Cosmetology School: The First Month

I've officially completed 140 of the 1500 hours of cosmetology school that I need to get a license! Hurray!
I've definitely learned quite a bit and had plenty of new experiences already. For example, in the last few weeks, I've gotten more facials done than I've ever had before and probably more than I'll ever have again for the rest of my life. It's a very strange experience, a facial.

I've gotten lots of new toys, too:

 I don't know exactly what all of them are used for, yet.

My favorite part so far is learning to to make different hairstyles! I now know the rope braid, fishtail braid, butterfly braid, and well as the "visible" and "invisible" braids. (Those last two names crack me up! Apparently, what we normally call a french braid is an "invisible" braid in the hairdressing world!)

  My first French Twist.

My first Butterfly Braid.

I have a feeling, though, that I will be very tired of mannikins by the time I am done with school. Doing hair on real people is much more fun. Speaking of that, I got to do hair, nails, and makeup for my cousins, Shannon and Alisha, for their homecoming dance this past weekend. Since I'm practically a professional now.

 

 Aren't they pretty?

Of course, I still think it's weird that they're even old enough to be going to homecoming dance...but I guess you have to let people who are younger than you grow up sometime...

Can you tell that we were having fun with my collection of flower clips? What we decided, based on this experience, is that it's actually very difficult to make extremely curly hair look much different than it normally does...unless, of course, you straighten it. We didn't want to straighten their hair because neither of them have ever done that and we didn't know how it would look, so we decided that we'll do a straightening experiment on another day when it doesn't matter quite so much what their hair looks like.