If you have plans to get in the barber business. You need to understand that being a barber involves much more than just cutting hair. Just because you can cut a tight fade isn't good enough. There is book work and the curriculum is more on public health and sterilization and sanitation. There are chapters on chemical services razor cutting shaving and more. Be prepared to study, most barber schools teach all the basics of hair care, the better schools teach everything. I didn't know there was a difference between the schools until years after I was in the barber field I have worked in more than a few shops. I went to Louisiana Hair Design College. This school was affiliated with Roflers. The owner of the school was Stewart Smith. He came to our school once, he talked to us and told us a few tips on making it in the business; like absorb all that we had the opportunity to while we were in school, the value of having skills that improve peoples appearance. We can always leave the business and get back in just pay to keep your license current. He told us that being a good communicator was more important than giving a good hair cut. I never forgot that.
When you get into this business don't do it for the money. The potential is there to make fast money there is more to pleasing a customer than just a good cut too. This is a complex business, there's a few reasons why people choose a barber and a few reasons why some one will stick with and follow a barber from shop to shop, some stay, some leave, some come back and some people you never see again. There are several reasons for this too; this is why it is important to always continue to grow your business by always promoting yourself and adding new clients. It is hard to please all people; some people may get mad over an issue what ever that issue might be, right, or wrong the client preserves that you have wronged him, or her in some way. For example skipping people, known as the hot seat, is a bad idea. This is when some high roller comes in and tips the barber a 20 to let him cut to the front. I have never practiced this and I don't advise it to you. People may not say anything, but no ones crazy you are messing over your people.
When you go to school, if you don't already know how to cut hair, you will learn. Not so much from the instructors as much as from the other students that are already ahead of you. You will start out with book work and have to work on a mannequin head. there are a number of haircuts to perform on the mannequin before you can get on the floor and work with the schools clients. If you do already know how to cut keep an open mind you may know a lot or not but you are there to learn the way of the book to pass a test. Most states require that you complete 1500 hours of study before e you can take the state exam.
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The emphasis of a barber school's education is to teach the essentials of providing hair and skin services for men. They often learn to perform razor styling, hair cutting and coloring, blow drying, foam shaves, steam facials, and facial massages.
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