What helped me feel more confident with new clients

New clients made me absolutely panic. Like full anxiety attack mode. When I first started doing hair I would only take new clients on certain days and never on a Friday or Saturday because if they hated their hair my entire weekend would be ruined because I would be obsessing over it (what’s it like to be normal and not overthink everything? 😂).

Would they come in wanting a technique that I had no idea how to do? What if they needed a base color that I didn’t know how to formulate? What if they wanted lowlights? (lowlights used to send me spiraling because I had one too many lowlight mess ups 😅). The hard thing was that I knew I needed to take new clients because hello, this was my job and I wanted to make money. But I hattteddd the way a new client made me panic.

The biggest thing that helped with feeling confident was practice and experience. (But sometimes I still get anxiety from new clients!) Above all else, just doing more hair made me feel like I could take a new client and not have a full blown anxiety attack. But a few other things really helped me:

➕Having some sort of communication with the client prior to the appt where I can get current hair photos, inspo photos and a brief hair history (I recommend setting up a consult form so this can all be done virtually!)

➕Giving myself PLENTY of time for new clients. Even if something wasn’t what I expected when the client sat down in my chair, knowing that I would have ample time to work through it was helpful.

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