One Chapter Ends...

      Monday, October 18th, 2010, I put in my 1250 hours at the Altoona Beauty School, meaning it was time for me to GRADUATE!! As i drove to school Monday morning, i instantly thought back, 9 months earlier when i was driving to Altoona Beauty School to start the new chapter in my life. I remember leaving my new apartment, scared as ever, with a big hole in my stomach with butterflies filling it up! Behind me driving was my older sister Julieann, she stayed over at my new apartment with me the night before and to get me off on my way for my first day. Well of course, nothing in life goes as planned and on my first day of school we had a 2 hour delay! so i couldn't sleep all night because of nerves and now i have to wait 2 more hours till i get to even go to school.
      When it was finally time to go, i hugged my sister bye and got into my car i instantly started to cry. I wasn't sad in any way, i was more so scared, scared about if i was going to make friends, if people would like me, and if this really was the 'perfect' choice for me. I was Scared and nervous about this new journey i was about to embark on and make my career with. Half way to the school, my phone started ringing, and it was Julieann calling me. With a shaky tearful voice i said hello, and the voice on the other end sounded just as shaky and tearful. I asked Julieann why she was cryng? she just said that she was so proud of me for doing what i wanted to do, and couldn't believe how brave i was for stepping out of the "Jenna Serafin Norm" and starting this new school, by myself, all i could think about was how i wanted to turn around and go back home.....
     Now about 9.5 months later i couldn't be happier with my decision to go to Cosmetology school. There i learned the basics to what i have to do to start my career, Not only did my time there reassure me that this is what i want to do, but i also met some of the best people there. That's what made October 18th so hard for me, more of a bittersweet graduation. I'm glad that now i can go take my tests and get into a salon and do what i love to do and be in a environment that actually makes me happy, but  those girls and teachers that became my best friends, that I was around 8-4 every single day for 9 months, i wont get to see hardly that is the toughest part.
     The greatest feeling was that my family( my biggest cheerleaders) were all front row to watch me graduate from something that they know i love and that i am truly happy doing. Knowing that not only i know i love doing hair, but that other people can see that i am happy, makes it even better. Now that this one chapter in my life has ended i know that i've got a fantastic base for the future in the cosmetology field, and that the memories there made it all worth while..

"Love What You Do".

Beauty Classic- Ohio Hair Show 2010!!

Well, this past weekend i went to my first Hair Show and it was AMAZING!!!! It was right in Columbus, Ohio and it was HUGE! 5am Sunday morning me and 21 others, all got on a bus and traveled right to the hairshow! As soon as you walked down the steps on the left there were 2 different entrances about 15 yards away from one another, if you entered into those they branched off to about 4-5 different classrooms. In the classrooms you attended all differen't kinds of classes, those being, high lighting, updos, dry cutting, and tons more. Now, on the left of the steps you walked into another entrance, there it just opened you to a HUGE room, where it was just rows and rows of differen't products, companies and tons and tons of PEOPLE!!! this is what i first saw when i walked in.....

overwhelming right? Totally way better than what i expected! And that is just one out of the 6 rows of poducts, people, and vendors! As you walked around, different companies were handing out samples of their products.

Not only were they handing their products out but different companies like Paul Mitchell, Keratin Complex and Matrix, they all had their big booths with supplies and products you could buy, but they also had stages where they did demonstrations and showed off new cuts, new colors or simply just their style. Of course with "Spread the Love" in mind, i made sure we made a stop at the Matrix Stage.

At some of the stages the stylists worked on their own models, or some of them did pull people out of the audience to cut, color, or updo their hair! Of course we all were eager to get up on stage and get some new hair cuts , oh and getting close to hottie stylist-Martino isnt too bad either(: The Company "Keratin Complex" that Martino works for, has this new smoothing line. It's a treatment that takes about 2 hours for the entire thing. It smoothes your hair if it's damanged and makes it feel like brand new. Lucky Jamie got to try it out! (: Martino's salon is in Jersey, and thats about the only place i've heard that does the Keratin Complex Treatment. Buttt at the Altoona Beauty School, Paul Mitchell Came out with a New Awapuii treatment,that is Very Similar and it puts protiens back in your hair! It's Fabulouss, it's a MUST TRY!!!!

At the hair show, not only did they show you what you usually do in Salons, like color, cuts, updos, they show you the impossible, like fantasy hair and that in this field there is NO limits to what you can do-

After 2 days full of meeting awesome people, learning differen't styles, and techniques i was SO sad to come home. While there, i've learned there is no limit as to what you can do in the cosmetology field. If you have the passion for it then you can do the impossible! I know this wont be my last Hair Showwww, New York 2011?!! CANT WAITTTTTTT (: