Lessons Learned

Last night my son Lorenzo (10) had a friend spend the night, while Samuel (8) spent the night at that friends house with his little brother. (Confused yet? I am!) Anyway, we got home from church about 9:00 and the boys began playing the Wii. By 10 lorenzo konked out, stone cold sleeping on the couch, while his buddy just kept right on playing. About 11 I decided I was too tired to think any more so I set a timer in the kitchen for 11:30 and told Lorenzo's friend he could shut the game off when the timer went off. I still don't know wether he did or not because when I got up at 7;30 he was still sitting in the same place playing the same game. Either he got up early and started playing again or he never went to sleep. I don't know, but I hope if he did stay up, his mom doesn't find out ;)!

We got up early to head out the door so Brittnie could go for her work to ride lesson; then we were going to my friend's house for me to get some girl time over lunch. I got together evcerything we needed for lunch and I handed both bags to Lorenzo and said, "Put this in the car." That's pretty specific. Apparently though in 10 year old terms, "Put this in the car", can, and will be understood as, "Take this somewhere. I don't know where, just somewhere other than here, and make sure where you put it makes no sense to me, whatsoever." Needless to say we had to cut the girl time short because we didn't have a lunch. *Sigh*

While we were waiting for Brittnie's lesson to be done the boys picked some lemons, and I told them we could make some lemonade. When we got to my friend's house, we did just that. It was great! Here's the recipe I used:

1 C. Sugar
1 C. Water

Bring to boil on the stove to make a simple syrup.

1 C. Lemon Juice
6 C. Water

Mix simple syrup, Lemon Juice and water in large pitcher. Add ice and Enjoy!

So after a nice morning out we came home ate a quick lunch and the kids and I headed to nap time. What a beautiful thing to be able to take a nap in the middle of the day! I have missed that!

Dan headed to work about 4:30 and I sat down with my books to get ready for my test tomorrow on makeup. How hard can that be right? Well I knew that on Friday we were supposed to finish up our notes and we all wanted to do makeup, so the teacher flew through the notes while we played with our makeup. So when I sat down to study I looked at my study guide to see how much I needed to finish in the way of notes. It was 12 pages. That's right. 12 pages of notes on makeup. Face shapes and the way to contour them to make them appear more flattering, and eye shapes and how to apply the shadow to enhance the different eyes, then lip shapes and how to correct the lip line, and then foundation, concealer, eyeshadow, eyeliner, eyebrow color, and every other type of makeup you have heard of. Yeah 12 pages. I sat there until 11:30 typing notes. Not exactly the way I wanted my evening to go. I didn't even study. I just took notes.

*Sigh*

Labels: beauty school, Boys, esthetician, Lemonade Recipe, makeup, Monday, skin care, studying

Makeup!!!! All day, we did nothing but creative makeup design. Here are some pics from the day. Thanks Kate for being the photog for the day, since my phone was dead! Remember these makeup designs are creative, not regular day time or evening makeup.

Here we have my Suoper Heroine look. She's sporting red, gold and blue shadow with blue eyeliner and red contouring to give her a heart shape. The lips are pointy at the top and bright red.

Labels: beauty school, esthetician, makeup

Airbrush Tanning Lessons

1. Watch the video. Repeatedly. I didn't get to. We watched it once. Apparently that's enough????

2. Pick your partner. Early on. Enough said.

3. It takes awhile to get supplies at the dispensary. Something I will have to get used to. If you have ever driven in front of me on a 2 lane road with no passing and you happen to not be going the speed limit, then you probably know I am not a patient person, and waiting is not my specialty. This is probably why God orchestrates my grocery shopping day so that I ALWAYS end up in the long line. Even if there is one person in front of me and 10 in the next lane, my lane is always the longest. You are jealous of my gift aren't you? Well if standing in the longest line at the grocery store is one of your favorite pass-times, then you are welcome to stand behind me.

4. They will give you slippers to wear for your airbrush tanning. Don't wear them. You will have tanned toes and ankles but not the tops of your feet, and the lines are very obvious until you take a cheap, rough, wash rag and exfoliate aggressively to either a.) fade the tan lines, or b.) take your first 2 layers of skin off. Whichever comes first.

5 They will give you a disposable bra to wear. It is not supportive so wear your own with the disposable over it; unless you want to go sans bra, then well, be my guest, I promise not to take pictures and post them on my blog, bra or not ;).

6. Don't be worried about the inside of your arms not getting tanned, thus forcing you to turn the inside of your arms toward the sprayer. This will result in tanned inside of the arms and untanned outside of the arms. And the line will be just as obvious as above with the feet and you WILL exfoliate just as aggressively!

