Bulliten Update...

Beep Beep Beep. This just in!!!

I passed my State Board Exam! I am now a licensed Cosmetologist! I still can't believe it's already over. Years of hard work to prepare for the exam and now that I passed it, I'm not sure what to do with myself! I think I'm going to go back to school and get my degree! Why not, right.

State Board Exam Date

So... I got my Exam date! March 18, 2010.

Holy Moly! That's only 2.5 weeks away! I've been waiting and waiting for the letter to come in the mail and all they give me is 2.5 weeks notice??? There's so much I need to be doing! Ahhh. All of a sudden I feel like all of the information I have obtained for two years is flooding out of my head. What does Tinea Corporis mean? What is the only living part of the nail? Where do you apply eye shadow for wide set eyes? AAAAHHHH! I know what I'm going to be doing in all my spare moments... studying like a mad woman!

Application Adventure

We received our State Board Applications in leu of a Certificate at our Graduation Ceremony. They were all labeled and ready for our $125 contribution to the State of California (at least that's how I see it).

I got all dressed up for work because today is a very special day to drop the application off at our local Post Office. I'm one step closer to getting my license!!!

Drive up, park, walk to the door and realize that they have changed their hours from 9:00am to 10:00am. Darn, but it's okay. I'm just a little bit late for work and I can still drop it off at our Front Desk Mail Drop!

The guy at the Front desk was kind in taking my picture dropping off my application. He must have thought I was a little looney. I mean, who does that? I just wanted to document my journey!

So, it's off in the mail. Hope I get my date soon! I'll keep you posted!

Graduation Countdown

The countdown is on! I'm so excited and nervous and relieved to finally be finishing this program! 1600 hours is a very long program! Now, time to start studying for that Cosmetology State Board Exam!

Finally...

my group project that I have been stressing about for almost 2 months now, is tonight. Yay!

I'll post pictures when I get them! Phew, I'm in such a good place now!

Alice In Wonderland

I'm working with a group of schoolmates on a Fashion Hair Show as a required group project in school. We had to come up with a theme and create everything around it. We came up with Alice in Wonderland as our theme and we have been having so much fun thinking of ways to do the hair and make up and of course the outfits! I watched the version below to get some inspiration!

I get to play the Queen of Hearts!!! Off with their heads...

Mock Board

Do you ever have days that you stress about them getting here for so long that once they're here, they're already gone? That was yesterday for me.

I am in Cosmetology school and we had a "mock board" exam yesterday (meaning our teacher treated this midterm as if we were at the real State Board exam. There was no talking, we used real people to do our timed procedures on, and we were graded on every single thing we did.

I'm normally okay under pressure but right before we started, my friend hadn't shown up yet and I started to panic. She was on her way through traffic but we were starting already. She showed up literally in the last minute but everything worked out just fine. I got my confidence back after the first procedure and I think over all I did very well. I completed 4 out of the 5 procedures. The last one was what they call a "State Board Set" and this is to demonstate all hairstyling techniques without tools. You fingerwave the entire head, then use rollers, stand-up pincurls and forward and backward pincurls. This was my first time doing it on a real person, we normally do this on our doll heads. Well, I almost finished! I had 4 more pincurls to do when the buzzer went off. Oh well! I did my best!