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Licensing vs. Certification

When pursuing a career in cosmetology, first step is always beauty school.  Once the required hours are completed at beauty school, the next step is to apply for your license. Beauty school students often are unclear when differentiating between licensing and certification. Certification is beneficial to your cosmetology career but licensing is essential. Although license requirements differ from state to state, a cosmetology license is offered, enforced, and regulated by a state government agency. They decide who is eligible, what services they are able to provide, and what title they hold under that particular license.

Professional Certification in the industry is considered to be universal. The process results in the individual being recognized by a non-governmental organization for extensive knowledge and master skills in a particular area. Certification may require a written and/or demonstration of skills and expertise.

Beauty School Graduate Profile: Melissa from So-California

Beauty school graduate Melissa from So-Cali sits down with beautyschoolslistings.com to share her experience. Mel also has a few words of advice for you future beauty school attendees

1. What inspired you to attend beauty school?

I wanted to do hair since I was a kid.

2. How did you choose which  beauty school to attend?

I was on a waiting list and I found out I got into beauty school the day before school started. I chose the beauty school closest to me. I believe it cost around $2000 with the kit.

3. What  beauty school license did you choose as a specialty?

My area of study is hair. I am also working one day a week at a Dr.’s doing facials

4. How long did beauty school take you to complete?

It took me just over a year to complete beauty school. I went to esthetician school a few years before so I had hours that were added to my cosmetology hours. My beauty school classes were in the evening and Saturday class so it took a little longer.
5.What were the highs and lows of your beauty school experience, any advice for future beauty school students?

Highs would be finally enjoying school and making friends that I still have today. Lows would be pedicures and the last few weeks of school counting down the days until your last clock out. Advice would be to not give up.
Highs would be great money, clients you become very close to, making your own schedule when you go on rent. Lows would be sitting around when you first start out, picky clients (they will be easier to deal with with more experience). Job placement was easy. I assisted for a few months and started working at the mall where there were a lot of walk ins. Now I pay rent each week at a salon. I wish I knew to stay at the first salon for one more year to build more clients.

Advice I would give would be to make sure you pick the right salon. It should be in a good location like a busy shopping center. Also interview the owner just as they are interviewing you. Ask alot of Questions. One of the worst things you can do is to change salons. You will always lose some clients and you don’t want your clients to think anything negative. Also always be on time with a smile.

Beauty School: Eye Make-up

The eyes are the windows to the soul, and beauty schools nationwide offer classes which cover the art, application, and product selection of eye make-up. Stacie, a beauty school student in Dallas, focuses on the eyes as the center piece to her make-up applications.  So beauty school divas, would you be surprised  at the brands, colors, and products beauty school clients prefer?  Ladies you have spoken, and the top brands used for eye make-up include Bobbi Brown, MAC, and Origins. Beauty school students here is what your future clients have to say about their favorites:

Pattie from So-Cal had this to say about her favorite eye shadow M.A.C. pigments “they are fun and I wear them all the time. I like them because you can either wear them as every day make up by using a light application or you can do a more dramatic look and use heavier amount. Also you can use it for your lips and cheeks too!”

Courtney, an elementary school teacher in Houston, TX said this about MAC, “I also love Mac makeup.  I use it on my eyes, my face powder, concealer, and blush. There is this cream that I put on my eyes that helps hold the eye shadow on.  It works great!”

Dana, a waitress in Denver CO said her must-have is Bobbi Brown’s Corrector. ” BB Corrector works miracles for evening out skin tones and dark circles under the eyes, and is long lasting too!”

Amber, a salon owner in Montana, says that she can’t live with-out Lancome Defencils Mascara. ” I know $25.00 is on the high-end for make-up but it’s totally worth it”Nikki, a dental hygienist from Frisco Texas is faithful to her Origins line of cosmetics. ” For years now I’ve been complimented on my skin and how great it looks which I guess is from the Origins but honestly……I love the smell!”

These “must-have” products can be found at major department stores, Sephora, brand retail locations, and of course online. They range from $22.00

-$32.00 but ask our beauty school divas, they are worth it!

From beauty schools to beauty products, Aveda raises the bar for standards in the beauty industry.

Cosmetology schools nationwide must meet certain criteria to become state accredited. Well The Aveda Institutes nationwide raise the bar in both their beauty school training as well as their beauty school products. Aveda, And Aveda only for trustworthy environmentally conscious products. Ahead of their time, Aveda was founded over three decades ago (1978) to provide beauty professionals with high performance, environmentally conscious, plant based products to make the proper impact on our planet…which is no impact at all. Aveda Institutes nationwide Sustainable packaging, renewable plant sources, and continuous commitment to what’s best for their clients, their guests, and what’s best for our planet, our world, and most important, out future. Our future is now. Aveda is now. Always the leading edge in environmentally responsible beauty products, Aveda continues to enjoy a reputation for enriching our lives with excellent service and customized care at every prestigious salon.

Farrah Fawcett: A Beauty School Graduates Dream Client

Farewell, Farrah—

The passing of Farrah Fawcett was overshadowed by Michael Jackson’s death later the same day.
Ironically, both were beauty icons in their own ways. Farrah’s hair, Farrah’s skin, Farrah’s beauty placed her on posters, calendars, advertisements in many adolescents’ bedrooms, dormitories, and barracks around the world. Blonde, beautiful, graced with photogenic bone structure, this Charlie’s Angel didn’t appear to need the tricks of our beauty trade. However, drop in on the set and observe the army of beauticians, cosmetologists, make up artists, hair stylists, and other beauty school graduates who surrounded her to maintain her from first thing in the morning until they struck the set at night.

