Day 161 ~ Getting Practical With The Numbers, How You Can Help ~ 3/24/14

Cosmetology School Journey ~ Day 161 ~ Getting Practical With The Numbers, How You Can Help ~ 3/24/14

1119 Hours
76 Guests

 What do I have left to do? I will answer that question for those who want to help.

This week on Performance Floor I am working the Reception Desk so I had some time to look at the computer and look at what I really need to get done. I will need help with this. But I think its possible still to get this done on time. But for the most part my main concern is that I do what I'm supposed to to bring people in. Not only you who are reading this who are already doing so well at helping me but with the wamrer weather and such I need to get my act back in gear. I have my last classroom rubric / test tomorrow and its for haircutting. Unless something changes I have a friend coming to be a model. I've got Salon Fair coming up on the 9th and I have a friend as a model for that. Aside from that the classroom stuff will pretty much go into a bit of theory mode aside from the second nails portion. But there's no rubric for that. And then there will be another Mock State Board test right before I'm scheduled to graduate.

So here are the numbers in image form first

I know that's a bit hard to read if you don't know what it means. In simple terms I used blue ink to write the numbers of the items that I do not have enough of yet. But the important numbers as far as this goes are that I need
18 more Haircuts
128 Hairstylings - This is one that you'll have questions about.
27 Haircolorings
23 Perms or Relaxers - a combo of
Manicure & Pedicure is a tricky one because while it says I have enough for the milestone I still have to get those 35 total of the actual Mani & Pedi and I only have 14. So I need 21 of a combo of those by graduation.
I have the Skin categories done individually but I need those electives. I need 8 of something from that section.
This is a list of our Service menu with the prices removed.

Cuts & Styles
Haircut
Shampoo + Thermal Style
Haircut + Thermal Style
Shampoo Set, Wrap or Fingerwave
Conditioning Treatment
Beard or Mustache Trim
Thermal Style with Any Cut or Style
Specialty Styles
Updo
French Braid or Braided Ponytail
Corn Rows
Twisties or Locks
Extensions
Color & Foils
Hair Color
Partial Foil (up to 20 foils)
Full Foil (second color, add $)
Full Bleach/Decoloring
Toner & Filler
Paneling (up to 4 foils)
Cap Color

Hair Texture
Permanent Wave
Chemical Relaxer
Permanent Wave Design Wrap
Thio Straightener
Reformation Curl
Skin & Nails
Manicure
Pedicure
Paraffin Treatment
Specialty Facial
Makeup Application
Facial Wax or Tweeze - per area
Leg Wax (knees down)
Service Packages
Mini Spa Package
(Facial, Shampoo, Style & Makeup)

To view the prices go to the Regency link
http://www.regency.edu/guest/services.aspx
They are the same as our location currently.

If you want to help me the only way possible is to get yourself to the school or spread the word to people you know. I don't mind young or old, boy, girl, man, woman. If a man wants a pedicure I don't mind. I need practise. Braiding practise. Updo practise.The bottom line is I need help. You may not want something but you'd be surprised who might. I will do my best to take care of anyone who comes to get something. I don't mind doing anything. And there's so much I'd like to try for real. Like pincurls or fingerwaves. I don't want to be stuck with just learning those on a manikin. I want to give someone a pretty style with them. Come have some fun. Or at the least a conditioning treatment. I get a scalp treatment hairstyling credit for that.
Oh and we did just get in a bunch of fun colors of OPI nail polish. If you come for either a mani or pedi you get to keep the polish for free and if you get both you get 2 bottles.
So lets get busy so I can get those Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays in April and May filled.
Lets make this happen. :)

Thank you for reading
I Love You All <3
~ No Tangles ~

Day 157, 158, 159, 160 ~ Great Week ~ 3/22/14

Cosmetology School Journey ~ Day 157, 158, 159, 160 ~ Great Week ~ 3/22/14

1112 Hours
76 Guests

This week by itself could fill its own car on the Positive Train.
I'm going to keep this as short as possible since its 4 days worth.
On thursday in classroom we did more theory in the morning and then in the afternoon we reviewed the practical for a square layer cut and then we did one on a manikin.

