Are these level twos?

Was what Lisa got asked today when we were working on clients! 

We were told we were very good and acted in a professional way.

What a boost for us after only 10 weeks! 

Here we are in action.

If we didn't have clients, we practised our setting techniques ready for our next session.

What a great first half term.

Our first half term has been and gone in a blink of an eye.

Lisa asked us to write down everything we think we have learnt and done

Wow what a list!

In hairdressing

Shampooing,

Blowdrying,

Conditioning treatments,

Roller setting, 

Sectioning, 

All about our equipment,

Massages,

Hand massages,

Hair structure,

Nail structure,

Curling hair,

Halloween total looks,

What different brushes are for,

Consultations, 

Plaiting,

Nail shapes,

Personal hygiene,

How to write a questionarre 

Hair types,

Total looks

 

In maths.

Ratios,

Percentages,

Algebra,

Transformations, increase and decrease,

Fractions,

Bidmas, 

Prime numbers

In English,

Narrative writing, 1st and 3rd person,

Of mice and men,

Punctuation,

How to write a letter,

Nouns,

Verbs,

Overall.

We got our kits and uniforms,

Made lots of new friends,

How to look professional,

How to behave,

Not to swear!

How to communicate,

How to behave around a client,

How to work as a team,

Maths is better than we thought,

Teamwork,

How to help each other,

Can't wait to see what is next!

Family and friends day.

Today we invited family and friends to come for a conditioning treatment.

We had mum's, grandmas, aunties, and friends.

We think they enjoyed their treatments.

Some very professional massages were done and some very well blow dried hair to finish.

All the clients look happy with the results.

A trip to Alan Howards.

Today it was Our trip to Alan Howards.

We were all excited about going.

And were eager to look around.

Then our trainer gave us colouring ideas and lots of product information.

And gave us a lesson on colouring.

We took advantage of all the products to help us with our assignments with first hand professionals to advice us. We all had a good look round and asked lots of questions.

Who thinks Zahir suits long hair?

Thank you Alan Howards we really enjoyed the visit. Thank you for the goodies, Hope to see you soon

The end of week 8 and half terms here.

It's the end of week 8 and our half term break.

What have we learnt this week?

Roller setting hurts thumbs!

Directional and brickwork setting is hard to do.

Emma takes a good photo.

What porous means.

About colour pigments.

We have deadlines to meet.

That we are very professional with clients.

How to set out an assignment.

The layout of a fact sheet.

Dressing out roller set hair into different styles.

That bacteria grows very quickly.

Bacteria and germs are everywhere.

Setting hair in different ways makes different styles.

We like the song bang bang!

We know lots of things on the consultation sheets now.

How to use the till.

Emma should audition for BGT or XFactor next year.

Exams are nerve racking.

How to finger dry.

Who dracula from sesame street is.

Maths and english tests are hard.

All about scales.

How our questionnaires fit into our assignments.

Have a great half term everyone. See you in a week!

The end of week six.

Wow don't these weeks come round quickly!

We have learnt a lot this week and not just about hairdressing.

Take a look

Roller setting hurts your thumbs.

Roller setting is hard.

It's exciting and fun working on clients!

We found out what nits and head lice look like unexpectedly!

That the eggs stay near the scalp.

How to do a fish tail plait.

Doing a client isn't as nerve racking as we thought it would be.

How to do a hand massage

Not to talk about people behind their back.

Doing clients is tiring.

Lisa knows more about Romeo and Juliet than we thought.

It feels good to make someones hair look good.

We hate it when Lisa tells us off. 

All about nail structure and nail shapes

How to look professional.

Hand massages are relaxing.

Peacocks don't lay eggs! 

Honesty is the best policy.

Everyone has different opinions.

That we love our blog.

The difference between a good and bad stylists.

How to produce questionnaires.

That is important to think about how clients feel.

We use maths a lot in hairdressing.

We are getting to know our Maths teacher better.

We enjoy Georginas lessons

We will always get found out if we are late!

To ask first if we NEED to have have our phones on silent in class.

To respect. 

See you next week!

Our first client experience with H1M.

We all came into college today feeling very nervous as Lisa had arranged our first real clients.

She told us not to worry and gave us some advice to make us feel better.

After our first proper consultations, we started our shampooing.

Don't we look professional in our uniforms!

Once we settled into the services we felt much more at ease. 

Here are some of the results.

Some of us had to dry the longest hair we have ever seen!

And some of us blow dried so well the hair looked like it had been straightened!

We really enjoyed our first client experience and we think our clients did too.

Look at these great comments!

We loved today! 

At the end of the week.

At the of our first timetabled week at college, Lisa asked us what we had learnt.....

Here's what we said

How to shampoo hair.

What is inside a hair.

How easy things look but how hard they are to do.

Dry your hair with the hair dryer pointing from root to tip.

How to part the hair correctly.

The client has to be comfortable when your shampooing.

What the three layers of the hair are called.

We have Hydrogen bonds.

Extensions are hard to blowdry.

Understand the skin structure.

How to set a trolley up.

What all the equipment is for.

Cuticles look like fish scales.

Everything happens in the cortex.

Disinfect combs before using them.

To be professional in the salon.

Shampoo massages and what they are for.

Polpeptide links!

A lot more about each other.

To try to get on with different personalities.

Everyone has their own problems that we don't always know about.

All about personal protective equipment.

Thats quite a list.

Heres the end of the week selfie!