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May24

Get your cosmetology tutorials onli...

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For all those who aspire to take cosmetology education should consider taking it online because online cosmetology education is so much fun. Apart from having many advantages over the regular class room teaching methods, online cosmetology tutorials help in better understanding of the concepts.

ScissorBoy’s Cutting Edge Hair Show is a popular online series providing online cosmetology education. It takes you to various salon across the world where top and celebrated stylists demonstrate their techniques. This form of learning helps in better understanding the concepts because it provides a live demonstration unlike a written tutorial.

Online training in cosmetology would help you to learn various aspects of this business. It teaches a lot about how to properly hold hair shears, how to efficiently color hair, styling hair for photo shoots, etc. This form of learning also saves you time since you don’t need to attend classes in a cosmetology school. Some of the other rewards of online cosmetology education are discussed below.

Advantages of online cosmetology education

  • Self paced
  • Allows you to watch the tutorials again
  • Convenient to grasp
  • Saves time
  • Prevents you from leaving the comfort of your home

If you wish to get started with online cosmetology education, check out ScissorBoy.com

Many award winning stylists and legends from the hair industry have been featured on ScissorBoy.com They have shared their inside secrets so that you can develop into a better cosmetologist. So make sure you subscribe to ScissorBoy’s online cosmetology education program for successfully continuing cosmetology education online.

Apr5

ScissorBoy launches Shear Sharpenin...

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Haircutting scissors are prone to wear and tear due to regular use. If they are not maintained properly, they can make the life of a stylist very hard.

Regular maintenance of your hair shears extends their life and keeps them safe to use. Scissor sharpening is one such process which needs to be done regularly to keep your shears sharp and durable.

ScissorBoy has recently launched a mail in service so you can have your shears professionally sharpened. The first mail in center is now Up and Operational in Canada. Click here for more information and instructions on how to send in your shears for professional sharpening services.

ScissorBoy travels to salons all over the world to bring a new episode for you every week on their online cosmetology program. That’s when we get lots of requests from stylists asking us if we offer scissor sharpening. Shears sent to our service center will be sharpened by ScissorBoy’s father who has been sharpening shears for over 20 years.

It is very easy to send your shears in for professional sharpening to ScissorBoy. Watch the video below to get more information and instructions on how to send in your shears.

Send your shears to this address:

Sharp Edge
6 Trillium Trail, RR#4
Coldwater, Ontario, Canada
L0K 1E0

NOTE: Complete Customs Forms (if necessary). Clearly mark the package “Returning Scissors for Repair”

Click here to download Green Customs Form Sample

Click here to download White Customs Form Sample

For service charges and payment modes, please visit: ScissorBoy Shear Sharpening Services

Mar13

ScissorBoy featured in online magaz...

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ScissorBoy.com – your favorite website for online cosmetology education was recently featured in an online magazine – Beauty Link. The magazine provided a review of the site done by the Cosmetology Educators of America (CEA) Committee Members.

Click here to read the review

The American Association of Cosmetology Schools (AACS) and the Cosmetology Educators of America (CEA) are dedicated to developing cosmetology, beauty and wellness as a career of choice through the professional education of beauty students, beauty educators and beauty school owners/administrators throughout the world.

The cosmetology industry is an interesting industry to work in. To produce better professionals and provide quality online cosmetology education, ScissorBoy had partnered with The American Association of Cosmetology Schools (AACS) a few months ago.

ScissorBoy’s online cosmetology program releases a new episode every Monday, featuring top stylists in salons all over the world showcasing their best and latest techniques. Each episode is available for viewing directly from AACS/CEA website – www.beautyschools.org

Here is what CEA committee members had to say about the site:

Kim McIntosh, Xenon International Academy
One strength I noticed is that students would be able to print out the transcript from the video. A transcript that students can refer back to is a valuable tool for them

Debra LeGrand, LeGrand Institute of Cosmetology
I am a practiciing hairdresser as well as school owner. I tuned in to ScissorBoy and there were three videos, so I watched two, and I really liked them. One was Paulo Candido and the other was ‘Healthy Posture for Stylists’ given by Aaron Parnell. He gave exercise techniques for tired and hurting hands, arms, backs and necks. I tried them as I watched and was amazed at how my neck felt.

