Well, considering that in the evening pre-salon class, there are a total of 13 of us. I have seen, since July, 4 people drop from class. On average, we get about 3 or 4 new students at the start of every curriculum (every six weeks). When we go around and make introductions, some say they want to do hair because they love doing hair. Two students came from the field of nursing and got burned out so they thought they'd give cosmetology a try. Three others signed up because they honestly don't really know what they want to do, but are giving this a try. There are many who do drop out eventually. Graduations for a lot of these students are few and far between as it's an hourly based program so not everyone graduates on the same date due to not all having completed their hourly requirement at the same time.
There are less than 50 day students. Senior salon students in the evening program total 15 or so. All in all, I would say the probability of students entering this profession is because they want to learn to do hair, but sadly, many drop because it's much more harder and technical than they thought it would be. There is a lot of chemistry and anatomy involved. There are safety and disinfection requirements that we have to know, that will be on our state boards. We have to know 25 different nail diseases/deformities. There are skin and hair diseases we have to recognize so that we can know whether or not to proceed with a particular service. It's a LOT of stuff to know. These young kids coming into the program weren't expecting so much technical stuff to have to learn.
I can't say with any degree of certainty that many enter the field because they love doing other people's hair, nails and/or makeup.
There are less than 50 day students. Senior salon students in the evening program total 15 or so. All in all, I would say the probability of students entering this profession is because they want to learn to do hair, but sadly, many drop because it's much more harder and technical than they thought it would be. There is a lot of chemistry and anatomy involved. There are safety and disinfection requirements that we have to know, that will be on our state boards. We have to know 25 different nail diseases/deformities. There are skin and hair diseases we have to recognize so that we can know whether or not to proceed with a particular service. It's a LOT of stuff to know. These young kids coming into the program weren't expecting so much technical stuff to have to learn.
I can't say with any degree of certainty that many enter the field because they love doing other people's hair, nails and/or makeup.
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