Posted on: February 2nd, 2012 by Beauty Schools Directory No Comments
So how much does beauty or cosmetology school cost? It usually depends on:
Location. It varies from state to state, and it can vary by proximity to major metropolitan cities vs. rural areas.
School ownership. Sometimes a brand name chain can affect cost over a smaller, local cosmetology school – but both can offer high quality programs.
Supplies. Some schools include cosmetology kits, books and other supplies with tuition, whereas others don’t.
The program you choose. Comprehensive cosmetology takes longer and costs a little more, but you learn many different beauty skills. Surveys show that comprehensive cosmetology programs usually cost between $10,000 and $15,000 – though that varies, so check with your schools of choice. A more specific esthetics and skin care program or nail tech program takes less time and costs less to complete. Surveys show that esthetics usually cost between $5,000 and $10,000, nail technology usually cost between $3,000 and $7,000, and makeup artistry programs are usually under $5,000.
Many people find that cosmetology school is more affordable than traditional four-year universities, but because the cost of beauty school depends on so many factors, we always recommend requesting information from the schools you’re interested in, and asking them directly.
However, don’t let cost stop you from enrolling in cosmetology school and pursuing your dreams. There are multiple options available to help you finance your education.
Accredited cosmetology schools can offer federal financial assistance.
About 2/3 of the schools we surveyed said they offered private financing.
Many also said they had scholarship opportunities. In fact, Beauty Schools Marketing Group gives away a $2,500 scholarship every three months.
And nearly all of them said they offered career placement services after you graduate to help you find a job and finish paying for school.
Posted on: January 18th, 2012 by Beauty Schools Directory No Comments
We got a great chance to talk with some students at Mitsu Sato, a cosmetology school in Kansas City. They have a range of reasons for getting into cosmetology and goals for the future, and they were really a lot of fun to hang out with and get to know.
If you want to get started in the beauty industry, find a cosmetology, nail technology or esthetics school near you today.
Posted on: December 19th, 2011 by Heather No Comments
We joined professional makeup artist Mandy McKenna at The Last Tangle Salon to put together this tutorial for you about how to do a 1940s pinup makeup look! The look includes the lightly shadowed eye, cat eye eyeliner and of course ruby red lipstick! This video covers the vintage pinup makeup look, and then shows the final product at the very end. The video is a little long, but trust me – you’ll want to watch it start to finish. The professional makeup artist gives tons of valuable insider tips and advice you won’t want to miss! I also ask Mandy about her experience in cosmetology school and her career as a makeup artist, and she has tons of valuable information to share.
If you like what you see here and you’re interested in becoming a makeup artist, look for makeup schools near you.
Here’s the final look!
“How to Do a 1940s Pinup Makeup Look Tutorial” Video Transcript
Heather/Beauty Schools Directory: Hey there, this is Heather with Beauty Schools Directory. I’m at The Last Tangle Salon in Overland Park, Kansas. We’re going to go in and talk to some of their very talented hairstylists and makeup artists about doing a pinup hairstyle, as well as pinup makeup for the vintage holiday party tonight. We’ll ask them a little bit about how they got into beauty and cosmetology, and see what interesting tips and advice they can offer us. So come on in!
Heather: We’re inside The Last Tangle Salon in Overland Park, Kansas and we’re going to meet our makeup artist of the day. Would you like to introduce yourself and tell us who you are?
Mandy McKenna/Makeup Artist at The Last Tangle Salon: I’m Mandy McKenna, and I’m a hair and makeup artist here at The Last Tangle Salon.
Heather: And what are we doing today Mandy?
Mandy: We are going to give you a nice 1940s pinup makeup look.
Heather: And what is all this over here?
Mandy: Well these are my brushes. You gotta have a good eyeliner brush because they really concentrate on the cat eye eyeliner. It’s very important to have that, and a nice contouring brush, too. Though it doesn’t look like they wore a lot of eye shadow, it’s mainly contouring with nude looks.
Heather: So is this your standard kit? You have this on you at all times? This is what you use?
Mandy: Yes, this is for the salon, then I have a kit for on-location.
Heather: What’s the makeup style you tend to do most often?
Mandy: The smokey eye. Everyone wants the smokey eye!
Heather: So what do you say we get started?
Mandy: Sure, grab a seat!
Heather: What just happened there?
Mandy: That’s just alcohol. We like to be nice and sanitary. Any time you see me spraying this I’m just sanitizing.
Mandy: Because I can’t put liquid foundation over powder, it’ll get cakey. I’m actually a MAC Artist, MAC Cosmetics. I’ve been doing that since 2008.
