Not Just About Hair, its an Experience featuring DeAnna from Blondies Beauty Salon - PINNED Podcast: Episode 40 - PINNED Podcast

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Today I have a South Floridalocal business so I'm so excited
to have her if you follow her onInstagram it's blonde these
beauties salon on Instagram, herwebsite is blondies Beauty
salon.com she has a Pinterest aYouTube, so make sure to
subscribe if you're watching uson YouTube. Might as well hit
her link. I'll have everythingdown below. The owner of

(01:09):
blondies beauty salon is de AnnaKhan. How are you? I'm doing
great. How you doing today,girl? I'm so good to see you.
Good to see you. I'm so happy tobe able to do this with you. Oh,
it's my honor. I love all thecolors. And like, I want to ask
before we get started. How didyou come up with your logo?
That's a really good question. I

DeAnna (01:32):
laughing because it's a story. So I have a really big
obsession with the 80s. I justalways have I was born in 88.
And my mom was only seven. I wasborn at 88.

That's awesome. When's your birthday?
December 5. Okay, I'm August 10.
Right. We're right there rightthere. That's really cool. So
yeah, so you already know. So mymom was only 17 years older than
me growing up. So a lot of themusic that she listened to was
80s 70s. Like a lot of 90salternative stuff like that. So
that's what I grew up on. And Ijust always had like a big
obsession with it. So theconcept began with obviously I'm

(02:09):
an 80s baby. I was born in 88.
And my mom was a big fan of the80s. She loved like the cure,
and Duran Duran and basicallyall the big 80s bands that were
popular at the time. So that'swhat I really grew up with. And
that was the whole aestheticthat I wanted to build the salon
around. Also, you know, beingfrom South Florida, the colors

(02:29):
really inspired me. So I wantedto bring all that together with
our logo. So initially, I hadone of my tattoo artists who
lives in Austin designed theblondies logo for us, which he
did a phenomenal job. And Iloved it very much. He's
actually known for his PatrickNagle style tattoos, which was
part of the brand that was thewhole like idea in my head for
the style that I wanted for theoriginal logos that we had.

(02:52):
Unfortunately, once he did theoriginal blondies design, we
kind of like clashed a littlebit on the idea of what the girl
should look like he wanted tokeep it like a very traditional
Patrick nangal style. And Iwanted like a more modern,
updated version. So we kind ofclashed a little bit on that.
And then he decided that likethe project just wasn't for him.

(03:14):
He didn't have time for it. AndI decided to find someone else.
So I actually went through toother logo designers paid.

DeAnna (03:24):
So I did pay them for their work. But unfortunately,
like I just wasn't happy withthe result. It didn't like spark
something inside of me. Like Iwas waiting for that moment
where I was just like yes, thisis it. So I found a girl on
Instagram like looking throughhashtags actually.
Actually, I think my boyfriendfound her and her name is Malibu
Barbara on Instagram. What acute name. Yeah, really cute.

(03:46):
Like her page is amazing. So Ireached out to her and she was
really interested in doing itand she was like, if you have
any like inspiration photos,because I think maybe that's
where I messed up at first Ijust kind of like gave them
direction and told them what Iwhat I wanted. But I didn't
really like I wasn't like with atattoo where you'd bring like a
picture and be like, I wantthis. So I showed her this
Madonna. Like it was like an oldpicture of Madonna. And I was

(04:08):
like I want something that sortof looks like this but I don't
necessarily want it to look likeMadonna. I just really liked the
you know, silhouette of theimage and how her hair looks and
everything like that. Well shetook it to like a whole nother
level and it just has a veryfeminine touch. You could tell
by the makeup and the hair andeverything. It was just it was
just a masterpiece. So instantlyI knew like that's exactly what

(04:29):
I wanted. I know your yourpieces 80s with a modern twist.
Yes, exactly. Exactly. So Idon't want it to be like to
Patrick Nagel because it's verylike black hair you know very
white skin and that's verytraditional. So I you know, I
love the art so grateful andinspired by it but I wanted to
take a little bit of a twist onit, especially with us being in

(04:49):
South Florida. I wanted it to bea little bit more colorful and I
wanted it to be modern. I didn'twant it to be like exactly like
his work, obviously. Well, youdid a great job because I love
it. Thank you so much.
I mean, she I got to give hercredit for that, because when I
saw it, I was just so in lovewith it. So it's, it's, it's
been great now it's everywhere.
And tell us a little bit aboutyour journey as a hairstylist,

(05:11):
or end of the salon. That's aninteresting one. I actually
started as a makeup artist. SoI've been doing makeup for about
10 years now, I originally gotan aesthetician license, and I
started working for Mac and Ihad a career with them for about
four years.
Yeah, and I did like bridal Idid production. I've done like
short films, I've donecommercial work, all that fun

(05:33):
stuff. I was always scared to gointo Mac thinking that these
people would judge me. It's sofunny that you say that, because
a lot of people felt that way.
And then I think because we kindof got a reputation as being
like, bitches, which, you know,it's unfortunate to say that
because all the girls that Iworked with, like, for the most
part were super friendly. Andlike, they were just fierce like

(05:54):
we were in all black and likeour makeup was, you know, on
point. And so I think it justpeople didn't feel like it was
like a welcomed welcoming vibe,it was more of like, you got to
come in here and you got to haveyour makeup done perfect. Or you
know that we were also known forjust doing really dramatic
makeup. So that was a thing. Andthen Unfortunately, because of
that reputation, I think Mattkind of got a little watered
down after Estee Lauder, likepurchase them. Things just

(06:16):
started to change. And then theykind of switched up the brand a
little bit. So the focus wasn'tso much on the artistry, it was
more so it was more so on, youknow, selling, huh, yeah,
pushing the product. That's whatI mainly did for like four
years. And then I decided Ididn't want to work in retail
anymore. I didn't want to workfor anybody. So I just decided
to go out on my own, I literallyquit quit with no backup plan.

