{"id":8468,"date":"2021-10-25T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinlivingmagazine.com\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:52:43","slug":"san-rafaels-salon-b-welcomes-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinlivingmagazine.com\/san-rafaels-salon-b-welcomes-all\/","title":{"rendered":"San Rafael\u2019s Salon B Welcomes All"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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For Bisham Bullock, who grew up in Marin City, the path to becoming a local salon owner, a certified master colorist and stylist, and a community leader began almost by accident.<\/span><\/p>

As he was walking by a beauty school on Fourth Street in San Rafael, an instructor noticed him peeking in the door. \u201cI had never thought about being a hairdresser or doing hair,\u201d Bullock says. \u201cBut an instructor saw me and said, \u2018You know what? I think you\u2019d be a great hairdresser.\u2019\u201d She followed that up by telling Bullock that the county was offering regional occupational scholarships.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Bullock decided to take advantage of the opportunity and began his education in all things hair. \u201cI seemed to be naturally gifted, and loved the social aspects of it,\u201d he says. He used the scholarship to complete beauty school and earned his license, soon finding himself immersed in a new world at one of the \u201cbiggest and fanciest\u201d salons in San Francisco, diPietro Todd.<\/span><\/p>

But it wasn\u2019t a perfect fit. \u201cI\u2019m an African American guy learning how to do mostly Caucasian and Asian hair and not doing any Black hair at all, and I wasn\u2019t feeling super great about myself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Bullock learned as much as he could there and then moved on to Shylocks of Fifth Avenue in San Rafael, where he got a deeper understanding of hair color, and started enrolling in elite education programs at Redken in New York, TONI&GUY in Texas and Wella in Los Angeles. After a few years of \u201cgetting my feet wet and trying to figure out who I was going to be in the industry,\u201d Bullock opened a small salon on Fourth Street in San Rafael in 2008, met his wife, Amy, helped put her through beauty school and eventually moved across the street to a bigger space that <\/span>Salon B<\/a> occupies today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

It was in this location, which Bullock and his wife helped design, that new skills and a real sense of community began to develop. The first step was to take advantage of their street-facing storefront to offer more retail and even the salon\u2019s own hair care line. But they didn\u2019t just feature their own products. \u201cWe were getting inspired by going to makers fairs around the Bay Area and we decided to bring some of them into the salon,\u201d Bullock says. \u201cWe also decided to have a little makers fair right at the salon and it was a big hit, attracting 200 people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

During the pandemic Bullock and his wife also got more involved in political movements after the murder of George Floyd and other Black and brown people, and Bullock began connecting with others, inspiring them to vote and speaking out, including at a protest in front of the San Rafael police station. \u201cIt was the first time that I kind of spoke out loud, as a community person and as a businessperson, and spoke my truth about how it is to live, work and own a business as an African American person in San Rafael,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

And in the end, it is speaking truth and offering a safe place to do it that means the most to Bullock and his wife. \u201cWe\u2019ve always been helping people in the community, always been striving to be a safe space for everyone \u2014 rich, poor, Black, white, Asian, Latino, it doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d Bullock says. \u201cIf you\u2019re a good person and honest and straightforward, you\u2019ll get the same when you come to Salon B.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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