Sometimes Beauty School Is Your Science Lab

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Sometimes Beauty School Is Your Science Lab

Published: February 16, 2008
by Rosanne Ullman

Some students are surprised when they get to beauty school and have to take a science class. By senior year in high school or even earlier, you may have fulfilled your science curriculum requirements for graduation and hope never to see a petri dish again. But science does come into the picture of learning about hair and skin. Don’t let anyone tell you that cosmetology school is for dummies!

I don’t mean to scare you, though. The science you’ll learn will relate to your passion, so it won’t seem as tedious as it may Science lessons in Beauty School

have the last time you took a science course. Biology and chemistry will be the two main areas. While you don’t have to learn enough to become a doctor, you will need some biology of the human body. As a hairdresser, you’ll have to know about hair follicles and scalp conditions. You’ll also study the chemistry of hair, which is very interesting! Applying perm solution and mixing color formulas are really chemical procedures, and you’ll need some science of color theory as well. If you choose esthetics, you’ll study the different layers of skin, how they change over time, how products work and what conditions affect skin. That brings in a little climatology and environmental science, too.

You may not think of yourself as someone who’s much into science, but by the time you graduate from beauty school you’ll be a bit of an interdisciplinary scientist!