Heather: About 3-4 years now?
Mandy: Yeah.
Heather: Have you been doing makeup for just the three years, or did you do makeup even before you got into cosmetology schools?
Mandy: Well I’ve been an artist my whole life, so it kinds of coincides.
Heather: An artist like paintings and other creative stuff?
Mandy: Yeah, I like watercolors and charcoals.
Heather: So is that how you knew you wanted to be a makeup artist?
Mandy: No, I actually wanted to be a vet.
Heather: Really? What happened? What changed?
Mandy: I don’t like needles or blood, so that was the realization I came to. And I actually have my degree in computers.
Heather: Interesting – what a strange place to end up then! So what happened or changed that made you want to go to cosmetology school instead?
Mandy: I ran a salon for three years when I was in college, and I just really liked watching him. He was a world renowned hairdresser. He’s actually a judge of competitions internationally and he trains the U.S. Olympic Hair Team. So it was fun watching him create things and he was just very inspiring. And there was another lady who worked there who was a Miss Missouri Pageant Consultant for 12 years, so it’s just fun to watch people create. People always feel a lot better going out than coming in.
Heather: So that’s probably why you stick around? It makes people feel good?
Mandy: Yeah.
Heather: So do you feel makeup allows you to be as creative as you are as an artist already?
Mandy: Yeah, actually this weekend Jen (the owner) and I did a creative thing. It was like Carnivale and the masks. So she did some crazy hair and I actually created with makeup masks on the face. Ok, this is an eye primer, for the eye shadow. You want a nice primer to give you a nice base since there are a lot of blood vessels and stuff throughout the eye, and the skin is very thin there, so you want to camouflage all that with a nice primer. You can see the difference.
Heather: When you do event makeup do you typically do makeup first and hair second?
Mandy: It really depends. It depends because I do their hair, too, but it depends on what they’re doing with their hair. I do spray tanning, lash extensions – I do it all.
Heather: How long did it take you to finish cosmetology school?
Mandy: About a year and a half, because I actually worked while I was going, too. I worked 30 or so hours a week. Usually it will take a year if you’re not working, too. cosmetology school is basically worknig but not getting paid, because you’re behind the chair, but you’re only getting tips.
Heather: Or if you’re a makeup artist you’re in front of the chair!
Mandy: So we’re going to do a nice neutral eye, with this kind of vanilla color. I’m going to put this all over your lid. And that’s going to create a base for your eye shadow.
Heather: I have blue eyes, so she’s going to do an orange.
Mandy: I’m going to do an orange undertone, so it’s going to make her eyes even more blue. Yeah, it looks gorgeous right now. [Laughs] Kind of dust the brush off and we’re going to blend it.
Heather: I heard that blending is the most important thing you can learn as a makeup artist . Is that true?
Mandy: Yeah, it is. It’s very important. I’m blending that on the outer corner and the inner corner. For the ’40s makeup they really had a highlight over the middle of the eye. And then blend it in the crease.
Heather: I’m the worst client ever, I’m opening my eyes half the time. I want to see!
Mandy: Dab a little here, a little there. And just to show you the color I’m using, it’s this color right here (a bronze orange hue)
Posted on: November 10th, 2011 by Becca No Comments
Sometimes you just have to stop and recognize the adorable in the world.
If you’ve been watching America’s Next Top Model like we have, you probably saw the cameo on the Nov. 2 episode of 5-year-old YouTube sensation Madison. We’ll be honest – we didn’t exactly know who the cute (if a little difficult to understand) girl was, so of course we looked her up.
It turns out she’s a makeup protégé, filming and uploading dozens of tutorials and videos discussing makeup and reviewing products. She’s got over 13,000 subscribers to her channel and 100,000+ views on several of her videos.
A lot of that is probably because she is really stinkin’ adorable, but part of it is because she’s got some actual talent going on as well. She knows her way around makeup tools pretty darn well.
Do we see makeup artist training in her future? Almost definitely. In fact, she’ll probably be designing makeup looks for the stars not too many years from now.
Keep up the good work, Madison – we’ll be watching!
Posted on: August 31st, 2011 by Beauty Schools Directory No Comments
BeautySchoolsDirectory.com was asked to be featured again on KCTV5, this time concerning the largest hair craze – Feather Hair Extensions. Just as exciting as the first, the BSD team met at Xenon International Academy in Olathe, KS where one of their stylists spoke on the fascination of the feather trend and demonstrated how simple it is to apply.
Carisa Gaul, a local Kansas City resident also spoke out on her love for the trend. Gaul created the website, getfeatherhairextensions.com, as a way to have full access to the product herself and help spread fashionable looks.
