Scott Dealers’ Metamorphosis from Dancer, Drag Queen, Stylist, Males’s Groomer to Educator – Taste

BARBERING TODAY’s profiles of person barbers so as rejoice their lives and skills and inspire networking all the way through the trade. This month’s profile follows the fascinating adventure or Scott Dealers (@hairhassle)who’s a countrywide educator for Nice Clips, who helped increase the corporate’s digital coaching program for 4,000+ places.

Within the past due 80s/early 90s, Scott Dealers’ aunt owned a salon. The Wilmington, North Carollina local used to be about 11 years previous and accompanied his aunt to hair trade occasions. He says, “It was the tail end of the big hair era and I loved the gravity-defying creativity! Everyone I met was accepting and nice. I just felt like I wanted to be around them.” Dealers additionally discloses this used to be the about identical time he began to understand he used to be homosexual. 

In his early life, Dealers used to be fascinated with theater productions and dance. Simply ahead of attending faculty at East Carolina College in Greenville to check dance, he instructed his folks he used to be homosexual. He says, “As an only child, I was a little worried telling them. They took it in stride. My mom has gay friends and my dad was just happy that I was going to college to ‘do something with my life.’”

All over faculty, Dealers came upon the fabulous international of drag queens. He mentioned the BEST wigs have been all the time worn by way of hair stylist queens. With the aggressive surroundings, Dealers sought after his regulate ego, Lauren Scott, to seem her best possible, so he realized the right way to minimize and elegance his artificial wigs to perfection. He says, “Getting into hair and going to beauty school was just a natural progression.”  

After faculty, Dealers moved again to Wilmington and earned his cosmetology license by way of a Pivot Level curriculum presented by way of the neighborhood faculty. All over his time in cosmetology faculty, he labored as a receptionist on the Nice Clips in South Port, North Carolina.

As soon as approved round 2005, he used to be at the reducing ground. “With my past wig work, I mastered women’s styles easily,” Dealers says. “At Great Clips, a majority of the clientele are male. I became obsessed with clipper cuts and fades. Men’s designs and silhouettes are precise with the detailing.” 

The Nice Clips location that Dealers labored at used to be a franchise that used to be a part of a 12-shop portfolio owned by way of retired airline executives. The homeowners had Dealers cling technical categories and educate the entire stylists in their 12 franchise places for a cohesive enjoy for all their visitors.

In 2010, Dealers attended a Nice Clips Company coaching magnificence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and he preferred how the category agenda used to be arrange and the training they presented. He determined to make the massive transition from running with franchisees to company.

Now Dealers is a countrywide educator for Nice Clips and previous to Covid, used to trip all the way through america and Canada coaching salons. All over Covid he helped increase the Nice Clips digital coaching program for 4,000+ salon places.

He says, “I could never decide if I wanted to be an entertainer, stylist or teacher, so I became all three!” Lauren Scott has been on hiatus for the previous 5 years.  

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