tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42285522100959826172024-03-14T05:07:54.586-04:00Hair-DO WHAT YOU LOVEAn advertising Vice-President learns how to make her clients happy, relaxed and beautiful in just 40 minutes. And then gets rid of them for six weeks!AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-1339047862320464802011-08-15T08:15:00.001-04:002011-08-15T08:18:03.411-04:00Breaking Free
Is the daily grind eating away at your spirit? Do you secretly wish you could leave it all behind and discover the job of your dreams? Suzy Welch, Best-selling author, television commentator, noted business journalist and Chick-fil-A Leadercast, ‘Voice of Purpose’ speaker, suggests 5 key questions to ask today that will “turn your work into joy.”Not long ago, I saw an old friend who recently AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-73485380641844671162010-11-10T08:36:00.006-05:002010-11-10T09:35:50.826-05:00BloggerYesterday I took a short break while my client's perm was neutralizing. The ladies in the break room were discussing tips, and how cheap some people are. For example, there's this mother-daughter team that comes in for full highlights/lowlights, spends $175 and then tips the girls doing their hair $3 each. (Not unlike those ad clients who insist on the least expensive commercial shoot possible,AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-85622303903876862202010-10-06T09:35:00.004-04:002010-10-06T10:21:29.087-04:00The more things change, the more they stay the sameYesterday I had a client with really thick, luxurious beautiful hair that hung just below her shoulders. Her hair was definitely her best feature. She came in saying she wanted "a wedge, but didn't want to loose a lot of the length." Now a "wedge," is the Dorothy Hamill cut from the '70's. (The client is 61 years old.) So the consultation took some time during which I began to understand theAdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-36393479961533329562010-09-30T07:23:00.004-04:002010-09-30T07:43:39.285-04:00Resume Gold?I read a little article on Talent Zoo about age-proofing your resume. Apparently this is important for 20-somethings and people over 45. The author suggested leaving off the dates. Does this really work? If I got a resume without dates on it I'd be suspicious right away. "What's this guy hiding? Prison?" I think it's pretty easy to tell from a resume if someone is young and inexperienced.AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-55116950297744047682010-09-30T07:16:00.004-04:002010-09-30T07:20:52.825-04:00TV is freeIt's true. TV does come through the air, and it's free! Isn't that so much more twenty-first century than having it come through cable and costing $100+/month? With the exceptions of Dexter, Man Men and Being Human it's all as it was prior to the disconnection. Thanks to the gifts of three converter boxes, our old TiVo and Comedy Central on line. We should have done this years ago.AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-24822640715697547772010-09-14T15:56:00.004-04:002010-09-14T16:12:39.937-04:00Upside DownWe learned last week that we're now upside down in our mortgage. Reason being that TWO years ago, Hamilton County readjusted our property taxes based on the purchase price of the house in 2006 -- AND THEY NEVER TOLD US. For the past TWO years, Chase (the holder of our mortgage) was taking the extra funds needed to meet the new tax base out of our escrow account. Neither Hamilton County nor AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-41040042657089472522010-08-11T19:29:00.004-04:002010-08-11T19:43:31.268-04:00Soul FoodAs you know, I'm learning about a lot more than just hair, skin and nails at the Western Hills School of Beauty and Hair Design. One of the other things I've been learning is how to cook soul food. I've adopted Ms. Kathy's Corn Pudding recipe and have made it for many a BBQ this Summer. Everyone LOVES it and it is super easy:Preheat oven to 350°Mix together:1 can corn1 can creamed corn1 stick AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-30920095470319561572010-07-07T07:50:00.007-04:002010-09-06T13:55:26.186-04:00LanguageThree weeks before Christmas in 1992 my boss came into my office and asked "Do you have a valid passport? They want you to go to Mexico City to lead the Hasbro pitch." Well of course I had the passport, but my retention of high school Spanish amounted to "Mas cerveza por favor." An intensive Berlitz program for relocating executives and eleven months of working in a bi-lingual office fixed thatAdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-50607403202654787112010-07-07T07:40:00.004-04:002010-07-07T07:50:31.674-04:00Tips againI just have to share this picture -- of a little old lady who lined up the change, that was my tip, on my station. Really? Really!Kind of reminds me of the (first) year we got crappy bonuses at Grey. Of course in advertising the bonuses where never more than a few thousand dollars; nothing like banking or law. But back in the day it had been enough to cover the Christmas bills and pay for AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-55280018804759980632010-07-07T07:12:00.004-04:002010-07-15T08:34:33.620-04:00Time Sheets AgainIt's time-sheet time again. All one has to do is add up the numbers straight across and down the columns, then record hours by "management," "course," "clinic," and "non-clinic" for this and the previous month. There are only a handful of students that can do this. The last day of the month, and the first couple of days of the new month are chaotic and stressful as everyone tries to get their AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-81067708857068216162010-06-07T19:11:00.007-04:002010-06-07T19:22:16.810-04:00TipsToday I spent THREE HOURS correcting the botched bleach job a fifteen-year-old girl did on herself last night. My niece had a similar situation last summer and it cost her $165 at Dillards to get it fixed. This chick paid $51 and left NO TIP. I am very saldy about it. Prior to the corrective color from hell, I did two color retouches, a cut and a shampoo and blow-out. And I only made $5 in AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-28462042079158263352010-06-05T16:25:00.007-04:002010-06-06T15:46:31.225-04:00Just another day at the WHSBIt was a typical week...On Tuesday, I decided to take my fifteen minute break outside. There's a small covered deck area in front of the school with a bench all around. I went to sit out there and check my email. There were four other students doing the same. As soon as I got seated, Rhonda approaches me with much glee, and told me I should watch a video she had on the phone she was holding inAdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-84736715702299312852010-05-28T16:24:00.005-04:002010-05-28T16:48:37.547-04:00My secret lifeI agreed to work the reception desk this morning from 9 to 12. About 11:00 we got a call from someone looking for Susan Schell. She was in Ms. Lisa's class with me and she's still "up the hill." The school policy when a student gets a call is to take message. We are not to give out any information as to wether or not the student is actually there. I told the caller "I can give her a message AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-40393136882222359982010-05-28T07:25:00.004-04:002010-05-28T07:51:28.886-04:00Queen CityMr. James started two weeks ago. He works Monday and Wednesday days, and Tuesday and Thursday evenings. I usually stay late on Tuesdays and Thursdays to get a full ten hours booked. But last Thursday I left at 5:00 to attend an event at St. X (being a St. X Mom could be a whole other blog....) And am I sorry I didn't get to stay. Last Thursday night Mr. James got dressed at school for his AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-47579775657849867622010-05-28T07:04:00.004-04:002010-05-28T07:25:40.459-04:00Class of 2010With rolling admissions, the Western Hills School of Beauty also has rolling graduation. The rather pathetic thing is that there are between five and twelve students who begin every month and only one or two who graduate. Since I've been "down the hill/on the floor," every graduating student has been a night student. The night students are very different from the day students. They have full AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-3324971783003605832010-05-27T06:26:00.004-04:002010-05-27T07:50:36.928-04:00BusinessEveryone at the Western Hills School of Beauty and Hair Design takes the "managers course." The managing cosmetology course includes an additional 300 hours of study beyond the 1500 necessary for an Ohio state cosmetology license. Those three hundred hours are spent in the study of how to plan and run a small business including the regulatory laws and codes for a salon. The core assignment is AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-42771848424584254602010-05-19T09:31:00.005-04:002010-05-20T08:07:44.213-04:00Fight, fight, fightJanet came to school looking for a fight. First thing in the morning, she was sitting at the sation next to the one where I was setting up. As I bent over to get the flat-iron out of my kit, I hear (in a VERY