(06:41):
And then like two weeks later, Igot picked up by a production
studio and I got this big gigand we like traveled around the
world. And it was just amazing.
But unfortunately, the way thatSouth Florida kind of goes or
the way that makeup kind of goesin South Florida at least is
that we are very seasonal. Solike you'll be slammed with
weddings and production work.
And like I'll get a lot ofpolitical campaigns and things

(07:02):
like that most of the year, butbetween like maybe the end of
May and the beginning ofOctober, I just got super slow.
So like every summer, I was justtaking a massive hit. And I was
just like, what am I going todo. And you know, I gave the
whole runaround of maybe likegoing back to school and like
becoming a nurse or something.
But I was like, you know, I'veinvested so much time into this,
and I love doing it. So the nextstep has to be hair. So about

(07:24):
two years ago, I went back toschool about three years ago, I
went back to school, and I gotmy hair license. And then you
know, I worked for another salonfor a little bit. And again, I
just decided like I can't workfor anybody else. So originally,
the plan was to just rent achair when the pandemic hit,
because I actually had plans tobuy an RV, but that's a whole
nother story, I was gonnaconvert it into like a mobile

(07:45):
styling salon. But when thepandemic hit that didn't work
out. So I was just gonna rent achair in a salon and I ended up
finding blondies, the place forhair and nails, which is what
you're looking at right now. Andthe owner who had been here for
30 years was looking to sell thebusiness, she had sold it to a
gentleman in Chicago, who didnot move down and had nothing to
do with it. So he was resellingit. And so I purchased it from

(08:07):
him and did a whole renovationon it and just kind of spun from
there. So we've been here sinceJune 2020.

Oh, right when the pandemic started.

DeAnna (08:16):
Yeah, I I know, I'm crazy. I opened it during the
pandemic, like it's, it's sobizarre. It's really bizarre,
but it's working out great. Sothere we are, I mean, it's been
on and off honestly, likesometimes, like the times that
you would expect to be a littlebit slower. Or the busier times
and times you'd expect to be alittle bit busier or the slower
time. So it's just been like atotal toss up. And it's it's

(08:38):
really unpredictable at thispoint. Hopefully, you know, this
will, this will all be oversoon. And we'll be able to kind
of get back to normal. I mean, Iknow events are like slowly
starting to happen. But they'rethey're pretty small right now.
So nothing, nothing too big isgoing on.

I can't wait to attend an event at your
salon. I would love that. Youneed to have an 80s party though
big hair.

Unknown (09:01):
Honestly, I

DeAnna (09:02):
would I would love to do like a little grand opening. We
never really got to do that.
Because obviously I don't wantto put anybody at risk. And I
don't want to be you know, Idon't want to I just don't want
to be in that situation. So whenthe time is right, I would love
to have like close friendsfamily, like obviously women in
business that we support you.
That'd be amazing. Like I wouldI would love to have something

(09:24):
here for sure.

That would be a lot of fun. Yeah. And karaoke.

DeAnna (09:29):
Oh, that'd be great.

So well, how Who was your first customer
then? Like do you have like amemory of the first customer at
your salon? family? No,

DeAnna (09:42):
it was a family actually, the previous owner who
she had actually planned tostill work here. So she went out
of town for a few months and shewas actually going to rent the
chair for me. So because she wasretiring, she was looking to
pass off some of her clientswhile she was out of town. So I
was actually The first fewclients that I had in here were
some of her clients that I tookcare of. Most of her clients now

(10:05):
because she no longer works herefollowed her. I'm not sure where
she's at right now. But Butyeah, that was my that was my
first few clients was mostly herclients. And then after that, it
was friends and, and then it'sjust blossomed from their word
of mouth.

What I find amazing about the hairstylist
world is that, you know, ifyou're, wherever you go, like
your most loyal customers justfollow you. Yeah,

DeAnna (10:29):
I mean, some some people will say, like, I've heard one
time, like, your clients won'tfollow you, like over five miles
or something like that. But, butI find that absolutely not to be
true. I mean, we have clientsfrom that come from Miami. They
come from Boca, they come fromWest Palm, we have clients.
Yeah, we have clients from allover. So it's definitely not
true. If you find good people,you got to stick with them.

Yeah, I had a nail lady before. Unfortunately,
she passed away, I would drive45 minutes. Without traffic.
Yeah, to go to her. Look, if

DeAnna (11:02):
you find someone good, you gotta stick with them. It's
hard to find good people. It is.
And it's not just about youknow, it's not just about the
quality of the work. It's aboutthe service that they give you
and your relationship and yourbond and the vibe. There's so
much that goes into it. You canfind a hairstylist, there's four
in our right, there's four, Ithink in our closet right now.
So you can find a hairstylistanywhere.

Yeah, it's just about finding the right
one, like you said that youconnect with and right. And when
one of the first jobs I hadafter graduating college was
working the sponsor a lot, well,mostly the salon coordinator at
the phone and blue. And it wasso interesting, because people
would come as customers at thehotel and want their hair done

(11:42):
and expect it to be just liketheir hair stylists at home. And
everyone's like, we don't knowwhat they're doing.

DeAnna (11:47):
Well, yeah, not only that, but even if you show us
like an inspiration picture, wealways say just that it's
inspiration, like, ourtechniques are gonna be
different. The toner is thecolor is everything, the light,
the color lines, everything'sgonna be different. So yes, it's
an inspiration, but you're notexactly going to walk out with
the same hair. More than likely.

