All of us in beauty school come from different routes all converging into one. It doesn't matter where you come from but where you are now and what you're doing with your time in the present. The cosmetology program at the Cinta Aveda Institute has students from every walk of life, age and cultural background all under one roof and for the same reason that we all are quite obsessed with hair. Being in such an awesome lively unusual city of San Francisco where you may find many different tastes in style be it square to edgey to playing it safe.
When you start, you know you are investing your time (1600 hours) and money (more or less $25,000) into the cosmetology program because somehow at some point in your life you became interested in doing hair. It really doesn't matter, whether you liked torturing your baby sister holding her down to cut her hair (sounds dangerous) or experimented on your own tresses by bleaching the hell out of them and then dying it green and then watching it slowly fall off your scalp. After you have mastered the baby steps such as holding a blowdryer correctly (yes it feels awkward at first) and finding the courage to snip off more than an inch with your new "shears" (not scissors) from your beloved dollhead which seems to become an extension of your own fashion sense (mine has black nail polish lips and funky 'dos on the regular), then you're ready to take on the human race. However it all sounds short and sweet, but boy is that not true.
I am currently 1100 hours in. At first it went by slowly, with my short attention span that has plagued me throughout my life, the theoretical part needed some extra attention especially when it comes to safety of the client and hygiene standadrds one needs to uphold and surprisingly all this I found quite interesting, whereas back in the day trying to keep my eyes open during Physics and Chemistry was a painfully difficult task. Once you start taking clients a whole new world opens up to you and its then that you realize if you are meant to do hair or..if its just not your thing. Here are a few images I took of the cuts and color I have done.
Mens hair cut, fade with pomp
Bangs and Long Layers
Concave Graduation with a backwards flow and face framing
When you start, you know you are investing your time (1600 hours) and money (more or less $25,000) into the cosmetology program because somehow at some point in your life you became interested in doing hair. It really doesn't matter, whether you liked torturing your baby sister holding her down to cut her hair (sounds dangerous) or experimented on your own tresses by bleaching the hell out of them and then dying it green and then watching it slowly fall off your scalp. After you have mastered the baby steps such as holding a blowdryer correctly (yes it feels awkward at first) and finding the courage to snip off more than an inch with your new "shears" (not scissors) from your beloved dollhead which seems to become an extension of your own fashion sense (mine has black nail polish lips and funky 'dos on the regular), then you're ready to take on the human race. However it all sounds short and sweet, but boy is that not true.
I am currently 1100 hours in. At first it went by slowly, with my short attention span that has plagued me throughout my life, the theoretical part needed some extra attention especially when it comes to safety of the client and hygiene standadrds one needs to uphold and surprisingly all this I found quite interesting, whereas back in the day trying to keep my eyes open during Physics and Chemistry was a painfully difficult task. Once you start taking clients a whole new world opens up to you and its then that you realize if you are meant to do hair or..if its just not your thing. Here are a few images I took of the cuts and color I have done.
Mens hair cut, fade with pomp
Bangs and Long Layers
Concave Graduation with a backwards flow and face framing
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