Everyday this week, Wed, Fri, and Sat I had friends as requests. One came to let me try those spirally iron curls from last friday. Another was the first person from the public to come that I had given one of my cards to. She's also the first person with natural curls to have me do a haircut. It was a trim. And another friend came for going a bit darker blonde than the light blonde I had previously done. Yesterday I also practised those curls again on two manikins. I definitely have my technique for those. And am building some speed with those particular curls. Curling them in itself doesn't take much time. What really matters is how thick of a strand I curl at once because too much hair makes it not curl as well or fall faster. So while I might get through the head faster it may not stay very long. Of course hair spray might help with that but that takes practise too to see what works with what hair.
Thank you to all of those who came this week. I learned a lot and enjoyed having you. I got to use my tools to learn lots of pretty. :)

Thank you for reading
I Love You All <3
~ No Tangles ~

Day 155 & 156 ~ 80's & Mostly Curly ~ 3/18/14

Cosmetology School Journey ~ Day 155 & 156 ~ 80's & Mostly Curly ~ 3/18/14

1085 Hours
72 Guests

Its been getting a bit harder to keep up with this journal lately but I don't care if I have to write out 7 days worth I'm going to update it eventually. So here goes. Thought I had more than 2 days worth to write but that's only because its been 5 days with the weekend off. When we left off I had finished the Haircolor portion and passed the tests. So that left Friday to finish the week.

Friday Performance Floor:
I did not have a morning guest on friday. I didn't see an assignment posted so I decided to practise something with my Marcel curling iron. I decided to try spirals since I seem to struggle with remembering how to do them. So I went to work and started at the nape and got a row done. Then I started on the second row going up and started turning the iron the opposite way like I believe someone had told me to do.Mrs L came by and asked how I was doing and I said I think I'm doing it right. And then came the game changer. She told me I didn't have to curl the opposite way. Just keeping the part lines in a bricklay was plenty and work smarter not harder. After that I figured out my technique for placing the iron in a good spot to get the hair to feed into it and also figured out how not to put the crimp in the hair with the clamp / shell part of the iron. So then I had some fun finishing those curls. I still had a bit left to do when Mrs D arrived for her roller set. I timed myself, from the time I greeted her to the time she was under the dryer was 1:26 - 2:14 and of that it was 29 minutes to do the rollers. Now maybe that's not fast by standards but when I consider that I used to not get her under the dryer until after 3 I'd say I'm getting there. Another nice day with Mrs D.
After she left I finished the remaining spirals. I overheard Mrs L saying something about the 80's or 80's dancing or something. George Michael and Aretha Franklin's song Knew You Were Waiting was playing. Not sure what was going on but I guess she was challenging us to make 80's hairstyles on a manikin like a mini salon fair. I was about to start doing more iron curls on my ebay used manikin with the multi colored hair so I switched gears and the thought that popped into my mind was the scene from European Vacation when Rusty tells Clark Griswold that he wants his hair cut like the guy with the huge spiked mohawk. So I went and first grabbed the Wella - Flubber Gel and started making my spikes. Then I remembered the Sebastian - Liquid Steel. So I gave them both a try and basically I made Monstar's (from Silverhawks) girlfriend.

Tuesday Classroom Day: Day 1 of Principles of Hair Design / Haircutting 1
Theory Day. Half the day was book review and highlighting. Then we did a few review games. After afternoon break we had an activity in which Mrs E purposely cut short spots in 3 manikins and our 3 groups had to "fix" the haircuts. One of the short spots on my group's manikin was for the bangs. It was shorter than the thickness of my fingers. Since it was a group activity we all pretty much took turns doing something to it. In the end she went fairly short.

So if you're on the blog you can see these pictures of the curls and the 80's spikes if you missed me posting them Friday.

Thanks for reading
Love You All <3
~ No Tangles ~

Day 153 & 154 ~ Did I Learn Color? ~ 3/13/14

Cosmetology School Journey ~ Day 153 & 154 ~ Did I Learn Color? ~ 3/13/14

1071 Hours
71 Guests

Tuesday Classroom: Half of the class did their haircolor rubrics on Tuesday but I was not among them. My backup model was coming Thursday instead since my first choice couldn't come. Those of us who were not doing the color had to do a head of thermal curls before doing anything else. I did a full head of them on Reese and then played a bit with them with the time left over. I was basically splitting them into chunks and then swirling them into loops and layering them as if I were making an updo except I wasn't pinning them. The morning was theory. More of the same book theory.