What was like the coolest like client that you
had, like the cool experiencethat you had?

DeAnna (12:12):
I have so many honestly.
I think it's because it's likeword of mouth that I tend to get
like big groups of friends thatare coming to me now, which is
awesome. So like, not only do Iget to share that bond with
them, but we kind of get toshare the love with each other.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, if they come in, we kindof get to talk about the whole
group and like a friendly andfun way. So that just makes the

(12:36):
experience even better. One ofthe girls Exactly. And I love I
love that, like I get to knowtheir family and you know, I get
to know their husbands and it'sjust they become they become
your family. They really do youreally care about them and I
I'll text them to check on them.
You know, we're a Facebookfriends. So that's that's the
most important thing for me.

(12:56):
It's not just like making moneyor Shakespearian. Yeah, it's
building relationships, likethese long lasting relationships
with people and hey, if theydecide to go somewhere else for
her, that's awesome, too. Like,we'll still be friends. I'm cool
with that.

Have you ever won't? I don't know. But I used
to be a funeral director. And Iwould come across people that
wanted their hair stylists ornail tech to do their own hair
and makeup when they pass away.
Have you ever done like aservice like that? So funny that

DeAnna (13:30):
when I first started doing makeup, I used to work at
a bar and my old manager used totell me like you should do
funerals like you should do. Youshould do like funeral homes and
you'll make so much money and solike I actually like i'd scouted
out like multiple funeral homes,unfortunately, I think down in
Florida, more than likely a lotof them do it themselves. They
don't really like source thatout. I know some places up north

(13:52):
actually do like higher hair andmakeup artists who come in and
do that kind of stuff. A lot ofplaces down here really didn't
do that. But it was definitelysomething I was interested in
when I first started for sure.

Yeah, when you go to school to become an
embalmer, they teach you how todo hair and makeup for

DeAnna (14:07):
right. Yeah, most of them could do it themselves.
Exactly. I

do pay you more. They do pay you more of
your certified hairstylist andcause the cosmetologist Oh,
okay.

DeAnna (14:18):
Yeah, no, I totally would. It wouldn't even be that
for me. It's like I, I'm such aconversationalist that

you'd be talking to yourself. That color
looks so good on you. It'll befun. You know what?

DeAnna (14:37):
Exactly, yeah, you'd have to put that on the podcast,

personality.
So I have a few questions that Igot on my Instagram to ask you.

DeAnna (14:50):
Are you ready? For sure.
I love that.

How can someone express themselves with
their hair in a conservativeworkplace?

DeAnna (14:59):
Oh, I would say, I mean, that's that's been an
interesting question. I feellike workplaces are generally
speaking, getting a little bitmore liberal. As far as
hairstyles for me a big one islike natural hairstyles, I know
a lot of women like in the pasthave not even been able to wear
their natural hair. So justbeing able to do that where your

(15:20):
curls where your texturenaturally is, is an amazing
thing. I know like the curlygirl movement is, like huge
right now. So just being able tolike properly style your curls,
and you know, being able to rockthem not have to cover it with
wigs or, you know, weaves orextensions or anything like that
is a big one. For me, like I'mall about the natural hair

(15:42):
movement. And as far as like ina conservative environment, if
if you're looking for likecolor, I mean, there are certain
colors that you can sort of playwith and get away with a little
bit as far as I know like red isdefinitely one of those colors
if you go more towards like theburgundy side it looks tends to
look a little more natural, oreven if you do like a copper,
which it falls more on like theginger tones. You can get away

(16:04):
with Yeah, you can get away withsomething like that. Even
blondes. Sometimes you could dolike peekaboo hair pieces, like
I have a couple blondes thatwill come in and do like a
little bit of teal on the frontor you can hide it in the back
so that you can't see it. Thehidden rainbow thing is huge
right now. Yeah, like rose goldsare really nice. That's kind of
like a softer, you know, edgyway to play around. And then

(16:27):
like braided styles are reallycute. So I think if you could do
like any kind of like Frenchbraids or anything like that at
work that that's a good way togo to, but there's lots of
hairstyles you can play with.

On my on my resume. Purposely I put a
picture of myself because I'mnot going to change my hair
color. I love that so that theyknow what is this? You know, and
if they don't even mention it inan interview. Um, like they
didn't even look at it becausemost people gasp or something.

DeAnna (16:55):
Which is like it's 2021 like, come on. You know I get a
small town or if it's not if itdoesn't look professionally done
like that would be the one thinglike if it looks like an at home
job I could see where people maybe like okay, you know if it was
a professional job and you spentgood money to do it like maybe
it looks cleaner and moreintricate you know, you could

(17:15):
get away with it. But it justdepends on who your bosses to
like if you work with me like Iplease.

rave all over.
Yeah. On tik tok. I saw a video.
I don't know if you've seen it.
It's a girl made a song. And itYes, I love it because it goes
like having colored hair doesn'tmake you unprofessional. I was
like, yeah.

DeAnna (17:39):
Hard to it. Yes, I saw most of my five and reposted
that one. And most of my myfriends did too. Because and
that was such a powerful video.
I'm sure she blew up with that.
Because it really it really issilly. Like it's the same thing
I feel about being tattooed likeI am because I have a body full
of tattoos, it doesn't make meany less smart or any less able
or any less competent, you know,to do my job. So it should be

(18:01):
the same way with hair color, orbody shape, or body shape or any
of those things. I feel likewomen you know, like the dumb
blonde thing, like, you know,it's it's so we have to always,
I feel like as women we alwayspick ourselves apart and it's
because society has told us toand it's it's time to end that
like we're allowed to dowhatever the hell we want.

