Week Four - Half way through...

So you may be thinking "Kyleigh, you clearly cannot do math. How can you be four weeks in and think you're halfway through?!" Well, here's the deal. We do 8 weeks of intensive learning on mannequins..... and then we work on real clients that come in and pay us to do their hair. I have 4 weeks until the school writes my name at the top of our salon program, and they start booking me for clients. Crazy.

Am I scared? Yeah... pretty much shaking in my boots. The fact that we have now gone through ALL of the haircuts that we need to learn before we go onto the floor is a little intimidating. I feel like I don't know anything at all, but I know that I do of course. It's just getting stressful. I'm not sure that I'm ready to work on the floor of a salon... it feels too soon, but I'm also excited to get my hands into colour and my fingers into hair and really learn, because mannequins only teach you so much before you need to just learn on people.

All of that being said, weeks 9 -10 (dates of which I'm not totally sure... but should be June 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and July 1st) are friends and family week (which I'm pretty sure most of you fall under) which gets YOU free haircuts and 25% off colour.... so if you're daring (and kind, as I could really use your help!) I would be more than happy to give you FANTASTIC haircuts... all for the low price of 0 dollars. =)

In other news, this post is about the last week that we did at school, so lets get started.

Wednesday:

Wednesday we did more grad bobs. Seriously, I should be a pro at them by now, yet they are SO hard, I know that I'm not. We worked on texturizing bobs... and we also worked on sexy blow outs (which as it turns out I am really quite good at!) If you need a very sexy round brush blow out... let me know. I am the queen of amazing blow drys!

Thursday:

Thursday we started women's shorts, doing fireflys. If you don't know what a fire fly is, it's kind of like a pixie cut, but more graduated (it had more weight in the back, not so cut to the shape of the head!) I can't find a really great picture of it... ACTUALLY. I can think of two people with great fireflys, one more modern than the other!

Princess Diana had a GREAT firefly in the 90's when this haircut was really popular!

But Meryl Streep really brought it back with a modern flare when she did The Devil Wears Prada!

We did our cuts with a razor, which was lots of fun! I loved working with the razor, and it's something that I hope over time I will be really great at. It's fast, and it gives really nice, soft cuts that I love! Hopefully I'll get to do some great razor cuts in the future!

Friday:

Friday we did pixie cuts (women's verticle) and men's cuts. We learned how to do pretty much the standard pixie cut, and then we did men's cuts from longer square cuts to the scissor over comb to get the hair really short and create that buzzed look. I'm really glad we aren't using clippers, and that we do a scissor over comb, it's harder, but it's a good thing to know how to do!

We also did quick and dirty curl sets, and mine was beautiful! I was really excited that it turned out so nice. I love curling hair, and I think up-dos and curls might be my favourite thing after colour! =)

Friday was bad though, as it was the first time that I cut myself with my scissors. It was also my first burn from a curling iron... all on the same finger. By the end of the day I had two bandaids, and wanted to amputate it... but it's feeling much better now, so hopefully I've learned my lesson and I won't cut it too much anymore!

Saturday:

Saturday, my boyfriend sacrificed himself and became the first person to ever let me cut their hair.... and it was a success! =) I am quite proud of it because it took about an hour to do (which for my first haircut on a person is really quite good!) and he really likes it. I keep examining it because I'm not sure it's perfect, but it was good for a first try, and he's not miserable, so I suppose we both won!

I have no school plans for tomorrow (for the first week in a while!) so I'm going to do some studying and working on getting myself caught up on reading and refresh my brain for Wednesday! I think I may need to book an appointment for a colour next week, as my roots are getting pretty bad... so I will let you know how it goes if I do in fact get it done! =)

I don't really have a secret for you this week, as I have been super busy and didn't really think of anything for you, but I will be sure to  have a really great one for you next week! =)

Love your hair!

Kyleigh.

Weeks Two & Three - A little behind...

So I'm a couple of weeks behind on blogging (whoops), and I NEED to post before I'm 3 weeks behind, because that post would be too big to deal with. So, here are the last two weeks of school for me! It's long, but I promise it's not so long that you'll want to die after reading it... I tried to keep details to a minimum as I ramble, and this post it kind of long already.

Week 2:

Wednesday:

Wednesday we did up-dos, which were actually a lot of fun! They were a little bit difficult at first, but they got easier. We learned how to do real editorial style, Bumble and Bumble pony tails, which were really fun, but hard at first as when you do ponytails in hair school, you us bobby pins connected to hair elastics instead of just hair elastics. Figuring that out at first was difficult, but man does it make a difference in hold and how nice the pony tails look! I have changed my way of doing pony tails for the rest of my life.

