u/fairydust_tm

Hey everyone! I’m a hairstylist and this is something that I’ve been curious about for a while. I don’t do braiding, but I have always wanted to learn. What’s intimidating is the pricing. I see so many professionals doing braiding full time, charging 300 or less for something that takes the entire day, meaning that’s all the money they make in a day.

While that isn’t a super small sum, you have to imagine the general rule is to assume you pocket half the cost of your service due to overhead, taxes, and other expenses for the business. So at the most expensive price, that leaves them $150 for an 8 hour service as take home money. That means that stylist makes $18.75 an hour on their most expensive day! That’s 40k a year roughly (a little less) assuming you work the normal days and only get the highest paying service every single day.

How do you live off of that? Any professional braiders please let me know, or anyone who has any insight. I live in a more expensive state so maybe that’s manageable elsewhere, but definitely not where I’m at.

EDIT: thanks for all the responses! I definitely underestimated how fast professional braiders are. I appreciate all the comments :)

I submitted my federal taxes in the second week of February, and we had many issues and several IRS rejections on my taxes before getting it to work due to some EIN number changes at my job. After finally getting everything fixed and submitted through turbo tax and getting the approved status I thought I was good to go.

Two weeks later I get a letter in the mail from the IRS saying that they need to review my tax forms before they can submit my refund to me and it should take roughly 60 days. I marked that day on my calendar (today) so I knew to call them if I still haven’t heard anything, which is what the letter says to do.

Now all I get is an automated lady on the phone saying my refund is delayed beyond the normal information and I can continue to check back for the most up to date information. Well I try to get ahold of a representative after doing all this special wording to actually get the robot to let me do that, and then I get told by a new robot lady that there are too many calls so they cannot accept my call and I should try calling back tomorrow.

I’m at a loss here and I don’t want to just sit around waiting for a tax refund that may never come, but I can’t figure out what else I’m supposed to do to contact them. Has anyone else ever experienced this? Did you figure out what worked?