Photos you can't do without
On a multi-session path the photograph of the base isn't decoration: it's the reference that says where you started and what changed. Without it, the second session begins with an estimate, and the risk of a mistake rises.
That makes retention a real question. A path that runs over months needs images kept for months, and the client has a right to know that this is why they're being kept rather than for an indefinite archive.
Published transformations are the other half. A before-and-after of a colour correction is the most persuasive material a studio has, and precisely for that reason it needs its own explicit agreement, separate from the technical record.
What to explain to the client
The chart is qualitative and shows the weight of each point in gaining agreement.
How to organise it
Explain the technical purpose
The photo protects her result.
Tie retention to the path
And delete when it ends.
Ask separately to publish
The before-and-after is a different decision.
Store securely
And say where.
In the studio
- Explain that the photo is technically necessary, not optional.
- Tie retention to the duration of the path.
- Ask separately before publishing a before-and-after.
Explaining the technical necessity changes how the request is received: a client who understands that without the image of the base the next session starts from a guess agrees readily, because the photo is protecting her result.
Tying retention to the path gives you a natural deletion point instead of an archive that grows forever, and it's an answer the client can verify against her own experience of the work.
From conversation to guided consultation
Saloria brings guided consultation to color and balayage studios: face analysis, look plan and protocol help explain color, light, contrast and maintenance before the technique.