Color. Removers.

Oh goodness! I had a girl come in with black hair... colored herself. from a box. at home. tisk tisk! She wanted to get back to a level 5. I've never used a color remover on someone else before! Thank goodness I had some girls who knew what they were doing!

I stripped her hair 2 times. Then put shades over it to try to even out the tone. Her roots lifted to about a 9 and her ends to about a 3. Her poor hair was fried! I talked her into to a despratly needed cut so that helped :)

Alas, she was happy 4 hours later when she left! And she did look quite beautiful if I do say so myself ;) Nice tip. I felt like I helped someone and I learned a lot :) God is good!

Miss Maggie you would have been proud.. ridding the world of one more person with black hair ;) (I miss you btw!)

Love you all!

First Day!!!

My first day at a new job, my first salon. It was great! I felt right at home. I had three hair cuts walk in. All left happy and I had $23 of tips in my pocket. Good day!

Thank you lord for giving me this creativity. Please bless my fingers and my mouth. I want to be your light in the dark city. Use me. I love you!

Inner Beauty

This was a status post from a fellow cosmo and it fit so well with the idea... or one of the ideas of this blog that I had to steal it. Thanks Christina!

There is an inner beauty about a woman who believes in herself, who knows she is capable of anything that she puts her mind to. There is a beauty in the strength and determination of a woman who follows her own path, who isn't thrown off by obstacles along the way. There is a beauty about a woman whose
confidence comes from experiences...; who knows she can fall, pick herself up, and move on ♥

I PASSED!

Today is the day that I officially am a cosmetologist!

God,
Use me. Teach me. Show me. Send me each person on purpose. Give my hands your creative skill. Bless me financially. Use me to bless others, to show them your love, grace, hope, and joy. Show me how to be a light in this dark dark world. Show me how you want me to fight. Thank you Lord :)
I love you!

Miss Anne

Miss Anne... Known her since I was like 8 or something. Amazing woman. Writing teacher, speech and drama coach, the loudest best laugh ever,strong woman, mom to 2 great kids.
She went through a not so fun divorce a while ago... she's out there again looking for some lucky guy.
Came over and I put some highlights in her hair a few weeks ago... Now she came back and let me cut it and I did some facial waxing.
Other than having fun, being sarcastic, laughing, and not letting her see it till it was done it was an awesome day!
About half way through the cut my mom looked at Anne and said " WOW! I think that takes off about ten years!"
Long story short the next 3 people that walked in the room said the same thing! When I finally let her see it she was so so so so happy and very much agreed with them.
This is one of the most rewarding "work fields" out there.
Some would say that it's a quick high for a person to feel pampered and beautiful, but I'm sorry it can really change how someone looks at themselves... I'm not saying that Miss Anne was at all down on herself, but that smile showed me something that I hadn't seen in a while.
I helped put the smile there.
Wow. :)

PASSED BOARDS!!!!

I was so so freakn nervous!! lol like seriously. Even Seth started being nice to me because I was freaking out so much!

For you up coming boards people i got a 90' shears cut, a perm, a color retouch, curling, basic mani, basic facial, and full eyebrow hot waxing.

Don't be afraid to stop and correct yourself guys!!! lol

I had a lot of prayer backing me up too... My mom's (and my mom know's a LOT of people.. like thousands. lol)prayer loop, emails, facebook, texting, my mom just happened to have a prayer group schduled the same time as my test.... ya I was covered.... literally covered in his blood :)

One of my mom's friends kinda just laughed and said "well we all know she's going to pass because this is a huge part of God's plan for her life... how about we pray for where she is going to work and the people who sit in her chair?"

Wow right? That's faith... I lack that sometimes. But ya that's where I am :) going to trust and figure out where I'm going. Oh ya still have to pass the written test ;) Pray for that! lol

Peace!

I got your back

So a while back... While I was still in school I had this client come in for a color. She walked in and I knew she would be a challenge. Her hair was long, dry, brittle, pours and very thick. I could tell by her atitude that she wouldn't be easy to please. She picked out a picture of a dark solid color and some chunky highlights. Easy enough right?

NOT.

Well I talked it over with her and she was fine with everything except the price. So I had four educators and the campus manager out there figuring it out with her. So we caped the price no matter how much product I was going to use. So I went for it.

I sspent 4 1/2 hours working on her... she spent almost the entire time on the phone trying to get her electricity back on. My heart went out to her... I don't understand her mind set. But having kids and money problems is never fun.

I was rinsing her hair as one of the other students walked past looking at my client's hair. I wasn't all to suprised when she said... "What the F*** are you looking at?"
I explained to her that we were encouraged to learn from what the others were doing. She proceded to complain about how all girls (besides her and me obvously) were B****'s. goodness... I tried to stay calm and calm her down. Then....

Picture this.

Three educators and a campus manager sourounding her at the shampoo bowl demanding to know what her problem was and why she had used language with a student she didn't know.

The poor lady floundered her way through an explination and never said sorry or admited to anything. lol

After me re-doing her hair about four times trying to tone it to just the right color she had in her head (not the one in the picture) she complained that it wasn't like the picture at all... so I got the stinking picture. At that moment someone walked past and was like "Wow Sarah! Her hair looks just like the lady in the picture!"

I smiled and said thanks... My client knew she had lost her battle. She decided she was done and ready to pay... But guess what? Her wallet was in the car. Ha. Right. So my campus manager looked at her and was like "well I need some fresh air, I think I'll walk with you."

So yes she came back in side and payed. We charged her about $60 less than it should have been. She looked at me and said I did a great job and that she was sorry she was a pain in my A**. lol I thanked her for coming.

When she walked out the whole school of girls aploded. lol they all gave me hugs and said good job and that they wouldn't have put up with that. But I did it :) And she looked darn good when she walked out if I must say!

So in a school of 100 girls (and like 3 guys) that I didn't think really cared about me... they all had my back at the end of the day... interesting how that works. :) I learned so so much with that client! Not only how to keep my cool. Keep my confidence. Work on some one I don't like. Handle that type of hair... And that I have friends when when I don't expect it. God is good and we have to just trust that we will learn something out of any situation. :)