LockShockBarrel
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I won't chime in on whether or not I'd go to a beauty school for a service or not, just my experiences in being a student.
We were allowed to take clients but it wasn't very well advertised so at my school, we had very very little experience working on real people. We absolutely were allowed to take tips. Anything we did was checked by the teacher but depending on the situation, it wasn't checked that well. For instance we had a group of students come in that were about 10 years old from another program, and since our class of 20 girls all had a client, the teacher made very quick rounds and only fixed big mistakes. When we had only 1 or 2 clients in, she was much more thorough in not just checking but explaining what was wrong or a better way to do it.
During our internships, we all had very different experiences in what we were and were not allowed to do in a real salon setting. Some girls were allowed to do full walk in appointments that were simple services (basic hair cuts, non acrylic manicures, etc), some were allowed to do shampoos and blowouts, and I ended up at a salon doing laundry and cleaning stations. I did 1 shampoo and was told I did it wrong because the client liked when the stylist scratched her (the client) head with her (the stylist) fingernails. We were all told that in NYS you MUST be licensed to work on a client in a salon setting due to liability issues. However that seemed to be up to interpretation as some salons said "work" meant "employed" and others said it meant "touch anyone".
I guess the thing to remember too is all states have different requirements to get a license and what's actually taught at school. Each state also has a different minimum requirement for practical experience hours but it seems to be up to the school how experienced a student needs to be to take a client in class.
We were allowed to take clients but it wasn't very well advertised so at my school, we had very very little experience working on real people. We absolutely were allowed to take tips. Anything we did was checked by the teacher but depending on the situation, it wasn't checked that well. For instance we had a group of students come in that were about 10 years old from another program, and since our class of 20 girls all had a client, the teacher made very quick rounds and only fixed big mistakes. When we had only 1 or 2 clients in, she was much more thorough in not just checking but explaining what was wrong or a better way to do it.
During our internships, we all had very different experiences in what we were and were not allowed to do in a real salon setting. Some girls were allowed to do full walk in appointments that were simple services (basic hair cuts, non acrylic manicures, etc), some were allowed to do shampoos and blowouts, and I ended up at a salon doing laundry and cleaning stations. I did 1 shampoo and was told I did it wrong because the client liked when the stylist scratched her (the client) head with her (the stylist) fingernails. We were all told that in NYS you MUST be licensed to work on a client in a salon setting due to liability issues. However that seemed to be up to interpretation as some salons said "work" meant "employed" and others said it meant "touch anyone".
I guess the thing to remember too is all states have different requirements to get a license and what's actually taught at school. Each state also has a different minimum requirement for practical experience hours but it seems to be up to the school how experienced a student needs to be to take a client in class.
