Hey, hey,
hello and welcome to what I would do to be.
I'm your host, Will Rivera.
And today we are traveling a ridiculous amount of miles
for one of the most basic staples of life.
A haircut.
And since I have to cross a couple of bridges in the process, which I just say,
I've insisted,
the producers provide me with the most luxurious haircut they could find.
And that place apparently is along
Kisa.
Today we are joining us, Shayna
Capi.
She is a local hairstylist,
basically what's going to happen today. Just so you are aware,
Shana, which I'm, you know, I would be surprised if you weren't being here today.
We're going to pretty much having you showcase your salon,
your salon skills and during which I'm gonna be asking you
some on topic questions and a few off the wall questions.
Obviously, this is your establishment. You know, it's got your name on it.
So
what drove you to pursue this that you've gone to so far?
Well, honestly,
being a salon owner was not my biggest dream as far as his career goes, right?
Um I always wanted to, I love doing hair, something I've always loved to do
this situation.
I had been at a salon for about five years and there are some things that were changing
and
I was just kind of ready to be on my own.
Now, did I want to be in another salon or open a big salon?
Now, I felt like this is just one studio.
It's just me here, um, more personal and I mean,
who knew during the pandemic or after the pandemic?
Right? Like what a great situation this would be, right?
Because now I have just one client in my chair. It's just
me.
I don't have to worry about the different variables of having multiple
people in a salon where they've been how their clients are.
I feel a little bit celebrity out, you know, I'm getting quite a bit of attention.
I don't, you know, there's no other customers.
I don't have to go sit and thump through a magazine while I'm waiting in line,
you know.
So
you said that this wasn't necessarily your
first inclination to become a hairstylist?
Um Well, I mean,
so
hairstyles, I did go to
college for a little bit.
I really tried to do something else, but I just always had this calling to
do hair, right? I would go get my hair done and I was
always just like dissecting what they were doing.
Yes. Like I would go to so an example, right?
My neighbor when I was little would say hey, can Shana come over and play?
Of course.
And I would end up doing her mom's hair and she's like mom can like Shana come play now
and
I was
like, she's not done with my
right? And I'm like seven.
I
mean,
so it's like
um it's just always that like, want has always been there, you know, but I was like,
you know, let's explore something else and I really did try,
but it just kind of brought me back here.
Here we go.
So,
uh
yes,
what is your favorite word?
They were
uh vivacious.
Vivacious.
Ok. I actually do. I, I was, I wasn't expecting that. That was
a great response to vivacious.
Ok.
Um
In particular reason.
Um
ok, so it means lively
or,
and
um
I like,
I think my personality is a little bit animated and
like you want to be like a lively person,
right?
Um And hair, you want to see that move like I like that movement and the liveliness,
right?
Like
full
body hair volume.
It
sounds
real good
looking.
But
what do you plan to do today? And by the way of complete creative freedom,
I don't really whatever happened to this happens to this.
My hair grows back pretty quick. So.
Ok.
All right. Well,
um so first off, I would ask you what you've done with your hair.
Obviously, you have some lighter in
there. You've done that? Is that an at
home,
at
home?
Job. That is my sister. She's,
and she did the best she could. I thought she did. All right, for what it was.
You know, I'm not complaining.
Like I said, quarantine life, I'll take what I can get. Right. OK. All right.
Um So first off if you want to keep, I, of course, my,
so what I personally like to do is I like the
dimensional uh natural look like we can do something really crazy
if you want.
Um
But looking at you what I kind of think that I would like
to do this kind of break up that blonde a little bit,
give you more of like a caram
kind of
dimensional look in there. So keeping
the blonde in there.
OK. OK.
OK.
That's good
to
know it works for me,
I guess,
obviously
trim. Yeah.
Hair here. I don't particularly enjoy having to do this,
you know, but you know, that's just me.
I know some people rock long hair but you know, I
don't know something about stuff behind my ears
just
all right, we'll chat a little bit while you get in the chair. A
feel for it.
I'm gonna feel for it to more thorough
consult.
OK.
So now that you got a visual representation of uh that we're still in quarantine.
Here we go.
I
ask you some questions, right?
So did she put on just color or did she do just highlights on here or is this?
OK. So this is
on your roots as well.
Your natural, this is natural.
Um, this was originally done on the roots and then it grew out. Um,
I don't believe it's a color, I believe it's just, um, like she
didn't do foils or something and then put
something on your scalp. Like was your entire scalp?
It was
for the most part. Yeah.
