An interesting phenomenon that many women face in their beauty experience is the feelings of intimidation and an inability to speak-up to their hairstylist! Could it be that the current fashion and beauty system does not infuse a confidence in women to know what they want and how to ask for it? I am joined by our lead Dressing Your Truth hairstylist, Nicole, to help you claim back your power and take control of your hair and your beauty! Take the first step in Dressing Your Truth by learning your Beauty Profile at http://www.dressingyourtruth.com
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February 16th, 2011 at 6:21 am
Thank you ladies for the wonderful video. One thing I’ve noticed with myself, even prior to DYT, is I seem to create/attract a stylist I’m always unhappy with. I recognize this and claim this as a pattern to which I adopted from (I believe my T4) mom. She would always come home and complain about her style….EVERY time…lol. This is a pattern I need to clear, obviously. It’s now carrying over to my daughter’s cut. Blunt bangs. I find myself saying, “can NO ONE cut straight bangs???” LOL I thought I would mention this, because if you’re consistently changing stylists, there may be some inner work to clear as well. I recognize it in myself and end up always seeing the results FOR that pattern, regardless of whom I’ve seen. Love you all at DYT!!! Tammy
February 16th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Thanks @Tammy, such great feedback and I completely agree!
February 16th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
What I would love to know is how to find a stylist you can trust. I had one I loved who would listen to my needs, and deliver a great hairstyle. My husband and I moved to a different state slightly over two years ago and I have been desperately seeking someone who I can form that kind of a close bond with–after numerous hair disasters. Any advice would be GREAT.
February 16th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Dear Tia, thanks for your question. As I teach in my book “Remembering Wholeness” you need to ask for what you want. Who are you asking? Ask God, ask your angels, ask the Universe for this: “Thank you for finding me a hair stylist that I can trust, who listens to my needs and delivers a great hairstyle and great service…..and who I have a lot of fun with!” And then stay open to letting it show up in any number of ways!!
February 16th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
I had this problem today! As a recently decided type 4 I decided to take the plunge and get my color done. I never have done full color. I went in saying I needed an ash based color, which is what I started with naturally, but I just wanted a bolder look. I ended up walking out of there with strawberry blond hair. This was not the cool saturated color I stated that I wanted. Nevermind that it was NOT what I wanted, makes my face look ruddy and my eyebrows like they don’t belong on my face. Everyone in the salon loved the color. They were only looking at the color. The “gorgeous golden blond people beg for.” They were not looking at how it truly looked on me. When I left she was very aware that I was not happy and we are planning on trying something else tomorrow to fix it. I’d divorce her, but unfortunately, she’s my mother-in-law! Luckily she’s willing to work on it until she gets it right.
February 16th, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Dear @Kellie, thank you for your comment. I am curious due to your comment about wanting an ash based color, if you have been through the Dressing Your Truth online course for Type 4′s? This is not a color we would recommend for Type 4′s, as ash based colors have a grey tone in them which will also make your skin look ruddy. We recommend various colors of neutral and cool in very specific terms for colors used by stylists, so you know exactly what to ask for. I encourage you to invest in the learning if you have not already done so, so you can really get what you want.
February 17th, 2011 at 8:53 am
Carol, can you please clarify this comment? The Type 4 online course does teach that Type 4s “look best with a cool, ash based color; they can pull off a neutral color, but would recommend staying with a cool, ash based color.”
February 17th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
My mistake, the key is that it needs to be very saturated if it is ash based. My apologies. Thanks for investing in your beauty and being a part of our Dressing Your Truth world ladies, we are very excited to have women like you involved. Thank you so much for your awesome presence.
February 17th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Shelli is right–I just watched the Type 4 DYT course again yesterday, and that is exactly what Nicole teaches!
February 18th, 2011 at 5:50 am
As always, a great joy to watch these vlogs. Like Tammy, I wonder if my childhood experience with hair relates to my mother’s experience or if it is simply part of my T3, but I really do not enjoy going to the hair salon at all. I don’t ever remember my mother going to a hair salon, in fact she owned her own hair drying chair and has used hot curlers for as long as I can remember. There has been only one time that I absolutely LOVED my hair and felt that the stylist was listening to me. I specifically was combining two different styles into what I had always wanted. I showed him pictures of the front and the back and came right out and asked him if he could do it. He truly heard me and nailed the cut – totally T3 by the way. Unfortunately, it was at a beauty school and he is long gone, never to be seen again!
I did walk out of there that day one HOT T3 and I didn’t even know what it meant to be a T3! 
February 18th, 2011 at 8:29 am
Something else I was thinking about this, and it may have been touched on in the vlog – I don’t remember!- is that because the stylist is educated and continues their education for hair styling, we tend to enter the salon releasing our power over to them because ‘they should know’. They have been trained to know what will look best on different face shapes. We may instinctively know what we are interested in, but I have had more stylists ‘know’ better, and say so, because they are the professional and, I used to be a puppet and just say, “Oh, okay.” and leave completely disappointed.
Thank you Carol and Nicole and all of the DYT team for empowering us with the necessary knowledge to go into the salon and come-out with the hair style we want or divorce them!
February 21st, 2011 at 8:49 am
Hello, I am a hairdresser of twenty years and have just discovered Dressing Your Truth. I am not posting for advertising purposes. I look forward to enhancing my knowledge and providing the best advice for my clients and myself. My approach when consulting with a client is a collaborative one. I prefer to have my clients be stylish and their hair to be an expression of themselves. The hair has to fit their maintenance level, face shape, bone structure and personality. What moved me to post a reply is to let non hairdressers in on some chemical knowledge about ash coloring. We are limited by our tools (dyes) and mother nature in recreating ash tones. It may say permanent color but in most cases it means permanently altering the hair. We can deposit or darken to ash however due to outside factors it may shift in tone. I try to educate my clients so they are more aware of the shortcomings of color. Thanks.