Three full days a week, 600 clock hours, three phases. Here is what a Wednesday through Friday week in esthiology school holds, and the dates for the November 12 class.

Talia “Tosh” Garcia was headed for sports medicine until her own hair color changed her course. Meet the cosmetology educator who teaches nails, lash extensions and waxing in our salon in Old Town.

Every cohort has a day early on that students remember, and it is usually not the first day of class. It is kit day, the day you are handed the tools you will use for the rest of the program and, for most graduates, well past it. Your kit is professional equipment, issued to you,…

Six hundred hours can sound like an abstraction when you are deciding whether to enroll. It becomes much more concrete at the halfway point. Our next esthiology class starts November 12, so here is what the first 300 hours actually build. The 300 hour mark is a formal milestone where your progress is measured and…

People are often surprised by how much science is in esthiology. It is a creative, hands-on profession, and underneath the hands-on part is a real body of knowledge about how skin works. Our next esthiology cohort starts October 12, and here is what those 600 hours teach you. You learn how skin is built, how…

Orientation for our September cohorts is tomorrow, September 9. If you are starting with us, or thinking about an October or December start and wondering what the first day is actually like, here is what happens. Orientation is the day you stop being an applicant and start being a student artist You will meet your…

Enrollment for our September starts closes this week. If you have decided you want to go and you are not sure what applying actually involves, this is the short version. Most of it takes an afternoon, and the pieces that take longer are worth starting today. Applying comes down to a conversation, a few documents,…

Our next Thursday through Saturday cosmetology cohort starts September 24, and seats are open. Plenty of people think about cosmetology school for a year or two before they ever see what the program actually contains. So here is the whole of it: what you study, where you practice, and what you carry out at the…

If skin is the thing that fascinates you, esthiology is a career worth knowing in detail before you begin. Our next cohort starts September 16, and the people who thrive in it are the ones who walked in knowing exactly what the six months ahead would ask of them and exactly what they would carry…

For most future students, the biggest question about beauty school is not whether to go. It is how to pay for it. The two most common forms of federal financial aid, grants and loans, work in very different ways, and understanding that difference is the foundation of a smart plan. Here is a plain-language look…