September 1, 2024 • 16 mins
Ever felt like one small change could snowball into a life transformation? On this episode of Ash After Dark, I, Allie Scott, share a deeply personal story about how hair extensions became the unexpected catalyst for my weight loss journey. From struggling with unhealthy eating habits due to the pressures of running my hair extension business to experiencing significant weight gain and self-consciousness, this episode uncovers how a simple boost in confidence can have a profound impact on your life. By focusing on enhancing my appearance with hair extensions, I found myself empowered to make healthier lifestyle choices, demonstrating how self-esteem and health are intricately connected.
Join me as I recount the pivotal moments that led me to embrace a fitness journey, starting with the courage to step into a gym miles away from familiar faces. It wasn’t just about the workouts; it was about the sense of security and attractiveness the hair extensions provided, making each step on the treadmill a little less daunting. Over time, this newfound confidence not only helped me shed pounds but also transformed my outlook on personal growth. Hair extensions aren't about becoming someone else; they're about showcasing your true beauty and using that confidence to conquer new challenges. This episode is a heartfelt reminder that sometimes, the smallest changes can ignite the biggest transformations.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back to another episode of Ash After
Dark.
I'm your host, allie Scott, andtoday I'm going to tell you
guys the craziest thing andyou're not going to believe me,
but it is true.
So let me explain.
Hair extensions help me loseweight.
It sounds insane, right?
(00:21):
How can hair extensions helpsomebody lose weight?
Well, let me give you somebackstory.
So when I really started deepdiving into my business I am a
hair extension specialist, I ama salon owner, I am a hustler
and in the hustle and bustle oflife I really just put my health
(00:44):
on the back burner.
I wouldn't eat all day long andso then at night I would binge
myself and, honestly, me noteating and then binging it
really made me gain weight.
So I gained in like a two-monthtime period I ended up gaining
40 pounds.
That's a lot of weight.
So I stopped going to the gym,I stopped eating really in
(01:06):
general, and then I would eatreally late at night and again,
yeah, so I lost a ton.
I not lost, I gained a lot, alot of weight.
So here's the thing when, if youare somebody that you are like
more of a curvy girl, or if youare somebody that you already
like, might, you know, feel alittle bit more insecure about
your weight, like, just I'm outhere to say, hey, you're not
(01:29):
alone.
I've definitely been in thatspot before where I'm like, wow,
I'm not feeling the mostconfident about my body and I'm
also not going to pretend like Iam.
That's my other thing is likemy biggest thing is me coming
and doing podcasts and being onsocial media, and just being
more authentic is that I don'twant to sugarcoat things and I
want to tell you from myexperience where maybe somebody
(01:50):
at that timeframe could be like,oh my gosh, it's not too bad,
but I am five foot nine and Iwas almost 200 pounds and I'm
sorry to me Also, it doesn'tmatter.
I, I was unhealthy, I hadgained a lot of weight and so I
just happened to be a lot moreself-conscious because my body
had changed.
So if you're a woman and youkind of get it like when you
(02:13):
have a baby, like your bodychanges and not that that's ever
a bad thing, it's a beautifulthing and it's a wonderful thing
.
We're always evolving.
But let me tell you at thattime it was not evolving for the
right reasons and it was alsojust not healthy.
I couldn't keep doing my jobthat way, it hurt to stand.
I was always so tired, I justfelt so bloated.
(02:34):
I hated looking in front of amirror because, let me tell you
my job, in my career I'm infront of people all day.
I'm in front of a mirror allday.
So it matters to me.
It matters matters Like, I takepride in, like how I look and
how I show up.
That matters to me.
So how the hell did a hairextensions help me lose weight?
Well, I, at the time, was notwearing hair extensions, my hair
(02:58):
was short and I just felt I didnot want to go to any like
public places where I wouldmaybe see somebody that I went
to high school with or seesomebody that I knew, because I
was really embarrassed.
