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cinnamonstix

cinnamonstix

local drunk
Nov 11, 2024
23
Wow! my first post on here! I've been a lurker for abt a year now, but just recently made an account. Hi everybody :).

It feels comforting to know I truly have an outlet to express how i've been feeling these past couple of months. I've recently graduated cosmetology school, and want to do hair and makeup as a career. I've always loved the things makeup can do, and the expression it gives. Hair is another form of it, and as girls know its a huge part of your identity. I feel like the people here too can understand, beauty can make or break someone's day. Lately, I feel like i've been breaking peoples days.

I just got my first hair styling job, it's not somewhere I wish to stay, as all of the clients are (and this is nothing against them lol they are very sweet ppl) middle-aged ladies who just want a blowout and a trim. For context, I want to do crazy adventurous hair! Braids, extensions, liberty spikes, crazy haircuts etc. but that's not where I'm at right now. I didn't practice these girls kinda hair. The ones that want foils and to be blonde. I'm not good at it. and its no longer school. I've told my manager this but she says I just have to keep practicing. I know that these things take practice but why I should be charging someone 112 dollars for a service I know I'm not good at feels like a steal. I feel very guilty about it.

A couple weeks ago, I had someone coming in. I won't go too into it but essentially the product I gave her she hated it. She insulted me personally, yelled in my face that I ruined her hair and she couldn't go outside looking like that. My manager said my technique was fine, it was a miscommunication about what she wanted, but still, she left my chair feeling hideous and thats on me. I got into this wanting to make people feel pretty, to have fun girl time, to offer an escape from peoples troubles and just have a pamper day, y'know? But lately it just feels like I do the opposite, I just make people feel bad.

This young single mother came in as well, and while I know I wasn't the cause of the problem,, I couldn't fix the problem... her daughter, who was a couple years old, was playing with her hair. Now, I don;t know what exactly that means, it's what she told me, but she had about 1 inch of hair just sticking straight up in her bang area, like it'd either been cut or pulled off, and it made her feel incredibly insecure. She just wanted it curled away from her face, which... was very hard to do since it was so small and on the top of her head. My straightener was way bigger. I couldnt get it to lay as nicely as the other side, and she burst out crying saying she can't leave like this, she feels ugly, I didn't know what to do. I turned her away from the mirror so I could focus on trying to lay it down and she didn't have to watch the process,, but she kept peeking and her reaction was getting worse and worse. Eventually she told me to stop trying, and went to cry in the bathroom for 10 minutes.

I feel so horrible. It's a sinking feeling. To make someone cry or yell because of you. it makes me want to give up, but I won't, I don't really have that choice lol

I just wish I could do better, I've said it so many times but I just want people to leave me feeling good about themselves. Feeling like they can conquer the world. It's just not happening as often as I'd like. It feels like people settle for me, and I hate it. I've only been out of school for 2 months but still. I can tell my coworkers look down on me too, because I'm not even 20 yet, and they're all so much older than me. They see me as immature, lazy, etc. I don't know why. I just try to be super friendly and maybe that comes off some way. blah blah I'm rambling now.


I just can't wait until idk, I make stranger after stranger consistently happy.
 
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dialogos

dialogos

Experienced
Jul 5, 2023
269
You'll get to your goal because in your heart, your desire to serve others, to make strangers happy is sincere and brings you real joy. That's very rare nowadays. Of course you've got to ground yourself in reality that you can't help everybody, just like even the best doctors can't save every patient, just like even the best, kindest cops can't save every victim or catch every criminal. Please don't be harsh on yourself
 
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cinnamonstix

cinnamonstix

local drunk
Nov 11, 2024
23
I appreciate it, it's hard, I just wish they all knew how much I just want to make them happy lol. Why can't we all skip to the easy part. Thank you for replying:heart:
 
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Abbadab

Abbadab

Professional Big Spoon
Feb 9, 2021
45
This is specifically why I never even considered cosmetology. I always figured that especially early on, there'd be so many experiences like this, and my RSD can get pretty bad.

It might seem like a weird comment, but it's genuinely really brave and admirable that you're in that line of work. I think it'd be terrifying to a lot of people with mental health issues. And I bet once you're doing it long enough you'll get more desensitized to crazy customers. In that way it'll probably eventually be good for your self-esteem and anxiety. I've heard of people in sales going through something similar. You deal with enough assholes/crazies that you start to become pretty unfazed by them.

Have you talked to other people in cosmetology who might've had similar experiences early on? I bet it might be cathartic :p
 
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cazza82

cazza82

Member
Nov 20, 2024
43
Hey I'm the UK I've tried but I can't find any groups like this can anyone help me out please so I can have a look I would appreciate it I've tried for over a week to find one in my country
 
maniac116

maniac116

My own worst enemy🌹💔
Aug 10, 2024
979
Welcome to the forum!
Congrats on your hair styling job. You sound like a beautiful, sensitive person & you'll figure things out with your job & clients.🤗🌹💔
 
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