Hair School

Polling Pencil Check Box — So I sent out a little questionnaire to some of the girls I know, even some I haven’t talked to in ages, but who are the type of girls I want to attract as clientele. Their answers are interesting. I’ve reprinted them below, with any names changed. I didn’t edit […]

Hair Client Information – Why They Switch

9 Dec, 2010 in Best Of / Hair School / Overdirected tagged beauty industry / cosmetology by Overdirected

Note from the future: I moved this video to my updated Youtube channel years later. Check it out on YT to see the ridiculous hate in the comments! lol) Here’s a little video (Little because I’m all bleeggghhh) showing you a cool trick with your comb and scissors. Ps. I’m […]

Cool Comb Flippy Thing

7 Dec, 2010 in Hair School / Overdirected / Videos tagged beauty industry / beauty school / cosmetology / hair school / shears / youtube by Overdirected

Watch in fullscreen to catch the annotations! Since starting to shear-shop in August, I’ve played with everything I could get my hands on. You know in Wayne’s World, how Wayne asks to play with the guitar at the store and the clerk sighs “…again?”? That’s me at every salon store […]

Video Review: Sam Villa Shears

7 Oct, 2010 in Hair School / Overdirected / Reviews / Videos tagged beauty school / cosmetology / hair school / salon / shears / youtube by Overdirected

I’ve been excited to learn how to do a Brazilian Blowout since I started school. It’s in our Cycle 2 class, which I’m now almost finished. Or it was, until they had problems with the distributor… So tomorrow we’re learning a different keratin straightening system instead. Our instructors were all […]

Horrible Hair School Updo’s

2 Sep, 2010 in Hair School / Overdirected / Styling tagged beauty industry / beauty school / cosmetology / hair school / up do by Overdirected

I’m back in the classroom, in Cycle 2, learning perms now. Tomorrow is the end of the first of two weeks, and the Friday after next I’ll need another 3 models. Yikes! o.O I hope I’m resourceful enough to find some, although finding a model who wants a perm will […]

Pivot Point Cycle 2 Texture (Perm) Assignments

27 Aug, 2010 in Best Of / Hair School / Overdirected / Pretty Photos tagged beauty industry / beauty school / cosmetology / hair school by Overdirected

Wax. Hair wax. It’s my product of choice for my own hair. I like matte waxes, because they hold better. I have hair that is too heavy and curly for most products to hold up, and having the lifestyle and personality I do, I can’t shellac my head with a […]

Hair Wax & Cool Asian Hair

30 Jul, 2010 in Hair School / Overdirected tagged beauty industry / beauty school / cosmetology / hair school / salon by Overdirected

So I’m about to go into my second week on the salon floor at hair school (as opposed to the classroom). I know I’m a little green, and I know people know they’re getting their hair cut by students when they come in, but man, knowing that there is possibility […]

Second Week Cutting Hair In Hair School

27 Jul, 2010 in Hair School / Overdirected tagged beauty industry / beauty school / cosmetology / hair school / salon / vidal sassoon by Overdirected

I have all these unanswered questions, and all these techniques I want to learn. I want to absorb as much as I can about hair. But I don’t know how. It seems like you can’t learn anything without spending a lot of money in this industry – the knowledge is […]

How Does A Hairstylist Keep Learning?

26 Jul, 2010 in Hair School / Overdirected tagged beauty industry / beauty school / cosmetology / pivot point / salon / vidal sassoon by Overdirected