cherry bomb

listening to: matt pond: the dark leaves theme

i have been engrossed with a lot in one day. no surprise there...

update from my first week back at cosmo school.
lots of scalp massages.
shampoos.
blow dries 101.
santizing your brushes.
manicures. whattttt? i forgot about this part.
european facials.  i forgot i have to learn about this too.

for those that don't know me all too well, while i was in high school, i attended an apprentice program in monarch beach, CA for a fancy schmancy salon that served the elite and high class movie stars that escaped hollywood.  it was based on a two-year program, 2000 hours, school for state boards at night two nights a week in long beach and bumble and bumble training classes two nights a week, hands-on all day while assisting these artists.  i did it for a long enough time to gather well over 900 hours and then decided to go up to college to work on my degree.  beauty school drop-out.

still doing hair for weddings, proms and whatever else people ask from word of mouth all this time.  i noticed i feel completely comfortable doing it.  enough encouragement from my friends and family, i took the commitment to go back.  despite all my previous reservations of going to an actual beauty school, i have grown to enjoy it.  of course it's not ideal, starting my hours all over (i'm appealing state board since they want to dissolve my hours)... but i am content.  learning from new mentors, new instructors and being around new talent is exciting.

this is my view most of the time....
i just look at the floor and my shoes....

listening to comparisons of how much hair stylists make to doctors, how we are so similar to doctors, how the "bob" became popular right after the great depression after WW1, how nail polish was only for the edgy women in the 1940's, comparisons of "no man's land" of where the hair falls
on one's shoulder as in the area you don't stand in the tennis court, and how to sign my name 300 different ways in cursive...

no, i do pay attention.
it is nice to be able to ask questions that have some meat to them. the class is super cute. they never raise their hand or talk much, are pretty young and eager to learn about it. they think i look like the girl from blue crush so some call me roxy.  i'm the oldest of the group but bless them, they guessed i was tops 21.

there are a lot of different options when you graduate but i have always been business minded so i would love to own my own product line or salon or business around hair someday.  i don't think i would ever want to run or own a school.  i do have a job for when i graduate lined up and clients since i have been raised most of my life here but my ultimate goal is to own my own.  i am going to finish my 1600 hours as soon as possible.  i can take night classes and use my weddings i do on the weekends towards my total which is so convenient.  i think when jackson is gone, i am going to forget about a social life and just take the night classes after our day classes to get school done in roughly nine months.  when i graduate next year, i'll finish my b.s. in business and get this ball rolling.

sorry i'm all over with this post...

yesterday our main instructor announced that we had to get with the 400 hour class to group together for a hair competition!  we each had to come up with a theme, costume, hair design, make-up and execute.  i asked my group if they liked the harajuku girls (japanese doll girls from gwen stefani)... they were all about it.  so we designated who was bringing what, i drew out what was in my head and we did it!  we had almost three hours to put her together.  we turned one of the girls who is mexican into a japanese girl!
here is amy before:





in previous fashion shows that i've been in, they have used toilet paper rolls, so i had shasta bring in some! added some volume to our girl!  5 rolls to be exact.  some teasing, lots of pins and shasta was in charge of the braids down her part that we crossed like sanrio crosses.




oh her makeup was so fun to do!
i received some inspiration from these beauties i studied the night before....


we finished!  here is some pictures from the little show in front of the seniors who voted:

(those are my clothes and jack's umbrella + my rollar skates.  she kept her lips closed the whole time!)

it was pretty steep competition...

we named our girl
"cherry bomb"
























it came between "cherry bomb" and "fierce".... so they had a dance off...






and...
we won!
not sure what we won, but we heard it's a field trip to a hair show in los angeles!

i'm in my element.

(ps our school looks get-to.  it's going under construction since it is under new management)