The New School pt. 3
Join us as we sit down with Black Girl Curls/Cut It Kinky's own coordinator Andra aka HairCousin as we chat her journey to and through cosmetology school.
Dec 15, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Curls Disrupted
Hey Curl Pros! Welcome to our little corner of this podcast world where facts are favored over opinions and food goes in our bellies.
We are Aeleise (left) and Aishia (right), founders of Cut It Kinky + Black Girl Curls, licensed practicing natural hair stylists, brand agnostic curl educators, moms to tiny humans, upsetters of the Internet, and just your overall snarky aunties who really know our 'ish.
Curls Disrupted was started because mainstream beauty outlets weren’t teaching relevant or accurate to the women that look just like us. Women who spend thousands of dollars yearly and still unsatisfied with their natural texture and the services and products marketed to them.
We just want to give DOPE A** hair to natural hair wearers and set a quality standard for professional curl services and service providers. Join us as we disrupt the curl paradigm.
To learn more about us go to:
Consumer http://www.blackcurlmagic.com
Licensed Professionals http://www.cutitkinky.com
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Episodes
The New School pt. 2
From Black CurlMagic Digital Salon member to licensed cosmetologist and Cut It Kinky Mastermind member in less than a year. Shakera aka The Cuse Curlfriend chats exponentially leveling up her new beauty career.
Dec 08, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 8
The New School pt. 1
In this episode we sit down with Cut It Kinky Assistant Stylist Asia Walker to chart her short journey from from being Aeleise's new client in 2015 to being a premier curl artist in Southern California in 2020. The rules have changed.
Oct 28, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 7
The Scramble For Texture Education
All ofa sudden everybody is a texture expert. Join us as we discuss what is really happening in the beauty industry in 2020
Oct 21, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 6
The Hustle Is Dead
Everybody is trying to hustle but what aboutyoukr business. Are you hustling or are you scaling? But what is scaling? Scaling a business means setting the stage to enable and support growth in your company. It means having the ability to grow without being hampered. It requires planning, some funding and the right systems, staff, processes, technology and partners. Hustling is over. We can't outwork Rona.
Aug 04, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 5
The Texture Ghetto
Where the beauty industry attempts to segregate and category black stylists It’s insulting to our talent and a lazy attempt at diversity. Black stylists are cutting specialists, color geniuses, curl artists, natural hair gurus, chemical +thermal rearranging experts, pioneering educators, and far more than token representation. The beauty industry is currently being pushed into a place that is long overdue. The industry as a whole has a responsibility to recognize the full depth and breadth of th...
Aug 02, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Curls And Cosmetology School
Texture is not this foreign thing that you didn't learn in cosmetology school Everything you learned in the first few months of cosmetology school prepared you for a solid career working on all hair in the cosmetology industry
Jul 30, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Building An Inclusive Curl Business
This conversation is about the the tight curl experience in salon and what you can do to craft a more vinculsieve curl business. Why is this topic near and dear to us? For the last 4 years we have been engaging digitally with thousands of tight curl folks around the globe in our #30DHD and Black curl magic programs. As those participants worked through our content they wanted to find curl artists near them to have their serviced. We started recommending curl artists we knew and knew about throug...
Jul 28, 2020•37 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Pivot
We were hype for 2020, then Corona came along and the entire industry has had to rethink how we work and who we work with. This is a new normal because we get to decide for ourselves what normal is. Normal doesn't mean being exhausted, resentful, exploitative. We chat about designing business that revolve around how we want to live, not around how the industry has always operated.
Jul 26, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 1
We’re Not Obligated To Share, And Neither Are You
The underside of social media can get to even the strongest person. We chat about how we set boundaries with the content we share.
Mar 10, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Where Do You Serve Best?
How did we get from the beginning of the free #30DayHairDetox challenge to where we are now?
Mar 03, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 19
What Does It Take To Be An Independent Beauty Educator?
Cut It Kinky started as a Beta Test in 2018.Two years later we've trained more than 100 curl artists. In this episode we break down what we think is important for aspiring independent beauty educators to know.
Feb 25, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 18
This Is Not Business As Usual
You can do whatever you want to as long as you can prove that you can do it. You can build your own table and eat at it on Al Gore's internet. We explore what is really keeping beauty industry on the fringes new technologies that can assist in our exponential growth.
