Yesterday we discussed women in hospitality - flight attendants, bartenders, high end waitresses, hotel employees. Things to look out for. Pitfalls. Characteristics of such women.

Today, we'll talk about women in the multibillion dollar beauty industry. We're talking cosmetologists, nail technicians, skin care specialists, women who work at department store fragrance/makeup sections, and especially hairstylists. We're not talking about women who sell products door to door. Not Avon ladies; not Mary Kay salesladies in pink Cadillacs. Avon and MaryKay ladies are mostly housewives or women who work in other jobs outside beauty but are looking to supplement their incomes. This post deals with women involved in hands on delivery of actual beauty/hair care services.

1) These women live hand to mouth and are always cash poor. The number one characteristic of beauty industry workers is that they are always poor. Every time you talk to them, it's this or that financial problem. They're always behind on their bills. Collection agencies are always chasing them. They have to pay to get their cars out of repossession. They don't have enough money for this or that. Their credit cards are always maxed out. They can barely keep their financial heads above water. Women who work these jobs never get financially ahead.

Which is the main reason they're dangerous - if they're single, they are constantly on the prowl for men, because they need those men's money. Most beauty industry workers cannot support themselves fully on their own incomes alone. Most beauty industry workers who appear to be doing ok financially are married, or living with a baby daddy, or living with family. Nearly all of these women are partially financially dependent on the men in their lives.

2) Beauty industry women are always time poor. They work long hours for not very much pay. They never have time for anything else. They're working constantly, at least 5 1/2 days a week, 10 to 12 hour days, because of 1) up there - working long hours and overloading themselves with work and clients is the only way to make any money doing beauty industry work.

3) The beauty industry is the province of working class, poor, and uneducated women. These women personify the American working poor: Lack of future time orientation, unintelligent, poor academic performance, early onset sexual activity, impulsive, hyperemotional, history of relationship failure, poor planning, poor insight, lack of refinement and poise. Many of them are or were alcoholics or substance abusers. These women constantly have some kind of "beef" with someone else, usually played out on social media. They didn't get educated or trained for other kinds of jobs because they didn't have the money, the skills, the parental example, or the plan. Most of these women are white trash or from the ghettos. (I can talk about white trash - my ancestors were white trash. I am 2 generations removed from white trash on both sides.)

Most of these women are working class and poor because they were brought up working class and poor. They are repeating their parents' lives. Most are carbon copies of their mothers, who were themselves poor planners, lacking future time orientation, impulsive, early onset sexuality, unintelligent, uneducated, and hyperemotional. Most beauty industry workers were themselves products of divorced parents or single mothers.

4) Beauty industry women have a severely inflated and unrealistic view of their jobs, their work, their status, and their financial prospects. These women have no idea how the economic world actually works. They think that because they know how to improve their own and other women's physical appearances, their jobs are The Most Important Things In The World, Ever. In their minds, the world would stop if they did not or could not do their jobs. These women really do think they will get rich doing hair and nails all day.

COVID showed us what these women are really made of. COVID shut their businesses down for the better part of a year. Yes there were a lot of economic problems resulting from it. But the worst things the beauty industry shutdown caused were that middle aged women's roots started showing and their bangs grew a little longer than they were used to. Women had just a little harder time getting their Pond's cold cream.

Most of them had to find other work during COVID shutdowns. OnlyFans users shot way up as did membership on sugar dating sites. These women had no other way to make money, so they started whoring out their bodies. YouTube exploded with hysterical crying hairdressers and beauticians complaining that they were REALLY going broke.

Their inflated sense of importance is shown in that many of them also call themselves "entrepreneurs" because they "own their own businesses". More often than not, their "businesses" are an 8 by 10 room in their houses with some mirrors, a hairdrying chair, and shelves with beauty products, all of which reek of stale cigarettes. Or, their "businesses" consist of servicing around 30 clients by renting space from more successful salon owners. Even though they live with their husbands, they're barely making any money.

5) Women in the beauty industry have amplified emotional and duplicity tendencies. High school never ended for these women. They turn the emotion, the passive-aggressiveness, and backbiting up to 11 and then rip the knobs off. They live off raw emotion. And man, you have never heard a woman talk shit about other women until you've listened to a hairstylist or nail tech talk shit. These women take "two-faced", "catty", and "backstabbing" to a whole new level. These women will be so nice to their clients' faces and then rip them from stem to stern to the next woman sitting in their chairs. These women have masters degrees in "bitchy gossip" and passive-aggressiveness.

I suspect it's because these women are around other women all the time, all day long. They're not around men. They're not around children. They spend all day every day with other women. The hamsterwheeling, the hypergamy, the female tendency to filter everything through their emotions, the female tendency to perseverate on how they feel about everything - these are all magnified and reinforced in a neverending negative feedback loop because their only significant interactions are with other women.

6) They all have a gay best friend. Almost all of these women work with or know a gay man who works with them. So if you date a beauty industry employee, just know that at some point you'll meet her gay bestie.

The main reason to beware of hairdressers and nail techs? They're cash poor. They want and need your money.

Let's be careful out there.

No one objects to women doing this. No one objects to attractive men knowing this. No one objects to women and attractive men playing the game and knowing how it's played. What everyone hates is "average" men knowing about this. And they REALLY hate it when anyone talks or writes about this.

You're supposed to know all this. But you're not supposed to talk about any of this.