7. It was definitely a learning experience. But I am far from comfortable doing it. My partner and I did okay. I missed the inside of her legs, and my arms were a little blotchy and my mid section not as dark as the rest of me. I am praying that I get more training before I have to do this for someone other than a classmate.

Labels: beauty school, esthetician, patience, tanning

1. "I'm alive, I'm alive, that's what I said! I'm alive, I'm alive and I'm gonna live that way!" And I couldn't have been anymore alive listening to Superchick on the way to school this morning. Superchick, TobyMac! My commute is bumpin'! Oh yeah! Any suggestions for good wake me up music for in the morning?





2. Homerooms are a little awkward. So the idea is that every student in the school comes to homeroom and we all hear announcements pertaining to our education at the school so no one person has to make the same announcement numerous times. Which would be great except there are less than 30 Esthetics students and the other 120 people are Cosmetology students. NO biggie except (I feel so Jr. High-ish saying this!) they don't seem to like us that much. We get glares and stare downs and "You are in my seat, you need to move." (Even though the person brought their own seat in from the hallway, go figure that one out!) They don't talk to us, won't acknowledge us. It's weird. And today the announcements were mostly general with some specifically for Cosmetology. Nothing for us. My class of 8 just sat there wishing we were back in class so we could study for our test in peace and quiet. Whatever.





3. Study buddies aren't just great, they are awesome, and essential especially when you get a 100% on your test! The test was on Skin Diseases and Disorders. You try remembering the difference between hyperhidrosis and bromidrosis, and what is a fungal infection that is found on the legs and arms characterized by red rash and itching? Did you know there are 4 Grades of Acne? Which one is considered mild? 1, 2, 3, or 4? How is a papule different than a pustule? And what is a highly contagious viral infection that forms blister-like clusters? Which topical acne treatment produces oxygen and promotes drying and exfoliation? Yeah, now you know why my head was spinning.



4. I bet you want to know the answers to those questions! Don't you? If not, then skip to number 5! Hyperhidrosis is a sudoriferous gland disorder characterized by excessive perspiration caused by excessive heat or general body weakness. Bromidrosis is also a sudoriferous gland (or sweat gland) disorder characterized by a foul-smelling perspiration caused by a mixture of sweat and bacteria. The fungal infection is called Tinea Corporis, not to be confused with Tinea which is a fungal disease also known as ringworm. But don't confuse it with Tinea Versicolor either, which is a condition caused by yeast that leaves hypopigmented (lack of pigment) spots on your skin. Acne is labeled from Mild to Severe and the scale progresses from 1 to 4, 1 being Mild. Papule is a pimple that has no buildup of pus in it, where a pustule has pus and is a papule progressed. Highly contagious viral infection is Herpes Simplex, and the topical acne treatment is Benzoyl Peroxide.



5. Makeup is fun! Here is the makeup I did today for a girl in class.







6. My life is full right now, and very exhausting but I am loving every minute of it! Thank you God for such and amazing life right now!

Labels: beauty school, esthetician, makeup, skin care, skin diseases

Lessons Learned


1. There are nice truck drivers out there. Well my dad used to be a truck driver and he is a nice guy, and my Father-in Law is a truck driver now and he's a pretty nice guy too. What I mean though is, on my 35 minute commute there are some pretty nice guys out there driving truck. All those big rigs on the road don't just want to run the little cars over. Many of them are nice enough to let my little speed demon blue Jetta right on by at the stop lights with the merge lanes. They are so stinking nice that they will sit there and let a few cars go. It's great to know that not every truck on the road is hoping you will not pass him and have to suck his exhaust all the way to your exit!

2. It takes an average of 37 minutes to get to school. Not bad, but I leave the house at 8:30. With getting in the car, and out I get clocked in by 9:30 with just a few minutes to spare.Now why is that? Hmmmm. . . . . could it be my luggage I have to drag to and fro every single day, along with my backpack of books and supplies and everything I might need just in case (i.e. 5 pairs of disposable contacts, for "just in case") and my lunch bag, and my clean towels bag and my soiled towels bag? No it couldn't be that! Could it???? :s All I know is my biceps will be rock hard before I finish school!

3. Bikini waxing is quite modest. We watched a demo today that was very interesting and although the model was worried things were showing that shouldn't be showing, I thought things were rather modest considering it was the bikini area. Our model was just concerned because everyone was watching, it probably didn't help that when the teacher slathered on the green wax for the first time we all leaned over the edges of the table to get a closer look. Poor girl! Nothing like 7 people leaning into your personal business to get a closer look! We were all thankful for her offer to be the demo. Most thankful though that none of us were asked to do it! I do need practice doing it though so if anyone is game, let me know! I PROMISE I will NOT discuss any of my dealings with clients, ever, for any reason. That is unprofessional and totally wrong. So if you need some maintenance in the nether regions (women only please! I am a married woman with high prudish morals, and would prefer to not have to explain to you why I won't, can't and most certainly shouldn't be doing that for you!)

