These past few days...

I have been super busy these past few days :) but it has been awesome!!

Monday: I helped 2 girls in doing there color which I LOVED!!!! Color is so much fun!!! i wish I could do it all the time :)

here's how it turned out :)



hooray!!!

Pretty!!!



My first Color on a HUMAN BEING!!!!

So today was a very exciting day :)
I was so excited because I was able to help my friend Ali do a color on a client :) and it was my first time!! I have done the applications on my mannequin head before with gel or conditioner but never actual color on a person :)
At first I was super scared because it was FOR real color...not gel.
I was only helping but still this lady trusted Ali and I with her hair...Ali is pro and has done color before but I never have and I was praying my side would look just as good as the other.
we first started off by asking her what she wanted (I didn't ask i just stood there like a dumb ape half way not knowing what was going on) and what she liked.
Once we determined that she wanted to go more red and to foil in some blond we went to mix the color.

all I can say is that mixing color doesn't look that hard but when your trying to get a certain color then it's seems hard. it's nice having an instructor around who knows what to do :)

After all the confusing mixing all I had to remember is apply the color from the scalp to the the line of demarcation. That was fun to do I REALLY like applying color...just now I need to work on figuring out how to mix it and why you mix it that certain way...

After we finished the application we went to work on weaving in 5 foils of blond in her Mohawk.

(the Mohawk is the center section of hair from the front hair line to the curvature of the head)

We made a opps on the blond :( we forgot to leave a spacer in between foils...lucky for us that the instructor caught it and fixed it for us!!! :)

After all was said and done the color turned out good!!! And I have got some new things that I most defiantly need to work on  :)

Sometimes it still hurts...

It's been a month and a half on Wednesday and I think so far I have done pretty good. I can feel myself moving on and letting go each day, but there are those times when it still hurts.
Like times when I see couples walking holding hands. This is my most favorite thing to do. I love it when no matter where we are walking, he would always reach down and grab my hand. That is one feeling that is hard to describe...but I loved it.

In church it seems the worst...watching couples together. Having someone put there arm around you and kiss you on the cheek with no need. I always felt special with him at my side.

But most of all having someone to talk to. He was always there to tell me he loved me and he always wanted to be around me. That felt good to be wanted...now I am alone.
I know I have really great friends and a TERRIFIC family but if you've ever been in love before it's not the same. I could text or call him anytime I was having a hard time and he was always there to help me. I could share anything with him and he would be there no matter what.
That's gone now and it sucks. No one is there to hold me when I cry...all I have is my pillow.

I know this sounds dumb and I should be over it by now but try as I might I still think about it. I wish I didn't and that I was over everything...
So anytime I say I want to do something or I am trying to fill my day you know why...I'm trying to get my mind off my problems because if I stop for a moment to think about everything I break down...and I hate waterproof mascara :(
I've noticed driving in my car is the worst...all alone listening to love songs or break up songs...that time sucks. I wish I had someone in the car with me all the time then I'd be set.
I wonder if there will ever be a time when I don't think about him...
Or every time I smell something and it reminds me of him...
Sorry to be a downer but I'm feeling lonely right now. It will get better as time goes on.

Punches

I am now on the Cosmo side and I LOVE IT!! It is so much fun playing with Ladies hair :) Lot's more that you can do...so far I have not been able to work on anyone. I have been assigned to help with 3 perms and so far each perm has not shown up...weird. So all I've been working on is punches.
Oh Punches.
Punches are done on the Lovely Maniquin heads :) Remember Doris?? (I know her name has changed several times...) 

Well she and her new lovely friend Irene are what I get to work on again...hooray :(

Since March 2nd.....

Alot has happened since March 2nd...sorry I am a total slacker but my life has been on the crazy side with school, work, friends, etc I have been running like a chicken with her head cut off.
I FINALLY colored and cut my hair and I LOVE it!!!! I don't think I want long hair again...I like short hair WAY too much :) here are some pics...

this is what I went for...

and this is what I got...

Sorry I look so dumb in my pics...I HATE taking pics of myself...I think it's really weird. I had to cause no one was home to help me...I hope you like it :)

Finding myself

I realized that these past 2 years I lost myself.
I was not my true self, and that makes me sad.
I am trying to find myself and it's been such a crazy experience so far...and it's only been 2 weeks.
I will keep you updated on the progress but so far it's been CRAZY...a good crazy :)
I realized that I really need to focus on myself right now, I'm not sure how long it will take but I know I need time to heal and get back to being me. Getting back to being happy. I also want to thank everyone who has been there to support me in this situation! All my family and friends! you guys are all so amazing for letting me cry and listening to me complain! thank you all SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much! I don't think I could get through this without you all!!! I'm not completely healed yet but it's coming along and I know now that I will be ok :) everything will be ok...in time!