I agree 100% one time I got hired at a job
and they said that they hired methey that they usually don't. In
fact, and I should have knownbetter, but it was a while ago.
They were like oh, we usuallydon't hire chubby people, but
you're pretty. So wait,

DeAnna (18:35):
they said that to you what job. It was a blast.

It was actually at the phone and blue
because they're all aboutappearance. And since I was
working at the spa and salon,that even after I one employee
of the hotel that I was employedmember of the whole hotel, they
gave me a gym membership forprivate lessons. And when
somebody forces you to dosomething, you just don't want
to lose weight.

Unknown (19:00):
Listen,

DeAnna (19:01):
I've only been there one time, and I had a horrible
experience there so screw that.

Unknown (19:08):
And I was at three years and not

DeAnna (19:11):
only that it's Miami like that's the home of the
curvy girl like what are youeven saying?

Yeah, and I got in trouble there for a
couple of things they didn'tlike um they didn't like bright
colors on the nails. And I wasthe only one at the time it
wasn't like a big thing. When Ihad it the stiletto nails it was
just starting out so theythought I was crazy. When I
interviewed for the job I hadbrunette well. I had brunette

(19:37):
hair on the top and blonde inthe bottom. It didn't look crazy
at all I was professionallydone. But after a week working
there they told me I had to dyeit because it was too crazy. I
was like you have the blondegirls with like dark in the
bottom I just have it reversedand they thought it was like
wild. So then I went black wokemy natural hair is black and I

(19:59):
Did the very bank then? I waslike, This isn't? I mean, I'm
the best employee here. I don'tknow.

DeAnna (20:06):
That's unfortunate. I'm sorry. You had to go through
that. Like, I can laugh and jokeabout it. But honestly, that
stuff like, that upsets mebecause I feel like, like who
are who are you to tell peoplelike what to look like or what
to dress like I get it if it'syour brand, and you want people
to look a certain way. But whenyou start putting putting people
down or picking them apart likethat, you got to realize like,
it's just not it's just not agood look.

Yeah, the whole gym thing. It wasn't like,
an attack upfront, but I noticedbecause I'm like, nobody else
got like a gym membership,

DeAnna (20:36):
right? Yeah, that's like, That's not nice.

That's when I realized what was happening. I
was like, I am losing weightjust because you're making me

DeAnna (20:43):
right out of spite.

And then they stopped paying it. And then I
felt bad. But these privatetrainers are so expensive, even
with the employee discount thatI was like I did one week and
then I was like, broke, my wholecheck is going back to this
hotel.

DeAnna (20:57):
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense they're trying to
play.

So the next question, why is dyeing your
hair with a professional betterthan doing it at home?
Those brand Mondo videos is abrand mondo,

Unknown (21:17):
yeah.

DeAnna (21:18):
Yeah, the call where he does like the reactions of the
home. Listen, we have a licensefor a reason. You need to know
what you're doing, whatchemicals you're working with
how to work with them. There's alot of times that I see people
online in forums and they try todo these things. And they have
no idea what they're doing. Andthey end up frying their hair

(21:39):
off or, you know, they end updoing their own at home
haircuts. And at the at the endof the day, you're probably
going to need a professional tofix it, which is going to end up
costing you more money than justgoing into the salon to begin
with. So that's my answer forthat. Don't do it. Don't do it
unless it was a professional.

What is on a plaque?

DeAnna (22:00):
Oh, that's an awesome question. So old wax olaplex is
a bond. It's a bond protector,it actually helps to raise the
bond builder as well, itactually helps to rebuild the
bonds in your hair, I have alittle post about it on the
Instagram, if you guys want togo check that out as well.
blondies beauty salon, it willgive you like all the details on
it. But it really helps torebuild the bonds in your hair.
And there's multiple steps thatcome with it. So like as of now

(22:23):
they have olaplex zero through Ithink like six or something
seven Yeah, there's a shampooconditioner, there's actually
olaplex that we use there. Sothe original one is the one that
we use, it goes in the product.
So we use it in lightner we useit in color, toner gloss, all
that stuff, you can use it ineverything. And then the number
two would be the treatment thatwe use in the salon after we
color your hair. So it'sbasically like a hair mask to

(22:45):
repair all those bonds that wejust broke down with the color
which is really important to dobecause when you lighten you're
you're taking all those bondsout of your hair and you want to
make sure that you're properlyrebuilding them. We always
recommend olaplex number threewhich is like the at home
version of number two, which isbasically when you just like
shampoo your hair you towel dryit real well and then you add
the olaplex into your hairreally liberally you comb it

(23:07):
through you leave it in for likemaybe 20 minutes you could
definitely do it longer go aboutyour day a little bit and I let
mine sit in for a few hours andthen rinse it out with cool
water. So what basically what itdoes it helps to protect the
hair prevents any further damageand helps to rebuild the bonds.

Good I've never actually had all the
plaques on when I felt likequestions like I have to ask
because I don't even

DeAnna (23:31):
Yeah, I highly recommend it I I sort of make it mandatory
for my clients that you knowbecause you're spending all this
money on your hair you want tomaintain it at home we usually
say like and every artist saysit differently but some artists
will say like 50% is what we dois what we do in the salon and
50% is what you do at home or itcould be like a higher ratio
just depending on who you talkto but at home care for color is

(23:55):
extremely important especiallyif you're doing lightning
services extremely important.

