Meet Justine Lindsay

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Justine Lindsay. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Justine below.

Justine, first a big thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and insights with us today. I’m sure many of our readers will benefit from your wisdom, and one of the areas where we think your insight might be most helpful is related to imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is holding so many people back from reaching their true and highest potential and so we’d love to hear about your journey and how you overcame imposter syndrome.

I think a healthy amount of imposter syndrome isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and overcoming it completely would be discrediting the other roles in my life. Maybe I feel like a fraud behind the chair as a hairstylist because Im still thinking about cooking dinner while trying to nail those “Sabrina Carpenter” curtain bang on my 5pm client. Maybe its because potty training a toddler at home has me hiding in the work bathroom five extra minutes during my time set aside for sanitizing tools. But maybe when I feel like an imposter, I’m also seeing things in a different perspective. The humanity of my client, on her most golden day or darkest hour. The humanity of myself, when I feel unworthy of the profession over an error in my schedule. For a brief moment, maybe I don’t belong. Then I glance at my license and it tells me otherwise. I remember the work that achieved it and I trust that it’s enough, that I’m enough, to create something worthy of a price tag.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I enjoy serving the hair needs of Houston’s surrounding areas at my cozy salon booth, achieving looks that are easy to maintain, quick to style, and fit with the budget of everyday life. I specialize in women’s dimensional blonde with effortless blend and layered movement.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

1. Get an in-depth perspective of who the person you’re working with is in order to better help them. More listening and maintaining professional opinion.

2. Pick something that sets you apart from others and try to stick to it with every single client experience.

3. Continue asking questions and improving, being intentional is important.

Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?

Trusting the process and not expecting instant results is an obstacle to overcome on the daily in the beauty world, and also the regular world. We’ve gotten used to instant gratification and Amazon deliveries at the snap of your fingers. I have a unique role of creating beautiful hair and sometimes that means working with others to tailor their routine to their goals, with timeline that won’t be completed in a day. The results may take weeks, or even months. Trusting the process helps achieve our best selves, and the results are often undeniable.

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