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Wednesday, February 02, 2011
So far...
Services so far:
Teachers
Let's cover the teachers, and who's done what, who does what.
The 3 classes in one, we had Ms. Alphabet, let's change her name to Ms. Atlas. It's not much better, but a bit better. There was also Mrs. Polka-dot, and Mr. Levi.
At the time: Ms. Delores was teaching 360.
Mr. Sugar was on the salon floor.
Ms. Cameron was teaching advanced.
Mrs. Jackson was what I guess you could call a vice-principal.
Mr. Menton was the "principal.
Mr. Levi taught the small class of pre-salon.
Mrs. Polka-dot and Ms. Atlas taught the classroom with 2 pre-salon classes in it.
After a few weeks, a month or two, perhaps. Mrs. Polk-dot went to the Advanced classroom.
Ms. Cameron and Mr. Levi went to the large pre-salon classroom, where I was.
Ms. Atlas went to the small classroom.
No one told us about the change, before hand, so it was a bit of a shock when we came to school on Monday and there was chaos.
Now, Ms. Burtly, who taught night classes before, is teaching 360. It's great, she's an awesome lady and a great teacher.
Ms. Delores teaches advanced, and Mrs. Polka-dot teaches night-school. She's the one who wanted the change, Mrs. Polka-dot, I mean. She has 3 little girls and a husband, and wanted to spend more time with them. I can understand that.
Lord knows what else is going to change, by the time we get to advanced. lol The teachers seem to change places like they're doing the cake-walk.
The 3 classes in one, we had Ms. Alphabet, let's change her name to Ms. Atlas. It's not much better, but a bit better. There was also Mrs. Polka-dot, and Mr. Levi.
At the time: Ms. Delores was teaching 360.
Mr. Sugar was on the salon floor.
Ms. Cameron was teaching advanced.
Mrs. Jackson was what I guess you could call a vice-principal.
Mr. Menton was the "principal.
Mr. Levi taught the small class of pre-salon.
Mrs. Polka-dot and Ms. Atlas taught the classroom with 2 pre-salon classes in it.
After a few weeks, a month or two, perhaps. Mrs. Polk-dot went to the Advanced classroom.
Ms. Cameron and Mr. Levi went to the large pre-salon classroom, where I was.
Ms. Atlas went to the small classroom.
No one told us about the change, before hand, so it was a bit of a shock when we came to school on Monday and there was chaos.
Now, Ms. Burtly, who taught night classes before, is teaching 360. It's great, she's an awesome lady and a great teacher.
Ms. Delores teaches advanced, and Mrs. Polka-dot teaches night-school. She's the one who wanted the change, Mrs. Polka-dot, I mean. She has 3 little girls and a husband, and wanted to spend more time with them. I can understand that.
Lord knows what else is going to change, by the time we get to advanced. lol The teachers seem to change places like they're doing the cake-walk.
Change of Topic
My main point on here is to talk about Cosmetology school. But I've been there for 5 months. It's hard to narrow it down to certain things. I'll probably go into detail about each section they taught us, what was hard, and what wasn't.
But I'm also going to talk about class, and what's going on now.
So far in my 360 class, I've done my grandmother's Perm, manicure, hair cut, and pedicure. The hardest things about doing my grandmothers 4 services were remembering the steps to a pedicure, and cutting curly hair. I swear, I thought I was going to cut my fingers off. It was my first time cutting real curly hair.
Note: The one thing I can tell you about class, is take VERY GOOD NOTES. You'll need note cards once you get to the floor.
Note: Doing the things you learn in class, on real hair, is nothing like doing them on the mannequins.
I've also done my step-fathers hair. A guy named Joseph helped me out with the clipper cut and blending. They don't teach you most of that in class. We hardly talked about clipper-cutting at all.
Tomorrow I cut Sean's hair. He is going from the shaggy look, to the largest clipper cut, a number 8, I think. I don't know how it'll look, but since he's my Fiance, I'll still love him. :D
That adds up to 5 services.
