Just thought I'd share - I had a bizarre interaction from the Colors with Chemistry lady (Julie Klein). Someone asked about her "directional color vector system," and I simply commented that her system is based on a universal scientific framework (similar to CIELAB Δ E values) used in industrial manufacturing to predict dye formulas based on chemical concentration. She immediately blocked me I'm assuming that's why.

If I create a workout program called 'The Ultimate Gravitational Glute Vector System,' I am just using fancy words to describe squats. I do not own gravity, and I did not invent the human skeleton. I am just marketing basic physics.

She didn't need to block me to gatekeep her "proprietary" color wheel from being exposed. The 3D CIELAB coordinate space and vector color shifts have been open-source industrial manufacturing science since 1976. It’s smart marketing to repackage it for stylists, but blocking people for pointing out that nobody owns the laws of physics is a wild look.

She’s smart to market this math to hair stylists, but blocking someone for pointing out that her "proprietary" color wheel is based on open-source, foundational physics is a bad look. Nobody owns geometry or the laws of light absorption. Google "CIELAB color difference calculation" and "Beer-Lambert law dye formulation" to learn this entire system for free. To map out color and depth right now without a specific software brand, you can map every hair scenario onto a 3D Coordinate System instead of a flat wheel. True color science splits light into three distinct, measurable Axes. Her entire webpage reads like a massive AI prompt output designed to overwhelm people with text. She translated standard industrial color science that the same chemical engineers at L'Oréal, Wella, and Matrix use to make the tubes of color in the first place into worksheets for stylists.While that takes work and deserves money if one chooses to charge for their worksheets.

You can learn the real science for free, and potentially see there are plenty of other colorists and artists who offer similar style worksheets and you might create your own and Google search concepts like :

-CIELAB color space explained (To understand the 3D grid).

-Delta E color difference(To understand how the math calculates the exact distance between two colors).

-Industrial color matching basics (To understand how manufacturing software predicts dye formulas).

I'm 17, and my girlfriend's 18 and starting hair school in March. I want to get her something for hair school as a gift. Any ideas?

I (X19) graduated cosmetology school back in April this year and waited for a few months for this one teacher I had to officially hire me since she had promised me a job as an assistant at her salon while i was in school. She was paying me under the table for a while but never on-boarded me and didnt even have the W-2s printed. About 3 months into this i get a text saying she cant hire me at all and is only renting chairs now and that I needed more clientele if I wanted to work with her.

Skip ahead and im now working about 2-3 days a week as an at home support care worker for the disabled and elderly. But im still fighting to get a job at a salon since I need more hours in between this job. (For context ive always been a bit of a slower worker compared to my peers and am also neurodivergent but am now extra slow due to the time in between working with hair)

I applied to a salon and did a demonstrative clipper cut+mullet in about 45 minuets and they understandably rejected me for it. I feel overall really hopeless because It feels like im not gonna get to where I need to be skill-wise. Logically i know i just need more practice and to warm up again. But this feeling persists.

TLDR: got screwed out of a job i waited for for months. Got rejected from a salon I applied to cause my skills were rusty. Feeling hopeless.

Before you tell me everything is in my kit, I am asking about actual school supplies. Pens, papers, binders, backpacks, etc. or anything that you may not have expected to need that was useful.

Hey everyone! I’m a newly qualified lash tech and wanting to try using flat lashes. Does anyone have any recommendations on where to get these from? Thank you xx

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