It's like It's like going to the gym you could
go to the gym but if you don'tfollow it up at home

DeAnna (24:04):
well if you're eating pizza after yeah gym, you know
what I'm saying? It's it kind ofnegates it so it's like go it's
like you know we do this youknow $500 service and then you
go home and you use resume youknow like it's not you don't
want to do that it's not it'snot a professional product and
and we wouldn't recommend it. Somake sure that if you're if
you're getting good hair carefrom your hair care professional

(24:25):
that you want to maintain thatat home with your shampoo,
conditioner or your maskseverything.

That was the next question tips on hair care
between appointments,

DeAnna (24:34):
tips on hair care in between appointments, I have a I
have a lot of these my boyfriendwould laugh at me because he
calls me like the CEO of softwater filters.

I've never tried one but I've seen a lot of
people rave about them.

DeAnna (24:48):
So soft water filter is one that they sell them on
Amazon for like 30 bucks. Okay,you can attach it right to your
showerhead. If you have likeharsh minerals in your water
like in Florida we have terriblewater So it tends to strip your
hair, it also tends to like itscauses build up, and it could
change your hair color, like Ican make it discolored, I can

(25:10):
make it like green or I can makeit yellow, just depending on
what your hair color is. Sothere's all kinds of reasons
why, like, we'll promote it, butmainly, it just it really, it's
soft water, like you cangenuinely feel it on your hair
and your skin, it makes a hugedifference. So that's number
one. Number two would be, Ialways advise using cool water
for your shampoos andconditioners. Mainly because

(25:31):
when you're using hot water,like for your yellow hair, it
will strip the color right outvery quickly. The other thing I
recommend is not to shampoo toooften. So if you find that you
have like fine hair that tendsto get a little oily, dry
shampoo is going to be your bestfriend. I know some people don't
really like dry shampoo, but itmight be because they're not
necessarily using it right youdon't just like spray it and go

(25:52):
most of the time, you actuallyhave to rub it into your scalp
with your fingers. And then goahead and kind of brown brush
your hair with a blow dryer, youwant to like disperse and make
sure that you really get thatproduct in there. So that's
another one too. I shampoo. Iusually recommend shampooing no
more than twice a week, ifpossible. It just depends on
your hair texture. Some peoplethough shampoo every day. I

(26:13):
mean, you know you have toyou're not really a good
candidate for vivid colors, I'lltell you that. You know what I
mean? You need to you got torethink your your process at
home.

Yeah, when people ask me how much I
shampoo, I'm like, I could go, Icould go we can have.

DeAnna (26:28):
But it's also like, I'm the same as you and like, you
know, like I'm half Latino. Somy natural hair texture, I could
I could go a little longer. Somepeople like with a European
background, they need to washtheir hair a lot more often. You
know, it just it just depends.
But if you're going to have highmaintenance hair color, you want
to make sure that you have highmaintenance home care. The other
thing would be like your shampooand conditioner, you want to

(26:49):
make sure you're using somethingcolor safe, that you're not
using something that's going tostrip your hair. There is
clarifying shampoos, if you feellike you need to clarify and get
all that gunk out I believecamera makes one that's color
safe. So it won't actually stripyour hair color, but it would
give you a good clarify. Sothat's what I recommend.

And how Okay, this is my question. I love when
people have multiple haircolors. But how do they watch
it? Do you have to watch aseparate or?

DeAnna (27:16):
No, you don't have to watch it separate. But you have
to watch it and cool water thecolors could possibly transfer.
They actually make these colorcare shampoos now and if
depending on who you're styluseswe can actually like put
together a little bit of like athome, like custom conditioner
like to maintain your color. Iflike you were to come in and you
had just one hair color. Wecould do something like that. If
you have multiple hair colors,you just have to shampoo cool

(27:38):
water and color safe shampoo.
Oh, for sure. Okay,

maybe that's a long time ago, I had half red
and half black. But it onlylasted a week because I washed
my hair and then turned allblack.

DeAnna (27:50):
Oh yeah, if you shampoo with hot water, especially at
all, it'll tend to run together.

I know what I did wrong. And with your first
advice with the water, I'mshowerhead. Now I know after a
while why when I do a greenscreen my hair says see through
it because I guess it's pickingup some green because my water.

DeAnna (28:09):
It could be that or the Honestly, it could just be the
lighting. It could be yourlighting. Yeah, it could be that
too. So there's there's allkinds of factors in it. But I
think that those are like themain at home cares that I really
recommend.

What is the best way to explain to a stylist
of what you want

DeAnna (28:30):
a photo. Because a lot of times, people and this is the
same thing with makeup, peoplehear a word like valios, but
they don't really know what itmeans. So what it means to you
or what it means to me might bedifferent. So sometimes the
terminology can get confusing ora color like a lot of people see
color differently. So what mightbe green to you might be blue to

(28:50):
me. So the best way that I cansay it is show your SAT was the
picture. Um, tell them whatyou'd like and what you don't
like about the photo?

And then what do you have you ever had those
clients that would bring a photoand they have like box dyed
black hair and they want blondeall the time

DeAnna (29:10):
happens a lot happens all the time, I want more than
more than just box dyed black,it's always like, it's always
just like something completelyopposite on the end of the
spectrum. So you have to kind ofexplain to them it's either
gonna be a process or we coulddo it all in one day. But you
might be here for the whole day.
Like sometimes they're here 1012hours just depending on the
project. So as long as they'reprepared for that, it's cool,
but you know, just know thatthat's that's a possibility.

(29:32):
Otherwise, you could do itslowly and in steps but the
generation that we're living inright now doesn't want anything
slow. They want it right now so

I mean videos are getting shorter and shorter.

