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How to live your best life is what I am all about! I have passion for hair, being successful in business, and prioritising wellness. If this sounds like life goals of yours, I would love for you to listen to my podcast and hopefully take something useful from it!
Nathan Plumridge, Energy Hair Salon Owner
about
Welcome to the Hair Life Podcast with me Nathan Plumridge. 28 years ago, I was a confused teenager who had no real idea of what I wanted to do as a career and no real passion for anything. But then I found hairdressing! Jump forwards 28 years and I now have a large independent 7 figure hair salon with a team of 30 people and growing. But being a Salon owner or a Hair Entrepreneur is not easy, and I want to share my journals and experiences with you and let you know warts and all what it’s been like as a CEO of a business like ours. I also really want to inspire you and help you to live a healthy and happy life by bringing incredible interviews with Hair Salon owners, Entrepreneurs, Hair Product suppliers, fitness professionals, nutritionist, and inspirational clients that we are fortunate enough to meet everyday day. So, if you’re listening to this great, I can’t wait to take you on this journey! If you’re not listening, then no worries!
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Lorraine Hume,
salon owner &
L'Oréal Colour
Trophy champion
In this episode Nathan Plumridge is joined by Lorraine Hume, a salon owner and the reigning L'Oréal Colour Trophy champion – one of the biggest competitions in British hairdressing. The pair talk about her experiences, colour trends and what it’s like to run a busy hair salon.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
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We streamed the L'Oréal Colour Trophy Awards live in a bar/restaurant with mine and my team’s family and friends. We didn’t expect to win anything, we just wanted to have a nice time and celebrate getting to the finals, especially because of all that happened with Covid. When they announced we’d won it was insane! There was something really special about having the people there who support you day in and day out and know the graft that you put in, it wouldn’t have happened if we were at the ceremony in London.
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Sometimes, people get an idea on a mood board that they need to cut a certain style or colour a certain way and then look for a model, but if you find your model first you know what cut and colour will look good on them
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You have to stay true to what you want to do. A lot of people go with what they see is popular in Instagram and that if they’re not doing it they’ll be frowned upon. As hairdressers we see lots of hair on Instagram because we follow lots of other hairdressers, I don’t thin our clients see that all day. If your content is engaging and clients can learn something from it then the content is good. As long as you do what you like to do and stay consistent at it you’ll enjoy it, but if you’re doing it to keep up you’ll start to resent it.
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When we first opened the salon we hit the ground running, we had to add four more chairs, and then Covid hit. Now we’re back it feels like groundhog day, we’re so busy, though things have started settling down again now. The training I want to do with my staff has been affected. I couldn’t give them the training I wanted to, but in the new year that’s what I’m going to focus on because education is important to me.