I would have done his hair today, at 1:45. But yesterday, after doing my step father's hair, I hit my head really hard on the salon station. I blacked out. I was decently ok, besides kind of dizzy, and a headache. I took the ice they gave me, and went home. Today, I went to school and it started getting really bad. My friend in class, Melissa, took me to the hospital. They did a Cat scan, that thing's pretty fun. Turns out I don't have a concussion, but they did give me some friggin AWESOME headache medicine. They also wrote me out for today and tomorrow. I'm still going in to do Sean's hair. It's buggin' him pretty badly, and I can't do it on Friday.
It'll give me 6 services.
Note: In Cosmetology school, to do color on someone, you need to bring them in 2 days before and do a patch test. You mix some blonde-color (we call it a level 7-10) and put it behind their ear. It's for insurance purposes, to make sure they won't react to the coloring while it's on their head. I'll get into this more later, when I get into the color section.
But I'm also going to talk about class, and what's going on now.
So far in my 360 class, I've done my grandmother's Perm, manicure, hair cut, and pedicure. The hardest things about doing my grandmothers 4 services were remembering the steps to a pedicure, and cutting curly hair. I swear, I thought I was going to cut my fingers off. It was my first time cutting real curly hair.
Note: The one thing I can tell you about class, is take VERY GOOD NOTES. You'll need note cards once you get to the floor.
Note: Doing the things you learn in class, on real hair, is nothing like doing them on the mannequins.
I've also done my step-fathers hair. A guy named Joseph helped me out with the clipper cut and blending. They don't teach you most of that in class. We hardly talked about clipper-cutting at all.
Tomorrow I cut Sean's hair. He is going from the shaggy look, to the largest clipper cut, a number 8, I think. I don't know how it'll look, but since he's my Fiance, I'll still love him. :D
That adds up to 5 services.
I would have done his hair today, at 1:45. But yesterday, after doing my step father's hair, I hit my head really hard on the salon station. I blacked out. I was decently ok, besides kind of dizzy, and a headache. I took the ice they gave me, and went home. Today, I went to school and it started getting really bad. My friend in class, Melissa, took me to the hospital. They did a Cat scan, that thing's pretty fun. Turns out I don't have a concussion, but they did give me some friggin AWESOME headache medicine. They also wrote me out for today and tomorrow. I'm still going in to do Sean's hair. It's buggin' him pretty badly, and I can't do it on Friday.
It'll give me 6 services.
Note: In Cosmetology school, to do color on someone, you need to bring them in 2 days before and do a patch test. You mix some blonde-color (we call it a level 7-10) and put it behind their ear. It's for insurance purposes, to make sure they won't react to the coloring while it's on their head. I'll get into this more later, when I get into the color section.
The Drama... OH, the Drama....
So... In cosmetology school, you don't get very many straight guys, but there are a few. If there weren't any, I'm afraid we'd kill each other.
In my school, there are about 5 straight guys, not counting Mr. Levi, who's married with kids. But he's a teacher, he doesn't count :D
The rest of the hundred or more students in my school are made up of gay guys and females. Needless to say, there is WAY too much estrogen in Cosmetology schools. Though the new kids make the most drama. We get a new class, every 6 weeks, because every 6 weeks there's a new class moving into 360. Needless to say, it's the calmest before the storm. By that I mean it takes 3-5 weeks to get the new kids accustomed and broken down.
My class was really bad. It took us, 12 weeks to be ok with each other and we're still bickering a bit. But that's to be expected, every once in a while. But the bickering is nothing compared to what used to go down. The students we just got in are pretty bad, they are like us, but quiet, and no one likes them. For some reason they think they're better than everyone else. They'll be taken care of eventually.
My first week? I moved someone's lunch, so I could get to my snack. (We get a "break" of 5 minutes or less, that they call a "stretcher" twice a day. It's usually around 10:30 and 2:30. Lunch is usually at 12 or 12:30. School is from 9-4:30.) She had put her lunch on top of my stuff, and I forgot to move it back. She accused me, in front of the class, about stealing/eating her lunch. I didn't put up with it and talked to the teacher about it. Well, me and her are actually pretty good now. It was just a lot of stress, being in the classroom. And new students cause a fair bit of chaos. The tension was high.
Think you don't find racism, sexism, etc. in cosmetology school? Think again. People are talked about because of their race, because of their sexual orientation, anything to gossip about.