DeAnna (29:43):
I know I know it's it's it gives me a headache sometimes
because I think because we're inthe same age group like I'm just
not of the tick tock generationlike I haven't made that
transition yet. So for me like Ilove to enjoy like a long
podcast, sit down and You know,watch one and listen to somebody
or read a book or listen to anaudio book or something like

(30:04):
that like that. Those are thingsI'd like to do other than just
like watch 10 second videos.
It's I feel like it gives memore add.

Oh, you would love I've been trying out this
new app a clubhouse? Yes, I'veheard of it. I like it. I mean,
I've learned a lot aboutpodcasting and connected to
other podcasters and about audioand lights. And I don't know,
I'm not

DeAnna (30:25):
a cool kid. I have to get an invite. Right.

I'll give you an invite.

Unknown (30:28):
I got right.

I'm doing Casey. I got seven invites.

DeAnna (30:33):
That's been perfect. I would love that. I would love to
check it out. Because I keephearing about I hear it's good
for education. Yeah, I'm allabout that.

I've learned a lot. And then they also have
like weird ones. They even had alot of clubhouse rooms like
after the Megan Markel interviewand random chats. So it's fun.
That's awesome.

DeAnna (30:51):
I wanted to add something to what I said
earlier, when you're asked aboutwhen you asked about the photo,
or when you asked about like,how do I best convey, you know,
what a client wants. The otherthing I want to add to that is
like a really thoroughconsultation. I like to do that
prior to us actually startingthe service, because, you know,
we want to make sure that we'reon the same page with her goals,
I don't want to tell them thatthey can go Platinum on one

(31:13):
session, if they're box dyedblack, we have to be realistic
with what we could do. So I justwanted to add that in there.

Good to know.
Oh, I know a lot of girls in thevintage community, they always
want to get a haircut called themini haircut. Oh, yeah. And some
hair stuff. They have problems.
Um, like, just take a picture ofit. I'm sure they know how to
read the way to cut.

DeAnna (31:34):
Right? Exactly. Yeah, it's all about angles and
shapes, like, as long as you aslong as you can kind of see that
and follow a guide like you'regood.

Yeah. What, how do you wait, before I asked
him this question, what do youdo if a customer doesn't like
the at the end of their haircolor? They don't like it has
that ever happened? Or how doyou deal with that?

DeAnna (31:55):
Um, I mean, ideally, I would want them to tell me when
they're here. So what I usuallydo is like, I'll blow dry a
piece and they tell me if theylike it. And if they don't like
it, then then I just say like,what do we need to do to get you
to like it. So we're all on thesame page. And then we can make
adjustments there. The problemis if they leave and it's been
like weeks, and they try to say,you know, I don't like it, then

(32:18):
you know, we might have a littlebit of a communication issue,
but as long as it's in with atimely manner, manner, like even
a week, honestly, if theymessaged me, and they're like,
Hey, can we correct this? Ormaybe alter this, then I'm
totally open to doing that

type of return policy. Yeah, I

DeAnna (32:34):
mean, but it's not going to be like a month later and I
don't Okay, come in, you know,cuz then you need then you need
a new service, you have to payfor a new service. So I'm
flexible. I'm very you know, I'mvery open. You know, I'm very
caring about my clients. Idefinitely do not want anyone
leaving here hating their hair.
That's not what I want at all.
So I always tell my clientslike, this is our first date.
You know, we're just getting toknow each other. So tell me

(32:55):
exactly what you want and whatyou don't want. And I'm okay
like I can take the honesty.

That's good.

DeAnna (33:01):
Yeah, for sure.

What is the best products to use for at home
haircare? shampoo, shampoo,conditioner, what would be your
go to recommendation?

DeAnna (33:13):
Well, lately, my new favorite has been actually what
we have in the salon here, whichis igk hair. I absolutely love
their products like thepackaging is adorable.

Does it only for professionals or Can anybody

DeAnna (33:25):
know you could go online and buy it. We're actually we
just got an affiliate code. Sowe're gonna put that up on the
Instagram soon. So you'll beable to shop with a discount,
which is awesome. Using ourdiscount code. And there the
other products are amazing. Ibelieve they're based out of
Miami. I know they have a salonhere they have one. Yeah, they
have one in New York. Butthey're really good to us. Like
they send us new products whenthey get it and their products

(33:47):
smell delicious. A lot of themare coconut based. They're
really good for all hair types.
Their styling products arefantastic. Like they have this
one spray called like the beachclub texture spray and it gets
like this beautiful shine. Sothe hair I'm absolutely obsessed
with it like anyone that I putit on, like buys it because it's
just it's like immediately yousee like your hair gets super
shiny. It's just and it's notlike crunchy. It's I mean, soft

(34:08):
and beautiful. Yeah, I love it.
And the shampoo and conditioner.
They have a few different kinds.
The one I really like is the badand boujee we use that here.

It's really easy.

DeAnna (34:20):
If you check out their packaging, you'll fall in love
because it's very Miami like itfits with our brand very well.
So that was another reason Ilove to bring them in. And yeah,
so the shampoo and conditioner.
It's very like lathering andhydrating, which I like some
shampoos can be like drying. Idon't like that. And I love a
good lather. Like for my hairespecially.

Especially for me. I'm only going to clean it
every week and a half, right?

DeAnna (34:46):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.

How to keep your natural gray hair looking
good. Do you have any tips?

DeAnna (34:53):
Purple shampoos and awesome one, for sure. So that
way you don't get it likeyellow. You know, it does It
doesn't go yellow. And then youcould do all kinds of fun stuff
with gray hair. Like I haveclients that'll do like lavender
or pink. Like little Pete, youcould do like a piece or you
could do the whole thing.
There's all kinds of ways thatyou can wear gray, everyone I've
been noticing the gray trend isreally in right now where

(35:16):
everybody's kind of switchingover to their natural gray hair.
And I love it.

