Heh, just get through school.  It is a whole other world out there.  You might be annoying them with question after question.  In school it is the basic and theory, so just get on with it. 

When out of school lots more courses you will be taking.  So suck it up and get on with it.  I don't know one stylist who liked hair school, but thousands of us do it!!!

Thank you so much.  I agree completely with you on the negative people.  I realized quite quickly after looking at was making me upset and not happy with school, that it was the negative people who only had the bad to say about the school that I go too.

I do really good at not missing any days, and working on maniquin head as often as possible.  Most days though, i usually have a client.  So that helps make it go by faster. 

Thank you for the uplifting, I really needed to hear that sucking it up wasn't the only thing that could be done.  Yes I know that school sucks, and is hard.  But it is also nice to know that someone else understands how hard it can be to work, and do the school thing, along with children at home.

Dear russnyc-

Great advice!  Keep it coming!

Cindy Farr Hester  Asst Moderator

I do really good at not missing any days, and working on maniquin head as often as possible.  Most days though, i usually have a client.  So that helps make it go by faster. 

It's time to start using your head Phorxygirl, and those of everyone that you know and meet.

 Hairstyling is learned only one way...by doing, so you've got to do a lot more than one head a day...My experience tells me that you'll need to do 1000 haircuts (that's a thousand) before you'll feel confident at it.

 Once you get out of school you can work in a quick-service salon like Supercuts for a few months to get those 1000 paying clients through your chair...

If you do 20 cuts a day, 5 days a week in the salon it will only take you 10 weeks to do your 1000...you'll never get that type of fast experience if you go to a fancy-schmancy place, take this advice and use it...Once you have confidence you can always look for a different salon to join...To make money in this trade you must be able to work FAST, not to seem hurried, but you must be able to plow through the work, no matter if it's $10.00 clients or $100.00 clients, there's no percentage in being slow.

BUT, in the meantime, RIGHT NOW, you MUST get every person in your family in your chair, everybody that you meet in the supermarket, the garage, the gym, etc. I mean EVERYBODY you talk to, you must ask them to be your client AND GET THEM IN YOUR CHAIR TO PRACTICE ON...

DO NOT RELY ON, OR WAIT FOR THE SCHOOL TO PUT BOTTOMS IN YOUR CHAIR...IT'S YOUR FUTURE, YOUR EDUCATION AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DO IT, BOTH NOW AND ONCE YOU GET INTO THE WORKPLACE.

Think of yourself as already a working hairstylist who's building a clientel and go out and build it. You'll get much more respect from your teachers if you fill your chair with clients and the school will also look more favorably on you for bringing in business for them, just like an employer would.

The big mistake that students make is playing at hairstyling, not working at it. Begin WORKING at it today.

Good Luck.