I grew up as a cheerleader.
I grew up, you know, yes, ofcourse, always been like a tall,
more curvy girl, but I justagain, like I was not.
(03:23):
I was really just embarrassedand that those were my feelings
at the time.
So I really held myself back.
I missed out on some of my likeI have two stepchildren and I
missed out on some of theirsports because I didn't want to
be seen.
I didn't want to go and see,like people that I knew that I
didn't, that were going toprobably talk bad about me later
(03:44):
or I didn't want to have to,like, run into somebody that I
didn't know at the store so andthat might sound dramatic, but
that's just where I was at andI'm just being honest and open
about it.
So when I decided, okay, Ireally want to make a change in
the change in my body and justkind of love myself a little bit
more, it all happened when Iinvested in hair extensions for
(04:06):
myself.
So when I first invested in somehair extensions, I felt a
little bit more proportioned.
I felt a little bit more hiddenand honestly, at the time
people were just looking at myhair and telling me how
beautiful my hair is, that itkind of gave um, a little bit
more body.
Like they weren't looking at mybody so much, they were looking
(04:28):
at my beautiful hair.
So I always have had super longhair, really thick hair.
I've always put on a ton ofwefts, because then people would
go and they'd comment on thatand that just made me feel
really, really good and so I gota little bit more confident and
so to this day, like I actuallydon't wear a ponytail super
often because I still have thoselittle tendencies, I got a
little bit more confident and soto this day, like, I actually
don't wear a ponytail superoften because I still have those
little tendencies of feeling alittle bit more insecure about,
(04:50):
hey, if my hair is up then mybody is showing and again I know
I'm 32, but it still is aninsecurity of mine.
I'm really tall.
I got made fun of um growing upfor being really tall and I
think also because I was alwaysaround, because I did cheer and
I did figure skiing, I wasalways around people that were
(05:12):
just like these small, petitehumans and I just I envied them.
I just wanted to be like that.
But that wasn't in my cards.
I always looked older.
I always was just more curvy.
I got boobs really early on.
I I remember I even had like adoctor.
I had a doctor and a personaltrainer both asked me oh my gosh
, you have implants and I didn't.
(05:32):
So I always was just like, alsohad like big boobs, like I was
just a really curvy girl.
So I know for some people, ifyou don't have that, you can be
like, wow, I wish I had that,but honestly, it just made me
more self-conscious, I think too, like where I grew up and how I
grew up.
It wasn't really I didn't wanta lot of attention on my body.
I definitely feel like I was,for sure, more sexualized as
(05:55):
well, which is why I kind ofwanted to hide the curves, the
butt, the boobs, like I wantedto kind of hide, and then just
the weight gain and wanted tohide.
So I got hair extensions and Icannot even begin to tell you
how much that just transformedmy life.
So I get hair extensions and Icannot even begin to tell you
how much they'll just transformmy life.
So I get hair extensions andI'm feeling like, okay, people
are noticing my hair.
They're not noticing so muchabout, like, my curves or if I
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gained weight, or what my bodyis or even what I was wearing.
I could have beautiful hairextensions and wear sweats and I
still would look like a 10.
Like I'm telling you, it justwas a whole different ballgame
for me.
So then, once I started wearingmy extensions, I started getting
a little bit more confidenceand a little bit more confidence
(06:38):
in just like how I looked andhow I presented myself.
So from there I was like, okay,well now, because I don't feel.
I don't know if you guys haveever felt like this, but for me
it was like I'm almost soself-conscious to go to the gym
and have to restart.
It's almost embarrassing to me.
So I never wanted to restartever and I was like, okay, I
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feel like my hair extensionskind of hide me a little bit.
I have the most beautiful pony.
If I do put it in a ponytail andI tried to trick my brain of of
, okay, if I go to the gym withthis really beautiful hair, then
maybe, just maybe, that alsocould be a little marketing
tactic as well.
