Journal# 3

Karina Rodriguez 2/26/09
Journal #3

Today was the first day of internship for me at Euphoria in Lincoln Mall. It was so fun I absolutely love it. When I got there at 8 am sharp I asked for Charlene who is the head of the beauty school. She was so nice, and friendly. She quickly introduced me to a student her name is Samantha. Samantha started informing me a little about their school, and how it works. I asked her if they had like a particular class for makeup, or a particular class for only hair. She told me that their school includes everything. So for like for example if I wanted to go to that school I would be learning about hair, nails, skin, and makeup all at the same time. Samantha explained that it’s much better that way because you graduate with a degree in all four majors. Even though my interests is only in makeup I thought about it, and it is pretty cool. She showed me their makeup counter, and what they use on clients who go there. I found it pretty interesting that they actually get to practice their learning experience on real people. The clients still pay but it’s at a cheaper price because their students are not professionals yet. Samantha then gave me a tour of the school. They had many classes like a part that’s a salon where people can walk in and get their hair, and nails done. Then we walked into a class where a teacher was teaching hair cuts. Samantha told me that, that lady I forgot her name use to be a professional makeup artists. I immediately got excited to speak to her so I can learn a little bit of how she got to that stage, and her experience as a makeup artists. As we walked into her class she was in the middle of teaching a lesson. She was really nice though because she still took out time out of her class to actually talk to me. She told me that she started working in New York at a really famous company I forgot the name. She told me it was really fun, and she met a lot of people who she networked with, and from there started building her name. She gave me lot of good advice, and told me to just strive for whatever I want in life. It was really inspiring to hear it from someone who already went through it, and has the experience. I went back to the salon with Samantha and I was looking through a makeup text book that the students have to work out of. This text book had a lot of good information in it like it had all the types of different skin conditions, so when a client comes in with a skin condition the students can know what type of skin problem that person has, and how they should deal with it. The pictures were a little graphic for me, but the information was very useful. The book also explained the shaped of different faces like oval, round, or even diamond shaped, it was pretty funny. I never thought about the shapes of peoples faces. Samantha explained to me that a makeup lady goes once in awhile to tech makeup. I was really excited about that, and would love o learn a couple things from her. I commented about it to Charlene and she told me she will let her know to come in on a Wednesday when I’m there. I then met another student her name is Suheiry. She’s also really nice. Their classes are pretty fun because it’s working with hair on doll heads. Suheiry gave me one of her heads so I can play with the hair. Even though I love makeup, my moms a hair dresser and I like doing hair also. I washed the dolls head, and blow dried the dolls hair. Everyone said I did a good job for someone with not a lot of experience. It was funny because everyone kept asking me about my fake lashes. They all told me that they can tell I like makeup. The student’s have two twenty minute breaks, and a lunch break which is very flexible. One of the girls asked me if I wanted to do her makeup next class and I told her I’d be glad to. I can’t wait until next class it’s definitely going to be a fun class.