So you're looking for a
beauty school? You're looking for a Trend Setting beauty school!
What should you look for?
One of the very first things you should consider is where you will
work. Are you going to work at a top end salon or a walk in place.
If you're going to work at a top end salon, you need top end skills. If
you're going to work at a cheaper walk in place, your skills are less
important.
Are there any beauty schools in your area with top level skills they
can teach you to get a job in a top end salon?
What are the trend setting salons in your area? Call a couple of them
and ask where THEY would recommend you to attend.
Are you going to work in a salon where hair color is important?
What are the qualifications of the instructors at the school you're
interested in. ARE they trained in color?
Are they trained INTERNATIONALLY? Will you be satisfied by someone who
was trained down the street who went down the street, etc?
There are fashion centers of the world where color techniques and
fashion trends begin. In other words, there are hairstyle trend setters.
Will you be learning these new international techniques or just the
basics, or perhaps, not even that?
What type of color does the school you're looking at use? Are they
cheap, progressive, poor quality colors or are they high quality
Italian hair colors?
What's so important about Italian hair colors? Italian hair colors use
the smallest pigments available which means that they can use the
lowest levels of ammonia.
What about "ammonia free" hair color lines? Find out what the
replacement chemical is. There is a lot of tricky wording and packaging
going on in the beauty industry.
Some really natural SOUNDING product lines simply mix a small amount of
herbs in one room and then wheel in this very weak tea and then mix the
other ingredients,
which allows them to list the herbal content higher on the label. There
are many other products which are much more natural and that contain a
much higher percentage of
natural ingredients, but they mix all of the products in the same room,
so the herbal ingredients are listed lower on the label, even though
there are more natural
ingredients in these products.
The same kind of thing happens with hair colors. Some hair color makers
simply remove the ammonia and then replace it with an ammonia
derivative. This ammonia derivative
works in exactly the same way, so in a way it is simply another case of
deceptive advertising. Some products will claim that they are "peroxide
free", which means their product
contains NO Hydrogen Peroxide which is represented as H2O2. Instead,
their product uses the Hydrogen trioxide, which is represented as H2O3.
After a couple of
minutes of processing, one of the Oxygen molecules evaporates and then
your product begins processing with Hydrogen Peroxide, the very
chemical
they claim that their product does not contain. They claim that the
reason their products have no peroxide is that they don't like the
results of peroxide,
but of course, trioxide has a much stronger result which causes more
damage than peroxide. This is deceptive advertising.
So, what kind of training have the instructors have at the school
you're interested in?
Check out some of the reviews for any school you're interested in. Did
people receive good training? Are the clients happy with their services?
Check out the Better Business Bureau. You can check out almost any
business online. Does the school you're looking at have a good rating?
Or ANY rating?
Go to the school you're interested in and ask to speak with some of
their students. Will they even allow you to do this?
You can find out what the school REALLY does instead of just what the
school tells you they do.
In a nutshell... IS the school you're interested in truly a "trend
setter", or are they just the closest, the biggest or the oldest beauty
school in town.
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