The extension method I do ishonestly the most elite on the
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market.
I've been around the hairextension industry for over a
decade doing them myself andwearing them myself.
The extensions that we do areinsane.
We do so many things differentfrom other artists.
We customize, we have blendsLike you can put your hair any
which way.
We really care about your scalphealth.
So I also thought, you know what, if I went into the workout
(07:43):
space and I went into thefitness space and people could
see my hair, okay, well, okay,well, then, maybe two that could
help me with my marketing.
So I kind of tried to liketrick myself as well, but I also
knew at the end of the day, Ireally did need to get a little
bit more healthy.
So I felt more confident and Iwas like, okay, so I'm going to
(08:05):
start going to the gym, but notany gym, because again, I still
wasn't feeling confident enoughto be able to even go to the gym
.
Down the street I lived, I likeI had moved back to the city
that I'm in currently and afterseven years, and there it's kind
of it's where I grew up, justlike people went to high school
with like that's where they alllived and they all it.
(08:25):
So I didn't want to run intoanybody that I know, um, just
because again, I still had a lotof body, I don't know, just
embarrassment.
But I felt better with theextensions.
So I was like, okay, I'm goingto go and I'm going to go to a
gym.
It was like 15 minutes away, ina different city, I didn't know
anybody, I would go reallyearly in the morning.
But that's the thing is, Istarted by going to a different
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gym, farther away, because itmade me feel more comfortable,
confident, and it made me feelmore, just like okay, like I can
do this, and it was just a stepin the right direction.
So I started going to the gymbecause that's the that's the
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hardest part.
If you've ever been somebodythat's been a little bit
overweight and out of shape,starting is the hardest part,
just because, again, you know,if I like to do classes, I'm
like what am I doing?
I don't know what I'm doing andagain you can just feel really
embarrassed.
So I did.
I went to the gym.
I went to the gym 15 minutesaway, with nobody that I knew,
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early in the morning, and then Istarted becoming consistent at
that, and then I started feelinga little bit more confident.
A little bit more confident andthen, slowly but surely, I was
able to start going to adifferent gym that was a little
closer to me.
Then I kept going, kept going,kept going, and then I was like,
okay, I want to do thesecertain classes, but I was
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nervous about, you know, thepeople like, okay, also on
social media.
I'm like super active, like I,like I.
I again like that's justsomething that I have personally
always struggled with is likejust body consciousness and like
just feeling really securebeing as tall as I am and as as
curvy as I am, and so I was onthis health journey, so I kept
going.
So then I ended up starting togo to gyms that were more of a
(10:16):
private gym people I knew.
But I did.
I was like, okay, I had to kindof trick myself, like, okay,
I'm gonna transfer my marketing,but the only reason why I could
get in that door is because Ihad hair extensions.
And then I remembered likesometimes at the salon some
girls will wanna take out herhair the night before and then
the next day we'll put them backin.
We'll just have one nightwithout the extensions.
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But let me tell you there's noway in hell I would ever do that
.
Because I was like, well, Ihave to go to the gym in the
morning, and I can't go to thegym in the morning if I don't
have my hair extensions in.
Because of just how I felt sofast forward that's been like I
don't know six years in themaking.
Like since then I did, I wasable to become more consistent,
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I was able to do all thedifferent things, like I have
now probably lost like 50 poundsin six years.
It definitely didn't happenovernight, but me to be able to
start going to the gym and feelconfident to go to the gym.
It all started when I had hairextensions.
It just made me feel a littlebit more hidden and a little bit
more secure and now it's just apart of who I am.
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So the purpose to tell you thatis not that, hey, hair
extensions need to make you intoa different person.
Hair extensions are not forthat.
Hair extensions are just tohelp bring out your true beauty
that you do know is on theinside.
To help bring out your truebeauty that you do know is on
the inside.
It's hard not to compare andit's hard not to be hard on
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yourself.
I grew up in the era ofAmerica's Next Top Model.