The same girl that texted me that question,
she was saying that you have touse it, she wanted to know if
there was like a differentheating, heating setting when
you do gray hair, because shesaw videos of people like
curling their hair and likefrying it.

DeAnna (35:37):
You do want to I mean, it depends on your hair texture.
Ultimately, normally with grayhair, it tends to be a little
more dry. Because you know, asyou get older, that just tends
to happen. So you want toprobably start on like a low
setting. And then if you realizelike, you know that it's not
really doing what you need it todo, then you can bump it up a
little bit, but I wouldn'trecommend putting it out like
400 You know, you're you'redefinitely going to discover

(35:59):
your hair and you're probablygoing to fry it. I'm

going to tell her to go for a consultation.

DeAnna (36:03):
Yeah, for sure. For sure. She can even like just
text me questions if she wantsthem. I'm always open to help
people.

And the last question, which I was very
interested, that's how I left itlast is what is the normal way
of tipping a hairstylist likehow does the tipping system like
what is recommended? You know,it's always like that awkward
question to ask, but you know,when you think about is like, I
don't know how much to tip?
Well,

DeAnna (36:29):
it's the same way I look at it. Like I worked in a
restaurant industry for a whileand I kind of look at it the
same way like obviously, like agood tip. Or like a pretty good
tip is usually like 20% justlike it would be at a
restaurant. But that's totallyto the clients discretion. I
mean, we don't tell people whatto tip obviously, like cash tips
are usually best. Or we do likeapps we take square like we take

(36:52):
any any form of payment butusually like obviously cash is
king. But it's totally up toyour discretion. I mean, we we
love tips and we accept them.

I was curious, I was like I don't know there's
a specific when I saw thatquestion. I was like I'm gonna
ask that. No, no, it's

DeAnna (37:07):
it's totally up to you.
I tend to be an over tipper. ButI think that's because like
mainly, my whole life. I'vealways worked in like a tipping
industry. So I tend to just likegravitate more towards like the
over tipping side. But it justdepends. Everybody's different.

Yeah, when I first started my boyfriend, well
not like this putting him onblast. But when I first started
dating him, I would notice thathe was not tipping well, and I
was like, if you're taking meout, you gotta tip well, make
sure so now every time we go toa restaurant, he's always asking
me.

Unknown (37:39):
I love that

DeAnna (37:40):
I used to go I used to go behind my grandma, who I hope
he doesn't hear that. I think Iused to go behind my
grandfather's back and tip afterhim because he was so cheap.
He'd be like, Oh, 15% I'm like,yeah, and the 90s 15% 15%
anymore. Like I wouldn't even10 15% for bad service.

Courtesy because every you know, I don't
know, we get it. And

DeAnna (38:05):
I Yeah, exactly. That's how I feel. I feel like I get
it. Like someone might be havinga bad day or like maybe the
kitchen super busy. Or, youknow, maybe I mean, I'm
acquainting this to a restaurantnot here because obviously with
hair, it's super personal. Likeif the person is attentive and
they're caring and you know, ifit's not just like, like a hair
factory where they're justtrying to get you in and out
then like I can get maybe liketipping a little bit less. But

(38:28):
like, at blondies we're givingyou like the full attention all
the time. Like we're not, we'renot straying from you. So you
know, tips are very appreciated.

When I worked at the Fontainebleau It was a
factory It was like Yeah, forlike a New Year's Eve. That was
like the busiest week of theyear, they would close off the
bathrooms to stick tohairstylist in the bathroom and
then the break room they'd clearit all out and put wore to
hairstylist and I'm like,they're really trying to
monopolize, you know take over

DeAnna (38:59):
listen clients notice that stuff you don't think a
client is gonna notice his youknow, if you double book and you
have somebody else in your chairand they're getting attention
and you're sitting there waitingand processing like ready
waiting to be rinsed out. It'snot a good feeling like I've
been in that situation before asa client. And I don't know, you
know, it's just it's not a goodfeeling. I want to always give

(39:19):
my clients my full attention. Ibarely even I like even when my
phone rings I like might checkit really quick just to make
sure it's not an emergency but Idon't like really send texts or
anything like that usuallyunless they're processing and I
have a moment to sit down, eveneating. You know, we most hair
stylists they will eat the wholeday because we're so focused on
your hair, so be good to us,please.

This definitely does not sound like a
Hialeah Cuban hair salon growingup I would see the hairstylist
on the phone eating cafecitocroqueta all over the place.

DeAnna (39:48):
That makes sense. That makes sense. It makes it makes
sense, but it just depends onwhat your vibe is like. Yeah, I
want people to like I for me, Iwas changed the name to Bonnie's
beauty salon from blonde is aplace for hair and nails because
I love the old school beautyshop mentality of like, this is
the place for you to come andrelax. This isn't you don't have
your kids, you don't have yourhusband, you don't have work or

(40:10):
maybe you have to work but likeyou could sit on your laptop and
work, whatever. But it'ssupposed to be your experience
your time. Like I don't want togo get my nails done, and I'm
sitting there like being bouncedaround or, you know, not being
paid attention to that wouldtake away from the whole
experience for me, and Iwouldn't want to go back. So I
don't know, I just try to thinkabout how other people are
feeling. I guess that's anempath. That's the empath. And

that's all the questions. I have you have any
questions for me? Or?

DeAnna (40:39):
I mean, I have tons of questions for you. Honestly, I
would love to know, I love yourwhole everything. So I would
love to know, I would love toknow how you got started in
this. Like, what? What was thebeginning of Jennifer doing pin
up?

