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Cosmetology Career Research Paper

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For my career I chose cosmetology. Cosmetology is the professional skill or practice of beautifying the face, hair, and skin. I chose this career because I would be able to work with a variety of people with different personalities. I would get to use the human body as an art canvas and the career offers a lot of variety because of its many branches.
Some of the job duties I would have is providing beauty services, such as shampooing, cutting, coloring, and styling hair, and massaging and treating scalp. May apply makeup, dress wigs, perform hair removal, and provide nail and skin care services. Some of the branches are Hair dresser, Hair designer, Hair colorist, Nail technician, Makeup artist, and Skin care.
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She says, “To become a cosmetologist you need to go to a beauty school for 1500 hours a lot of them you do 40 hours a week so you're there almost a year and in that time. You have a list of test you have to pass and after that you go to state board and you have to pass a written and A practical exam and after you do that and pay the cost to get your license you can have your cosmetology license”. Lastly I asked her if she were to do it over again, would she choose the same career? Her response was, “if I had it to do over again I would definitely follow through and still get my license but I'm not sure I would do it as a full time career it is really hard to make it in the cosmetology business because you need customers constantly to make a living and today's society runs on a fast pace in my words fly by the seat of your pants type of lifestyle and you need customers to book with you every 4 to 6 weeks to keep up and make a good living it is possible but in the town we live in there are so many hair stylist that people can just drop in anywhere and they don't have to book appointments because someone will always be open so to get people that are true to you takes a long time and is truly hard work but I would love to

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