Another week down at Regency Beauty Institute. Well – we STILL don’t have an instructor – but we did have a substitute last Tuesday who may or may not be our new instructor… so, we’re still in limbo. We only got to talk to her for a minute because she was helping Ms. Vera do the inventory that was due,and left us to work on worksheets and practicals… the kinks are being worked out…
What this ultimately means is that our CM and the day shift instructors have been rotating to make sure we are covered in the evenings and that we have done a LOT of review for our Hair Color exam next week. Saturday we did a TON of practical work… my my my… I tell ya, if we don’t all pass this next test – there are some problems!
That is all we have done for the last week, continuously review the hair color chapter – if it isn’t embedded in our brains by now, heaven help us! On Saturday, we got to practice our color application for retouches and for blonde process – then we washed & styled after each, which was good because we used cholesterol colored with Tempra Paint so we could see what we were doing… Saturday was a day for wracking up practical credits, let me tell you!
pretty highlights & flips
from the front - not too shabby!
Then we got to practice our technique for all over color. On the bright side, I got to color my Kimmie’s hair – I choose the Redken 5VR which turned her medium brown hair with blonde highlights into a dark brown with violet undertones and violet highlights – TOO CUTE!
Purple & Brown
Corkscrews with a flat iron!!
Stained her scalp purple!
then i proceeded to curl her hair using a straight iron! Look at those corkscrews!!! lovely!
i’m starting to worry about the “older” students in our class because they get to test-out on to the performance floor this coming Saturday, but there isn’t an evening Rehearsal / Performance instructor yet – and there’s not one for Workshop yet either – so now instead of having to find one instructor, they are trying to find two!! wow!
New campus, new problems – they are working out the kinks. i’m bearing with them because i really like this campus, but i’m starting to get frustrated. I’m hoping we’ll be learning something new tonight. Since all we did last week was go over everything we learned the week before, i’m wondering what we’ll be doing these next two nights until our test on Wednesday…. argh…
Well, tonight we did more color. I did a double process blonde highlight application – and toned her down with Redken’s Shades EQ in Silver Frost – trying to achieve a silver highlight on top of brown hair, well, it came out grey, but not really silver. And I must say, my highlight application is coming along quite nicely – sorry i didn’t get pics of that…
We reviewed some more for our test – go figure – lol… tomorrow I think we’re making our color wheel that we were supposed to make two weeks ago and never did… hmmmm… oh well. And then we’ll probably review some more for our test…
Wednesday night we are having our practical exam on our mannekins – if i’m not mistaken we have to do a color re-touch and a double process blonde virgin application – whoo hooo!
Thursday we’ll be taking our written exam and then Saturday, our “older” students test out of workshop and into Rehearsal / Performance floor! yipeee!! I know they are super excited to get going!
Lipstick & Razorblades 