Gems and facets

Two words show up all over Embrly and they mean different things. Gems are earned — they say something about a stylist. Facets are descriptive — they say something about a look. Together they're how you find the right chair instead of the loudest account.

On the web: Discover and any stylist page at embrly.app/@handle. In the app: the My Chair tab.

Gems

A Gem is a milestone a stylist earned by doing the work, not by buying or claiming it. Every one is derived from real activity in the app — looks actually shared, weeks actually kept, notes actually left by clients.

The ladder runs from a first shared look up to a genuinely rare pinnacle. All sixteen, in order:

• First light — first look shared.
• Discovered — three consented looks. This is the one that puts a stylist on Discover.
• Full picture — five before-and-after transformations shared.
• Range — looks across four or more specialties.
• Booked — first booking logged. Visible only to the stylist.
• Rebooked — a client rebooked from their in-chair QR.
• Consistent — a four-week streak. Weekly streaks count for everyone, solo stylists included.
• In demand — $1,000 booked in a single week. Visible only to the stylist.
• Note-worthy — first client note.
• Regular — ten consented looks.
• Well-reviewed — five client notes.
• Kudos century — a hundred kudos received.
• Season — a twelve-week streak.
• Portfolio pro — fifty looks shared.
• Crown — a 26-week streak.
• Radiant — twelve other Gems held.

Booked and In demand are about money, so they never appear on a public page — the stylist sees them on their own shelf and nobody else does.

Streaks and the one-week grace

A streak counts consecutive weeks with a shared look. Miss one week and the streak holds — it just doesn't grow that week. Miss two weeks in a row and it resets. Consistent, Season and Crown are all built on this rule.

If you're a client: the Gems on a stylist's page are worth a tap. Each one reveals what it took to earn it. A shelf of them tells you someone shows up consistently and their clients come back — which is more useful than a follower count.

If you're a stylist: your shelf lives in My Chair, alongside your week streak, shared looks, kudos and client notes. Earned Gems are lit; the rest sit dimmed with the requirement written underneath, so you always know what the next one costs. Nothing here ranks you on followers — the whole ladder is about participation and craft.

Facets

A facet is one attribute of a single look, drawn from a fixed vocabulary across five dimensions:

• Technique — balayage, babylights, foilyage, color melt, money piece, corrective color, gray blending, layered cut, updo, extensions, and more.
• Services — brow shaping, brow tinting, facial waxing, smoothing treatments, toppers.
• Color — blonde, brunette, red, copper, auburn, rooted/dimensional, gray/silver, pastel, vivid, natural.
• Texture — straight, wavy, curly, coily, braided.
• Length — pixie, short, bob/lob, medium, long, extra long.

Stylists don't type these in. When a look is shared with client consent, Embrly reads the photo and assigns its facets automatically. That's the point: because the vocabulary is fixed and applied the same way to every look, "balayage" means the same thing on every page — which a free-text hashtag never manages.

Only real before-and-after transformations get facets. Product and behind-the-scenes shots build a stylist's page but aren't described this way.

How facets power Discover

Discover is the client-facing side of all this: a feed of real, consented transformations, with people and places hanging off it.

The filters at the top of Discover are the facet dimensions, one dropdown each, plus City. Choosing a value takes you to that facet's own page — /discover/balayage, /discover/curly, /discover/gilbert-az — which is a browsable page of matching looks and the stylists behind them.

So a client can go from "I want copper on curly hair, near me" to a specific chair in three taps, and every photo they pass on the way is real work from a real appointment. Tap any look to see the before.

For stylists: this is why sharing consistently matters more than tagging cleverly. Your facets accumulate on their own from the looks you share, and they're what puts you on the specialty and city pages clients actually browse. To appear there, publish your page — Show me on Discover switches on automatically once you've shared three consented looks (the Discovered Gem). The toggle stays as an opt-out: turn it off whenever you like.