ago we created a hair challenge disguised as education, The #30dayhairdetox. During that challenge we asked naturals to give up their beloved shea butter, coconut oil, castor oil and Eco Styler gel for 30 days. We also asked that they avoid using products that contained shea butter, coconut oil and castor oil within the first five of the ingredients. Within 30 days of following our recommendations many participants not only saw a shift in their hair but they also had a whole shifting of their minds. Whatever natural hair issue our participants faced from dryness, to failed styles, to all day wash days, to trying to figure this natural hair thing out...we got it covered!
What does diversity mean in the curl world?In 2017 we'd wrote a book, created a course, and helmed a FB group for natural hair and we were sending community members to Curl stylists we knew about through other stylist networks. Those naturals were coming back to us with scathing reviews. In this episode we explore why.
The same mindset that made you successful employee will not make you a successful independent hair artist.Your client is your boss but you get to set the terms and conditions of how your work partnership operatesIn this episode we address the how the employee mindset around the metrics of pricing, scheduling and marketing is holding you back.
Naturals are at the forefront of everything fashion and beauty. Do you know exactly who is sitting in your chair?
What happened when the pros arrived late to the conversation and refused to learn the culture? We explore how the lack of knowledgeable and licensed natural hair professionals created a vacuum in the market.
Who made the imaginary curl alphabet king? We explore how 4a, 2b, 3c does not exist in the cosmetology world and how our hair becomes what we think it is.
Millions of opinions, think pieces, and comments later, we explore the aftermath of the viral H&M image of a beautiful black girl and her kinky hair with our Dr. VaNatta Ford. Dr. Ford is an Assistant Professor Of Africana Studies at Williams University where she teaches a course entitled Complexion Complexities: Colorism in Literature, Lyrics & Everyday Life.
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.
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?
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
As professionals how do we determine our worth and place a value on out attention, time, and money?
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 hairThere 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.
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.
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.
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I learn so much from you guys as a soon to be natural hair specialist, thank you so much for your knowledge and choosing to spread it!
Very informative (like everything you both do) I truly wish I was around one of you so I could shadow you guys in the salon 🥺🥺 (I'm in cosmetology school currently)