Jan 21, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Curly Cuts Explained
Curly Cutting is an art and a science. It’s a way of seeing hair that is completely different from how most cosmetologists are taught to see hair There are a ton of misconceptions that curly cuts aren't precision cuts, that you can’t see the ends of the hair, that damage is left after the cut. We chat the most popular methods that we're familiar with and explain why we felt the need to create Cut It Kinky specifically to address tighter, kinkier curls.
Jan 13, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Worthiness Factor
As professionals how do we determine our worth and place a value on out attention, time, and money?
Jan 08, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Cut It Kinky Stylists Roundtable
We go behind the scenes with Cut It Kinky Alumni and Mentor stylists Roni from Pasadena, CA and Sonnie from Dallas, TX to chat about how their careers behind and beyond the chair have shifted since attending their first Cut It Kinky Live Workshop. *This session was recorded at Hazel O. Salon in Alexandria, VA www.hazelosalon.com. Hazel O. is a dope loft salon with facilities to host professional technical classes and workshops.
Jan 08, 2020•27 min
Length Journeys And Having Fun
This journey has never been about our hair. We haven't shared much about our hair because we don't center our hair in the work we do. Everything has always been about leading our clients digital and IRL to their own curl goals. We keep hair care simple by simply cleansing, conditioning, and styling. In this episode we chat about what we're feeling about out hair right now and what 2020 holds for the fate of our curls.
Jan 08, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Juicy Business pt. 2
Some of you have been wondering why we are not in a permanent salon space. This is what happens when things fall apart and what we are doing to recover.
Dec 16, 2019•19 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Salon Ownership Isn't Always The Next Logical Step
For so many years we've been told that salon ownership is the natural progression of a dope stylist's career. In this episode we examine what ownership is and what having responsibility for a physical commercial space really means.
Dec 11, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Why We Aren't Traveling Hairstylists
We regularly get asked if we will travel to different locations to do hair. As a stylist it can be an ego boost for your services to be in high demand. In this episode we through a huge bucket of ice water on the sexy idea of being a traveling hairstylist. We also explain what we're doing to solve the problem many consumers have around finding a competent curl stylist
Dec 02, 2019•19 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Your Natural Hair Appointment Isn't Necessarily A Class
When visiting a curl stylist do you as the consumer have realistic expectations? In this episode we chat understanding stylists menus, pricing, and deliverables to expect during your salon appointment.
Nov 25, 2019•15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Juicy Business pt. 1
We had so many reasons to not want business partners, but somehow ended up building a dope business over the last 4 years. this episode throws the curtains back on what our past business experiences were and how we work together without driving each other (too) crazy.
Nov 18, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 9
No More New Natural Hair Lines
All these new haircare lines and everybody still has dry hair. We keep seeing bandaid products debut but where’s the rehabilitation of behaviors and thought processes surrounding natural hair?
Nov 13, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Why We Don't Give Tips
Crowdsourcing your haircare and why we can't do a thorough enough consultation over the public internet to tell you what to use on your hair. If you're tired of getting sent off about your hair this episode is for you. We will not contribute to irresponsibility of the internet.
Nov 11, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 7
(ISM): Color + Texture In The H&M Scandal With Dr. VaNatta Ford
Millions of opinions, think pieces, and comments later, we explore the aftermath of the viral H&M image of a beautiful black girl and her kinky hair with our Dr. VaNatta Ford. Dr. Ford is an Assistant Professor Of Africana Studies at Williams University where she teaches a course entitled Complexion Complexities: Colorism in Literature, Lyrics & Everyday Life .
Nov 05, 2019•34 min
Your Imaginary 4C Hair
Who made the imaginary curl alphabet king? We explore how 4a, 2b, 3c does not exist in the cosmetology world and how our hair becomes what we think it is.
Nov 05, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 6
What Clients Think They Know
What happened when the pros arrived late to the conversation and refused to learn the culture? We explore how the lack of knowledgeable and licensed natural hair professionals created a vacuum in the market.
Oct 29, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Who Is The Natural Hair Client?
Naturals are at the forefront of everything fashion and beauty. Do you know exactly who is sitting in your chair?
Oct 21, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Who's Your Boss?
The same mindset that made you successful employee will not make you a successful independent hair artist. Your client is your boss but you get to set the terms and conditions of how your work partnership operates In this episode we address the how the employee mindset around the metrics of pricing, scheduling and marketing is holding you back.
Oct 11, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Where Are Your People?
What does diversity mean in the curl world? In 2017 we'd wrote a book, created a course, and helmed a FB group for natural hair and we were sending community members to Curl stylists we knew about through other stylist networks. Those naturals were coming back to us with scathing reviews. In this episode we explore why.
Oct 11, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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