Sometimes, obtaining the clear skin you’ve always wanted may seem like an impossible task. No matter how many tricks you try, it may be that your face keeps getting breakouts. Though there’s no surefire way to avoid breakouts, there are a few steps you can take to increase your skin health and to get clearer,…

Soaking up some sun is at the top of everyone’s list when summer rolls around. But all that heat can exacerbate current skin conditions. So, before running outside, it’s important to know about proper skin care and the damages that could result from exposed and unprotected skin. Daily Protection Sunscreen isn’t just for summer; UV…

So you’ve decided to start a career in cosmetology. One of your first and biggest decisions will be the difficult task of choosing the right school.  You have lots of choices, with different schools offering many different “hooks” to try to get you to choose them. Fortunately, there are a few objective traits you can…

We may have come a long way since the shoulder-pad-wearing days of the 1980s, when the ideal of feminine strength was to create the silhouette of a linebacker, but we still have a lot to learn when it comes to securing a fair and equal working environment for women. Whatever our ideals may teach us,…

A recent study shows that barbers and hair stylists are more apt to finding cancerous moles and lesions on the scalp than most physicians. Surveyors from the Harvard University School of Public Health interviewed 200 stylists from Houston, TX and found that more than half of them had found melanoma in their clients’ scalps, despite…

A successful Arizona cosmetology school career is only half the battle when it comes to achieving hair design success. Here are three important character traits each cosmetologist must possess in order to create a flourishing business: Listening. Successful hair design is 10% ability and 90% psychology. Your client will often explain the specifics of their…