I always wanted to be thisskinny, sick, thin person.
I'm like, I'm tall, I better beskinny and I just that wasn't
in my cards.
Like even now, even though I'velost like 50 pounds, I'm still
a size eight and I'm five nine,like I'm the smallest I've been
in since I had my son.
And even then, like there'sjust certain things that how you
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grow up and your mindset, likesometimes you can be a little
bit more insecure.
So just know, like I just wantto always live my best life and
be my best self, but sometimesthere's other things that are
going to help us get there, andfor me it was extensions.
And, as cheesy as that sounds,unless you are a woman that you
have felt a little bit more likeyou wanted to hide or a little
bit more nervous to put yourselfout there.
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You need to try hair extensionsand if you have them for the
thickness but you're stillfeeling a little bit that way,
let me tell you, try a longerlength, like, just have it be
your little security blanket forjust a moment, so that your
true beauty from the inside cancome out on the outside.
Keep going and then you canstay consistent and then,
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honestly, then either you cankeep your extensions in forever
or you don't even have to havethem, but just know that there
are solutions.
Have them, but just know thatthere are solutions.
And, to be quite frank, thesolution is definitely getting
your extensions done at my salon, like I try very hard to stay
more educational and humble andbut I just have to say a few
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things about hair extensions andwho to choose as an artist,
just like a personal trainer.
I would never choose a personaltrainer to teach me how to lift
weights.
If they were obese, I neverwould.
So when you're choosing a hairextension artist, choose
somebody who, number one, hasactually invested in all the
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certifications do they take?
Like it's your hair, it can be.
It can be damaged so quicklyand I know that because I've
seen it first play, if I've hadit happen to me and I've seen it
.
So, number one, do theyactually invest in themselves?
Do they pay money?
Do they go and travel and goplaces?
Do they keep up with theircraft?
Number two, are they wearinghair extensions themselves?
They're not wearing hairextensions, then, honestly, I
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can't trust you.
You don't know how it feels,you don't know how it looks, you
just don't know.
So how could you be offering aservice like personal training
without actually being fit?
Or how can you offer a servicelike personal training without
actually have you know aboutmacros or you know you've lost
it, you have had atransformation or that you have
been in the fitness world.
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It's so easy these days to learnhair extensions and
unfortunately, it's veryoversaturated, especially my
market.
Next thing I want you to lookat is my hair extension
specialist.
In quotations do they have?
How many colors are theyputting in my hair and does it
blend?
Are they installing one color?
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Are they installing two, three,four, five?
All of those things matter.
So, just when you areresearching a stylist, just
remember you cannot put a pricetag on confidence.
You cannot put a price tag onbeauty, price tag on beauty.
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And if, especially if, you arewanting to have hair extensions
to feel more confident and tofeel more beautiful, the worst
thing in the world that canhappen is you actually now
playing small because your hairextensions don't match, or your
hair extensions don't feel goodand they're giving you a
headache, or your hairextensions are too heavy, or
your hair extensions don't blendbecause it's not matched.
So really take those thingsinto consideration when you are
choosing a stylist.
At my salon, each individualstylist has invested over
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$15,000 minimum inside of justtheir hair extension education.
And it's not just the money,it's just what they do each week
.
It's how we live, it's how webreathe, because it's so much
more about just your life thanjust your hair.
So hair extensions did.
Hair extensions helped me loseweight.
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Hair extensions helped me, myinner insides and my internal
beauty be able to show more onthe outside, and because of that
, I'm able to speak more, I'mable to be able to be a leader,
I'm able to make a difference.
So if you're somebody and youare struggling and you're maybe
feeling a little less confident,maybe feeling a little bit
insecure, just know it's not abad thing.
It's not a bad thing how wewere raised, how we've grown up
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and the world that we live in.
It is totally normal.
You can find me at Allie ScottHair Studio on Instagram,
facebook, tiktok, all the things.