I got a whole, the whole hair got bleached at that point. The whole head,
I was gonna throw it in my natural hair color is kind of auburn
and it, it, it goes between auburn
brown and even a lighter red. You might say
I have a
good base to go off. So I'm gonna go ahead and make some color.
Ok,
I
come back
now. You said you got a lot of different types of characters that come in.
So I guess uh what's the uh what's the worst client you've had?
Worst plan?
Well, the number one rule, right is to not talk bad about your client's good or bad,
right?
Ok. OK.
The one rule is, do not talk about your clients. Remember that one?
So what particular products are you using today?
Do you have a go to product you prefer?
Um As far as
um color products though,
I like to have a mix of things.
Um There's a couple of brands that I use that I like um different
products with
different hair. Yeah, like there's a brand that I use,
um,
but I just started using recently again.
Um, it's a
PD free which a lot of people are actually allergic to.
It's an allergy that,
ok. I'm wondering if that's the same allergy.
I have an acquaintance who,
every time she gets her hair done or dyed she ends up with like, burns on her scalp.
Really irritated.
Yeah, that could be. So,
that would be like a PP
free
client basically.
OK. Um
Ammonia
free, all that
information for you
reconnaissance, right?
So what does this foiling actually do
apart from Make me look fabulous.
So, um,
it basically just sections off parts that I want you to
highlighted or parts that I want to be more low lighted.
So
I'm gonna kind of straighten your face a little bit and I'm actually gonna take this,
these side pieces down pretty low.
So I'm just bringing it in just a little bit
so that there's like subtle amounts at your root area.
So if you were to,
you know,
have a,
have a dream goal or a dream aspiration, you know,
it's something that could happen really quick,
you know, like, like best case scenario, I guess some say,
what, what, what would that be?
Um I've always been interested, like I had said before,
I never really wanted to be a salon owner.
My
kind of vision
was always to do like a product line.
So
something which I've been, you know,
working towards doing that slowly but surely chemistry comes in handy for that.
It does and actually I need a chemist
to do it properly, you know. So you guys
that remember that it's useful, you know? It's not.
Yeah.
Ok. So you like to have your own product line?
Yeah, I think that that would be
pretty cool.
Oh,
yeah.
I really want to specialize in something with
kids because there's really not a product line.
That's good that I like
for my kids.
OK. What's the, what's the issues that you encounter there?
I mean, I just don't think that all Children need to smell like watermelon.
OK?
A
little bit more variety doesn't have to cater to cherry all the time.
I know
what I
mean because even my stuff, you know, my daughter Logan will say, oh my gosh, mom like
this smells like I really like the way this one smells right?
Doesn't always
like that.
She likes, you know, stuff that smells like ph or whatever, of course,
but doesn't always have to be that
way for a time.
Just a little bit. Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh I know it is. It is thick and it grows fast.
Like when I was asked to do this, I was like, well,
what kind of hair am I gonna be working on?
Like this is gray hair?
Yeah.
So let's say
some
entrepreneur comes to you and they're just like, all right,
you know what I heard about your product?
Line
and I've seen the work you do. I want to make this dream a reality,
but
you got to move to a different country. I'm sorry,
I want you to come to, let's say, uh
say they had you, they want you to move to Bangladesh or something.
Like, wouldn't you be willing to make such a dramatic change to see that come,
come to fruition?
It really depends on,
um
because my family is so rooted here in Brently,
right?
My husband has a great job. We love his, like his boss is great, you know. So
it would be a lot for me to uproot everyone and go,
you know, just to like this is dreaming up for me right now,
you know, and then there's plenty of,
plenty of life ahead we hope. Right.
So
what, what would you say is the most rewarding,
rewarding experience you get out of this,
I'm making someone
come out of their shop,
feel
good about themselves.
Ok. So, you know, when
someone walk out and feeling a little bit emboldened,
yeah, like that, look when they look in the mirror and they're like, oh,
yes,
I
vivacious.
So obviously you're a very busy person.
And if you had the option of a dream vacation,
which you crazy to go to.
Well,
I've never been to Hawaii. I
know.
I know. I
know. I
wouldn't normally say
you
there, but
two years ago I finally
made it.
Yes,
it was definitely amazing. So, you want to go to Hawaii? I wanna go to
Hawaii.
But I mean, if I'm thinking bigger,
I probably want to go to like Italy or something
like that somewhere like far.
Are you a fan of the vino?
Oh,
yes.
Oh, yeah. You get that classic imagery of, you know, going to
Italy sitting out there on your balcony, drinking some red wine,
listening to the music out there in the night.
Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. That is one of the ones on my bucket list too.
So one of these is a blue group and one of these is a, it's an off whitish group.
What does each goof do?
Uh The blue is the lighter.
OK.
And
the white goose,
as
you said
is
our low light that I'm going in with which I'm only using a touch up.
I'm gonna tone you out after
which basically is just changing the tone of this blonde that's
left over because I do like the blonde that you have.
So it's just
I'm gonna bring you back to more of a natural type, grow out.
So it's not so harsh.
Oh Yeah. So
I can't help but notice out of the corner of my eye you have this very elaborate
monster of the machine back there.
Um Looks like it's got a bunch of fans on
it with that thing like modern day blower or something.
So this is uh we call her
medusa
medusa.
Um
and instead of having a hooded dryer to process color,
um it uses infrared light.
Yeah. So it dries out the color. It doesn't dry out the color, excuse
me
as quickly.
Um And it's a little more nourishing and not as harsh, right?
Um
Yeah.
Yes.
Thank
you.
I'm happy with that.
I'm good if you're happy, I'm like, oh, look what kind of batman.
And if you pan over to your left,
you will see this beautiful golden lotus framing this picturesque wall.
Look how centered that is.
That's the wildest hairstyle you've ever given yourself,
like, allowed yourself to have
myself. That's a good one.
you know, I tend to play it a little actually.
I like when I first before I got my license, right when I was growing up,
I colored my hair like
burgundy red, like the Ford colored chunk red.
Ok. So this is why people really do this for the head massage.
Yeah.
Everything else is just employing this point.
Ah,
getting closer to the review.
And now
for the haircut,
you ever turn this, uh,
this room into your Zen room?
Get away from people and just kinda like, ah, I have a quiet space. I
do
sometimes. I mean, it is nice to have this space.
I can leave the door open if I want to be a little more, you know,
friendly of sorts and like, you know,
neighbors will
just
kind of as their passing by say hello or
so you can still get that, like, salon, bigger salon feel if you want.
You don't have to. I love that.
You
know,
you got options.
Yeah.
The majority of my clients are women but I do have many haircuts as well. That I
do.
Ok.
How common is it?
Of a
hair salon to tell
their client that
they have?
I wasn't sure if that was just, oh, my
God. maybe I
do have my
hair. It's just the thing
when you go into
it.
No,
I
mean,
I mean, obviously I want you to feel good. I'm not gonna lie to you, right?
Like if you have a thinning hair problem, I would say, hey,
have you tried any treatments or done this?
So
remember that
people
you wanna come here, she's gonna be honest with you.
I will be honest. Yes.
Oh wow. That is a nice color.
That, that is an amazing blend.
So I'm actually very, very happy with the way this hair color has turned out.
I did not see it coming.
You know, I was really bright blonde. I was like bleach blonde for a while and
it actually looks, it blends in well,
looks natural like I could have been born with this and you know, I'm not gonna lie.
I'm looking pretty flat.
No,
I I'm happy with that. What do you think?
I don't have to be.
So
we
come,
can you get a
shot?
I
want to
see
if
you guys
ready
for the great
and here we are,
it's a whole,
it's a whole new me.
Look at that
clean
but professional.
I don't look like, you know, well, a shaggy surfer I could if I wanted to honestly. But
no, no, I'd say that's cleaned up well, and look at the hair. Come on,
look at that
like,
you know, it, it looks like it's my hair color and this is not my hair color. It's
a but look
glorious locks.
I'd say a job. Well done.
Well, here we are at the end of it.
I'm looking great. Thank you so much. By the way for being on the show.
Thank you for showing us your skills and uh letting us know what you would do to be,
which is awesome because it seems like you're doing what you want to do
and I, that, that is probably one of the most rewarding things I can do.
That's awesome. Yeah. Thank you so much for sitting in my chair.
I appreciate you and your time.
Um I hope you enjoy your hair. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah, I'll be leaning up against, you know,
random
alleyway
standing there looking coy and cool, perfect.
And to any viewers if you are watching this episode and
you're looking for someone local to get your hair done,
I would love to meet your needs.
Come on down to FCA
Piso located here in Brentwood. Uh
just mention that you saw this episode and I'll give you 30% off any
service
because it's the right
for the,
for the sake of the time,
the new gesture of handshake and friendship elbow touches.
So there you have it.
I go from 90 street punk skater boy to something that actually pass off
as professional.
Oh,
thanks to
the
long
Kapisa
join this next episode where I interview a stuntman slash break dancer
and try to do a few moves myself.
John Exa.