Wednesday Performance Floor: I spent the day sitting here chatting with my guest on FB since snow closed the school. I was supposed to do some different colored highlights and streaks. But instead I chatted with her and several others to make additional plans for the upcoming weeks.

Thursday Classroom: Today was quiz day for Haircolor 1. But it was also my turn for the rubric test color application on a live model. The catch is that in order to have my backup model I needed to go get her. She's the same friend who I went and brought on Monday. But because of the snow the roads were icy and the 50 minute trip turned into an hour and 50 minutes. But I called and told them I would be late so no biggie. We got there just before the morning break at 10 and I didn't miss the quiz. This was the second time I was coloring her hair. The first time I lightened her new growth and applied a light violet toner that made her hair silvery. Its what she wanted. But that has since faded out leaving her blonde with brown new growth. Right now the plan is for her to have light blonde hair in October so I was trying to use something that will fade by then. But also giving her the choice of colors she chose a more regular violet color. It happens to be one that another student used on Tuesday so we didn't have to come up with a new formula. The school recently was given more of the Wella shades to use so some of the colors are easier to do now. If you're reading this thank you "K" for the formula.
Thank you to my guest "B" for helping. I got 16 out of 16 on my rubric. But more importantly I got to make some neat colors and a few curls for you.
As for the quiz, I thought I was getting a few more wrong than I did. I ended up getting one wrong and its only because I missed the word Retouch in the question and answered mid strand which is for Virgin and not Retouch since that would be the new growth / roots. So I got a 95%.

As for the title of the entry, this portion of classroom is over. I'm not supposed to be around for either portion again. So as far as learning about mixing colors and what happens with which formula I'm either going to have to try picking brains or do what's probably going to make me happy and that's learn it myself on my own. Its no different than when I wanted to practise perms or cuts. I'm not going to wait until I get into a salon to know what's going to happen. Granted its not going to be the same thing each time. But I'd at least like to know what I'm trying to do. Oh well. I knew that would happen anyway.

 Thanks for reading
Love You All <3
~ No Tangles ~

Day 152 ~ Take Your Passion And Make It Happen ~ 3/10/14

Cosmetology School Journey ~ Day 152 ~ Take Your Passion And Make It Happen ~ 3/10/14

1058 Hours
70 Guests

I finally watched my Flashdance DVD yesterday that my friend Pam sent me. I've also been getting a bit back on track with my music listening. I forgot some of the songs I was listening to last summer. Starting to get them added to my playlists.

Ok Its been about two hours since I wrote that first bit. I was in a great mood when I wrote that but now I've hit a bit of a set back but when I think about what I was going to write about it just reaffirms what I was going to say.

Performance Floor Monday: My friend wanted a deep conditioning treatment but had no way to get to the school so even though its a 50 minute trip to go get her and then get to school I decided to go ahead and make a day of it. I figured that would be better than not having anyone except my manikin and whatever the assignment was. So after I picked her up I had her call the school to let them know I was probably going to be a bit late but I was bringing my guest with me. I don't recall what time I clocked in but I don't think it was more than 10 minutes late. So we made a full day of it. I did the conditioning treatment first and then started a manicure while she was under the dryer. Then we went to lunch together. Then I rinsed her out and did a flat iron thermal. And then it was time. Time to rid myself of the Pedicurse. And I did. I started and finished a pedicure. The first one on a guest. No cancellation this time. And so we had an awesome day and then it was back to the old neighborhood to drop her off.

I have a pretty full schedule this week as far as friends coming to see me at school. I had a model lined up for my classroom rubric but she had to cancel so I'm in scramble mode right now to find someone for tomorrow or Thursday. Otherwise I'm kinda sunk. However I may just go get my friend from today and bring her again since she offered. So we'll see how things turn out. In the meantime things are awesomely positive so I'm still in that mood I was before the set back.

Its simple. I'm going to do what I have to. I'm going to stand in front of my classmates in a few weeks and I'm going to celebrate with them. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that happens on time. But if there are people who want to come see me I am going to do what I can to make sure they can. If that means I have to drive far enough to only have a half a day that's what I'm going to do. I just have to. I want to. I like to. Its really worth it. I literally will go the extra mile.

