Trendy with Kim Allison

I met Tanya on her wedding day, and we've been talking ever since. So I finally brought her to the mic.This one goes deeper than hair. We get into growing up with immigrant parents, the messages we pick up as little girls about what's "good enough," and why she's worn her hair a certain way for most of her life. It's honest, it's real, and it's a conversation a lot of us need to hear.She's a nurse, a mom, and one of my favorite people to sit with. Come hang out with us. Thank you for watching, always. — Kim🛍️ Shop Virtue Labs through my link:https://www.virtuelabs.com/en/stylist/Kim-Allison✅ Subscribe for more conversations with the voices reshaping the beauty industry.Click Here For More Info: https://linktr.ee/TrendywithKimAllison– Listen on Spotify, Apple, and all podcast platforms.– Follow @trendywkimallison on Instagram and TikTok.TIME STAMPS:0:00 Meet Tanya2:39 Ghana, Jamaica, and growing up between cultures7:45 What her hair meant growing up14:00 The hard conversation about black culture27:30 Why she really wears braids41:45 Loving a white husband and raising Harlow49:25 Hair Confessions

You think you're just sitting down to get your hair done. You're not.After almost 30 years behind the chair, I can read a whole lot about you in the first 15 minutes, and today I'm telling on all of you. Lovingly, of course. Don't worry, I call myself out too.Which one are you? You'll know by the end. Thank you for watching, always. — Kim🛍️ Shop Virtue Labs through my link:https://www.virtuelabs.com/en/stylist/Kim-Allison✅ Subscribe for more conversations with the voices reshaping the beauty industry.Click Here For More Info: https://linktr.ee/TrendywithKimAllison– Listen on Spotify, Apple, and all podcast platforms.– Follow @trendywkimallison on Instagram and TikTok.

I went looking for a hair solution this week. What I found was something a little more uncomfortable about myself.Somewhere in all the Googling, I caught myself doing a thing. And once I saw it, I couldn't un-see it.This one's less about my hair and more about what we all do when a decision scares us.Thank you for hanging in with me this week, always. — Kim🛍️ Shop Virtue Labs through my link:https://www.virtuelabs.com/en/stylist/Kim-Allison✅ Subscribe for more conversations with the voices reshaping the beauty industry.Click Here For More Info: https://linktr.ee/TrendywithKimAllison– Listen on Spotify, Apple, and all podcast platforms.– Follow @trendywkimallison on Instagram and TikTok.

Well, it finally happened. The one person whose hair should behave… mine doesn't. And I've officially run out of ideas.I did everything right. Saw the doctor, ran the tests, got the answers. And then I made a choice I'd scold any client for making. I'll explain, and no, I'm not proud of it.There's a big change coming this summer. A drastic one. I'll take you with me when it happens. But first I want to hear from you, especially if your hair started acting like a stranger too.Thank you for watching, always. Come figure this out with me. — Kim🛍️ Shop Virtue Labs through my link:https://www.virtuelabs.com/en/stylist/Kim-Allison✅ Subscribe for more conversations with the voices reshaping the beauty industry.Click Here For More Info: https://linktr.ee/TrendywithKimAllison– Listen on Spotify, Apple, and all podcast platforms.– Follow @trendywkimallison on Instagram and TikTok.

Everybody keeps saying things were better back then. And I keep wondering… were they? Or were we just younger?I got to thinking about it this week and went digging through my own memories. The first cars, the first apartment, walking home from school with a key around my neck. Some of it holds up. Some of it really, really doesn't.But there's one thing I'll say is better today, and I bet you can guess which industry I'm talking about.Thank you for watching, always. Tell me below: were the good old days actually that good? — Kim🛍️ Shop Virtue Labs through my link:https://www.virtuelabs.com/en/stylist/Kim-Allison✅ Subscribe for more conversations with the voices reshaping the beauty industry.Click Here For More Info: https://linktr.ee/TrendywithKimAllison– Listen on Spotify, Apple, and all podcast platforms.– Follow @trendywkimallison on Instagram and TikTok.TIME STAMPS:0:00 Were the good old days actually that good?7:53 The one thing that IS better today

I hadn't seen Dwayne Phelps in almost thirty years. Turns out we came up through the same beauty school, the same circles, and somehow never worked together once.He's the owner of The Shop by Lefty's here in the Valley, and there's a reason for that name. I'll let him tell you.We got into barbering, faith, building something that lasts, and yes, I finally asked him about those chalk lines. You know the ones.Thank you for watching, always. Subscribe, hit the bell, and go show Dwayne some love. — Kim✨ Dwayne "Lefty" Phelps – Master Barber, Entrepreneur & Owner of The Shop by Lefty'sBased in Phoenix, AZIG: @theshopbyleftysIG (personal): @leftysazEmail: leftysaz@gmail.com🛍️ Shop Virtue Labs through my link:https://www.virtuelabs.com/en/stylist/Kim-Allison✅ Subscribe for more conversations with the voices reshaping the beauty industry.Click Here For More Info: https://linktr.ee/TrendywithKimAllison– Listen on Spotify, Apple, and all podcast platforms.– Follow @trendywkimallison on Instagram and TikTok.TIME STAMPS:0:00 - Intro1:29 - Thirty years later2:43 - Same beauty school, different paths5:35 - Why barbers and stylists stopped working together15:06 - Opening The Shop18:35 - The accident that changed everything24:32 - What keeps a shop alive for 18 years38:42 - Sharp Futures and Man Cave43:17 - The chalk line question47:19 - Rapid fire questions

Little confession: I recorded this one poolside in Cabo, still on vacation and still very much not off the clock. Because even by the water with a book and a card game, these hairdresser eyes were watching everybody's hair. It's a sickness. I've made peace with it.This one was fun. Thank you for watching, always. Drop your ethnicity, your hair type, and your one big vacation-hair worry below. — Kim🛍️ Shop Virtue Labs through my link:https://www.virtuelabs.com/en/stylist/Kim-Allison✅ Subscribe for more conversations with the voices reshaping the beauty industry.Click Here For More Info: https://linktr.ee/TrendywithKimAllison– Listen on Spotify, Apple, and all podcast platforms.– Follow @trendywkimallison on Instagram and TikTok.

Friday, red folder, and I'm landing this plane.I've spent all week wondering why natural stopped being normal. Here's where I ended up: somewhere along the way, your appearance turned into a whole second job. Hair, lashes, brows, nails, injectables, the calendar never ends. And I'm not throwing stones. I'm on that calendar too.But it made me ask something I can't shake. When did beauty become something we maintain instead of something we just… did?I've got a theory about where this is actually headed, and it's not what you'd think.Wrapping up the trilogy. Watch parts one and two if you missed them, then tell me below: more maintenance, or just more choices? - Kim🛍️ Shop Virtue Labs through my link:https://www.virtuelabs.com/en/stylist/Kim-Allison✅ Subscribe for more conversations with the voices reshaping the beauty industry.Click Here For More Info: https://linktr.ee/TrendywithKimAllison– Listen on Spotify, Apple, and all podcast platforms.– Follow @trendywkimallison on Instagram and TikTok.