You have been searching for the perfect person to give you that hot new cut you’ve had your eye on. The upscale salon downtown can do the cut, but it will be way out your price range at nearly 500 dollars (or pick whatever amount that would be too much for you!)
Kee-Kee, your best friend’s cousin, has just gotten her beautician’s license and swears she can replicate the cut. She will do it for 50 bucks and the rights to use your picture in her portfolio.
Whatcha gonna do? 
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never again will i go to help someone as they are starting. I used to have bra strap length hair and then my mom started taking me to my aunt who just got her beauty license and I went from being voted best hair in my grade (i kid you not, lol) to having shedding, broken off hair. WOMP WOMP. Tried and true results for something as important to me as my HAIR, especially now that I’m natural and have taken good care of it and can do things to it myself.
I’d talk to her about my product choices, and the way I care for me hair to see if she takes any of it in, and see how she reacts. Then I’d ask to see someone else who she did the cut on.
If she can’t produce any evidence, and wasn’t receptive to my hair choices I’d walk away.
It’s just hair, but I don’t think I’d be willing to pay any amount of money, no matter how small, to allow someone to ‘have a go’ on my hair.
I’m no guinea pig! >.<
At the same time, as someone who's trying to learn how to cornrow and flat twist, I know how frustrating it is when no-one will give you the opportunity to im/prove yourself and your skills.
Watch her execute the look on a mannequin before she even comes close to my head! That’s what I’d do because I’m not opposed to helping anyone who’s trying to do something. Even the top stylists had to start somewhere.
I would need to see some examples of her work, the same as I do for established stylists, before I allow her to cut my hair. Cutting curly hair can be tricky, and sometimes not even veteran hairstylists get it right. If she has done a nice cut on someone else who’s hair looks close to mine or a mannequin who’s hair looks close to mine, I would give her a try. However, if I’m the first, I don’t think so. I worked hard to grow my hair out and keep it healthy to just walk in blindly with someone that I don’t have any experience with or have not seen their work. However, I would definately allow her to try out different styles (twists, finger styles, braids, etc.) on my hair. Styles can be combed out if I don’t like them, cuts take a while to grow out. That can be traumatic.
I wouldn’t take the risk on something like a complicated haircut. No way. I’d have to start simple and then build a trust relationship with them from there.
I wouldn’t be Kee-Kee’s test dummy I tell you that much; I’d have to see Kee-Kee’s work upon a few people before messing with her. I wouldn’t pay an exorbitant amount of money neither for a sharp haircut, I’d find a reputable & reasonably priced salon and get my hair done, like any cost conscious fashionista would.
I agree with “A Simple Thing”…..Sister Girl (or Brother Man) has to start somewhere. Yep, show me some past work and i’d think seriously about it and yea, it’s just hair! I’d also have to believe on some level that if she’s received her beautician license, she gotta be some kind of decent, right? LOL..
LMAO @ Queen Eye Cee. Good stylist are hard to find, but so is your hair. I’d wait on it, good things come to those that wait.