#cosmetolgyschool

[fashnme]

I did an 80’s inspired look for #cosmetolgyschool at @avedainstitutenewyork What do you think? 💟 #avedainstitute #nyc #FashNMe (at Lower East Side) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRw0lEgIUKc/?utm_medium=tumblr

[nilvin94]

So as a 24 year old I got hit with chicken pox, didn’t think it would happen to me.. but it did. My face used to be clear and with no scars or anything. So it took a bit of time to get used to my face, I don’t normally wear lots of makeup, and after I got chicken pox I decided I didn’t want to try and cover it up, only if I had something special to do.. so I am embracing it. I get comments from my friends about how it’s a big change because well I never used to have anything at all. But now I do, and thanks to skin care it’s getting better. I am studying to be a dermatologist with specials in spa. So I am used to using skin care. What I use is dermalogica and is clinical.

[emopenguinx3]

Hey Guys! I would really like your help to make my dream come true! If some of you don't know, I'm trying to make my dream of becoming a hair colorist a reality! You probably figured from how many times I've colored my hair! It's an absolute passion of mine. My dream is to work hard to get my cosmetology license, eventually go and attend a specialist class for coloring. In between all that I will hopefully be working in a salon, working on people helping them feel as confident as possible. Eventually after all that I would love to have my own salon. I want this so bad, because I want to make people feel as confident as they can. I want to bring out their true selves, and feel comfortable being their true selves. Whether that being going blonde to brown. Or going something crazy like dark brown to aquamarine. Too many people tell us who we can be and how we can look. I want to make a place where people feel comfortable and confident once I'm done with them, like they can do anything in this world. I thought I'd explain my long term dream just to give you a little taste of how much this actually means to me. Anything helps, even sharing this can help big time. Thank you so much

[keisikuro]

Just another boring day ~~

[anmariesbeauty]

Originally a light brown ombré.

[eileentheraven]

I have done a lot of different make up techniques recently. Recently I have been testing out new lip looks from a gloss technique, a killer purple/black ombre, and this alien purple.

The more I do, the more I want to pursue as a career.

[itsdoordye-blog]

It’s Do or Dye : The Beginning

A journey into the cosmetology world can be a perilous one. A chosen path riddled with frustration, broken pallets and uneven wings. My journey started when I was around the age of five. Taking ques from my mother as she, flawlessly, caked on her make up and finessed her hair every morning in the bathroom mirror. My curiosity quickly grew. I had many questions to ask but they all boiled down to one thing. I wanted to know why? Why in the world was it so necessary to paint on a whole new face everyday? Did she know that her foundation, sadly, was not her color? I mean, I didn't know that at the time either but, that's beside the point. The point was, and still is, that I wanted to know. I  wanted to know all I could about this witchcraft esq. way of life. Every morning,  In those fleeting moments, I found a certain sense of being. Like a purpose in life. It was love at first sight and from that point on I was eager to pursue my new found passion.

Fast forward to middle school. I was determined, through thick concealer and thin foundation, that this was the perfect time to recreate a whole new me. A new me modeled by my hands and the world of make up. I spent most of my free time practicing my new found techniques in applying makeup to create that new me that I so desperately wanted. More often than not this left me staring frustratingly into the mirror and I would find myself needing to cool off. Once I got too overwhelmed, I would go watch a movie to calm myself. I ended watching a lot of horror movies and, to my surprise, I became captivated by the artistry that was being showcased on the screen. You see, the horror movies I loved were still very partial to using special effects makeup rather than CGI. I fell in love with the idea of being able to handcraft fear to be very exciting and, for lack of a better word, cool! I wanted to be able to do the same. It made me even more excited knowing that I could achieve that goal, also, through make up. Maybe the new me that I wanted could also have a darkside. It was a cool thought and so, it started.

YouTube started to be my escape from the world. My personalized home away from home. I was learning as much as I could about special effects and prop making, as well as everyday makeup, and It all got saved to my home screen. That way I could always return to review anything I had learned previously. Taking what I learned from all the videos, I began creating my own monsters. Sadly, since I was just starting out, the scariest part about anything that I had was the amount of money, trial, and errors involved in making my dream work. However, I was determined. After all Rome wasn’t  built in a day. Even they needed the perfect foundation. So I work hard to advance in my craft and become the artist I wanted to be. The artist I dreamed of being.

