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Is Online Beauty School a Viable Option?
Published: July 08, 2009
by Rosanne Ullman
I won’t make you scroll down to the end to find out the answer. So will “virtual” beauty school become a reality? Not any time soon. But has technology moved into the cosmetology school classroom? You bet.

“I don’t foresee students getting their entire program through online ‘distance learning,’” says Lisha Barnes, academic development manager for the cosmetology textbook company Milady. “The states that allow it right now permit it to cover something like only 20 percent of their theory training, and so much of our industry is hands-on.”

I’m imagining you, a student, at home with all necessary supplies—a mannequin, combs, brushes, clips, heat tools and liquid products. With online video phone technology like Skype, you could follow along with an instructor’s demonstration and, in turn, the instructor could see you and tell you what you’re doing right and wrong. But there’s still something missing. She can’t reach out and grab your hand to twist it so that the iron you’re holding creates the proper wave. She can’t push your shoulders back to position you in a way that won’t overstress your back. She can’t remove the bobby pin on your test curl to see for herself whether the perm solution is taking adequately. And color? It just doesn’t look the same over video as in person. “My opinion is that you can’t teach a beauty school student how to cut hair only with video instruction,” Barnes says. Next time I’ll talk about technology the schools are using.
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