nasty tone) "Miss Cynthia, that is right in my face!" This was said with so much disgust and contempt that my first thought was that somehow Janet had gotten hairspray sprayed in her faceAdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-69500449071813816282010-05-19T09:08:00.004-04:002010-05-19T09:30:59.591-04:00Happy ClientsMarianne was so excited yesterday after she passed her drivers test, that she came in to get her hair done. She had been really, really worried that she wouldn't pass. As the test date approached she had put off paying her gym and pool membership 'cause she wasn't sure she'd be able to get there this summer if she had to depend on someone else for a ride. Weeks ago she went to the eye doctor,AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-21987048115469212022010-05-13T08:51:00.006-04:002010-05-13T09:09:36.102-04:00Tea PartyI almost got into a beauty school fight myself yesterday. Sara has the most right-wing, tea-partyish political views of anyone I've ever seen or heard. She's probably crazy and I have now vowed to just ignore her, and leave the room or move my station. Yesterday, in the break room she was going off on how "Obama isn't really an American because he wasn't born in this country, he refuses to AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-77899126168370611372010-05-11T08:03:00.009-04:002010-05-11T08:35:01.948-04:00Hair Scare Part 3When Last we left my f'd up beauty-school hair, I had a blueish streak that I color-corrected back to brown. All was well (except that a hunk of my hair had been fried off). But when I needed a "tint retouch,"(known in layman's terms as "getting my roots done") the color was left on too long (at the teacher's insistence) and my hair was black. (That would be a number "2" on the color scale of AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-30893321464611355312010-05-11T07:42:00.005-04:002010-05-11T08:03:50.991-04:00BloggingTowards the end of the fall I got bogged down in the culture of blogging; and pretty much stopped writing. I spent time figuring out Google analytics and then checking it all the time. I spent time reading the blogs of "successful" bloggers looking for clues as to what made them popular. I spent time reading books and articles about how to blog and how to monetize. What I didn't do was write. AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-4268441491181199022010-05-03T08:18:00.000-04:002010-05-03T10:23:52.966-04:00"What you do for the least of my brothers, you do for Me"Last Friday I volunteered to cut hair at Haircuts from the Heart at the Franciscan Center in Over the Rhine. ("OTR" has been dubbed "the most dangerous neighborhood in the country." http://tinyurl.com/mwxpsr).The small salon provides haircuts to the very poor and homeless. The day we went, there was a special event honoring veterans. Clients didn't have to be a veteran to get a haircut, they AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-19637700597753902442010-04-30T08:36:00.007-04:002010-05-04T07:47:45.833-04:00OGAt some point, a few months ago, Isis started calling me "OG." I can't remember why. Urban Dictionary defines "OG" as: An OG is normally a member of a gang Who has been around for some time and has put in a large amount of work e.g. Killing enemy gang members. Therefore he is considered a more respected/ higher class member in the gang. Isis came down the hill last week, and the "OG" AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-72774003347535460432010-04-15T15:31:00.007-04:002010-04-15T15:58:08.999-04:00Beauty School Hair Part 2I wanted my gray streak to make me cool and edgy. Like Stacey London, Sharon Stone, Emmylou Harris, Jamie Lee Curtis or Meryl Streep. What I got was a swatch of light yellow, very damaged hair. At least what was left of my hair was very damaged. I decide to "fix it" myself with Pravana Color Silk. They make an intense silver and I thought that would do the trick. The instructions said to AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228552210095982617.post-47198613846874565952010-04-07T07:01:00.005-04:002010-04-07T07:28:11.269-04:00Beauty School HairI held out for six months, but yesterday I finally got jacked up beauty school hair. It actually started about three months ago when I decided I needed something a bit more hip and thought a single silver/gray streak would be just the thing. One of the contestants on the reality show Shear Genius had all-over silver/gray hair with a black streak; I thought it looked cool and that I'd just AdMom24http://www.blogger.com/profile/01810612663489982880noreply@blogger.com2