We had one girl name Goldie, that threatened to bring a gun to school and shoot us. They didn't do much but send her home that day, and move her to the class beside us. We started making a fuss about it. Most of us actually LEFT the school. That caught the "Principals" attention and talked to us about it. The girl ended up being dropped.
Being out of the classroom is amazing though. It helps you not have as much drama. You're not stuck in a small, closed in place, with a huge class.
My class started off with a class of 30-ish, like most classes do. By the time we got to 360, there were only 15 of us. People thin out pretty fast. They either can't pay for the school, or miss too many hours.
Recently, they've been dropping people right and left, for various reasons. It's pretty bad, I've noticed the school looking almost vacant.
The new class we just got? There's a girl we all call Elvis. She has the HUGE hair flip that Elvis had. Hence her name. She's beginning to be just like Goldie. She threatened a girl named Julie, because of her sexual orientation. Julie, may be gay, but we all love her, she cracks us up and keeps things light. She threatened to KILL her, after Julie blew up at her for what she said, and her friend Amanda joined in too. I don't know how that ended, the only thing I know is that Julie was sent home early.
Rumors fly around schools like wild fire, especially small ones, like mine. It's like it feeds us, or something.
In my school, there are about 5 straight guys, not counting Mr. Levi, who's married with kids. But he's a teacher, he doesn't count :D
The rest of the hundred or more students in my school are made up of gay guys and females. Needless to say, there is WAY too much estrogen in Cosmetology schools. Though the new kids make the most drama. We get a new class, every 6 weeks, because every 6 weeks there's a new class moving into 360. Needless to say, it's the calmest before the storm. By that I mean it takes 3-5 weeks to get the new kids accustomed and broken down.
My class was really bad. It took us, 12 weeks to be ok with each other and we're still bickering a bit. But that's to be expected, every once in a while. But the bickering is nothing compared to what used to go down. The students we just got in are pretty bad, they are like us, but quiet, and no one likes them. For some reason they think they're better than everyone else. They'll be taken care of eventually.
My first week? I moved someone's lunch, so I could get to my snack. (We get a "break" of 5 minutes or less, that they call a "stretcher" twice a day. It's usually around 10:30 and 2:30. Lunch is usually at 12 or 12:30. School is from 9-4:30.) She had put her lunch on top of my stuff, and I forgot to move it back. She accused me, in front of the class, about stealing/eating her lunch. I didn't put up with it and talked to the teacher about it. Well, me and her are actually pretty good now. It was just a lot of stress, being in the classroom. And new students cause a fair bit of chaos. The tension was high.
Think you don't find racism, sexism, etc. in cosmetology school? Think again. People are talked about because of their race, because of their sexual orientation, anything to gossip about.
We had one girl name Goldie, that threatened to bring a gun to school and shoot us. They didn't do much but send her home that day, and move her to the class beside us. We started making a fuss about it. Most of us actually LEFT the school. That caught the "Principals" attention and talked to us about it. The girl ended up being dropped.
Being out of the classroom is amazing though. It helps you not have as much drama. You're not stuck in a small, closed in place, with a huge class.
My class started off with a class of 30-ish, like most classes do. By the time we got to 360, there were only 15 of us. People thin out pretty fast. They either can't pay for the school, or miss too many hours.
Recently, they've been dropping people right and left, for various reasons. It's pretty bad, I've noticed the school looking almost vacant.
The new class we just got? There's a girl we all call Elvis. She has the HUGE hair flip that Elvis had. Hence her name. She's beginning to be just like Goldie. She threatened a girl named Julie, because of her sexual orientation. Julie, may be gay, but we all love her, she cracks us up and keeps things light. She threatened to KILL her, after Julie blew up at her for what she said, and her friend Amanda joined in too. I don't know how that ended, the only thing I know is that Julie was sent home early.
Rumors fly around schools like wild fire, especially small ones, like mine. It's like it feeds us, or something.
First of all...
Ok. In this post, I will not mention real names, or the real name of my school. I don't want to be sued. So I will make up names, might be fun. You won't care anyway, you don't know these people.