Alliescotthairstudiocom is mywebsite, contact me.
You can even find me personallyon Instagram at Hair Artist
Allie, and let's help yourinside match your outside.
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That's all for tonight, youguys.
I will see you next week foranother episode of Ash After
Dark and in the meantime, again,don't forget, come and follow
me on my social platforms.
At Hair Artist Alley, I'm onthere constantly, every single
day, and I'm just here.
My purpose there is to just beauthentic and vulnerable and
tell you how it is and alsoeducate you in the process.
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Good night, and I will see youguys next week.
Welcome back to another episode of Ash After
Dark.
I'm your host, allie Scott, andtoday I'm going to tell you
guys the craziest thing andyou're not going to believe me,
but it is true.
So let me explain.
Hair extensions help me loseweight.
It sounds insane, right?
(00:21):
How can hair extensions helpsomebody lose weight?
Well, let me give you somebackstory.
So when I really started deepdiving into my business I am a
hair extension specialist, I ama salon owner, I am a hustler
and in the hustle and bustle oflife I really just put my health
(00:44):
on the back burner.
I wouldn't eat all day long andso then at night I would binge
myself and, honestly, me noteating and then binging it
really made me gain weight.
So I gained in like a two-monthtime period I ended up gaining
40 pounds.
That's a lot of weight.
So I stopped going to the gym,I stopped eating really in
(01:06):
general, and then I would eatreally late at night and again,
yeah, so I lost a ton.
I not lost, I gained a lot, alot of weight.
So here's the thing when, if youare somebody that you are like
more of a curvy girl, or if youare somebody that you already
like, might, you know, feel alittle bit more insecure about
your weight, like, just I'm outhere to say, hey, you're not
(01:29):
alone.
I've definitely been in thatspot before where I'm like, wow,
I'm not feeling the mostconfident about my body and I'm
also not going to pretend like Iam.
That's my other thing is likemy biggest thing is me coming
and doing podcasts and being onsocial media, and just being
more authentic is that I don'twant to sugarcoat things and I
want to tell you from myexperience where maybe somebody
(01:50):
at that timeframe could be like,oh my gosh, it's not too bad,
but I am five foot nine and Iwas almost 200 pounds and I'm
sorry to me Also, it doesn'tmatter.
I, I was unhealthy, I hadgained a lot of weight and so I
just happened to be a lot moreself-conscious because my body
had changed.
So if you're a woman and youkind of get it like when you
(02:13):
have a baby, like your bodychanges and not that that's ever
a bad thing, it's a beautifulthing and it's a wonderful thing
.
We're always evolving.
But let me tell you at thattime it was not evolving for the
right reasons and it was alsojust not healthy.
I couldn't keep doing my jobthat way, it hurt to stand.
I was always so tired, I justfelt so bloated.
(02:34):
I hated looking in front of amirror because, let me tell you
my job, in my career I'm infront of people all day.
I'm in front of a mirror allday.
So it matters to me.
It matters matters Like, I takepride in, like how I look and
how I show up.
That matters to me.
So how the hell did a hairextensions help me lose weight?
Well, I, at the time, was notwearing hair extensions, my hair
(02:58):
was short and I just felt I didnot want to go to any like
public places where I wouldmaybe see somebody that I went
to high school with or seesomebody that I knew, because I
was really embarrassed.
I grew up as a cheerleader.
I grew up, you know, yes, ofcourse, always been like a tall,
more curvy girl, but I justagain, like I was not.
(03:23):
I was really just embarrassedand that those were my feelings
at the time.
So I really held myself back.
I missed out on some of my likeI have two stepchildren and I
missed out on some of theirsports because I didn't want to
be seen.
I didn't want to go and see,like people that I knew that I
didn't, that were going toprobably talk bad about me later
(03:44):
or I didn't want to have to,like, run into somebody that I
didn't know at the store so andthat might sound dramatic, but
that's just where I was at andI'm just being honest and open
about it.
