Hi, I'm Shannel :)
If you've followed me on Instagram, you probably already know how deeply I care about understanding what's actually happening in a haircut.Ā
That didn't come from confidence.
It came from confusion.
I Graduated Not Knowing How to Cut Hair
I had to rely on memorizing haircuts from:
- hands-on classes
- haircut demonstrations
- hair shows
- haircutting videos etc
It was exhausting.
I Was Always Nervous Behind The Chair
My biggest fear was that a client would ask me for a haircut I hadn't memorized yet.
And honestly, that happened a lot.
I forgot steps.
I panicked.
I leaned hard on texturizing just get by and hoped for the best.
I Thought Theory Would Fix It
When I found theory classes, I thought I finally found the answer.
But instead, I started memorizing:
- angles
- terms
- definitions
- rules
- catchy phrases
It was different information.
It was the same problem.
What Changed Everything
What made a difference wasn't more practice or more theory.
It was when I stopped taking people's word for things.
I started slowing down.
Processing what I was seeing.
Questioning. Wondering. Looking.
That's when the theory started to transfer to my hands.
Learning to Trust What I Could See
Along the way, I realized some of what I learned wasn't even right.
No wonder they neverĀ made sense.
A lot of it sounded smart and technical, so I assumed it must be true. I assumed other people understood something I didn't. I put them on a pedestal and quietly shut my own thinking off.
I told myself they were smarter.
I told myself I just didn't get it.
What changed things wasn't finding better information.
It was respecting my own mind enough to use it.
I started slowing down.
Thinking. Questioning. Wondering.
I stopped taking people's word for things and started trusting what I could actually see.
The shift wasn't about proving anyone wrong.
It was about respecting myself enough to think for myself.
