Learning about hair
I am going to tell you. I go to cosmetology school thinking you know this that and the other about hair. I have been a kitchen-tician most of my life and I knew a pretty good amount about hair. I could hold my own. I even did hair for a little extra cash a while back and that was cool.
Come to find out, I don't know jack about hair. I just think I did. Not only does school teach you the proper techniques and an efficient way to do those techniques, it tells you why!! Why does the hair do this when I rollerset, relaxer, perm, wash, condition and so on and so forth. It is so much chemistry involved in doing hair that sometimes I think I am in chemistry class.
Part of being trained as a cosmetologist is learning about the structure of hair and what the chemicals and products do to it and why. This makes you rethink my whole hair regimen. Am I using the correct shampoos and conditioners? Is blowdrying really as bad as everyone says? etc.
The first week we learned about the structure of the hair and it's physical and chemical make up. We also learned how to finger wave, do some funky old school braiding technique called the cobra, we learned how to properly do french and dutch braids too. We learned how to properly part hair and how to properly roller set(wrap) hair. We learned how to properly hold our scissors for cutting hair and different positions to be able to cut at different angles.
The second week we focused on hair perms and towards the end of the week we learned the proper technique for applying relaxers(virgin and retouches).
There is also a proper technique for flat ironing(smoothing) hair. That one got me because I just thought that you part the hair and take the iron from the scalp to the ends of the hair with just a little pressure. In smoothing the hair should be parted at an angle and smoothed at an angle. You know why? The head is round and the angular parts accommidate the roundness of the hair. When you get close to the scalp it prevents the scalp from being burnt by the iron. That was an aha moment for me because I could never get through a flat iron without a burn or two!!
I will take the time to describe these techniques in a latter post. There is so much to learn!
Come to find out, I don't know jack about hair. I just think I did. Not only does school teach you the proper techniques and an efficient way to do those techniques, it tells you why!! Why does the hair do this when I rollerset, relaxer, perm, wash, condition and so on and so forth. It is so much chemistry involved in doing hair that sometimes I think I am in chemistry class.
Part of being trained as a cosmetologist is learning about the structure of hair and what the chemicals and products do to it and why. This makes you rethink my whole hair regimen. Am I using the correct shampoos and conditioners? Is blowdrying really as bad as everyone says? etc.
The first week we learned about the structure of the hair and it's physical and chemical make up. We also learned how to finger wave, do some funky old school braiding technique called the cobra, we learned how to properly do french and dutch braids too. We learned how to properly part hair and how to properly roller set(wrap) hair. We learned how to properly hold our scissors for cutting hair and different positions to be able to cut at different angles.
The second week we focused on hair perms and towards the end of the week we learned the proper technique for applying relaxers(virgin and retouches).
There is also a proper technique for flat ironing(smoothing) hair. That one got me because I just thought that you part the hair and take the iron from the scalp to the ends of the hair with just a little pressure. In smoothing the hair should be parted at an angle and smoothed at an angle. You know why? The head is round and the angular parts accommidate the roundness of the hair. When you get close to the scalp it prevents the scalp from being burnt by the iron. That was an aha moment for me because I could never get through a flat iron without a burn or two!!
I will take the time to describe these techniques in a latter post. There is so much to learn!
posted by Tamika Hair Designer @ 2:24 PM
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