So when I decided, okay, Ireally want to make a change in
the change in my body and justkind of love myself a little bit
more, it all happened when Iinvested in hair extensions for
(04:06):
myself.
So when I first invested in somehair extensions, I felt a
little bit more proportioned.
I felt a little bit more hiddenand honestly, at the time
people were just looking at myhair and telling me how
beautiful my hair is, that itkind of gave um, a little bit
more body.
Like they weren't looking at mybody so much, they were looking
(04:28):
at my beautiful hair.
So I always have had super longhair, really thick hair.
I've always put on a ton ofwefts, because then people would
go and they'd comment on thatand that just made me feel
really, really good and so I gota little bit more confident and
so to this day, like I actuallydon't wear a ponytail super
often because I still have thoselittle tendencies, I got a
little bit more confident and soto this day, like, I actually
don't wear a ponytail superoften because I still have those
little tendencies of feeling alittle bit more insecure about,
(04:50):
hey, if my hair is up then mybody is showing and again I know
I'm 32, but it still is aninsecurity of mine.
I'm really tall.
I got made fun of um growing upfor being really tall and I
think also because I was alwaysaround, because I did cheer and
I did figure skiing, I wasalways around people that were
(05:12):
just like these small, petitehumans and I just I envied them.
I just wanted to be like that.
But that wasn't in my cards.
I always looked older.
I always was just more curvy.
I got boobs really early on.
I I remember I even had like adoctor.
I had a doctor and a personaltrainer both asked me oh my gosh
, you have implants and I didn't.
(05:32):
So I always was just like, alsohad like big boobs, like I was
just a really curvy girl.
So I know for some people, ifyou don't have that, you can be
like, wow, I wish I had that,but honestly, it just made me
more self-conscious, I think too, like where I grew up and how I
grew up.
It wasn't really I didn't wanta lot of attention on my body.
I definitely feel like I was,for sure, more sexualized as
(05:55):
well, which is why I kind ofwanted to hide the curves, the
butt, the boobs, like I wantedto kind of hide, and then just
the weight gain and wanted tohide.
So I got hair extensions and Icannot even begin to tell you
how much that just transformedmy life.
So I get hair extensions and Icannot even begin to tell you
how much they'll just transformmy life.
So I get hair extensions andI'm feeling like, okay, people
are noticing my hair.
They're not noticing so muchabout, like, my curves or if I
(06:16):
gained weight, or what my bodyis or even what I was wearing.
I could have beautiful hairextensions and wear sweats and I
still would look like a 10.
Like I'm telling you, it justwas a whole different ballgame
for me.
So then, once I started wearingmy extensions, I started getting
a little bit more confidenceand a little bit more confidence
(06:38):
in just like how I looked andhow I presented myself.
So from there I was like, okay,well now, because I don't feel.
I don't know if you guys haveever felt like this, but for me
it was like I'm almost soself-conscious to go to the gym
and have to restart.
It's almost embarrassing to me.
So I never wanted to restartever and I was like, okay, I
(07:00):
feel like my hair extensionskind of hide me a little bit.
I have the most beautiful pony.
If I do put it in a ponytail andI tried to trick my brain of of
, okay, if I go to the gym withthis really beautiful hair, then
maybe, just maybe, that alsocould be a little marketing
tactic as well.
The extension method I do ishonestly the most elite on the
(07:21):
market.
I've been around the hairextension industry for over a
decade doing them myself andwearing them myself.
The extensions that we do areinsane.
We do so many things differentfrom other artists.
We customize, we have blendsLike you can put your hair any
which way.
We really care about your scalphealth.
So I also thought, you know what, if I went into the workout
(07:43):
space and I went into thefitness space and people could
see my hair, okay, well, okay,well, then, maybe two that could
help me with my marketing.
So I kind of tried to liketrick myself as well, but I also
knew at the end of the day, Ireally did need to get a little
bit more healthy.