The time is NOW!

So mid-terms are this week but I finished them all last week :) haha SWEET!
On Tuesday I had a practical mid-term where I did a taper haircut on my dad :) and I got a 95 on it but because I have been there on time everyday I will get an automatic 100 :) SWEET!!!
Friday I had my final in Salon Success which went AWESOME! Did real good on it :) Like 80
Today and Tuesday is my written take home final in theory but because I have been there everyday on time i don't have to take it :) being at school everyday really pays off :)
Then in 2 weeks I move over to Cosmetology :) I am so excited!!!!

I had to share this :) Thank you Ashley Shippen!!!

I know my last post was really well depressing. Believe me it's not over...But my good friend sent me this WONDERFUL email that really was an answer to my prayers... I know it's a lot but read it...it all took my breath away...

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven't tried, you haven't lived. -meet Joe black


"FEARLESS" is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into you freshman year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again...even though every time you've tried before, you've lost. It's FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can't breathe without them. I think it's FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he's in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "you're NOT sorry", and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright...That's FEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after."

-T.S

this one is my favorites :)

Everyone longs to give themselves to someone-- to have a deep soul relationship with another-- to be loved thoroughly and exclusively. But , God says, "No, not until you are satisfied, fulfilled, and content with being loved by Me alone-- with giving yourself totally and unreservedly to Me". I love you, my child. And until you discover that only in Me is your satisfaction to be found, you will not be capable of the perfect human relationship I have planned for you. You will never be united with another until you are united with Me-- exclusive of anyone or anything else, exclusive of any other desires or longings. I want you to stop planning, stop wishing and allow Me to give you the most thrilling plan existing-- a plan you cannot imagine. I want you to have the best. Please allow Me to bring it to you. You just keep watching Me, expecting the greatest things-- keep experiencing the satisfaction that I am. Keep listening and learning the things I tell you. You just wait. That's all. Don't be anxious. Don't worry. Don't look at the things others have gotten or I have given them. Don't look at the things you want. You just keep looking off and away up to Me, or you'll miss what I want to show you.

Then, when you are ready, I'll surprise you with a love far more wonderful than any you would even dream of. You see, until you are ready, and until the one I have for you is ready at the same time-- until you are both satisfied exclusively with Me and the life I have prepared for you-- you won't be able to experience the love exemplified in you relationship with Me, and is thus, perfect love.

And dear one, I want you to have this most wonderful love. I want you to see in the flesh a picture of your relationship with Me and to enjoy materially and concretely the everlasting union of beauty, perfection, and love I offer you with, Myself. Know that I love you utterly. I am God. Believe it, and be satisfied." -Author Unknown

Life suck much?

I haven't posted for a while :( I have a DANG good reason why...
My life was flipped upside down a week a go today. Worst day of my life. Right in the middle of Mid-terms and a job/promotion interview.
I honestly didn't see it coming. Seriously it hit me like a TON of bricks.
I can't say that I am happy about it. In fact it will take A LOT of time to figure this one out.
If you didn't know I broke up with my boyfriend of 2 1/2 years. I loved him, still do. I don't think that I can ever stop loving him. I just need to learn to love him in a different way.
It's crazy isn't it? How fast life can change...2 weeks ago if you asked me what our future was I would say we were going to get married. Now...I feel lost. Like I'm not sure what is going on. I feel like I'm floating with no real purpose now...
Now's the time I need to find a purpose. I don't want to. It's going to be SUPER hard too.
I've tried to find a good thing in this...but I really can't. I know it's only been a week since all this crap happened but I am impatient and I don't want to go through all this.
I want to be happy and not have to go through any kind of...grieving process? is that what it would be called?
I have had my heart broken before but this is nothing compared to that. Imagine the one person or thing you love more then anything taken away in a instant and you never able to be with them. That bit of sorrow you feel doesn't compare. So that is what has been going on. Sorry to depress you but it's my blog. I'm going to be depressing if I want to.

Mid-terms :/

Midterms are coming up FAST! WOW I have been on the lab floor for almost HALF a semester! CRAZY! Time flies when your having fun...???
this homework is what I'm working on at the moment for 1 class... Salon Success

don't worry I just have to write about 2 pages per hand out by 2/25/11...Late start I know but I'm a procrastinator...

