Personalized Custom Hairstylist Shirt with Childhood Photo

Somewhere in her parents’ house there’s a doll with a choppy haircut and a story.

This personalized custom hairstylist shirt turns that story into a retro photo tee: her childhood picture in black and white, HAIRSTYLIST above it and SINCE with the year she started below, both lines in antique gold.

Upload her scissors photo

The doll with the bad haircut

In our sample, a little girl with a sly grin grips a pair of scissors and shows off a doll whose bob is wildly uneven. HAIRSTYLIST runs across the top in tall gold capitals; SINCE 2012 sits underneath in the same gold.

It’s honest about where the career really began, and clients in her chair always ask about it.

No scissors photo? A happy everyday kid picture works too. The legend since tee idea carries the joke either way.

What year should go on the SINCE line?

Whichever one she’s proudest of. Licensing year, the day she opened her own chair, the year she graduated cosmetology school or even the year the doll got that haircut. We print the number exactly as typed, which makes it a custom year shirt as much as a photo one.

Ordering steps

Pick a tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie and size.
Choose the shirt color; the gold text stays put.
Upload her childhood photo and type the year. We replace the sample girl with your picture.
Check out. Completed example: a second-grade photo with her bangs freshly self-cut, year 2009.

Why her first bad haircut belongs on the shirt

Salon shirts are mostly script logos and a pair of shears
Chair anniversaries pass without anyone marking the year
Regulars know her work but not where it started

Almost every stylist started practicing on a doll, a sister or a very patient dog. Her kid photo with scissors in hand sits between HAIRSTYLIST and her SINCE year in tall gold capitals, so the choppy doll bob becomes the punchline.

Old prints can be photographed in daylight without flash. Choose waist-up kid shots in everyday clothes, and skip swim, bath or leotard pictures.

Who usually gets it

Usually the stylist buys it herself for a chair anniversary, or a salon owner orders one for the whole team. She’s seen plenty of scissors-and-comb clip art and would rather wear the story of the doll she gave a terrible bob at six.

The stylist herself

Marking ten years behind the chair feels better when the shirt shows the six-year-old who started it all.

A salon owner for the team

Each stylist gets her own kid photo and start year, so matching shirts still look different in the mirror.

Her sister

You sat for that very first haircut and still bring it up at dinner, which makes you the right person to send the photo.

A client of ten years

Instead of another gift card at the holidays, you thank her with a laugh she’ll share with every client after you.

Her cosmetology school bestie

You were there for the mannequin heads and state boards, so a birthday gift with her childhood photo lands.

Start her hairstylist tee

Fabric and fit

The Comfort Colors 1717 tee is garment-dyed and made of 6.1 oz, 100% ring-spun cotton, S to 4XL, and it holds up to long days behind the chair.

For cooler salons, the 1566 crewneck (80/20 fleece, S to 3XL) and the 1567 hoodie (preshrunk 80/20 fleece, jersey-lined hood, pouch pocket, S to 2XL) are the comfy picks. All three are relaxed unisex; size up one or two on fleece for oversized.

Measurements are on the size guide page. Behind the chair in winter, the Comfort Colors 6014 long sleeve (S to 3XL) is another option.

Youth tees in XS to XL and Rabbit Skins 3326 toddler hoodies in 2T to 5/6T are on the size list too.

Printing is DTF or DTG depending on garment. We produce it in 1 to 3 business days, and USPS tracked delivery runs 3 to 5 business days. See shipping details.

Free US shipping on 2 or more items, or on any order of $75 or more.
A single item ships for a flat $5.99.
Misprinted or the wrong item? Send a photo within 15 days of delivery and we replace it or refund you.

Type her start year

Hairstylist shirt questions

Can I replace SINCE with another word?

SINCE is a fixed part of this layout, and your year prints right after it. Want a name line instead? Several of our other job designs have one.

Will an old, faded photo print well?

Usually, yes. Black and white conversion hides color fading. Shoot it straight on in good light and avoid glare.

Can product labels or a salon brand show in the picture?

No. Product labels, logos, brand names and characters are left off, and we don’t print celebrities, rappers or other public figures. Only send photos you own. If an order includes that kind of image, it’s canceled and refunded in full.

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