Posted on: July 12th, 2011 by Beauty Schools Directory No Comments
Cosmetology students dream of making the world a little more beautiful. Beauty Schools Marketing Group (BSMG), the company behind the beauty school directory websites BeautySchool.com and BeautySchoolsDirectory.com as well as the cosmetology networking site MySocialBeauty.com, wants to make that dream come true for dedicated cosmetology students each year.
“We’re excited to announce that we are now taking applications for a $2,500 scholarship,” said Bridget Duffy, Director of Beauty Schools Marketing Group. “There are so many students who dream about entering the cosmetology field, but are worried about how to pay for the cost of school. We wanted to help make these dream careers a reality.”
Applicants will be chosen based on their answers to several questions, including their most meaningful achievement and how it relates to their future in cosmetology and what issues they think are most important in the cosmetology industry today.
Posted on: June 22nd, 2011 by Beauty Schools Directory No Comments
Beautyschool.com is excited to announce the winner of their Artisan Naturals Skincare contest. Cindy Batchelor from Rock Spring, WY has won a complete skincare prize pack from Artisan Naturals valued over $200 dollars. Anyone with a love of beauty or worked in the skincare industry could enter through Beautyschool.com’s Facebook page or Twitter Page.
A video was released this morning announcing the winner.
Posted on: May 25th, 2011 by Beauty Schools Directory No Comments
Over the past two weeks Beautyschool.com held a Professional Japanese Hair Shear contest to award to one of their lucky Twitter followers. For automatic entry, users had to tweet a specific message @BSDiva. After an overwhelming response, a winner has been chosen via video by the BeautySchool.com team.
Along with announcing the winning contestant through a video message, beautyschool.com will debut this video as the first ever on their new YouTube channel. Make sure to stay tuned for more videos and subscribe to the beautyschool.com channel (username beautyschooladvice) for future updates and announcements.
So which one of our twitter followers took home the Professional Hair Shears (valued at $229)? Watch the video below and find out! Missed out on this contest? Check back on beautyschool.com the beginning of June for another fabulous beauty giveaway. Congratulations to the lucky winner!
Posted on: April 19th, 2011 by Beauty Schools Directory No Comments
Mysocialbeauty.com is a beauty social networking site that allows cosmetology students throughout the world to connect, learn from each other, and network with other cosmetology educators and professionals. Working with many cosmetology students, we found this site to be a great social networking tool as they enter and go through the beauty industry.
Posted on: January 14th, 2011 by Beauty Schools Directory No Comments
The Paul Mitchell Schools FUNraising Campaign launched a new version of its Web site this week. The new site includes a complete history of the seven-year “FUNraising” campaign, which has raised and donated over $4.6 million to a variety of charitable organizations.
In accordance with the campaign’s commitment to keep administrative costs low, the team who created the new site donated their time and talent to the project. Web developers Blind Acre Media of Columbus, Ohio, and well-known writer and editor Gail Fink, who also manage the Paul Mitchell Schools Web site, newsletters, and other publications, developed the new FUNraising site free of charge.
“In our seven years of FUNraising, every dollar raised has gone directly to the charities,” said Paul Mitchell Schools Dean and Cofounder Winn Claybaugh. “We have no overhead: no salaries, no rent, and no utilities. Our accountants, attorneys, and board of directors all donate their time, and we are extremely grateful to all of them. As a result of their incredible generosity, our FUNraising expenses are little to none: the cost incurred in raising the $4.6 million has been just $68,462—an amazingly low 1.5%, compared to the national average of 25%. In other words, we don’t spend $100 trying to raise $200!”
The original Web site included information about the annual Magic of Memories Dinner, a gala event that celebrates all of the participating schools and announces the FUNraising total for the year. Claybaugh notes that the new site “tells the complete history of our FUNraising campaign, introduces our celebrity partners and the organizations we raise money for, and explains where the money goes and how it is used.”
A “fan favorite” on the new site is last year’s highlights video, featuring singing superstar Donny Osmond entertaining at the 2010 event. The new site also includes downloadable press releases for the media; photo albums showing how the talented and creative Future Professionals and staff members raise the money; video and audio messages from this year’s celebrity partners Betty White, Dolly Parton, Donny and Marie Osmond, Fran Drescher, and Leeza Gibbons, who has been with the campaign since its inception; and a timeline showing the campaign’s history, including photos and quotes from past partners Larry King, Vidal Sassoon, and more.
“We’re especially excited about an upcoming feature: an online donation portal, so people can contribute directly to their chosen charities through the Web site,” Winn adds.
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