Trim trim-im-ey, trim trim-im-ey Trim trim trim-ee!

Today at school my friend Katie asked me if I would trim her hair. She has such a cute A-line and is trying to grow it out. It was getting a little long and starting to lose its shape. It was looking pretty rough and it was bugging her neck. I don't know how she is going to let it grow out haha. But when growing out short hair you have to keep trimming it to give it some style.

She asked me to trim it 30 minutes before my next cut was coming. I sat and thought for a minute. 30 minutes is not that long to give a cut for me.  I am new and still pretty slow. But it was only a trim, it would be easy. So I told her yes and hurried and rushed her to the sink to shampoo her hair. I shampooed her so fast I felt a little bad, I know how that is everyones favorite part of a haircut, but we were in a hurry. She sat in my chair and I started cutting. My friend Chelsea let my use her shears and I am in love with them!! We are not given the best tools in our kit but they work. I had no idea how lame our shears are. Sure they work, but there are much better ones that I can't wait to buy! So anyways, I started the cut and and was done in 30 minutes! I was so proud of myself, and when I had it checked there was only a few tiny hairs they had to take off. I was pretty happy!

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Locks of Love!

Locks of Love is such a cool organization. People send in their hair and they make wigs and extensions with them for cancer patients. If my hair grew I would love to do donate. But my hair takes forever to grow and will never be long enough. I just know it.

I have always wanted to cut someones hair who is donating it. I love the program and I just think it would be so much fun to cut that much hair at once! Today was my lucky day. A girl at my school had been given a client but was unable to do the cut. She was in the middle of a test and asked if I could take it since I was done with my perm. At first I really did not want to do the cut. I had just done a perm and was about to clean up, but I knew I had to, and I am so glad that I did!

Jillian came in and told me that she wanted to cut about 10' off. Her hair was so long I could not believe it! I made sure she wanted to cut that much off and then showed her how much it would be. She was certain she wanted it off. Then I suggested donating it to Locks of Love and explained to her what it was. She was all for it and I was thrilled!

Is her hair not extremely long!! I could not believe how long it was and was so excited to cut it!! I braided the hair and snipped it right off. I held it up for her to see and she just started laughing, so then I started laughing. I had so much fun cutting her hair. She was such a cute girl. I found out that she is going to the middle school that I attended. I asked her if the few teachers that I remembered were still working there. Only a few were still there. Boy did that make me feel old!

Look how short we took it!!

I thought she looked so cute with the short hair, and so grow up.

Here is Jillian with her hair. We took off a lot of it! I just love her new hair cut, short and simple! Thanks Jillian for letting me cut your hair, I had so much fun with you!

Color!!

Today at school my friend Katie was ready for a change. We had colored her hair before and took it a dark violet color that was so pretty! We loved that color but it was starting to fade and she wanted a change. She wanted to be lighter but not go blonde, just a light brown color. I was really excited but there was a slight problem. Color does not lift color, and since she had color on her hair I thought we would have to remove it and  I was not looking forward to that. But then I learned that we have one color line at my school that has a few colors that will lift color! I was so excited and could not believe it. So we found a color that she wanted and mixed it up. My instructor sprinkled a little bleach in there just to lighten it even more. I had never thought of that before. You learn something everyday!

I spaced taking a before picture... as always. But thanks to Facebook I have one! This is a before picture of Katie. She looks like a model!

To get her new color we first had to retouch her original color that had started to grow out. My instructor loves to do this when ever she does weave. She always does color over color. I am not a huge fan of this because it never works out for me, and I really don't think you need to all the time. But I did what she said and we retouched her color and then weaved her brown over her color. It was hard the first time I did color over color, but I'm getting used to it. So once the retouch was on the brown was weaved in and this is what we got!

Her color turned out so pretty! I loved it! And doesn't she have a cute A-Line. She is growing it out right now and I wish her luck with that!

Today I also did my first little kid hair cut!! I have always been so nervous to do a kid because they move so much and its just scary! Today I had to overcome that fear.

Hannah was the cutest little 5 year old. I just loved her. She had a really hard time holding still but was so fun to talk to. I learned all about her sister and how Cinderella is her favorite movie and she watches it everyday. She reminded me of my niece...maybe thats why I loved her so much.

Her mom wanted a lot taken off her her hair. I took off about 5in and gave her a cute bob with a slight A Line. It was a little difficult to do with her moving but I was able to do it! I was so proud of myself. I finished her cut and moved on to trim her bangs. She told me that bangs were her favorite and she couldn't stop smiling while I was cutting and styling them. She was so cute! I pulled out my blow dryer to finish her hair and she told me "The sun dries my hair". She would not let my dry it. Come to find out she is a little afraid of the dryer. I felt so bad for pulling it out!

I'm sorry, I don't have any pictures. I know I'm lame. I need to start taking pictures of my cuts!! But I felt a little weird taking a picture of her without her mom's permission. But next time I do a cut, I promise I will take some pictures!

I need my hair done too!

You would think being in hair school I would always be getting my hair done...well I don't and my hair is in some serious need of help! I have a ton of regrowth, my blonde is starting to poke through and my color is just fading. I have a million colors going on right now. But luckily it does not look that bad. I bet I'm the only one that even notices! I am also in need of a hair cut! My ends are deads, my style has grown out, and I'm getting a mullet that flips out. It looks like Carol Brady. I have been trying to grow my hair out and have been putting off cutting it. But today I finally caved. I called my sister and told her I really needed some help. So tomorrow she will work her magic! How great is my sister. She is willing to do my hair on her day off on spur of the moment. I just love her.

This is the look I am going for.



My hair is not this long, but close enough! I just love this cut. I love how choppy it is at the ends and I love the color. I can't wait to be blonde again. It will take awhile but tomorrow will be the start of a long process of going from brown to blonde! I am so excited! Once I cut and color it my next project is to try and get it a little healthy. My hair is so fried and damaged. I have lots of deep conditioning to do to get it decent looking! Wish me luck!