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Cosmetology
Cosmetology I & II: 2 years - 6 credits
Wayne-Westland Schools has contracted with Virginia Farrell Beauty Schools for training of a limited number of high school juniors and seniors. Two years are needed to complete the required 1500 hours of instruction, which takes 3 hours per day, 7 hours on Saturday, plus summer training between the junior and senior years. The program is offered at the Virginia Farrell Beauty School located in the Wildwood Plaza on Ford Road in Westland. Students are chosen by interest, grades, past attendance and attitude. PM students will need their own transportation home each day. Application, contract and orientation meeting required for all new enrollees.
Course of Study:
Virginia Farrell's basic cosmetology course utilizes many devices: educational video tapes, demonstrations, various textbooks and a manikin with human hair. Of particular interest to the beginner is PRECISION HAIR DESIGN, a sophisticated methodology of teaching hairstyling. It is an in-depth study of every phase of hair designing. It produces not only dexterous fingers, but also advances an imaginative and creative approach to hair design. Working on their manikins, students learn twelve basic hairstyles. All hair fashion designs are styled with two or more basic hairstyling techniques. It is familiarity with basic fashions that tells students what basics are included in any hairstyle, a valuable asset for hairstylists. Since hairstylists find employment more readily, Virginia Farrell Beauty Schools take careful aim at this target.
As students advance, they spend more time working in the clinic. It is here the student meets many opportunities to create. It is also the place where more time is spent on practice, but theory goes hand-in-hand with such practice. The clinic floor confronts a student with all the possibilities of a career in beauty. Every head dressed by a student receives a mark by the ever-vigilant clinic instructor.
Students must complete 1500 clock hours of cosmetology training to graduate. After this training, the graduate is prepared to take the Michigan State Board of Cosmetology examination for a cosmetologist's license. The hours of the 1500 allotted each subject indicates the importance of hairstyling and the reason Virginia Farrell schools emphasize the need to recognize basic styles included in a fashion and to recreate the hair design.
In brief, the Virginia Farrell graduate is fortified with workable knowledge in hairstyling that starts the first day of attendance to the day of graduation. Cosmetology is an ever-changing art. However, change is what makes a beauty career both interesting and rewarding. A cosmetologist's next patron will present another challenge, another opportunity for deft professional cosmetology sevice.
Specialized Equipment:
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Occupational Options:
- Licensed cosmetologist: also referred to as hair desginer, salon stylist, hairstylist, beautician, stylist, or hairdresser
- Cosmetic chemist: meets the cosmetology industry's expanding needs by creating new products through research and experimentation
- Session stylist: works to style hair and makeup for models being photographed for magazines and books
- Hairstylist for TV, movies, or theater
- Cruise ship stylist
- Photo stylist
- Colorist
- Guest artist or platform stylist
- Salon coordinator
- Salon manager
- Salon owner
- Cosmetology educator/instructor
- Manufacturer representative or field technician
- Distributor/sales consultant/product educator
- School owner or director
- Manufacturer's spokesperson
- Texture service specialist
- Wig or extensions specialist
- Retail specialist
- Skin care specialist/esthetician
- Makeup artist
- Nail technician/manicurist
- Day spa stylist or technician
- Styles director/artistic director
- Design team member
- Platform artist
- Competition champion
- State Board member
- Test salon cosmetologist or product analyst
- Education manager or trainer
- Sales, marketing, or management consultant
- Chain salon employees
- Trade publication publisher, writer, or editor
Skills Taught:
- Hair styling, including cutting
- Hair coloring
- Permanent waving
- Facials
- Manicuring
- Removal of hair
- Scalp and hair treatments
- Chemical hair
- Applied chemistry
- Applied artistic principles
- Applied anatomy, physiology: human head, hands, nails, skin and hair
- Sanitation and bacteriology
- Patron protection
"Vocational education addresses intellectual, social, vocational, and personal goals."
Source: National Commission on Secondary Voc. Ed., The Unfinished Agenda