State Cosmetology Boards Crack Krissy’s Cool

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State Cosmetology Boards Crack Krissy’s Cool

Published: November 26, 2008
by Rosanne Ullman

The morning after her 26th birthday, recent beauty school graduate Krissy Simmons stood in an office building hallway with five other candidates waiting to be admitted into the room where they’d take the practical portion of Michigan’s state cosmetology board

exam. “The exam proctor finally came out and explained very clearly what we were to do,” Krissy recalls. “We each had to verify who we were and ‘sign our lives away.’ There were two proctors and eight candidates.”

Krissy describes the room as clinical and “like a doctor’s office exam room.” Each candidate was assigned to one of eight stations; they brought their own supplies. Says Krissy, “I wasn’t nervous about taking my practical portion until I started emptying out the contents of my ‘suitcase.’ I was scared to death that I had forgotten something. I started shaking and it was just so intimidating. The proctors didn’t mean to be abrupt, but they have to be very professional. They don’t say anything that’s not on a script. It’s just very sterile. It makes you jumpy just being in that environment.”

Despite her jitters, Krissy had her supplies in order and felt optimistic that she had passed this portion. Two hours later, she went online and confirmed that she had passed. Other beauty school friends had similar good news. “I had several friends who all had forgotten something important and still passed,” Krissy says. “My friend Adam forgot his mannequin stand and still passed!” Next: Krissy takes the theory portion.