Tabby’s Scene Hair Cut

If y’all remember, I am fond of the little whippersnapper internet celebrity Tabby, who’s cuteness is of epic proportions.

Back when I first started school, I was trying to figure out how to do the Tabby hair cut. (As seen in my post with cartoon diagrams of Tabby & hair.)

A few days ago she posted a youtube video showing how she cuts her hair. That’s right! She cuts her own hair. WITH SAFETY SCISSORS. OH MY GOD.

Now, I can tell she’s had some practice by watching how she’s doing it… I bet when she started, it didn’t come out looking as smexy as she gets it looking now. But enough of my yapping, watch the video:

It’s solid in the exterior, and heavily textured and layered in the interior. I’d probably use the Asian kind of texturing, the way they pinch a strand of hair and then hack into it to turn it into a “hair spike”, and go through the hair spike by spike until it’s all nicely textured.

I want to do this hairstyle on someone!

First Practical Exam done… 3 More To Go

My first practical (With a model) went a lot better than I expected! I passed (barely), which is about double the mark I was expecting to get. Especially since I got marked down for arguing with the teacher in front of the client.

There’s three more practicals next week, and I only have one model… I just moved here, so I don’t know a lot of people. :S
If I can’t find a model, I can’t take the exam, and they won’t allow me to do it when I do find a model – I have to wait until the next class reaches their practical exams and take it with them. Eep.

I’m starting to be a lot more comfortable with everything. And I’m starting to get used to how the school doesn’t exactly… teach you things the way you would usually think of as teaching. They show you a 5 minute DVD on how to do the hair cut, then you do it once on a mannequin, and that’s all the practice you get until you’re cutting real people’s hair on the salon floor. If you messed up on the mannequin, no second tries or practice. And you’re also expected to already know how to style hair, with a few exceptions:  They have a particular method of roundbrushing they do teach, and much later on in school there is a class on long hair and updo’s – although we already have to do updo’s in the first cycle.

You know, I’m sure there are some people you could just give a chisel and a block of granite to and tell them “hit it with the pointy end”, and they would make great sculptures… I don’t think that’s me though. There’s definitely things I would change about the curriculum if I was head of the school. But I’m trying this new thing, where I keep my mouth shut and don’t object to everything all the time, and perhaps even trust in the experience of the teachers and school. Maybe it’ll work out in the end, or there’ll be a moment where it all clicks.

In other news, I’m trying to figure out how to do Tabby hair!

I <3 Tabby’s hair. It’s basically scene girl hair, but without the backcombing and skunk/raccoon stripes.

Finger Waves

Finger waves are hard. (Just like everyone says they are! Go figure.) Blah! I had so much goopy, spermy gel in my mannequin that it reminded me of an adult video from Japan.

Maybe that’s too raunchy a comment to make…

Oh well, if you laughed then we’re in it together! (And if you didn’t laugh you probably just think I’m weird anyway)

Before school I tried to find some good fingerwave videos on Youtube, but there isn’t much to see. This was one of the better ones I found:

We were supposed to do finger waves (for the first friggin time!) in about 45 minutes to an hour, and then do a full roller set by the end of the day so we could comb our mannequins out in the morning. I don’t know what they’re smoking in Pivot Point Land, but we barely got our finger waves done in 2 hours. And when I say barely, I mean none of ours really looked much like finger waves at all. As it stands, I don’t think any of us can do finger waves yet. Sigh…

I complain a lot. Oh well, I try to be as chipper as I can all day, I need to vent sometimes!

I wish I had the glowy happiness of some of the other girls in school. The one who sits beside me is like a taller, darker, more tanned version of Tabby. (Who is awesome!)

I’m gonna work on being more awesome. Just gotta figure out how to make myself energetic and happy all the time… OR, how to make my happy-energetic periods naturally happen when I want them to. Maybe I could get up earlier so I’m not all sluggish.

I think I’m getting too introspective. Enough of that! BEGONE, EMO SELF! I BANISH YOU TO THE REALM OF…BAD….STUFF….THAT SUCKS….

o.O

Head.

Hit.

Keyboard.