Kim Schottler, Great Clips
Some individuals in my office watched the Halo section video. They think it’s a very cool website to get some quick information for an experienced stylist.

Watch some of the best stylists in action by subscribing to ScissorBoy’s FREE cosmetology program at www.ScissorBoy.com

Mar5

Shear Genius Season 3 loses its you...

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Bravo’s creative hair-styling competition series Shear Genius saw the elimination of another stylist in Episode 5. Amy Michleb from Toronto, Canada was eased off as she could not impress the judges during the elimination challenge.

Amy is a young and dynamic stylist who is actively involved in the hair industry. She was the youngest stylist on Shear Genius season 3 which has gone international for the first time. Her elimination means that the competition is over for the youngest competitor.

The elimination challenge on Episode 5 of Shear Genius 3 was that the women will be styled in 1940’s hairstyles of finger waves and pin curls. The guest judge was Robert Vetica, a Hollywood hairstylist.

The stylists were given a challenge in which their models had husbands who were all currently serving in the military overseas. Their hair had to be given a 1940s style so that the women looked beautiful when they filmed messages to their men.

Amy, April and Janine found themselves among the bottom three as judges gave their verdict. Amy struggled because her hairstyle was turning 1930’s depression era. The judges came down on Amy, telling her that it wasn’t a style, it was a set, and that led to her elimination from Shear Genius season 3.

Amy’s husband – Woody Michleb, an award winning stylist himself was featured on ScissorBoy’s cosmetology program. In that episode, he demonstrated new hairstyling trends for Fall/Winter 2009.

After Amy’s elimination from Shear Genius 3, there are seven stylists who will now compete for the ultimate prize of $100,000 and prove they are the best of the bunch.

Jan22

How did Diana Schmidtke make it to...

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For the past 10 years, freelance hairstylist Diana Schmidtke has been responsible for making sure some of our favorite Hollywood guys — including Vin Diesel, George Clooney, Taylor Lautner, Jon Hamm and Ashton Kutcher — look their best on their big days.

Diana Schmidtke is highly regarded for her work in the hair industry among celebrity A-list talent. She brings the glamour and mystique of celebrity hairstyling to you in a down-to-earth, step-by-step manual. Her thinking? “If I can do it, so can you!”

So how did Diana Schmidtke make it to the top?

Her secret of success comprises of hard work, patience and persistence. After her High School, Diana attended Pivot Point International Beauty School and, upon graduation, she worked at Chicago’s Trio Hair Salon where she trained under Phillip Palmeri, a former head colorist at Vidal Sassoon.

After her training at Trio, Diana moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in freelance grooming. Since then Diana has styled clients on film sets and photo shoots, and her work has been featured in Esquire, Men’s Journal, Vogue, GQ, New York Times, W Magazine, and InStyle. Her expertise and popularity is a benchmark for new stylists and proves that there is no substitute for hard work.

Diana Schmidtke was featured on the Cutting Edge Hair Show where she shared valuable tips for becoming a Freelance stylist. In another episode, she had also interviewed Kirby Morris from the National-Interstate Council of State Boards of Cosmetology.

Diana is regularly featured on TV shows where she provides her expert advice on men’s grooming. She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show sharing “6 Steps to a Great Shave.” She was also seen on a special Father’s Day episode on the Today Show where she gave two deserving fathers new and much-needed looks.

Diana has also authored a book – SHORTCUTS, offering tips and advice for artists interested in breaking into the business. The book can be purchased by visiting – www.shortcutsthebook.com but you will have to hurry to buy it since the book is on sale for a “limited time only.” Buying “Shortcuts” is your first step to your new, amazing and lucrative career.

Her knowledge and experience in this field is vast and she often travels to various beauty schools as an educator in cosmetology. SHORTCUTS is a very inspirational book and so are the classes she teaches at cosmetology schools which are interactive in nature and provide all the tools to make you an expert and top resource in this exciting arena.

If you wish to invite Diana to your beauty school for a seminar, get in touch with her by visiting her website – www.dianaschmidtke.com