Why I stopped renting a chair
I trained and worked in salons for nine years before I started driving to clients instead. The turning point was a client recovering from surgery who could not sit upright in a salon chair for two hours - I brought a reclining setup to her living room instead, and never went back to a storefront.
Most of my regulars now are people for whom getting to a salon is the hard part: a new parent who cannot leave a sleeping baby, someone mid-treatment who would rather not sit in a window, a grandmother who has not driven in years. Letting a stranger into your home is a real ask, so every first visit starts with a phone call, not a surprise.
I carry my own chair, basin, and towels so nothing is asked of the household beyond an outlet and a sink. Everything that touches a client is sanitized between visits, the same as it would be in a salon.
