Jane Addams High School is located in the Bronx.  It's a vocational school in which my major was cosmetology.  In about 10Th grade I realized a great interest in hair and makeup.  I love making people feel beautiful and enhancing their beauty as well. I also learn in high school, how to set reasonable goals to achieve.  I am satisfied to say in 2 years I would like to have built more skills in makeup and obtain a cosmetology license in makeup and hair styling.  Makeup and hair are used for many things. Being a beautician is a job that won’t ever be irrelevant.   I believe through makeup and hair, is the best way of showing your personality.

             When I was growing up I never pictured myself actually doing hair having an interest in doing hair.  I would always see my sister wear a really dark lipstick.  In that time it was an enormous trend.  I remember looking at her and saying “it looks like she has poop on her mouth”.  When I began to hit my teen years I started to do my own hair and wanted to look pretty. I would also do my best friend’s hair at that time too.  She had more of course hair making it a bit of a challenging but I still pulled through like it’s been something I’ve done all my life. However, I still didn’t like makeup or hair.  I would look at others and say, “That’s just too much”.  When I enter high school I decided to pick cosmetology because I felt that it would be the easiest thing to do.  In fact I imagined it to be pretty funny to play around with the manikins.  After a while, the interested grew so much pushing me to set my goal of withholding a license.  I have a great range of patience.  I’ve been told that when I do hair and makeup I really get into it blocking out any other distraction. I’m a person that likes to please others to the end.

Jane Addams tough me many things in which I have many people that come to me for beauty related reasons.  They trained me in getting a pre license that works for about 6 months.  The license that I want is the permanent one in which I just renew every year.   When getting into the cosmetology field, I must be aware of any programs I get into.  Everyone believes they can do makeup and hair.  People categorize it as an everyday thing.  It’s a fact that not everyone knows how to do hair or makeup.   I have to make sure I know the schools or teachings I'm getting are good enough and are not wasting my time.  Other can build a program telling me they can get me a certified job in that field and really just be taking my money.

      Cosmetology schools provide many new learning skills to better my goal in becoming a hair and makeup artist.  For example, Empire Beauty School (only for makeup) located in Manhattan is a 3-week program that cost $3,066.  After passing an exam I am able to get my certificate.  This school can help me learn new techniques and styles to use on people.  However, the cost of the school can be a challenge.  I must get a job that can work with the schedule the school gives me.  Perhaps I can save money and give little payments to pay off the tuition

          Enhancing others beauty is a great form of creativity.  I enjoy using soft colors as well as bright colors like greens and pinks.  I must get in tune with my experience I had in Jane Addams. I would need to build a connection with the client to understand exactly what they want and vision.   Using colors that describes the client’s personality is a way of building clients as well.  Keeping them can be a dilemma.  I must create new blending and ideas to enrich people's eye color and minds.  What I meaning by blending is matching colors that create beautiful looks and making the clients eye color pop.  I would incorporate my own twist and personal style to also create my own trend.

          Family can be a challenge for me.  I'm currently going thru financial issues as well as housing issues.  That being said it can cause stress and distractions for me to focus.  I need to have a close friend I can talk to when I'm getting overwhelm. As well as a notebook for me to express my feelings and thoughts about any situation I'm going through.  Another issue I can experience with family is them taking advantage of my talent.  For instance, members of my family constantly are asking me to do their hair or makeup for free.  I must set boundaries that they understand I have needs too. 

         Makeup is a great way of expressing myself.  Cosmetics consist of many different colors, images, styles, and personality.  Therefore making it a way of personalizing your own creativity.  Whenever you're feeling a certain way you can show it with makeup.  I believe that with motivation and determination I am about to fulfill my goal.