I looked to try and see if I could find any photos of the up-dos that we did, but I couldn't really. They were slightly out of date, but it was really cool to do a curl set and do something fancy. Cutting hair is fun, but styling it is ever better! Hopefully we'll be able to do some that are a little more relevant, but it's a good base anyway, so it would be easy to make them a little more modern and desirable by brides and grads and what not!

Thursday:

Thursday we did full on highlights with lightener and everything! I was pretty stoked because of all my classmates, mine definitely lightened the best and turned out looking pretty good. While I need to work a bit on saturation and sectioning, I feel like I might actually be able to get my highlights down to 45 mins by the end of the course. It'll be tough, but I'll do it!

We also spent a lot of time talking about colour, and the amount of information you need to know is crazy. Every time I think I'm figuring it out, they throw a giant wrench into it! Oh well. I'm quite certain that I'm going to get it sooner than later. I'm one of those people who asks a lot of questions until I understand it. I will understand it!

Friday:

Friday we did square layers which is so HARD! Oh my goodness! But I figured them out quickly enough and I don't want to say I mastered them by the end of the day, but I'm pretty confident that I could do a really square layer hair cut... maybe! It's amazing me that we have moved along so quickly!


I don't really have pictures from last week as I was so far behind that I didn't really get a chance to take any before we did more to the mannequin heads... but I know that we do these cuts again, so I will be sure to take pictures when we do highlights and square layers again! =)

Week 3:

Tuesday:

While I don't have class on Tuesdays, I went to school to get my hair done by a student who is in the Sunday-Tuesday group, and she did an amazing job! I got a much needed haircut and a cellophane done and it turned out great! I was super happy with the result, and 4 hours later, I left there happy and with a healthy head of hair! =D

Wednesday:

Wednesday we did more square layers, and we did all over colour, which was awesome. We did fast application all over hair colour, and we were colouring with reds (which is my new fashion statement if you haven't see my hair recently... it's all about the reds this summer!) Some of the colours we ended up with were amazing! I can't wait to go get my hair coloured to get one of the super vibrant reds we have at the salon! Maybe in a couple of weeks I will go back in to get my hair re-coloured, and I'll do something really fun.

A poor picture of the colour that we did! Haha!

Thursday:

Thursday we started graduated bobs, which are extremely time consuming, and very difficult at first, but easy once you get the hang of them. I used to have a grad bob, and I ADORED it. It was super cute, and awesome for summer... but as I'm trying to grow out my hair (which is very difficult having such talented classmates, I just want them to cut it all off!) I'm avoiding going back to a grad bob right now. Maybe in the future though! 

This is my third grad bob attempt. It looks MUCH better than my first one, but still not perfect!

Friday:

Friday we did grad bobs yet again. It's something that takes a lot of practice... two whole days and I think I've finally got a hang of it, but I know there are several more to come. We also got to play around with long hair mannequins, and do some long hair round brush sets, which was really cool. I like working with the blow dryer because you can do a surprising amount of stuff with a good brush and a blow dryer. Surprising as it sounds, you don't really even need flatirons or curling irons (although they do make life much faster and easier!)


Finally, today (Tuesday, May 17th) I went to a Bumble and Bumble workshop at Space Salon. We went there to watch some great demos of some really great hair cuts, and we learned a lot of product knowledge about the new line they just released called Shine On (and on).

This product is AMAZING. We got samples of the spray (as pictured) and the shampoo and conditioner... man it makes your hair SO shiny! I love the stuff! As a launch, they've put together a 'travel' pack of the three sample sized products, so if you'd like to give it a try, go buy it at your local bumble and bumble salon (or drop by Caramel Salon or Space Salon as I know they will have it!) and try it! It's really a great product, and I am excited to work with it in all the applications that I can! =) (plus, it smells AMAZING, which is really enough for me!)

So, my salon secret for that amazing, light catching hair I know will be in style this summer? Definitely Bumble and Bumble's Shine On finishing spray!

I'm thinking of doing a must have list for summer on my other blog Don't Forget to Write, and I know for sure this product will be on it!

As this week is starting tomorrow (I am being a horrible blogger lately! Ugh!) I must leave this post here, but I PROMISE I will blog religiously from now on. A two week update is just too much... I know I left stuff out... but somehow I've made it through nearly a month of hairdressing school, and I LOVE it. I will blog. I will!

I'm going to leave you with one last thing, and it's Lady Gaga's new single, Hair. I'm only posting it because of it's title... (and it's kind of catchy too!)





Love your hair!

Kyleigh.