Community Over Competition
After School Special
After School Special is a peer led education series for working hairstylists, hosted at Field Trip in East Vancouver. It’s where stylists learn the stuff hair school forgot to teach us.
Some classes are guest educators. Some are learning from whoever’s already in the room. Either way the point is the same: sharing useful knowledge generously, instead of repetiting whatever the brands are selling.
We cover hair, and we cover everything else that comes with it.
Money, boundaries, bodies, burnout, client dynamics, self worth, and how to build a career that makes room for being a whole ass human.
Classes run about ten times a year, usually Mondays, capped at twenty so things stay human. There’s also an ongoing interview series where we ask real stylists what this industry gives, what it takes, and what should have been taught.
It grew out of Field Trip and it’s building into its own thing.