So I felt more confident and Iwas like, okay, so I'm going to
(08:05):
start going to the gym, but notany gym, because again, I still
wasn't feeling confident enoughto be able to even go to the gym
.
Down the street I lived, I likeI had moved back to the city
that I'm in currently and afterseven years, and there it's kind
of it's where I grew up, justlike people went to high school
with like that's where they alllived and they all it.
(08:25):
So I didn't want to run intoanybody that I know, um, just
because again, I still had a lotof body, I don't know, just
embarrassment.
But I felt better with theextensions.
So I was like, okay, I'm goingto go and I'm going to go to a
gym.
It was like 15 minutes away, ina different city, I didn't know
anybody, I would go reallyearly in the morning.
But that's the thing is, Istarted by going to a different
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gym, farther away, because itmade me feel more comfortable,
confident, and it made me feelmore, just like okay, like I can
do this, and it was just a stepin the right direction.
So I started going to the gymbecause that's the that's the
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hardest part.
If you've ever been somebodythat's been a little bit
overweight and out of shape,starting is the hardest part,
just because, again, you know,if I like to do classes, I'm
like what am I doing?
I don't know what I'm doing andagain you can just feel really
embarrassed.
So I did.
I went to the gym.
I went to the gym 15 minutesaway, with nobody that I knew,
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early in the morning, and then Istarted becoming consistent at
that, and then I started feelinga little bit more confident.
A little bit more confident andthen, slowly but surely, I was
able to start going to adifferent gym that was a little
closer to me.
Then I kept going, kept going,kept going, and then I was like,
okay, I want to do thesecertain classes, but I was
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nervous about, you know, thepeople like, okay, also on
social media.
I'm like super active, like I,like I.
I again like that's justsomething that I have personally
always struggled with is likejust body consciousness and like
just feeling really securebeing as tall as I am and as as
curvy as I am, and so I was onthis health journey, so I kept
going.
So then I ended up starting togo to gyms that were more of a
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private gym people I knew.
But I did.
I was like, okay, I had to kindof trick myself, like, okay,
I'm gonna transfer my marketing,but the only reason why I could
get in that door is because Ihad hair extensions.
And then I remembered likesometimes at the salon some
girls will wanna take out herhair the night before and then
the next day we'll put them backin.
We'll just have one nightwithout the extensions.
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But let me tell you there's noway in hell I would ever do that
.
Because I was like, well, Ihave to go to the gym in the
morning, and I can't go to thegym in the morning if I don't
have my hair extensions in.
Because of just how I felt sofast forward that's been like I
don't know six years in themaking.
Like since then I did, I wasable to become more consistent,
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I was able to do all thedifferent things, like I have
now probably lost like 50 poundsin six years.
It definitely didn't happenovernight, but me to be able to
start going to the gym and feelconfident to go to the gym.
It all started when I had hairextensions.
It just made me feel a littlebit more hidden and a little bit
more secure and now it's just apart of who I am.
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So the purpose to tell you thatis not that, hey, hair
extensions need to make you intoa different person.
Hair extensions are not forthat.
Hair extensions are just tohelp bring out your true beauty
that you do know is on theinside.
To help bring out your truebeauty that you do know is on
the inside.
It's hard not to compare andit's hard not to be hard on
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yourself.
I grew up in the era ofAmerica's Next Top Model.
I always wanted to be thisskinny, sick, thin person.
I'm like, I'm tall, I better beskinny and I just that wasn't
in my cards.
Like even now, even though I'velost like 50 pounds, I'm still
a size eight and I'm five nine,like I'm the smallest I've been
in since I had my son.
And even then, like there'sjust certain things that how you
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grow up and your mindset, likesometimes you can be a little
bit more insecure.
So just know, like I just wantto always live my best life and
be my best self, but sometimesthere's other things that are
going to help us get there, andfor me it was extensions.
