Yikes! Krissy’s First Time on “The Floor” at Cosmetology School

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Yikes! Krissy’s First Time on “The Floor” at Cosmetology School

Published: September 15, 2008
by Rosanne Ullman

At the beginning, beauty school is all about classes and homework. It’s not just books, though; you get to do a lot of hands-on practice with manneq

uin heads. But, for a while, they don’t let you anywhere near a real client! And that was just fine with Krissy Simmons, who is giving us an exclusive here with her memories of recently being a student at CHIC University of Cosmetology an Empire School in Portage, Michigan. Krissy didn’t feel intimidated until that highly anticipated first day on the floor.

“I was scared to death to screw up!” Krissy recalls. “I was very confident in my skills—had a 4.0 grade in the classroom even—but it was just different when it came to working on a real person! I’ll never forget my first client, a 14-year-old boy who wanted a simple clipper cut. I’m sure I shook the entire time I worked on him! As the other students did manicures and pedicures, I remember thinking how lucky they were because they got the ‘easy’ stuff. I just smile about that now. I think that first clipper cut probably took me an hour and a half. Oh my! Working on real clients still can be nerve-wracking, but now I know that you only get better the more you do it.”

As time went on, Krissy grew calmer on the floor and could appreciate all of the great aspects of cosmetology school. Next time she’ll tell us about the wonderful people she’s met there.