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How To Master Customer Service Skills for Your Cosmetology Career
You want to go into cosmetology because you have an eye for fashion and style and you enjoy helping people look their best. Besides knowing the up and coming fashion trends and how to properly maneuver tools and equipment, you’ll also need excellent communication skills and a friendly, outgoing personality. Whether you want to go […]
How to Take Care of Your Haircutting Shears
Haircutting shears, also called haircutting scissors are the lifeblood of any cosmetologist. Without shears, a haircutting professional would not be able to do his or her job. To those who aren’t in the haircutting or barbering professions, shears may appear to only be a pair of odd looking scissors. Shears, however, are big investments as […]
It’s Time to Change Beauty School Dropout to Beauty School Graduate
Originally posted Jan. 6th 2014. Updated with new information. There’s a popular song from the musical, Grease, simply called “Beauty School Dropout.” In it, one of the character’s works to convince the other that it’s time to go back to high school and focus on a more “mundane” or “usual” career. The singer was sure this […]
10 Tips for Choosing the Right Beauty School
Originally posted Jun 21st 2011. Updated with new information. A career in the beauty industry is an opportunity to have an impact on someone’s life every day. In Nicholas French’s words: “With a pair of scissors and comb and a brush, you can make people happy, you can make people cry, you can make people miserable, […]
Kickstart Your Beauty Career
A career in beauty or cosmetology is a fun, exciting and rewarding one. The career is popular for both young students right out of high school and adults who want a career change. As simple as applying make-up or cutting and styling hair appears, there are technical aspects that must be learned and perfected. Proficiency […]
How to Make the Most of Cosmetology School
You’ve always enjoyed helping people look their best, so without a second thought, you decide to go to cosmetology school. You’re excited to become a professional cosmetologist, however, the idea of going to school, taking classes and examinations sound less than thrilling. Unfortunately, some students see cosmetology school as just that, a necessary evil to […]