THE DAISUKE WAY
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.
If a stylist says,
“I’ve been doing hair for 15 years”
most clients will probably think,
“Wow, this person must be really experienced. I can trust them.”
And honestly, that makes sense.
Hairdressing is a craft.
So normally, more years should mean more skill.
But after working in this industry for a long time, I don’t think it’s always true.
Someone can work for 10 years and still do almost the same thing every day.
Same basic cuts. Same techniques. Same easy work. No one correcting them. No one pushing them. No real reason to change.
Then 10 years can become almost like repeating the same year 10 times.
But imagine someone else.
They finish hair school and spend only one or two years working in a strong salon.
They have a good mentor.
Someone is watching them.
If they go a little bit in the wrong direction, someone corrects them.
Every day they get difficult hair.
Different textures. Different head shapes. New trends. Cuts they have never done before.
They make mistakes. They fix them. They try again.
Every day is a challenge.
That one year can sometimes give them more real experience than someone else gets in 10 years.
It reminds me of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber in Dragon Ball.
From the outside, it’s only one year.
But inside, the amount of learning is completely different.
Recently I’ve been thinking about this even more because I watch my stylists every day.
They are still young.
On paper, some of them have much less experience than stylists who have been working for 5, 10 or even 15 years.
But when I actually watch them cut hair, I can already see a big difference.
Not because they are special.
It’s because of what they see every day.
They see difficult hair every day.
They see modern shapes every day.
They have to think about balance every day.
They get pushed out of their comfort zone all the time.
And when something is slightly wrong, someone is there to say,
“No, look again.” “Check this balance.” “Why did you cut it like that?” “Try it this way.”
When you work in that kind of place every day, your level starts to change very fast.
The funny thing is, after a while, that level starts to feel normal inside the salon.
You don’t even notice it anymore.
Then you look outside and realize,
Actually, this is not normal.
So now, when someone tells me,
“I have 10 years of experience”
I don’t really care about the number first.
I want to know what happened inside those 10 years.
Who taught you? Who corrected you? What kind of hair did you work on? Did you keep doing the same thing? Or were you still learning? Were you still making mistakes? Were you still challenging yourself?
Of course, years of experience matter.
But years alone don’t make someone better.
What matters is what you did with those years.
That’s what I believe.
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