I go to a Beauty School in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's a small school, and eco-friendly, most the schools around here, are. If you ever have any questions, just comment, and I'll get back to you.
The first thing we did in school, was learn hair cutting. That was a complete mess. 3 weeks, two on women and 1 on mens. We started off in the large advanced classroom. There were 3 classes in one classroom, we had 3 teachers in there too. But it was still pretty crazy. The other classrooms were taken up by some type of meeting or something, that lasted the entire time. Each teacher had their own style, and told us different things. Of course, they also had 3 groups of students, each at a different level, to focus on. So we didn't get too much attention.
Everything calmed down a lot when we got to our own class rooms. Two groups went to the larger, pre-salon classroom. Taught by Ms. alphabet and Ms. Polka-Dot. The other class, which was more advanced, but still pre-salon, went to the smaller classroom taught by Mr. Levi.
I have no idea where the advanced class was, when we were in their classroom, but they moved in whenever we left. There's also a class called 360. After a few months in pre-salon, you move to 360 for 3 weeks. Where you review everything you learned, and do 15 free services. Then move to advanced.
Just so we're clear, this is what happens in each class.
Pre-salon: Learning on Mannequins, taking a LOT of notes, and taking a LOT of tests. I've been in school since Sept. 13th, 2010, and I moved to my first week of 360 on the 24th of January, 2011. You can do the math, yourself. This is my second week, and I've only done 6 services. Hopefully I'll get enough done to graduate. In order to GO to 360, you have to pass the 360 test. It isn't that hard, but you have to get an 80 to pass.
360: You're here for 3 weeks. Our first week we did all the review. Leaving us Mannequin work and services for the last 2 weeks. I don't know what the teacher for 360, does for the other 3 weeks, before the next class comes in, but I think that's irrelevant. You used to have 15 clients. But now we only have to do 15 services, I don't know what happened. I guess they took pity on us.
Advanced: In advanced you do two things. Salon floor and class work. If you're in class Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, on this week, then next week you'll only be there Tuesday and Thursday. The great thing about advanced is you pretty much run the school, and can take lunch whenever you want.
I go to a Beauty School in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's a small school, and eco-friendly, most the schools around here, are. If you ever have any questions, just comment, and I'll get back to you.
The first thing we did in school, was learn hair cutting. That was a complete mess. 3 weeks, two on women and 1 on mens. We started off in the large advanced classroom. There were 3 classes in one classroom, we had 3 teachers in there too. But it was still pretty crazy. The other classrooms were taken up by some type of meeting or something, that lasted the entire time. Each teacher had their own style, and told us different things. Of course, they also had 3 groups of students, each at a different level, to focus on. So we didn't get too much attention.
Everything calmed down a lot when we got to our own class rooms. Two groups went to the larger, pre-salon classroom. Taught by Ms. alphabet and Ms. Polka-Dot. The other class, which was more advanced, but still pre-salon, went to the smaller classroom taught by Mr. Levi.
I have no idea where the advanced class was, when we were in their classroom, but they moved in whenever we left. There's also a class called 360. After a few months in pre-salon, you move to 360 for 3 weeks. Where you review everything you learned, and do 15 free services. Then move to advanced.
Just so we're clear, this is what happens in each class.
Pre-salon: Learning on Mannequins, taking a LOT of notes, and taking a LOT of tests. I've been in school since Sept. 13th, 2010, and I moved to my first week of 360 on the 24th of January, 2011. You can do the math, yourself. This is my second week, and I've only done 6 services. Hopefully I'll get enough done to graduate. In order to GO to 360, you have to pass the 360 test. It isn't that hard, but you have to get an 80 to pass.
360: You're here for 3 weeks. Our first week we did all the review. Leaving us Mannequin work and services for the last 2 weeks. I don't know what the teacher for 360, does for the other 3 weeks, before the next class comes in, but I think that's irrelevant. You used to have 15 clients. But now we only have to do 15 services, I don't know what happened. I guess they took pity on us.
Advanced: In advanced you do two things. Salon floor and class work. If you're in class Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, on this week, then next week you'll only be there Tuesday and Thursday. The great thing about advanced is you pretty much run the school, and can take lunch whenever you want.
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