DirtyJosé
Best angle of all: retirement
I chose to do this stuff because I dated a girl who did. She worked a very very low end salon and was walking home with a smooth $200 or so in her pocket every day. A friend I had just out of high school had a cousin who went from working a fairly high end salon and making bank to opening one of his own and rolling around in enough money to buy all the old school Transformers he could get ahold of. I want wads of cash in my pocket! I want a Transformers collection! I figure, in my spot in life right now, I could use a trade and a skill set that can get me work that isn't total suckage. And short of the military, this is what I came up with. It's worked out for me so far, working reception for salons while I'm in school.
Just like any other trade, and like any other skill, mastery comes with practice. I cannot explain just how difficult hair is to manage, and yet you are expected to be able to control it and make it do what you need it to. Oh yeah, to get state board certification I'm also expected to do nails and skin care, but that's not the kind of shit I want to do after school, so you probably won't see much of it here.
Get a friend in beauty school; he'll need to use you as a model at some point, and my god there is an abundance of eager single women at these places just begging for any kind of man to enter their lives. If I was single right now I'd be coasting on a wave of pussy; I'm surrounded by young girls and milfs alike eager for attention. Come by some time so I can use you as a prop one day and you'll get ample time to chat up some awfully fine looking ladies. They just throw that stuff out there.
A lot of the beginner's stuff are things you'll likely never do to anyone with any sense of style, but it's important to learn anyway, apparently, so whatever. I guess it helps for when my girlfriend gets an audition that requires her to look "olde tyme"-y. Otherwise it's really just things that keep you from spreading disease to other clients. Important I'm sure, but also quite boring and a bit of a downer. It's always good to know that other people's health depends on you. Also, I never quite understood how personal a hair stylist/barber visit can be; there aren't many other trades in which you have as much "hands on" time with a client.
Today's big event was learning that the girl sitting next to me in Wet Hair Styling is a niece of Leonard Nimoy. I don't know what I can get away with asking her without sounding like a total Trekkie. That kind of shit is embarrassing; it's just like the time I got a gig working reception for a casting session for a friend and met both Lt. Cmdr. Tasha Yar and Counselor Troi in one day. I was playing Starfleet Command on my laptop to kill the time and slammed that fucker shut when each of them walked it; I didn't want to be "that nerd".
I don't know how often I'd be able to post anything entertaining here for y'all; it'll probably get better once I start working in the salon soon. But everything needs a starting point. This shall be where I share the ridiculous shit I encounter in my adventures in cosmetology. Feel free to ask questions, share support, rag on me, and otherwise do the shit you'd do normally.
Just like any other trade, and like any other skill, mastery comes with practice. I cannot explain just how difficult hair is to manage, and yet you are expected to be able to control it and make it do what you need it to. Oh yeah, to get state board certification I'm also expected to do nails and skin care, but that's not the kind of shit I want to do after school, so you probably won't see much of it here.
Get a friend in beauty school; he'll need to use you as a model at some point, and my god there is an abundance of eager single women at these places just begging for any kind of man to enter their lives. If I was single right now I'd be coasting on a wave of pussy; I'm surrounded by young girls and milfs alike eager for attention. Come by some time so I can use you as a prop one day and you'll get ample time to chat up some awfully fine looking ladies. They just throw that stuff out there.
A lot of the beginner's stuff are things you'll likely never do to anyone with any sense of style, but it's important to learn anyway, apparently, so whatever. I guess it helps for when my girlfriend gets an audition that requires her to look "olde tyme"-y. Otherwise it's really just things that keep you from spreading disease to other clients. Important I'm sure, but also quite boring and a bit of a downer. It's always good to know that other people's health depends on you. Also, I never quite understood how personal a hair stylist/barber visit can be; there aren't many other trades in which you have as much "hands on" time with a client.
Today's big event was learning that the girl sitting next to me in Wet Hair Styling is a niece of Leonard Nimoy. I don't know what I can get away with asking her without sounding like a total Trekkie. That kind of shit is embarrassing; it's just like the time I got a gig working reception for a casting session for a friend and met both Lt. Cmdr. Tasha Yar and Counselor Troi in one day. I was playing Starfleet Command on my laptop to kill the time and slammed that fucker shut when each of them walked it; I didn't want to be "that nerd".
I don't know how often I'd be able to post anything entertaining here for y'all; it'll probably get better once I start working in the salon soon. But everything needs a starting point. This shall be where I share the ridiculous shit I encounter in my adventures in cosmetology. Feel free to ask questions, share support, rag on me, and otherwise do the shit you'd do normally.
