Licensed Cosmetologist

On January 5th I took my state board exam to become a licensed cosmetologist. I wanted to share my experiance. First off it was probably the most stressul thing i've been through. The place is located in Fairfield, CA so the evening before my mother and I drove up there and stayed at a hotel. I had been studying for a while and was so stressed yet just wanted to get the thing over with. My day started at 5 am. I didn't get much sleep (like 4 hours) even though i went to bed at 9 because thought like sodium hydroxide relaxer and pin curl formation wouldn't leave my mind. At 5:45 we drove to the location and I recieved my rental kit which is a big suitcase of supplies. We then filled in some paper work and got assigned a room and station. This is where the fun begins. On a side note models are not allowed to talk, listen to music, or read. This makes the room very quite

My procedures were
-set up
-predisposition test
-manicure and build a nail- this means my mom got a manicure on one hand a fake nail on one finger of the other hand
-Wet set- for this you finger wave the enitre head and then put in rollers, pincurls, and volume pincurls while keeping the finger waves intact. I totally rocked this part.

In case you dodn't know what finger waves are here is a picture from when I practiced them.
- Hair cut
-Tint back to natural- this is where we apply shaving cream to the hair and pretend it is hair color

We then got a 20 min break

-Sodium Hydroxide relaxer- again we used shaving cream to represent relaxer product
-perm- we used color water as the perm solution
- eyebrow waxing
- thermal press- this with a comb and curling iron that go in a mini oven and is then used to straighten and curl hair.

In the morning I finished a few minutes early but my fake nail was a joke. In the afternoon I finished just in time. It's pretty crazy because the whole time a proctor is watching you and writing down notes. They mostly watch if you are keeping your client safe and being clean. One time when i was rinsing out my mom's hair I spilt water all over the floor. Panic almost took over but i remained calm and cleaned everything up.

After the practical I had a break and then took the written section. This was 110 questions and they throw out 10 random ones. After completling the test you head to a room and wait for your name to be called. Luckily i passed and will never have to go through this again!

Thank you mom for letting me cut your hair short and put shaving cream in it.

Chirstmas and New Year

After New Mexico we flew to Washington to be with my family. Everyone was there so it was great to catch up. I'll Let the pictures do most of the talking

We walked around the frozen pond behind my parent's house

Read the Christmas story while dressed up

Jacob and I were the camel. He was the hump.

Got Pajama's from the elves on Christmas eve.

Woke up early and opened all our gifts.

Played a ton of games. I actually won one of them.

Visited the Grandparents. Funny story I have to share. For Christmas my brothers and Jacob got little remote controlled helicopters. They're pretty hard to steer so I told Jacob to be careful and not hit my grandma with it. A minute later and the helicopter is crashing into my grandma's head. She was fine and we all had a good laugh at Jacob

Played in the Snow. WE pulled a tube behind the 4-wheeler

For New Years I came up with a new tradition. We all dug through the costume box and took old time photos. At first there were some sighs and eye roll but everyone got into it by the end.

Jacob and I

The Women folk

The Men. Jacob is so creepy or maybe he really doesn't like his in-laws :)

*mom- jacob wants you to know this is just a joke

the whole group

My brother really getting into it (sorry Steven, I had to do it)

Bringing in the the new year!

Christmas Part 1

For the first part of Christmas break Jacob and I headed to New Mexico. Jacob's youngest sister Katy was getting married. It was a wonderful four days of family, eating, and pictures.

Jacob's mom did a FANTASTIC job of pulling together a wedding in such a short time.

Jacob and his older sister Kristen sang a song at the reception which was so sweet.

I helped do Katy's hair for her big day. She looked Gorgeous.

It was sad to only have a few days with Jacobs family but we made the most of them. Welcome to the family Jordan and Congratulations Katy and Jordan!

Parents weekend!

A few weekends ago my parents came to town for my graduation party. Don't get to excited. I still haven't graduated yet. My last day at school is December 12th and then I will take the state board sometime in January or February. My school celebrates it early so that they can combine with a few other classes.

WE tried to cram in as much as possible in such a short time.

We went to the Sutro Baths which is the ruins of an old bath house on the beach.

Watching the waves

At the graduation party. Thank you so much mom and dad for making it possible for me to go into such an exciting career.

Also, thank you Jacob for all the love and support while I tried to decide what to do with my life. And also for letting me practice my mens haircutting skills!

Me, Amanda, and Jessica. Just the coolest/prettiest/awesomest girls at the school lol

My Intro teach who is hilarious and made sure we didn't get to frustrated with finger waves.

Priscilla- my current instructor who is fabulous and has made me not so freaked out about state boards.

The next day the boys went golfing and my and my mom drove the carts.

Love my mom!

zoolander face

Look at him strike a pose. if only they had America's Next top Model for guys lol

A beautiful day to golf.

October- The Best Month of the Year

I love October!

This year it was a ton of fun. For Halloween we did a few things. The night before we went to the Dental school pre-party. Last year we went to the official party and decided it was something you only need to do once. The pre-party was great because we got to see everyone before they got wasted- always a plus. Jacob was as clever as ever and went as a sim lab mannequin. It was pretty funny how he pulled it all together.

Pippi Longstocking trying her hand at dentistry

The mannequin

Ray From Mortal Combat was a pretty good dentist.

On Halloween I had to go to school and do hair. They let us dress up and had a costume competition in which I came in second place as Cleopatra! I left school early and headed to our ward trick-or-treat where we decorated a door and passed out candy. Jacob went with the dog costume this night. We realized that probably 1 out of 4 kids will scream and be freaked out by a giant dog lol.

An up close look at my wig and necklace I turned into a headpiece. I put this whole costume together at H&M, gotta love that store.

Later that night we celebrated my birthday by watching a scary movie that turned out to be only slightly scary.