At least I started now instead of next week...right?

I also have a few other papers do around the same time for Theory class....Geeze teach just cake it on! it's not like I have a full time job, and Boyfriend, and a life...nope I'm ready for more!!! Pray for me folks :( I hope I can get it all done!!!

Bump it's

I don't know about you all but I think that Bump it's are HILARIOUS!!!! The first time i saw the commercial I about died laughing!!! Before I go any further I want to apologize if you use bumps and I say something that upsets you. Noting personal but I prefer the natural look better...but it's my blog. I'm going to state my opinion. Like it or leave it.
I don't know about you all but bump it's make it look like she has another head growing on the crown of your head...am I right? I say tease your hair, give it a little volume, I'm all for that. But if you are going to wear a bump it make sure that you put on your WIDE LOAD sign so I don't run into your 2nd head!
One girl at school today told me the BEST story about bump its :)
She was at a basketball game with some friends when she noticed a girl in front of her that had her hair in a ponytail. Well when she REALLY looked at the girl she had a bump it in her hair but her pony tail was slicked (yes dancers/drill team girls like a compitions) back with GEL so the bump it spikes on top were poking through her hair!!!!! hahahahahahaha AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! Have any funny stories about bump it's?


I think my halloween costume will be this....

A bump it and ...

:) what do you think?

Bleach Burns YIKES!!!

Do any of you bleach hair or have your hair bleached?
BLEACH BURNS! YIKES!
Have you ever had one or seen one? Dude! They look like they kill!
One of my friends from Barbering had a weave done on the top portion of her head and a darker color on the bottom portion, this was on Thursday.
Well Monday she was doing her hair and complaining about how her head itched really bad. That's all she really said about it. I had a feeling it hurt more then she let on...
Well today she had another friend round brush her hair and they noticed that her scalp was really red and it had a TON of dry skin!! I mean a TON!!
Our instructor came over to check it and said that it looked like a bleach burn. She said that the best way to stop the itching and put some moisture back into her scalp would be a scalp treatment.
A scalp treatment is a really simple process and it really nice because someone massages your head for about 15 mins :) I had one :) to DIE for
Any ways....
The instructor says what may have caused it was that the bleach got onto the scalp by putting the bleach and hair in foil and putting it under the dryer.
I've heard of others having bleach on the hair, in foil, under the dryer who were just fine.
I think that it was the girls that were doing her hair...they were working fast ans sloppy.

Moral of the story is not to be afraid of bleach...Just to make sure whoever is doing your hair is REALLY good :( and bleach burns KILL!

Uh put that shampoo bottle down!

What shampoo do you use?
Do you get yours from Walmart or Smiths? Or any other grocery store?
Well you should STOP!
YES you reading this! This is not a joke!
Put that $2.00 bottle of shampoo down and step away from the shower!
Let me tell you my story and a little bit about shampoo...
Yes I used to be like you...find the cheapest bottle of shampoo that smelled the best and use that on my hair.
Nothing wrong with that, right?
WRONG-O buddy!
your killing your hair.
your hair is dry? breaking? weak? won't hold color?
Well I can tell you EXACTLY why!!
have you heard of the pH scale? (Click here for more info)
What it does is it tests if something is a Acid or Alkaline...
things like Ammonia are Alkaline where an Acid would be Vinegar
the scale goes from 0 to 14
0-6.9 is anything acid
7 is a base which can only be distilled water
7.1-14 anything Alkaline
the human body and hair are on the pH of 4.5-5.5 on the acid side...so you think that the shampoo should fall under that range, right?
WRONG-O again!! haha the shampoo you buy in the grocery stores range from 8-14 on the Alkaline side.
hmmm.....
No wonder your hair is dry and CRAPPY!!!!
Isn't that CRAZY?!?! I was like WHOA MAN! WTC? (what the cookies)
You ask, what is the best shampoo to use? Anything you get from a salon.
But it's WAY too expensive, you say.
Think of it this way...
You buy a HUGE liter of shampoo from the salon for 12-30 bucks...
true it can be expensive. But here is another thing to think about...
How much shampoo do you use? How long is your hair?
For a guy a dime size should suffice. You have a little hair why do you need to fill up your palm with shampoo?
Girls you only need a tiny bit more if you have long hair.
The one any only thing that bugs most people about salon shampoo is that if you use the correct amount it doesn't sud up that much.
I found out that in the grocery store shampoo they add a chemical in the shampoo that makes it sud up more making you think that your hair is getting SUPER clean, when in actuality it's not. Just WAY more chemicals :)
so think about that the next time you buy shampoo :)

History on Barbering

Have you ever really thought about where barbers and cosmetologists came from? Honestly I never had until I started school. Cause that's one thing you have to learn about in your theory class. Each semester you learn different things, and right now it's barbering. We just finished the chapter on barbering and I thought I would share some interesting facts...

