‘Touring’ Moorhead hairdresser will minimize, color and style hair proper in individuals’s personal properties – InForum

MOORHEAD — Can’t make it to the hair salon? Let the hair salon come to you.

That’s the great thing about Jodi Anderson’s enterprise, Jodi’s In-Home Haircare Service. Anderson is licensed to journey to her Minnesota shoppers’ properties to clean, minimize, perm, shade and elegance their hair.

So there’s no must stroll on slick sidewalks, heat up the automotive or navigate icy roads in blustery climate.

Anderson’s providers are specifically designed with senior residents and homebound shoppers in thoughts, though she typically advertises on the neighborhood app Nextdoor if she has openings for shoppers of all ages.

Accompanied by a rolling case of magnificence provides, she meets her female and male clients the place they dwell — whether or not that be a home, house, retirement residence, reminiscence care middle or long-term care facility.

“I got really popular for a couple of years there during COVID,” the veteran Moorhead hairdresser says, with a smile. “I specialize in seniors though.”

That means Anderson can do the older hair-styling strategies — weekly shampoo units, permanents — that some salons not supply.

“I do have my weekly ladies,” Anderson says. “I actually prefer the roller sets because they last longer. With a curling iron, the style only is meant to last a day.”

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The Moorhead native graduated from the previous

Rita’s Beauty School

in 1988. When a good friend advised her Eventide in Moorhead was hiring a hairdresser for its salon, she utilized — and obtained it. While there, a few her shoppers requested if she would come to their properties after they obtained out of the nursing residence.

“It just kind of grew from there,” she says.

Anderson needed to get particular licenses to do hair in individuals’s properties. She was required to acquire a particular home-bound license allow, an operator/supervisor license and legal responsibility insurance coverage.

She additionally has discovered to get inventive when doing hair in somebody’s residence, as she doesn’t have the luxurious of particular shampoo sinks or adjustable salon chairs.

She makes use of a particular hair-washing funnel cap, so these in wheelchairs or with restricted mobility don’t must lean method again right into a kitchen or lavatory sink.

Her shoppers sit in kitchen chairs, wheelchairs or no matter chairs are the most effective peak for hairstyling.

Her work not solely makes her older shoppers look higher, it helps them really feel higher, too. In some instances, she could be the solely customer they get all week. “They’re nice to talk to,” she says. “They like the conversation. Some of them don’t get out much.”

Anderson’s haircuts begin at $25, whereas a minimize, everlasting and elegance prices $85. She prices $75 for a shade.

“Some will say I should charge more but I’ve got to keep it reasonable,” she says. She is aware of lots of her shoppers are on fastened incomes.

Anderson will typically do add-on providers like waxing, though the shopper must make a particular request upfront so she will be able to deliver the required gear.

After all, bringing her total hair salon along with her will be arduous on the again.

“I’ve had to go lighter with my carry-ons,” she says.

Contact Jodi’s In-Home Haircare Service at 701-371-9873.