Thanks for reading
I Love You All <3
~ No Tangles ~

Day 149, 150, 151 ~ The Highlights ~ 3/8/14

Cosmetology School Journey ~ Day 149, 150, 151 ~ The Highlights ~ 3/8/14

1051 Hours
69 Guests

Thursday Classroom:
Continuing Haircolor 1 -  We did more book theory and highlighting in the morning. After lunch we set up for timing some applications. First we sectioned the manikin into 4. Then we had 8 minutes to do a virgin color application on both the right front and back section. I got mine done in 7.5 minutes. Then we had to do the retouch on the left in 4 minutes. I finished in 4.5.

Then we used swatches of manikin hair to test out using temporary or semi permanent colors and had to tell what our directions were and how it turned out etc. I used a bottle of Jazzing brand Mood Indigo on level 8 blonde. Its a temp color that comes out after one shampoo. It turned out blue with slight green to it since it was on blonde hair.

Friday Performance Floor: I worked the dispense all day and did not find time to work on the foil assignment.

Saturday Performance Floor: I worked dispense again but this time I did a few foils at a time and I used the actual lightener so Lori's hair got actual blonde highlights.

Thanks for reading
I Love You All <3
~No Tangles ~

Day 147 & 148 ~ Marching Forward ~ 3/5/14

Cosmetology School Journey ~ Day 147 & 148 ~ Marching Forward ~ 3/5/14

1030 Hours
69 Guests

Tuesday Classroom: Haircolor 1 - We have Mrs E again for classroom. In the morning we did mostly talking theory and some highlighting of the book. In the afternoon we had the guest speaker from Wella back again. She was here in the fall and she had us doing the herringbone pattern foils on the top front of the head.   I wrote about that in October for Day 71 http://purplebubbascosmetologyschooljourney.blogspot.com/2013/10/day-71-foiled-again-103013.html
This time she showed some different pictures of color placement patterns. Basically each model has 4 colors used and they are staggered in some way whether its dividing up a triangle section or more than one triangle. Or something else. Then we divided into groups and each was given one of the pictures of a model and we had to describe how we would do something similar on one of our manikins. We didn't actually do it.

Wednesday Performance Floor: My turn in Dispense Room. I'm dispensing products and washing towels this week. The Wella speaker was on the floor this morning like she was last time but we weren't doing an assignment with her like then. Our assignment was simply a full head of foils. The lady was only there to help us out if we had a guest who was getting color. Mrs V told us to get on FB and try to get guests in but I couldn't because I was in dispense. I also did not get any foils done because I was too busy doing the job of dispense. I ripped at least 300 foils in half. Maybe on Friday I'll get something done. Or Saturday.

In the meantime I'm trying to stay focused. I'm trying to refocus. The other day reminded me that I still have a lot to learn. I need to figure out these colors. I need to be able to type out 4/75 or 3/9 and know what that is. And then I need to know what happens if I mix those two. Along with all the other combos. The problem is I have to learn that hands on somehow. Either I have to make myself some sort of fill in the blank or matchup worksheet or I have to actually buy them and try them. I gotta think of something because its getting annoying. If I'm not supposed to know these yet I wish someone would tell me because everytime someone opens their mouth at school its as if they all know it. Think of it this way, when I look at the colors in my little booklet it looks like a periodic table of elements. But the numbers and color shades are all over the place. However, I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to find a way to teach myself if I can't just learn it by looking at it. For example: 33/66 is supposed to be a purple color. But if I mix 33/ and /66 will I also get purple? I need to know this.

I hope it warms up soon. I need to start handing out my cards again. I need to start getting myself in that mind set again. I've handed a few out to some waitresses lately but not the amount I was doing. I need to bring people in to the school period. I have things I need to finish and I'd prefer to do them for real. I'm trying to stay focused on that positively. Its starting to feel like I'm running out of time. I'm still amazed by what has actually happened though. I guess the way I'm looking at it is I've got three passenger cars on my positive train and they are marked March, April, and May and I need to see if I can get some people to ride.

Thanks for reading
Love You All <3
~ No Tangles ~