4. Study buddies are great, and I just want to say thanks Kate for helping me study! It was fun and sooooo beneficial!

Labels: beauty school, esthetician, Jetta, skin care, studying, waxing

So my week was hectic! How was yours? It seems I had no down time at all; which equals no blogging time at all. So here's a synopsis of my week!

Tuesday -

It was Brittnie's 13th Birthday. Since I had procrastinated Monday on making the cake I ended up having to decorate it Tuesday Morning before I left for school. Here's the finished product!!!

As for the rest of my day I can't remember much except we learned about eyebrow waxing and I spent the whole time wishing someone would do my redwood tree bark looking legs. While some people (mostly loggers and hippies) prefer this look and feel for a woman's legs I do not and really could deal with the eyebrows for another day or two, if someone would just do my legs again! I had them done last Friday after my brows and my tough little redwood tree bark didn't want to submit to being ripped out at the roots, so only about half of it came off. Which would have been fine had it not been every other hair and just, oh let's say, just the front. See, if it had been just the front then I could have at least worn a skirt to church. Not too many people check out my backside at church, and if they are they deserve an eye full of tree bark!





After school I came home and we had dinner and got presents together for Brittnie for her birthday. This is where my bonehead move of the day comes in. I had to get Brittnie's big present out of the car, which I had left in there from Monday because I didn't want her to see it. It was a Boom Pod for her room. A chair that you can hook up to your cd player or MP3 player and listen to music from it. Anyway I go to the car unlock the trunk with the button, didn't have a place to set the keys and no pockets in my clothes, so I set them in the trunk telling myself I needed to get them out before I shut the trunk.





I didn't.





I called AAA.





It took them 30 minutes to get there.





I was just glad I had gotten the present and we were able to continue with the party since it was already nearly 8 o'clock.

Thursday -

First day of make-up!

After a morning of writing notes on Skin Physiology, and doing review to prepare for the test Friday (and much groveling to the teacher to get her to postpone the test to Tuesday, with no luck) we started our afternoon with State Board make-up drills. These are practice runs for how we will do our State Board exam when we go to get out license. Very good basics for how to do makeup but not really the way we will do it in the real world. This picture is my mannequin after I was done with her. In real life we would use more colors and the lipstick would actually match but it was a great launchpad for this newbie make-up artist!

Friday -

Is freshest in my memory because it was just yesterday! LOL!

I headed out the door a half hour ealry so I could get to school and study. The whole way there I kept thinking I wanted to do something for my class. Something special. Something so they would feel special. So I swung into Safeway and got a dozen doughnuts for the while class! I knew we had a test forst thing int he morning and we would all be stressed out (at least everyone else would be, Jesus has my back so no serious stress here! Okay, so after initial stress freakout I remember that I am doing it all for Him and I can move forward!). SO I told everyone about the doughnouts and that we would have them at our first break. Test went great for me, I got a 96% then we headed off to the cafe to stuff our faces with fattening doughnuts. Everyone loved and began calling me the class mom!

Back in class I was going over my test and noticed one of my answers I got wrong, was actually right. So I pointed it out to my teacher and she gave me the point! My 96% became a 97%!!!! Hurray for me! We finished out the morning with a lecture on Skin Diseases and Disorders.

After lunch we completed our Skin Diseases and Disorders then watched Neil do a demo on how to do make-up for an East Indian Wedding. This where I learned a huge lesson. Apparently in the real world sanitation goes out the window. Double dipping (using an implement, in this case make-up brushes and retreiving product from a container, in this case makeup, applying to client and then retreiving more product from the same container, thus contaminating the product in the container) is normal and disgusting in my book. Make-up artists believe it is possible to sanitize make-up, which may be so, however in the School world, and the State Board world you need to maintain the highest standards of sanity, I mean sanitation. Thus a misunderstanding ensued when the demo was supposed to be real world and the teacher wanted real world but using your sanitation techniques.

Example: Using makeup brushes and makeup on a client. Real world says: Use your makeup on your client and disinfect it later. State Board: The only way for make-up to remain uncontaminated is for you to scrape the product (i.e. eyeshadow) into a clean sanitary dish and dip your brushes there only and not in to the actual makeup itself if you have touched your client with that brush.

After protocol for sanitation was established (I actually left the room because I couldn't stand the tension) the demo resumed and it was a great learning time. The picture here is our model after and below is before. I apologize for the bad before picture. I didn't get close enough to her and ended up having to crop the picture and make it a little bigger so you could see it.

Labels: AAA, beauty school, Birthday, East Indian Wedding, esthetician, keys, Kindergarten, skin care, waxing