Oh, pin up in a quick synopsis. I will say I
started when I was at college. Iwas always in a suit because I
was in student government. Andthen I got tired of it and the
style. And I just wanted toexpress myself and I felt like I
wasn't really flattering inthese suits. Then I just really
picked up a circle skirt andtucking it in. That was like a

(41:13):
big change for me. And I alwaysloved the rockabilly car scene.
Yeah, just like slowly startedinto like dressing up and
feeling more confident. And itjust like snowballed into who I
am today.

DeAnna (41:27):
That's awesome. I

Unknown (41:28):
love that.

Do you think?
Oh, go ahead. Sorry.

Unknown (41:31):
Go. Go Go ahead. Um,

DeAnna (41:35):
but you're from Miami, right? Like born and raised.
Yeah. I mean, do you? Do youever see yourself like living
anywhere else? Or do you thinklike, this is this is where you
are. This is

home. This is I love it here. I haven't
traveled a lot. But everywhere Igo, I like it. But I don't feel
like it's home. To here. There'sso much versatility, diversity.
Um, I just love it. Becausethere's always something to do.
I'm the I'm not a big beachperson. But I went to the beach

(42:04):
and hanging out with people.

DeAnna (42:06):
It's like the best people watching your beach photo
was my favorite, by the way withthe outfit that you made. That's
when say you're so talenteddude. Like I adore your whole
aesthetic and everything. I'mjust glad we got to connect. And
I'm really excited to likeactually get to come to your
studio and meet you for real forreal.

Yes. And that outfit it was cuz every year for
every time three or five daycomes. I'm always sad that I
didn't take a photo or likewrite nice, especially. So this
year, I finally realized oh mygod 305 is in a week. So I had a
pattern for that bathing suitfor a long time. And then, um,
the embroider machine that I useare actually going to sell it. I

(42:45):
borrow it from my boss. So I waslike, I need to make something
so I can have something forever.
I made it. I made it. I told myboyfriend after work one day to
drive me to the beach. And wehad to race before the sun goes
down and I forgot it was springbreak and people

DeAnna (43:01):
write everything crazy right now. Right? Have you ever
done the Vegas like pinup? Iknow. They do like the pinup
convention out there and allthat stuff. Have you ever done
that?

No. One day I will. I've gone to Viva east.
They have a little East versionof it. And actually one Miss
Viva east.

DeAnna (43:20):
Awesome. I love

that. And it's a whole different vibe than
South Florida. That's why Istarted the meetup groups
because there's nothing likethose rockabilly weekenders down
here. The vibe is totallydifferent. So with the events
that I put on and host I reallytry to bring that that scene
that I've experienced in otherplaces to South Florida because
it's it's missing. But it's beengrowing very well.

DeAnna (43:44):
I was gonna ask you, the year that I moved down here
because I moved down here fromTampa seven years ago, I had a
booth at the pinup conventionand they only did it once. Did
you go to that?

No, I was at college at that time.

DeAnna (43:58):
Oh, that's so funny.
Yeah, I

remember that.
Like I was like they I thinkthey only did it once and I was
like wait again. But now we havethis rockabilly weekender it
well, one day. It's gonna be aweekend in 2022 on the West
Coast at the Hard Rock and Ihost their pinup contest there.
It's a car show and a fun event.
I love car shows. That's why Ibought a house with a garage for

(44:22):
my hot rod that I don't have yetbut it's gonna happen.

DeAnna (44:25):
I absolutely love what you just said so much. Talk
about manifesting dude. That'sso cool.

I worked really hard for this. I'm one of
my things that I'm proud of ismy house. I bought it when I was
25 on my own. And I made sure Ihad a garage and Yeah.

DeAnna (44:43):
Do you get like, maybe this is a weird question to ask.
But like do you get a lot oflove in the community like in
the pinup culture for like yourlook and your style and
everything like that becauseyou're so confident and you're
so like talented in so manydifferent ways and so versatile
and just like with your bodytoo. And everything I know a lot
of like the pinup girls tend tobe like really small or whatever

(45:04):
like that. So do you get like alot of hate from girls or do you
tend that? Do you find that theytend to like really love you and
embrace you?

I would say 98% of it is a lot of love. I've
felt like I've motivated a lotof plus size girls. Viva East
for example, the first year Iwas there two girls in separate
accounts came up to me and saidthey follow me online and they
love the confidence I had forbeing a plus size girl wearing
colorful dresses being very outthere and so that really moves

(45:34):
me and then those two percentsyou know, it's just, it's just I
don't really listen to them ordon't involve them in my life.
Good, good.

DeAnna (45:41):
I love that. I love that I work with a photographer down
in Miami. She does good boireand she's very body positive and
she shoots all kinds of shapes,sizes, colors, everything and I
i love that like I just love Ilove what social media is doing
for women right now. Like Ireally do. I feel like women are
like more than ever reallycoming together and that makes
me feel good.

I Deanna thank you so much for being on my
podcast, it means so much to getto know you more. I can't and
sorry if you're watching onYouTube, if there's a bug flying
around. If you're watching onYouTube, make sure to like and
subscribe the video. But Deannathank you so much for being on
the podcast. Thank

DeAnna (46:21):
you for having me.

Next week, I'm gonna have a Sarah again. She
was a guest a few episodes agoand we're gonna talk about
pinups and kinks in thecommunity. So it's gonna get a
little a little, you know, adultish.

Unknown (46:37):
Oh, I got a tune in for that.

Yes. So, see you all next week. And I hope
you guys stay safe. Wear yourmask, get the vaccine, and I'll
see you on next Wednesday. Byebye.

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