As a beautician, your gift is to discover the inner beauty of your clients. If they come in looking like something the cat left out in the rain, as a beauty school graduate whose expertise is locating the beauty within and then revealing it to the world, your obligation is to apply all the skills you’ve mastered in beauty school, cosmetology training, and make up artistry to reveal the swan within every ugly duckling who walks through your doors.

Beauty Schools Listings mourns Michael Jackson’s fruitless search for beauty

Michael Jackson Passes…

As someone who was very aware of what’s hot, and what’s not, Michael Jackson used every beauty school trick in the book to keep up, no, that’s not right….to stay ahead of beauty trends for the current pop culture. I remember living in LA when I was 10 ish which makes Michael Jackson in thirties, and I would have given my freckles, my lip gloss, and my pager, and my new pink 10-speed bicycle to attend the Michael Jackson concert at Universal Studios that summer. Too young for real beauty techniques, too young for make up, dramatic hair styles, pedicures and manicures, all I wanted was to be in the same space as Michael Jackson. With my mop of red hair, and beauty school attitude, I was sure I could get his attention…even though I wouldn’t have a clue what to do with it if I had it!

Then, I knew no tricks of the beauty trade places like beautyschoolslistings.com were not around back then because if they were I would have attended one of the 500 schools they have on there and I would have known how to attract his attention or anyone else’s

According to the New York Times, “becoming a cosmetologist can take 10 to 18 months of training, and tuition can range from about $8,000 to $18,000, depending on the school and the program.” Ha!I say, if you are dumb enough to attend beauty school in downtown Manhattan or the Hills of Beverly…at beautyschoolslistings.com you will find schools and training for far less. Remember, it’s not the name of the Institute/college on your beauty school diploma that matters to your career in cosmetology -it’s passing the licensing exam.

The tragedy of Michael Jackson’s life is his apparent unhappiness. From all of the beauty treatments, including many plastic surgeries, he endured, it appears he was never happy with the outcomes…as he continued searching for another surgeon to create perfection on his face.

The beauty of beauty college is that none of them promise perfection -rather they deliver state of the art techniques and skills to deliver beauty improvements to your clients. How many professions can promise improvement every time they practice?

Future fortune and fame starts here….Cosmetology School

>A good haircut lasts for weeks, a great >haircut la>sts forever! When you’ve been trained to give a great haircut, you have a client for life! Regardless of the economics, you will have an income, thanks to your beauty school training, your cosmetology knowledge, your esthetician education. Decades ago, the celebrity hairstylist came into his or her own. By providing stakeholders in local communities (say, Park Avenue, New York City or Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills) the perfect “do”, these stylists rode the wave of fame and fortune until the “next big thing” hip-checked them off the top of the hill of hairdressers. And that was okay, because by then they had their own line of hair care products, does the name “Paul Mitchell” have meaning?

So, enroll in your future of fame and fortune: find the perfect beauty college, cosmetology training for you at beautyschoolslistings.com.

Beauty Sells!

Beauty schools promote their cosmetology product using attractive people, right? A tree frog won’t bring in the beauty business, and I don’t even know what a tree frog looks like! Even though we know all about air brushing, make up, and the illusions of lighting, we want to be that person in the advertisement on the page, billboard, and tv ad.

It’s all about the illusion. When you attend beauty college, or cosmetology school, you learn how to make other people attractive—but hey, you also learn how to make yourself attractive, too. Learn the tricks of the beauty trade at beauty school!

Pretty knees are in, pretty knees are out.

Hemlines go up, hemlines go down.

Necklines plunge, necklines rise.

Feet are focal points, or feet disappear in boots.

Hands? Are displays for beautiful diamonds found in wedding rings, engagement rings and anniversary rings!

Nails, hair, make-up are all part of the package of beauty school.

Pedicures, manicures and make-up are all part of the beauty college package. Whether you attend beauty school as part of your self improvement program, or as a career move, or as a backup in case you flunk out of medical school, when you finish the beauty training, you will be good to go for whatever your future holds

A Career in Cosmetology Starts with Cosmetology School

Regardless of the economic climate, or even the real climate, our hair grows, and grows, and grows! are the only exception to the need for beauty: found in beauty schools, cosmetology colleges, and beauty spa skills.

A cash cow for anyone who pursues, hair is for those smart students who enroll in beauty college as part of their career plans…whether it’s the primary vocation, or simply an avocation to tide them over the rough spots.

A career in beauty will support you and yours when all else fails, because HAIR GROWS and the old bowl-on-the-head hair cut no longer works for the wearer to get a job, attract a mate, or simply get happy every time they look in the mirror.

The best place to train is a beauty college, and the best place to find a beauty school to meet your educational needs is beautyschoolslistings.com

Beauty School Listings goes behind the mask of make-up: to reveal the who, what when, where, and why’s of the $18+billion dollar make-up industry.

Welcome beauty school fans and friends to the first segment in a four part series where we get up close and personal with a woman’s warpaint…make-up. The beauty industry has taken on a life of its own and producing revenues that would make the bitter lady I met in the unemployment line consumed with rage. In 2007, the G-8 (Global which consists of the U.S., Canada, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia, and Japan collectively valued the make-up industry at $18.3 billion. During a time when food stamps are not just something you read about but are now applying for, the make-up industry continues to make money hand over fist.

Beautyschoollistings.com is diggin’ up the dirt to uncover the make-up industry’s secret weapons for…

• eye make-up
• face make-up
• lip make-up
• nail make-up

These are the four sectors that combined make-up the $18.6 billion dollar industry. Stay tuned for Part I: 20/20 vision on Eye Make-up: the products being used and abuse, the good, the bad, the ugly.

Beauty School Listings would like to know your thoughts, questions, a.k.a your two cents……because let’s face it, that is considered a lot in today’s economy.