And, as cheesy as that sounds,unless you are a woman that you
have felt a little bit more likeyou wanted to hide or a little
bit more nervous to put yourselfout there.
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You need to try hair extensionsand if you have them for the
thickness but you're stillfeeling a little bit that way,
let me tell you, try a longerlength, like, just have it be
your little security blanket forjust a moment, so that your
true beauty from the inside cancome out on the outside.
Keep going and then you canstay consistent and then,
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honestly, then either you cankeep your extensions in forever
or you don't even have to havethem, but just know that there
are solutions.
Have them, but just know thatthere are solutions.
And, to be quite frank, thesolution is definitely getting
your extensions done at my salon, like I try very hard to stay
more educational and humble andbut I just have to say a few
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things about hair extensions andwho to choose as an artist,
just like a personal trainer.
I would never choose a personaltrainer to teach me how to lift
weights.
If they were obese, I neverwould.
So when you're choosing a hairextension artist, choose
somebody who, number one, hasactually invested in all the
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certifications do they take?
Like it's your hair, it can be.
It can be damaged so quicklyand I know that because I've
seen it first play, if I've hadit happen to me and I've seen it
.
So, number one, do theyactually invest in themselves?
Do they pay money?
Do they go and travel and goplaces?
Do they keep up with theircraft?
Number two, are they wearinghair extensions themselves?
They're not wearing hairextensions, then, honestly, I
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can't trust you.
You don't know how it feels,you don't know how it looks, you
just don't know.
So how could you be offering aservice like personal training
without actually being fit?
Or how can you offer a servicelike personal training without
actually have you know aboutmacros or you know you've lost
it, you have had atransformation or that you have
been in the fitness world.
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It's so easy these days to learnhair extensions and
unfortunately, it's veryoversaturated, especially my
market.
Next thing I want you to lookat is my hair extension
specialist.
In quotations do they have?
How many colors are theyputting in my hair and does it
blend?
Are they installing one color?
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Are they installing two, three,four, five?
All of those things matter.
So, just when you areresearching a stylist, just
remember you cannot put a pricetag on confidence.
You cannot put a price tag onbeauty, price tag on beauty.
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And if, especially if, you arewanting to have hair extensions
to feel more confident and tofeel more beautiful, the worst
thing in the world that canhappen is you actually now
playing small because your hairextensions don't match, or your
hair extensions don't feel goodand they're giving you a
headache, or your hairextensions are too heavy, or
your hair extensions don't blendbecause it's not matched.
So really take those thingsinto consideration when you are
choosing a stylist.
At my salon, each individualstylist has invested over
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$15,000 minimum inside of justtheir hair extension education.
And it's not just the money,it's just what they do each week
.
It's how we live, it's how webreathe, because it's so much
more about just your life thanjust your hair.
So hair extensions did.
Hair extensions helped me loseweight.
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Hair extensions helped me, myinner insides and my internal
beauty be able to show more onthe outside, and because of that
, I'm able to speak more, I'mable to be able to be a leader,
I'm able to make a difference.
So if you're somebody and youare struggling and you're maybe
feeling a little less confident,maybe feeling a little bit
insecure, just know it's not abad thing.
It's not a bad thing how wewere raised, how we've grown up
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and the world that we live in.
It is totally normal.
You can find me at Allie ScottHair Studio on Instagram,
facebook, tiktok, all the things.
Alliescotthairstudiocom is mywebsite, contact me.
You can even find me personallyon Instagram at Hair Artist
Allie, and let's help yourinside match your outside.
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That's all for tonight, youguys.
I will see you next week foranother episode of Ash After
Dark and in the meantime, again,don't forget, come and follow
me on my social platforms.
At Hair Artist Alley, I'm onthere constantly, every single
day, and I'm just here.
My purpose there is to just beauthentic and vulnerable and
tell you how it is and alsoeducate you in the process.
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Good night, and I will see youguys next week.
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