Mel Guan Chow, Vancouver, BC (2026)

09/17/2026

🚨 #3 may sound funny, but it’s your life and you create your reality.

1. Not have clients properly sign off on my policies.

You can’t enforce a cancellation policy you never properly communicated in the first place.

2. Offer services I didn’t enjoy doing or that weren’t profitable.

If I don’t like doing it and there’s barely any profit in it, why the hell is it taking up space in my day? Being capable doesn’t mean I have to offer it.

3. Work Saturdays.

I hated it. Period. I felt like I was in jail while all my friends were out hiking, at the beach, having brunch or just enjoying their weekend. You don’t have to work Saturdays when Tuesdays are more profitable.

4. Give friends discounts.

Your friends should want to support your business. And if you provide high-quality work, you should be charging high-quality prices regardless of who’s sitting in your chair.

5. Wait too long to raise my prices because I was scared clients would leave.

Build regular pricing reviews into your systems, and make the decision based on what your business needs to be profitable. Not how nervous you feel saying the new number out loud.

6. Schedule a long day without a proper lunch break.

Not five minutes inhaling something in the back room while mixing bleach. An actual break. Stop. Eat. Breathe. Stretch. Get outside.

7. Create discounted service bundles.

I’m not about packaging them together just to give away money. Your Signature Services should create a complete, premium experience around the result your dream client wants and be priced to profit.

👉🏽 There are a lot of things I’d do differently if I were building my hair business again.

But most of them come back to the same thing:

I’d stop building a business around how much I could physically do and start building one around how profitable I could make the hours I actually wanted to work.

💰 Comment GROWTH and I’ll send you my free training on how hairstylists are hitting $15K–$20K months behind the chair without working a single extra hour.

09/16/2026

💯 Your highest-income days don’t have to be your longest.

Imagine finishing your last client at 4pm and realizing you made more than you used to make staying until 8.

Your lunch break is still in your schedule.
You didn’t squeeze anyone in.
You didn’t open another Saturday.
And when a client cancels tomorrow, you’re not immediately panicking about the money you just lost because your policies already handled it.

Your prices actually cover what it costs to run your business.

Your clients book the services you want to be known for.

New clients land on your website already convinced you’re the hairstylist they’ve been looking for.

And suddenly, making more money doesn’t require you to keep giving more of yourself to your business.

This is the part I need more hairstylists to believe is possible.

$15K–$20K months don’t have to look like 10-hour days, skipped lunches and a fully booked Saturday you secretly wish you could have off.

They can look like fewer clients.
Higher-profit days.
Clear boundaries.
And a business that keeps making you money without constantly asking for more of your time.

You do not have to exhaust yourself to deserve a profitable hair business.

💸 Comment PROFIT and I’ll send you my free training on how hairstylists are hitting $15K–$20K months without working a single extra hour.

09/15/2026

💔 “I could NEVER charge that much”

I want to break down why $750 feels so insane in your nervous system.

To be clear: this was not “slapping on” one colour, processing for 30 minutes and charging $750.

This was a transformation.

There were multiple colour processes, a level 1 starting point, a completely different end result, product cost, strategy, and about 15 years of experience behind every decision I made in between.

But I think when hairstylists hear “$750 appointment,” we skip all of that.

We just hear the number.

And immediately decide: it’s too much.

Before we’ve even asked what the client is actually receiving for it.

Because we’ve been conditioned to price hair based on the service we perform, instead of the transformation we create.

She wasn’t paying $750 for “a colour.”

She was paying me to get her from where she started to where she wanted to go.

And there’s a big difference.

Maybe the problem isn’t that $750 sounds like a lot.

Maybe it’s that we’ve been conditioned to believe hair services should cost less.

💸 Comment PROFIT and I’ll send you my free training on how hairstylists are hitting $15K–$20K months behind the chair without working a single extra hour.

09/14/2026

👇🏽 Want to hit $15k-$20k a month 👇🏽

You’re allowed to outgrow the hairstylist you’ve always been.

Just because you’ve always charged that price doesn’t mean you have to keep charging it.

Just because you’ve always worked five days doesn’t mean you have to keep working five days.

Just because your clients are used to a certain version of your business doesn’t mean you owe them that version forever.

And I think that’s where so much of the guilt comes from.

Because evolving your business can feel like you’re changing the rules on people.

Over time it is normal that:

✨ Your prices go up.
✨ Your boundaries get stronger.
✨ Your availability gets smaller.
✨ You stop saying yes and start saying no.

You want to, but you also feel bad about what everyone is going to think.

👉🏽 But you’re ALLOWED to evolve.

The Profitable Hairstylist is about becoming the next version of you behind the chair.

💯 The one who makes decisions based on where she’s going, not what everyone has gotten used to.

You’ll become:

More profitable.
More boundaried.
More intentional.
And making more without needing to work more.

Be prepared to identify shift and start hitting your highest goals.

💸 Comment PROFIT and I’ll send you my free training on how hairstylists are hitting $15K–$20K months behind the chair, without working a single extra hour.

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