As time went on, I realized that I didn’t want to pinhole myself to the area of special effects. I knew there was so much more in the makeup industry for me to conquer. I went searching for cosmetology schools so I could continue to further my education in the field I so desperately wanted to succeed in. I starting touring each and every cosmetology school that caught my eye. Contemplating which one I would trust to steer me in the right direction. My determination in finding the perfect school me grew with every new school I entered. At first, I couldn’t find that one school that was “me”.  Either the school's atmosphere felt stagnant or their education plan just wasn’t the right fit for me and my goals. I wanted to find a place that showed interest in their students and truly cared about their lifelong goals. Scouring the internet for hours and endless google searches, after a while, yielded no new leads to aid in the journey of finding the perfect school. Or so I thought until, luckily I came across The Aveda Institute amongst a gaggle of opened tabs and purple links. I jumped straight into reading the online reviews and calling anyone and everyone I knew trying to find out more about it. I was surprised and very excited to hear only good things about the school. I then finally figured, why not tour? I emailed admissions and almost immediately the had me scheduled to come in.

The day I came in I was joyously greeted by one of the admissions advisors at Aveda. Her name was Brittany and my attention was automatically drawn to her winged eyeliner  and I thought to myself that If this school was half as stunning as her eyeliner then this might just be the place for me. She guided me around the school showing me anything and everything. The classrooms, spa room, clinic floor and I found myself in awe with how committed this school was to providing their students with the best learning environment possible. I’d never come a school with instructors that seemed so passionate about how well their students did in and out of the classroom. Classrooms were filled with art created by the students. The clinic floor had students focused entirely on guests and doing their best all while instructors were standing by eager to see the work their students could produce and step in if ever need be. I was dead set on beginning my journey here in at Aveda and I couldn't start soon enough.

As I sat down with Brittany to enroll into the school, I was told about the Horst Rechelbacher Scholarship. As she went more into detail about the scholarship, I was really second guessing myself. I didn’t think that a person like me could, or even should for the matter, compete in anything like that. Afterall my journey in the art of cosmetology seemed like it had only just begun. Although I didn't feel confident at all in my ability to compete in this event Brittany’s kind words and my mother's care and motivation were the real deciding factor in signing up. So I did.

For the scholarship, the goal was to create your own hair and makeup design. The task at hand seemed simple enough so I figured that I put my love for theatrical makeup to use. I felt it would really give my entry that personal touch I wanted everyone to see and I had just the look to showcase that. Ever since I could remember, I’ve always idolized the idea of Medusa. Being a beautiful and terrifyingly vicious woman, Medusa was the story book version of the person I wanted to be. I quickly grabbed my sister, drove to all of the make up stores I could think of and began prepping.

The day of the competition my nerves were in shambles. I sat in the parking lot for a good twenty minutes trying to decide whether or not I was really sure if I could do this. Was I really sure that I could do this? Would I cry if I didn't win? I had to force the negativity out. I had to remind myself that I’m Morgan Carey and I can do anything I put my mind to. I grabbed my makeup case, took a big sip of coffee, and faced my fears.

Once in there, we were given stations to begin our work in. I began unloading my makeup and hair kit and I found myself looking at everything I had compared to  what everyone else had. I felt so out of place and ill prepared but, just like always, I was determined. The countdown to start began and my heart started racing. It was now or never so I got to work as soon as it was time to start. I started out by sectioning the hair and using my curling wand to create tight curls that would later layer up and create a lion’s mane effect. I then made bantu knots at the front hairline to create a crown look. At that point I weaved snakes through the knots. Once finished with the hair I began on the makeup. I used a slightly pale foundation on my sister and brought it down to her neck and chest and then took a sparkly light green eye shadow and put it around her front hair line while simultaneously, blending it onto the cheekbones and forehead. Using a piece of fishnet pantyhose, I stretched it across her forehead to create the base of her new scaley complexion and used a teal eyeshadow to finish off the scale effect. I then moved to the cheekbones, applied the scales, and did a light contour with black eyeshadow. I used all of my eyeshadows to give her a deep look in her eyes, and then applied a black lipstick.  Finally, I was done with my masterpiece and It made me feel like a queen of my craft.

We were than lined up to go talk to the judges so we could explain our creations to them. Once it was my turn, all of the excitement that had built up in me previously came flowing out of my mouth all at once in the form of word vomit. I frantically explained to them my hopes and dreams of having my own cosmetic company,  moving to Los Angeles, and, most of all, I explained to the judges just how much cosmetology meant to me. Once through, I was then escorted to a photo station to take photos with my model.  

The wait time had begun and It felt like it was taking years to find out the result of the competition when, in reality, it was closer to a month. All of the competitors were invited to attend the Earth Jam fashion show that the Aveda Institute held every year. This also happened to be the event where the scholarship winner would be announced. Throughout the whole show I was paralyzingly anxious. Though with my boyfriend beside me and my parents behind me, I knew I had a great support system in place for whatever was to come out of the results. At the end of the show they announced the winner and all the people who participated in the competition were on the edge of their seats. The moment of truth was here and the winner was me?! They called the name Morgan Carey so I thought it had to be me, right? To be completely frank I was shocked. Especially after I spoke utter nonsense in front of the judging table. I was called up to the stage to give an acceptance speech, which of course, I proceeded to word vomit my way through that ordeal. With the room in, what felt like, an awkward and quiet stand still, I  exited the stage. Proud of what I had done and it was met with a reassuring applause from the audience

The night of stress and excitement had ended with dinner and much needed family time. This was the start of my much awaited journey at The Aveda Institute and it couldn't have started off any better. I could tell from the moment I signed up to this school that it was going to be a step in the right direction. I’m happy to see that I was right.

