what you will learn

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Precision hair cutting, clipper, and shear methods for men, women, and children – buzz cuts, hair tapering, tapered designs, lines and razor cutting. Hair styling, blow drying, shampooing, conditioning, and hair analysis.
  

• Hygiene, grooming and personal development.

• Bacteriology, sterilization, and sanitation.

• Tools, equipment and implements in the areas of identification and usage.
  

• Hair straightening, hair relaxing, permanents, hair coloring, tinting, bleaching and chemistry.

• Shaving, beard and mustache shaping and trimming, updated styles of beards, goatees, and mustache designing, facials, theory of facial massages.

• Anatomy and physiology of the hair.

• Study of the hair, skin, scalp and structure of the head.

• Product knowledge, product use and sales, preparing and consulting with customers for services.

• Laws, rules, board authority, enforcement and disciplining, professional ethics, and history of the barber industry.

• Business management practices, salon development, insurance, client consultation, salesmanship, professionalism, resume development, interview preparation, job search skills.

• State law rules and regulations.

• Individual student needs, industry trends, and electives (e.g. record keeping, communications, human relations, public relations, first aid, etc.).