Field Notes
Dispatches from the classroom, the salon, and the larger experiment.
Class recaps, Industry Interviews, takeaways, and the real stuff that keeps surfacing. This is part archive, part field research, and part running record of what happens when hairstylists talk honestly about how this actually works.
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We’re paying attention to the patterns: what hurts, what helps, what school skipped, what burns people out, and what might make this work more human.
Industry Interviews
Part conversation, part field research, and part living archive.
We’re asking hairstylists what this industry gives, what it takes, and what gets learned the hard way.
Salon Owner . Stylist
Jill Bowie
“Ugly is just different.”
12 years in hair
boundaries / burnout / salon culture
Founder . Salon Manager . Stylist
Nessa Pineda
“I wish I knew how emotional this industry is.”
14 years in hair
emotional labour / burnout / sustainability
Founder . Salon Owner . Stylist
Chenoa LeBlanc
“Doing hair is punk rock.”
23 years in hair
queer hair / authenticity / community
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