The Work of Grooming Hair and Grooming Impressions | Impression Design | Introduction

Hello.

Things I've realized after 28 years as a hairdresser.

Hairdressing is not just about cutting hair;
I believe it is a job of "grooming impressions."

Through counseling and conversation,
I receive requests and create a person's atmosphere through their hairstyle.

I believe that is the basic work first and foremost.

And I also want the hair salon to be a place where you can relax as much as possible.

For example, a request for a "mature look."
If you maximize maturity through hairstyle alone, it might become too elegant, or

it might drift a little away from the "maturity" that the person is looking for.

From a certain point on,

once that idea came to mind, I started to think that I shouldn't let it end with just the exterior.

Of course, there are times when that isn't necessary, and
I don't mean to deny the act of making a straightforward request for a specific look.

It's just that this is a story about a realization I had myself,
thinking that perhaps there is such a way of doing things.

To explain a little further,

suppose you create a "3" in maturity through the hairstyle.

If the person's tone of voice and rhythm of speech
are high-pitched and a bit fast,
I think that by calming the tone and speaking a bit more slowly, one might be able to add a "+2" from the inside.

If you do that, the natural maturity for that person might become a "5."

I've recently started to think that there might be people who need that kind of approach.

Finding strengths such as thoughts, individuality, way of speaking, and personality,

thankfully,
is something I want to do,
and I have spent a long time searching for and finding my own way to do it.

I want to make it something I am good at.

And the time spent searching for that together,
throughout my career as a hairdresser so far,
is something I feel is precious time.

When I feel that I have truly reached someone,
I feel from the bottom of my heart
that it is my true joy.

The biggest discovery in my long career as a hairdresser is that
the work naturally came to involve not just the exterior, but the interior as well.

I think this was inevitable rather than something I aimed for.

To know the interior, questions and observation are necessary.

"Why is it naturally like that?"
"This could be even better."

I have come to sense such possibilities more often.

Finding such facets and grooming them as strengths. I want to establish this
as my own form of consulting as well.

(I have previously provided such strength-based consulting advice to several clients and others. I intend to continue doing this little by little in the future.)

Moving back and forth between the exterior and interior as my own style, and creating an impression that is unique to that person together, is

what I believe the work of a hairdresser is.

Not ending with just grooming hair,
but creating time where that person can look forward a little,
or come to like themselves a little more.

If I can be someone that people think,
"I want to ask that person,"
then as a hairdresser,
I think that is a very happy thing.

I believe that an impression cannot always be completed by hairstyle alone.

While facing each person in front of me
with care,
I hope we can find their uniqueness together.

Thank you.

Thank you for reading until the end.

Have a great day today.