[talesofabeautician-blog1]

I hate how people constantly put us down. I didn't put 20,000 dollars down in schooling to be always be told that just because someone had a stylist they didn't like once that we are all the same.

[marthawasugly]

HELP!

I have questions for someone in cosmetology school or that has graduated from one! Or maybe someone currently employed at a salon or shop! Please message me! I don't wanna go into a salon and make an ass of myself!

[choicebarber-blog]

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[caught-with-you]

Cosmetology Student

Alright so I'm probably around my 700 hour marker of my cosmetology schooling out of 1500. I love the beauty industry and feel as if I've really started to find myself in this industry (thank God cause nursing wasn't doing it for me). Now, going to a school with all female students, and literally only 2 males in the entire building, is hard enough as it is for me. I usually don't work well with other girls. At the beginning everyone got along amazingly and nobody gossiped or anything.. However, ever since my class has started on the clinic floor, (which was back in August), there has been so much gossiping between these 4 girls. I normally ignore the gossip but it's gotten to the point where they are literally talking shit about our instructors and other staff members. And they don't care who hears them talk shit either. Plenty of people have went to our school director about these fields and he doesn't give a fuck because tbh these girls kiss his ass so much. The one girl literally says everyday that she hates the school and she should just drop out but she won't drop.

Honestly, I'm just wondering how stuff like this gets handled in other schools. I'm not gonna make my school because that could definitely start some shit😳

I'm just tired of the bullshit and tired of nobody listening to us when we complain.

Deep breath and count to 10....

[nicolemariesalon-blog]

Do what you love, love what you do... AND KEEP. GETTING. BETTER!

As firm believers in ongoing education, we are always searching for new opportunities and different ways to improve ourselves and our work. Using both our knowledge and talents, we thought we would take a chance and put ourselves out there by offering something new right out of our very own home. On Monday, November 20th, Nicole Marie Salon provided its first ever education course that focused on all things bridal. The 4 hour class hosted 12 very talented stylists that came to enhance their knowledge of the bridal business, updo’s and preparation for a client’s big day. Some of the most talented women from both local salons and afar, spent their day perfecting their craft together, under one roof- OURS!

From the beginning planning stages, we were devoted to creating a relaxed atmosphere that was both informative and enjoyable and we kept one goal in mind: leave better than you came. We hoped that everyone would have a meaningful experience and leave feeling that they are now a greater stylist. We wanted to push our own selves out of our comfort zone and grow as educators. The learning experience for all was AMAZING. The support and positivity towards one another was energetic. With the hands-on engagement, the questions, the positive vibes- you could feel that each girl was truly tuned in to perfecting their craft and dedicating themselves to becoming better at what they love to do.

The group of stylists plus other salon owners began their day with conversations centered on how to schedule brides, the importance of trials and the key components of up and down do’s. They then got to see a firsthand tutorial of three different looks that are most commonly asked for by brides and their bridal parties. Top products, techniques and must-have tools were some of the many tips shared on how to execute the desired outcome.

After watching and learning, the stylists were invited to put all that they learned into action. It’s well known that no hair can be completely duplicated, but these ladies put what they were taught into practice and created stellar looks that any woman would love to wear. They embraced feedback, changed their approach of creating common styles and in turn, evolved new looks that were original and unique in their own ways.

At Nicole Marie Salon we believe that you can always polish and refine yourself. This experience not only helped other stylists strengthen their skills but enabled us to serve as teachers. It allowed us to put our knowledge and expertise to use in other ways that are a part of this growing industry. We realized that when one teaches, two learn and we couldn’t have been more pleased with the beneficial outcome for all that were involved in our first educational class- including ourselves. This is the first of many ways we plan to share with others all we know about this field. Continuing to invest in our selves is a must! And we open up our doors to anyone else wanting to do so. Do what you love, love what you do, and keep getting better!!

SAVE THE DATE!!!

December 11th 

CUT CREASE GLAM MAKEUP Hands-on Workshop

Click here for more details and ticket purchasing!

[cospbarnett-blog]

Visable french braid by P. Barnett ~please do not edit or remove caption ~

[thedesignerlife]

Accomplishing things one Goal at a time 💪🏾

[anmariesbeauty]

Do what makes you happy.

[itsdoordye-blog]

Another day, Another few things marked off my state board tracker.