Hair models wanted — free colour and cuts, and what you should know first
Hair is the one treatment in this finder that cannot be taken off again. A colour grows out in a line and a cut has to grow back, so a free afternoon in a training salon is a genuinely good deal and a genuinely different decision from a free set of nails. This page is written to help you make it properly rather than to sell it to you.
Create a model accountHair model calls that are live now
Each advert names the service, the town, the day, the start time and how long its poster expects to need. Colour is long: read the advert's own conditions and its cancellation rule before you apply, and read what it says about photographs.
No hair model calls are live at the moment. What follows is what a hair model afternoon actually involves, and an advert appears here as soon as somebody publishes one.
See every model callWhat a hair model actually sits for
Cuts and colour, in roughly that order of how often they are asked for: a precision cut being assessed, a full head of foils, balayage, a toner, a global colour, a blow-dry class, and sometimes a perm or a keratin treatment. Some adverts are a student's exam piece and the work is prescribed down to the section pattern; others are a working stylist learning a technique she has just paid a company to teach her. A tutor's practical day needs several heads at fixed hours, and those adverts usually say which base colour they need.
How long it takes, and what happens in the chair
A cut with a check from a tutor is an hour and a half to two. Colour is the long one: a full head of highlights with a toner is three to five hours, and a correction on top of an old box colour can take longer than anybody planned. You sit up, you can read and use your phone, and there will usually be somebody watching over her shoulder and stopping her — which is exactly what you want and is also why it is slower. Come having eaten, and do not put an appointment straight after a colour.
What it costs you, and what you are agreeing to
Free, the cost of the materials used on you, or a reduced model price — the advert says which before you apply. The thing you are actually agreeing to is the result, for months. A student's work is checked but it is student work: the line may not be perfect, the blend may be softer or harsher than the photograph, and a colour that does not lift evenly is somebody's job to fix afterwards. Ask, in writing, what happens if it does not come out as discussed, and ask whether a second appointment is on offer.
Before you sit for hair
Nothing here is professional advice about your own hair and nobody in this finder checks anybody's qualification, so the useful things are the ones you disclose and the ones you ask. Hair's whole risk lives in what is already on it.
- Say everything that has been on your hair, including a home box colour, henna and anything metallic — whatever the timescale. This is the disclosure that decides whether bleach is safe at all, and it is the one people leave out.
- Ask for a strand test and a skin test before the day if you are having colour, and say if your scalp is sensitive or you have reacted to a dye before. You can ask without applying.
- Bring a photograph of what you want and ask her to tell you honestly whether your base can get there in one appointment. “No” is a useful answer and it is better before than after.
What the photographs mean for hair
Hair pictures are the ones most likely to include your whole face, because the work is the shape around it: a front, a back and both sides, often with a before shot of a parting that nobody loves. Photographs are a separate agreement and never a condition of the appointment — an advert that wants them says so before you apply and names where they would be used, you agree to those uses rather than to photography in general, and you get your own link to withdraw it afterwards. If a portfolio picture of your face is a step too far, a back-of-the-head shot is usually enough for a student's assessment; say so before she starts, not while a camera is out.
What hair models ask
Four answers about how this actually works today.
Do hair models get paid? I have been paid for a shoot before.
Not here, and this is the category where that matters most — hair shows and look books do pay, and this is not one. Nothing in Slotora can pay money out to a member of the public, so an advert in this finder cannot offer you a fee, and one that seems to is describing something the product cannot do. What is on offer is the work itself, for nothing or for the cost of the colour.
Will I be asked for a deposit, or for card details?
No, and there is nothing in the path that could take either. No money passes through Slotora for a model appointment: there is no deposit, no card field and no fee in either direction. If a colour has a materials cost, the advert says the number and the two of you settle it on the day — we take no part in it and no commission from it.
What if I have to cancel a five-hour colour appointment?
Either of you can cancel with a link, at any time, and neither of you is charged anything — there is no fee in either direction however late it is. A five-hour slot is somebody's whole training day though, so tell her as early as you can; that is a courtesy rather than a penalty, because the product has no penalty to apply.
The advert I wanted says there are no places left. Why is it still here?
Because taking it down the moment it filled would leave everybody who applied looking at a page that no longer exists. A full advert stays on the page, says there are no places left, and offers you no way in — deliberately, since a way to apply under those words would be worse than the disappointment. Keep the category page open instead: a new advert appears the hour it is published.
Other treatments, and where
The finder covers seven kinds of work and each one has a page like this. Every advert names its town, and a town page exists only where adverts are actually live — there is no empty page waiting with your town's name on it.