Hairdos & Hair Styling Tips : How To Become A Hair Stylist

Hi, my name is Lisa, I'm a hairstylist in Wilmington North Carolina and I'm here to talk about how to become a hairstylist. Well, you either go to a community college program which is like a semi academic program. You have to take perhaps some credits that aren't related to hair, but it kind of makes you more well-rounded hairstylist to talk to clients and stuff like that or you can go to a private school and just do straight. Hair styling and usually you'll take between 1200 and 1500 hours. That'S on the floor. What it translates to is about an entire year of full-time work that you actually pay to do so when you get done with all that, you have a required number of roller sets. Chemicals colors straighteners, relaxers perms, some programs. You have to do facials nails, so you'll learn a little bit about skin care a little bit about pedicures manicures, some artificial nails, it's kind of interesting and then you'll do a lot of roller sets. At the end of your training, you'll go sit for the State Board of Cosmetology in your state, during which time you will practice all the techniques and things that you learn during school, as well as take a very lengthy, two or three hour written test, at which Time you will be very grateful that you have passed your exam and you hold a license to practice cosmetology in your state and that's where the real work begins. So that is how you become a cosmetologist