Cutting hair can be found going back a REALLY long time! The most info we have on it started with the Egyptians and Cleopatra. All the ladies used to use Henna (which is a red dye or color that comes from plants) on there hair and sit out in the sun to let there hair bake so it would turn a reddish tint...
People believed that if anyone got a hold of there hair clippings they could use them to posses or take over the lives of the person so they kept the clippings and were buried with there old hair. SICK!
In the time of Alexander the Great he made his soldiers cut there hair and beards so that in battle no one could grab them by there hair and cut off there heads! CRAZY!

Monks used to shave the crown of there heads because they believed that god could get to there minds easier.

The Chinese men never cut there hair in the crown section because they believed that the braid was the way they would be pulled into heaven.

that's all the facts for now...More to come :)

THE COOLEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN :)

So this is called a "HAIRCUT/SHAMPOO/STYLING UMBRELLA" hahaha isn't awesome??!! I found it here on amazon :) I think I want to get one and make EVERYONE wear it!! what do you think?? Would you wear it :)

Stinky Hands...EWW

One thing that I noticed while cutting hair is that everyone's hair has a different smell...some not a great as others...some not so desirable...some that when you smell it you want to barf. Just saying.
Like today I cut a kids hair, a boy kid, about 19 yrs old. Nice kid. Stinky hair.
Now stinky hands :( washing MULTIPLE times and scented lotion...I can still smell his hair, and I want to puke.
I know it may sound rude but it's true. you would barf also.
What do you do when your cutting his hair? you ask me...well...

1. Cut as fast and as neatly as you can.
2. Try to breath in short small breaths
3. DO NOT BREATH THROUGH YOUR MOUTH...ergo flying hair.
4. Just don't think about what your smelling

That's what I do. Also if I smell something that grosses me out I gag so I DEFIANTLY need to concentration what I smell and gag from. cause that would be a bit rude...
Don't worry all I saved my gagging until I drove to work thinking about eating something with my smelly hands. BARF!

I am sorry to the kid with Stinky hair. I don't mean for you to gross me out, but WASH YOUR HAIR!
It makes me feel bad that anyone who cut my hair and it was stinky...Jessica! I AM SORRY!! I will not have stinky hair again!
Other than stinky hands School is going great, I had my first test on Thursday 1/20/11 and I got a A on it!!! Doing the happy dance woot wooten!!!! woot wooten!!!
In my opinion Guys hair is easier then girls, but girls do more with there hair. Other then a cut they do perms, colors, layers, fringe, etc. Good thing I'm not only in barbering this semester :) 

Auburn?

I think I want to go Auburn...
But I'm not sure...
I just got my hair colored in December...and I'm already tired of it...
what to do?

Back to school Barbering style!!!

School started Monday and I am so excited to be back! I am sort of on my own but not really...I have a cute girl named Renee helping me!! She is so nice and patient!! THANK YOU!!
I am starting in Barbering until mid-term then I move over to Cosmetology. So my week goes like so....
Monday-Thursday:

• Wake up at 5:45 am
• Be to school by 7:00 am
• Theory class 7-8 am
• Barbering Lab 8-11:45 am
• Eat lunch in the car while driving to work
• Get dressed in work clothes when I get to work around 12:15
• Work from 12:30-9
• Eat dinner 
• Sleep :)

Friday:

• Wake up at 6:45 am
• Be to school by 8:00 am 
• Barbering Lab 8-11 am
• Eat lunch while driving to work
• Work 11:30-6:30 
• drive back to school and be there by 7:00 pm
• Salon Success 7-9 
• Go home
• Eat dinner
• Sleep :)

Wish me luck!! :)

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OK today while being lazy and getting ready for work I was flipping through channels I found this...

I couldn't believe that there was actually a show about salons!! I got excited and started watching it...

It's about this woman Tabatha who goes to salons that are in dire need of help whether it be make over or employee's. she is there! in other words she is the Simon Cowell of Cosmetologists. the show is on Bravo. Watch it! you will love it :)