Hailey Ashton: hairdresser on the Government's plan to scrap older hairdressers' regulations

A hairdresser says the industry has lots of 'silly little rules'.

Cabinet has agreed to all the Ministry for Regulation's recommendations - allowing drinks and dogs if businesses want them.

Rules about the spacing of chairs and how bright lights are will also be scrapped from July.

Hairdresser Hailey Ashton says she's always offered tea and coffee, but she might decline to invite the pooches.

"I've got clients I know are quite afraid of dogs - we've actually had someone bring their dog in, sit on their lap and then vomit all over our floor."

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Together duple c Ellen. Finally, the rules for hair dresses
are going to change. The government has accepted all of
the rule change recommendations from the new Ministry for Regulation.
That includes rules about how far apart the seats can be,
how bright the lights can be, whether you can serve refreshments,
whether you can let the dogs come into the hair dresses.
Haley Ashton is the owner of Ashton and Gray Hair Design. Hailey, Hello,

(00:21):
Hi here the how's it going good? Thank you? Are
you loving this?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh? It's quite interesting. It's actually a bit of an
interesting read. And I've just finished watching the updated video
on David Seymour. Yeah, I don't know how it's going
to go.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
What do you mean, isn't it just aren't we all
just gonna love it and do what we want to do? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I suppose so, But I guess like from a hairdresser's
point of view, it's great. Like there are lots of silly,
silly little rules with regulations in the salon. Like I
think I'll just give you one of my favorite ones,
which is how many basins we need to have? So
in my small hairdressing salon, I have six chairs and
I need to have a basin for washing hair or

(01:00):
two of them. A basin to wash your hands and
in the toilet, that's fine. A basin to wash all
of our color bowls out backward. Okay, another basin if
we want to wash all the dishes, all right, and
then another hair basin to wash our hands. Because we
have six chairs in the cell.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Why what does the six chairs mean you have to
wash your hands? Is it six chairs equals another basin?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, it's ten chairs. Then i'd need to put another
basin in side.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh that's nutty. Why aren't you loving these rules, chat
but just being scrapped? I mean that's lunacy, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Oh? Yeah, no things like that. But I guess, like
I think one of them is the dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Like we you don't have to say yes to it, Hayley.
You can be like this is a no no dog hairdresser.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Exactly, which is really cool. I mean, I've got clients
and I know are quite afraid of dogs. We actually
have had someone bring their dog in, sit on their
lap and then vomit all over our floor.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Right, but are you are you worried you're going to
feel pressure to let the dogs in?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah? I think there might be a little bit of
that that.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
We oh now, no, Hayley, you just say, look, just
say some of your clients are scared of dogs, and
we'll just and just say you're getting pressure from us
to not do it. Yeah, yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And there are ways around it which we're not too
worried about.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Are you going to change? Are you going to change?
How far apart the seats are?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Absolutely not. It's so silly, like it is the whole
thing and how they measure it is from the center
of the chair to the next center of the chair.
I'm like, oh my goodness, and your chairs can be
as big or small as you want. I'm like, it's
so silly. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay. So tea and coffee is on, always.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Has been, so a little thing there with the break.
Just to clarify it, I know, naughty. Just to clarify
it is, if you are serving tan coffee, which has
been fine since nineteen eighty, you either need to have
a separate dishwasher, which I do. I have a mini
dish washer here in my cell on, or you need
to serve it in paper cups. So I have always
served ten coffee in real cups. And it has gone

(02:58):
into my real dishwasher.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Hailey, thank you very much. It sounds a lot less
complicated now. Hailey Ashton, hairdresser at Ashton and Gray Hair Design.
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