Step One: Start with one green bowl.

Wrapping up my seventh week at school is spent, well, wrapping up hair. Our studies this week have focused on hair styling. Namely, taking straight hair and making it curly. It’s a two-week chapter, and it’s only covering the basics (the rest we will learn in real-time on the salon floor). So far it has [...]

No I’m not talking about my girlie’friend, or my mama or even my baby sister – I’m talking about this new instructor we have for the next couple weeks.
Mind you I’m not pooping on the last three or four instructors I’ve had in my classes. They are perfectly good instructors and I learned a good [...]

I often find myself having difficulty remembering to be patient with difficult people and situations. This isn’t something to be proud of or to say in order to seem “cool.” It’s a problem, a weakness in my character, and one that I continue to work on. So far I’ve done pretty well with this new [...]

I like where your mind is going but, no, that’s not exactly what I’m implying. It wasn’t a full-on facial either, just an impromptu facial without all the wet stuff (steady… I’m talking about toners and exfoliants, you animals), basically a face massage.
While I was pointing out the difference between “effleurage” and “petrissage” she suggested [...]

One thing that takes time getting used to is this large rack of heads that stare at me all day long…

…they’re really weird, and every clas has a hundred of them sitting on a big rack like this one pictured. In the corner is a big ol’ bin full of mannequin hands (for manicures, of [...]

One of our more time-consuming group exercises is the making of posters. Yes, you read that correctly, and by “posters” I’m not throwing out an industry term that actually means something else, I’m talking about large pieces of paper with colored pictures drawn all over them. I’ve been in school a month now and I’ve [...]

We’re moving right along in our list of subjects to tackle, and are presently on the study of nails… otherwise known as “onychology.” I was fairly OK with the academic portion of the chapter, and am getting the hang of knowing the difference between onychogryposis and onychocryptosis (because we will be expected to diagnose stuff [...]

Now that we’re almost a month into the program, I feel perfectly qualified to discuss a few personal frustrations. Yes I have a few of them – even though I’m enjoying school and still feel I’ve made the right choice, I have a few items here and there that I feel a little frustration over.
I [...]

Everyone was told a couple weeks ago to let their hairs grow in because today was to be waxing day! That’s right, today we were to be waxing each other for an exciting day filled with amateur hair removal. I could only imagine the trouble we could get ourselves into!
We arrange the tables, break up [...]