I suppose that it is far past time I remind humans that I am, albeit barely, alive. I spend my days having information packed into my head at school. There's really not time for much else anymore. I think I'm gonna switch to part time once I get to Senior sechedule. That way I can have a life.
I have very much been enjoying school though. Except for the first week. Perms and Chemical Straightening suck ass. No matter how badly you want your hair straight why would anyone want sodium hydroxide put on them? Eeew.
Nails wasn't bad, because I already knew most of it. Pretty simple. I used to do my own acrylic tips after all. It's actually easier to do it on other people. last week was facials/makeup/eyebrow-eyelash tinting/waxing. I got to pull all the hair out of a senior girl's arm. She was very patient with me, thank god. I will need a lot of practice to get good at that. Although I tinted Richard's eyebrows without a single hitch, and they looked lovely. Makeup was also easy. The only truly difficult part of makeup is mascara.
The best part though was main theory in the morning, becasue we've been doing color. At Elite, we work with the Goldwell line, which is a fairly complicated thing if advanced color theory is being chucked at your head and you haven't had freshman color yet. For me color was pretty easy, and I grasped the basics of the line fairly quickly. There's alot to work with and a lot to consider. Corrective color sounds like a wonderful challange!
And here I thought I wanted to do makeup.
I also never realised how much more it makes sense when you understand the chemistry behind it, and all the molecular structure of hair and how the chemistry affects the hair; aside from the obvious damage all chemical processing creates. Once you understand how that works it becoms possible to limit the amount of damage done at each color- alot of that relies on how the color is applied as well- If you have a bleached, overprocessed blond who has dark outgrowth and 30% grey, and she wants to make all her hair her natrual color again, you have to pre-pigment her hair back to orange (the underlying pigment when dark hair is bleached up just a couple levels) and then mix the color with water instead of developer and apply that her blond. You might even have to do it more then once. Once you've got that pigment reestablished then you can go ahead and forumlate something for her roots, which would mostly be for the sake of grey, and figure out how resistant that grey is. And you have to mix a completely seperate bowl of color for her now pre-stained formerly blond ends. It makes my brain hurt but I love it all the same.
I am soooo done babbling now. And now: Interesting picture! Horray for warm jackets!
I have very much been enjoying school though. Except for the first week. Perms and Chemical Straightening suck ass. No matter how badly you want your hair straight why would anyone want sodium hydroxide put on them? Eeew.
Nails wasn't bad, because I already knew most of it. Pretty simple. I used to do my own acrylic tips after all. It's actually easier to do it on other people. last week was facials/makeup/eyebrow-eyelash tinting/waxing. I got to pull all the hair out of a senior girl's arm. She was very patient with me, thank god. I will need a lot of practice to get good at that. Although I tinted Richard's eyebrows without a single hitch, and they looked lovely. Makeup was also easy. The only truly difficult part of makeup is mascara.
The best part though was main theory in the morning, becasue we've been doing color. At Elite, we work with the Goldwell line, which is a fairly complicated thing if advanced color theory is being chucked at your head and you haven't had freshman color yet. For me color was pretty easy, and I grasped the basics of the line fairly quickly. There's alot to work with and a lot to consider. Corrective color sounds like a wonderful challange!
And here I thought I wanted to do makeup.
I also never realised how much more it makes sense when you understand the chemistry behind it, and all the molecular structure of hair and how the chemistry affects the hair; aside from the obvious damage all chemical processing creates. Once you understand how that works it becoms possible to limit the amount of damage done at each color- alot of that relies on how the color is applied as well- If you have a bleached, overprocessed blond who has dark outgrowth and 30% grey, and she wants to make all her hair her natrual color again, you have to pre-pigment her hair back to orange (the underlying pigment when dark hair is bleached up just a couple levels) and then mix the color with water instead of developer and apply that her blond. You might even have to do it more then once. Once you've got that pigment reestablished then you can go ahead and forumlate something for her roots, which would mostly be for the sake of grey, and figure out how resistant that grey is. And you have to mix a completely seperate bowl of color for her now pre-stained formerly blond ends. It makes my brain hurt but I love it all the same.
I am soooo done babbling now.
And now: Interesting picture! Horray for warm jackets!
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sooo when are we gonna hang out, eh?