I’ve been released from my oath of secrecy, and can now share some sweet photos I took for a classmate’s entry into the student NAHA category. While it’s sad she didn’t place, it’s great that she tried! And I had a fun time doing photos and not having to worry about the hair at all for once!
Final Pic - Click for Bigger!
And here’s a bunch of random photos from the day:
Well, I’m about to leave for school to begin dressing my model for my student entry for NAHA. A number of students in my school are entering, and the school will pick the three best. Then the best from all schools will be further eliminated, and the entries left will be submitted to NAHA. Scary! Do you ever have that dream where there’s a test you didn’t study for and you’re in your underwear?
Well, today was the first day of Cycle 3. (Yes that’s right – I’ve “Graduated”, but I’m not finished school yet. Weird!)
This is the more complicated up-do stuff, and bizarrely, anatomy…and makeup. In the hair program! Not the esthetics program, not the makeup course, nor the massage course… Weird, weird school this is.
So anyway, sometime this week I’m going to be covered in makeup when we have to pair off and do makeup on each other. Wonder if I’ll look as awesome as Hedwig.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
And also, remember awhile back when I was complaining about how we didn’t get enough time to practice anything, or time to complete practical exams and etc, with the brand new curriculum? Well, the September class has a revised curriculum. They have lots more time to practice… And their practicals aren’t timed. They have all day to do them. Yay. *golf clap*
It doesn’t bother me though, if school was easy I wouldn’t try as hard.
I am a bit worried about finding models though… We need more models, the last one was sprung on us today. I have 10 days to find a guy for a taper cut practical, and in two days I need to turn in my ideas for entering the student category in NAHA, along with photos of the three models that I don’t have.
@%@%
I’ve already used up my family and friends, and still don’t know anyone here… And none of the people I’ve seen in the salon would be suitable. (The NAHA ones have to be young, skinny, and attractive. We were specifically told that. Which makes sense, if you’re trying to win NAHA… But it sure does limit your potential model pool.)
Hmm…
So I’m on the Salon Floor now! Cutting ACTUAL PEOPLE’S HAIR. It’s exciting and terrifying at the same time!
I’ve done sort of ok so far. I feel like I am way under prepared for this, not having much practice cutting since we only get to do each type of cut once in class and can’t practice or try again. I don’t think I’m performing cuts that are quite…couture… yet. On my first day on the floor I had two clients, a lady with waaaay long, waaay dense hair (I know girls who would murder their own parents to get hair like she has!) who just wanted it trimmed and thinned out, and an asian lady who was growing out a perm she had done awhile ago.
I was REALLY proud of what I did with the second lady’s hair – I cut it with a simple planar layered cut, her hair fell just below her shoulders. Her fringe (aka bangs) went straight across her eyebrows (that’s how she wanted it) and the line curved into the sides. I point cut her fringe, and slithered/slidecut the transition from fringe to the rest of her hair. I airformed it with a medium diameter roundbrush to control the crazy frizz of the perm, and used a large diameter curling iron to do loose curls that faded to a slow wave, and to straight in the interior, to ease the transition from poker straight hair to permed hair. She looked FABULOUS!
Not just regular fabulous, GAY fabulous. (Gay fabulous has more fabulous in it)
Then TRAGEDY struck the next client I had (which was on the following day). I brought her back to my station and sat her down, draped her… and the girl at the station to the left of me reached for something and knocked my barbicide over.
O.M.F.G.
It drenched my station, went all over my client (thankfully she had a cape covering most of her), went across the ledge on my station and into her PURSE… A huge puddle of barbicide spread from my station to the surrounding 3 or 4 stations… It was a train wreck.
If you ever end up reading this, lady with the barbicide in her purse, I am sooooo sorry and feel soooo bad. o.O
And today I had another client, a little guy who needed his hair shorter for the summer. It took awhile, and I was really confused and unsure of what I was doing through most of it, but he left with a decent cut and it was pretty stylin’ too.
I really want to get better at this, I really think it’s the right career choice for me. I have difficulties with my… well, personal problems, though. It makes it hard to just be there sometimes. I wish I could tell everyone so they would understand why I have days like I do, but I’m not going to be one of those people who needs to dump all their problems on other people. It’s not their problem, it’s mine.
Anyways… on another down note, I really don’t like how there are groups of girls in school who mock you for wanted to be a great hairstylist. Like “trying hard” is something to be mocked. Because they don’t try hard. At NAHA, several people said in their speeches the important of not letting the other people drag you down, hold you back, and keep you at their level. They phrased it like it was a literal fight, like you have to fight to break free of all the people who want to keep you down.
I don’t know why people are so negative when there is so much joy in the world. What a horrible world theirs must be, and why is it so different from mine?
I just got back from Las Vegas, where I went to NAHA! NAHA is the North American Hairstyling Awards, a big award thing in the industry. It was crazy cool. I got to see lots of big names, the show was cool (but loooong), with some dance numbers. While I was in Vegas I went and checked out ARCS (A Robert Cromean Salon), it was cool! A very nice guy named Christopher gave us a tour of the place, and let us play with their wicked floating blowdryers!
Heading through Mandalay Bay!
At NAHA!
GIFT BAGS UNDER THE SEATS!!!
A Robert Cromeans Salon
A Robert Cromeans Salon
