Mike Rose Summary (Kristen Slack)

What do you think of when you hear variables, math right? Not typically do you hear about styling hair with variables involved. There is a lot more to hair styling than we think. It’s difficult to find a stylist that’s right for you with all of them performing so differently, like Vanessa and Sharon. Vanessa is more of a free-spirited hair dresser and thinks cutting dry hair is more effective than when wet (p.g 31). She lost a pair of scissors and wasn’t cutting hair properly for weeks until she found them (p.g 39). Many hair dressers get used to certain tools and thinks it’s the only thing they can use for that cut, but really it’s all mental.
Sharon is more precise and particular about how she cuts client’s hair and believes the most important part of a visit to the salon is the consultation in the beginning. Communication is a very large part in getting your haircut. You need to be able to tell your hair dresser exactly what you want or be able to understand what they think would look right on you. Different variables involved in cutting hair is if you cut the same look on a women with curly, wavy, or straight hair, they can all look different (p.g 37). Each dresser has a tool kit that contains a different range of combs, brushes, razors, and clippers, blow dryers and attachments, rollers, and curling irons (p.g 39).
My reaction to this section of the book is that I agree with exactly Mike Rose is saying about the variables in hair styling and how every hair stylist is different. If you want the ever so popular Victoria Beckham bob, you need to have somewhat thin hair because it would not look as right on someone with thick and curly hair. Ever since I was younger I’ve been going to the same hair dresser and I trust her, she knows what would and would not work with my hair. A few weeks ago I made a must needed appointment and she wasn’t in that day so I was forced to meet with another stylist. She didn’t use the usual foils in my hair for highlights or had me sit under the dryer like Trisha usually did. The style didn’t turn out the way it usually does but I was content, but this just shows how different each and every hair dresser works her magic hands in styling hair.