#haidressing

This is my third week of being on this course. Last wednesday i recieved a letter from the college about my hairdressing kit and uniform; they want me to have it all by the 23rd October 2012! I was so angry when i read it! How do they expect me to get £250 already? Do they not think we have things to pay for? I have rent to pay, and not to mention travel fees! Thankfully my boyfriend said he'll help me out. Im so thankful for him! 

The rest of the week i started to notice a few things at work that i didnt pick up on straight away. At first i thought i the salon was a little unorganised but i guess i thought all salons are like that. But they're not. And the thing is, when the stylists have finished treating/ setting/ finishing the clients hair, they leave everything for me to clean?! Is that right? Do i have a right to moan? I mean, i know im an apprentice but my role isn't to clean up after people, im here to learn how to be a hairdresser; to learn and practice things the right way. I swear if it wasn't for me cleaning out the used relaxer and dye out of the tint bowls and cleaning the combs brushes they wouldn't be clean! Not to mention the backwash sinks. I feel like my boss is using me because im not fully qualified. I had to clean the bathrooms. Not necessarily for public use and to make them look good, but to clean out all of the hair that they throw into the the shower cubicle. Like, why would you do that?? why not put it in the bin, its disgusting! Like, seriously??

and another thing, iv'e noticed a few things about my boss too. She tends to belittle some of the staff in front of the clients. 

I didn't have such a good day at work last week. I felt like a bit of a spare part. Plus i feel like the college has totally fucked me over! The course im on does not cater for all hair types, only European hair. And although my salon caters for al hairtypes 95% of the clients are afro-carribbean!  :( So im most likely gonna have to find another salon, that caters for european hair. There may be a way around it, but we'll see. I can still have a few of my units signed of here, such as washing & conditioning hair, health and safety within the salon, and maybe colouring and perming hair (european that is)

I hope i have a good week this week!

but I really don't know how I can! I'd love to be able to work in a hairdressers, but they would want to do some sort of re-training, which would mean I'd earn hardly anything, and I can't afford to quit my job for that.

To do an advanced/level 3 course you have to be working in a hairdressers... which I'm not. 

I'd love to do mobile hairdressing around my normal job for now but I don't know how to get my name out there, and I wouldn't mind a bit more 'up to date' training. I'm completely confident in what I do and competent  at it, I'm fully qualified, but I've been out of the loop for so long!