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I have my degree as a graphic designer but I have yet to find a job so I been thinking of going to school to learn how to cut hair and stuff. It looks fun and my friend just graduated Friday and just got a job today so I'm thinking of doing it I just don't know if it's something I'll actually enjoy once I'm there. Any advice?

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Another concern is that beauty school is very expensive and do you currently have student loans?
Next: I say "GO - GO, but ONLY if you LOVE doing hair", makeup etc. .
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I would suggest you finish school and scrub the beauty school idea for now. My fiance finished esthetics school about six months ago and has yet to make any serious money from the jobs she's landed. Beauty and esthetics positions usually start out paying very low. Sure, you can make good money after you've built a steady client list, but that takes years. Additionally, people are spending less on themselves right now because of the economic slump. You don't want to be in a declining market as a job hunter.

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If you need the income to support yourself don't do it. If you need benefits there usually are none. As for competitive I can't say to much about it I have been in 3 salons in 18 years and I have been lucky to find great places. I will say if you are good then people will most likely be competing with you! As far as building a clientele that's the hard part. You need to get in a good salon that will help you. Do everything you can to learn whatever you can. I was lucky enough to get in with a lady that had me basically apprentice for her. I hated it a the time but I look back now and realize I wouldnt know half the stuff I do if it wasnt for her having me stand there and watch her all that time! Learn all you can in beauty school but realize that the learning really begins when you are all alone behind that chair. Just keep good people around you that are willing to help you out, you will need it when you run into that color that you have no idea what to do. I would say go work in an owner run salon that will guide you for a few years, then when you feel you have a good clientele go work for yourself either a salon in your home or lease a station.

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I've considered going to cosmetology school for sometime. I have a four year college degree in Theater. I started out as a graphic design major in college and recently went back to take more classes in graphics. I hated it. I already sit at a computer all day at an underpaid photo editing job with no health insurance. I'm concerned though about paying $15,000 - $16,0000 to go back to school. I'm concerned I won't be able to support myself straight out of school because I have read some people say they make $10 an hour as a stylist. I could not live on that in Chicago. I am just a one person household with two cats.

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I am like you in that I have a college degree and decided to go to cosmetology school to be a hairstylist. It is true you don't make very much fresh out of school, but there is potential to make a lot of money as a hairstylist, so the question you must ask yourself is how much uncertainty you are comfortable with when it comes to income. Every salon is different, but where I work you are on straight commission after a few months on the floor, which is definitely rough when you don't yet have an established clientele. I can't give you an exact figure but as an apprentice you probably will make about $20,000/yr (give or take a few thousand, and this includes tips), and your first year or so on the floor will be roughly the same, unless you happen to get your chair when someone who has a lot of client

There is also a significant difference in income for being a colorist versus a stylist (ie cutting hair). It is a sad but true fact that color services are more expensive than haircuts, and therefore colorists, on AVERAGE, make far more money than cutters. You can make extremely good money being a colorist at a high end salon once you have your clientele established. The biggest factors to success in this industry are how hard you work, the training you receive, people skills and confidence.

Training and income are closely related, and apprenticing at a high end salon with a reputation for excellent work will ultimately pays off because it will give you the skills and know how to not only do great work but to be compensated well for it. I won't lie, assisting isn't glamourous and can sometimes be a lot of labor but it is well worth it if you are learning from the best in the field.
As far as schools are concerned it doesnt really matter that much, the apprenticeship is really where you are going to learn to do hair, not in beauty school.

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I have a friend who encouraged me to get into hair styling about 7 years ago. I thought he was crazy. I was building my own graphic design business. When the dotcom bust hit and we went into a bit of a recession, his earning remained solid and mine fell. I think his advice was solid and am seriously considering it now. His business is growing by leaps and bounds and he currently works 4 days a week and makes alot more money than I do.

Physical Beauty linked to Health?

I heard somewhere that physically attractive people tend to be more symmetrical and much of what we as humans consider attractive is linked to health and fertility.
My mother is someone most people would considered highly physically attractive. My father is one of other spectrum. I thought children would inherit the best genes from each parent, then why am I considered generally very unattractive?

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Well, children don't inherit the "best" genes from each parent. They inherit half of each parent's genes at random. So even assuming that your mother had genes that made her physically attractive, you might not inherit them, or your father's less attractive genes might dominate.

That said, genes are only part of the story when it comes to physical attractiveness. Your environment, which includes things like diet, activity level, and exposure to disease, plays a large part. We don't really know how much a given trait is determined by genes versus environment, but physical symmetry seems to be strongly influenced by diet and health during childhood.

You may also be considered unattractive for social rather than biological reasons. Local standards of beauty can vary widely, and it could be that your looks are just very different from those idealized in your community. You may also not carry yourself well, especially if you've been repeatedly told you're unattractive. This can lead to self-reinforcing behavior, wherein you don't take proper care of yourself and your looks because you think you're unattractive anyway.