Have you ever considered doing hair or nails for a living? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to make a living on making others feel beautiful? Many women across the world have thought about becoming a professional cosmetologist. However, many women do not follow through with it for many reasons. They may not think they will be good enough. They might be worried about finding a job that pays well enough. They also might be worried about the difficulty of the program they will have to succeed in for the cosmetology license. If you are wondering if a professional career as a cosmetologist is right for you, there are a few things to consider.
Do you enjoy playing around with unique hairstyles and makeup tricks? Much of your job as a professional cosmetologist is to create unique hairstyle and makeup applications for your customers. Although esthetician programs can teach you the specific skills of these tasks, they cannot force you to enjoy these tasks. If you are the type of person who enjoys playing around with your own hair or your friend?s hair, you might be perfect for a career in the cosmetology field.
Do you enjoy helping other women find their true inner beauty? Doing professional hair, makeup and nails is not just about what you find to be beautiful. Women of all types will come to your salon. They will expect you to make them feel beautiful. This often means really listening to their needs and their desires. It means asking them questions to narrow down what they really want. This can be a difficult process, but your cosmetology program should help with the customer process. With only 4% of women around the world considering themselves beautiful, it is your job to make every woman who leaves your salon to feel beautiful.
Are you a creative person? Many esthetician programs encourage creativity of its students. Although you will be taught basic skills in your cosmetology classes, you are expected to have some level of creativity for your clients. Many of your clients will come to you with no idea what they want. It will be your job to be creative and find a solution to their problems, that also makes them feel beautiful.
Do you want to create your own customer base and work your own hours? One of the biggest advantages to becoming a professional cosmetologist is the flexibility that you have with your work schedule. Most cosmetologists work on contractual basis, meaning they find their own customers and they schedule them, based on their own timing needs. Of the 770,000 hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists, 35% (or 267,000) are self employed. Although this is a benefit, it can be helpful to have some business sense when working on a contractual basis. Many beauty schools do not teach this aspect of the business.
If you have answered yes to all or most of these questions, you are likely to enjoy a career in the cosmetology industry. To become a professional cosmetologist, you will need to choose one of the accredited esthetician programs across the country. When choosing between the many esthetician programs, you will want to find one that licenses you in the state you wish to work in.
You will also want to find one that provides the specific classes and certifications for the exact services you want to provide. The length of any cosmetology course depends on the areas you want to study. A full cosmetology course takes the longest, approximately 1,500 hours, which will take about two years to complete. Some of the individual classes might include nail classes and skin care programs.
Many people have dreamed about a career in the cosmetology industry. If you are creative, enjoy playing around with people?s hair and makeup, enjoy making women feel beautiful and desire to have a flexible and contractual work schedule, then cosmetology may be right for you. You will have to complete a cosmetology program, specifically taking classes in the individual services that you want to offer to customers. The length will depend on the amount of classes that you choose to take.