You have just completed a course of education in the cosmetology industry. Now what? Here’s what you should do next:
- Party! You want to celebrate this great accomplishment, don’t you? Throw yourself a big party to celebrate that you’ve just graduated. You might even want to offer beauty treatments to your friends at the party for an added bit of fun.
- Go shopping for college diploma frames. You’ll need to put your certificate of completion into a college diploma frame so that you can post it at the salon when you get your first job.
- Get yourself a makeover. It’s very important that people in the beauty business look their best. Do you? If not then it could be time for an overhaul of your own.
- Start looking for jobs. The goal of graduating from a beauty school program is typically to get a job in this industry. After you’ve celebrated the accomplishment of graduating, you should start looking for your first job. Don’t be discouraged if it takes you a little while to find work; that’s to be expected when you’ve first graduated. The job will come along and you’ll be working in the beauty business in no time.
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There are many cynics out there that critique and question the future of sustainable products and businesses. It’s easy to side with them, mostly because it’s difficult to understand what comprises a “sustainable” product which in turn creates a domino chain of skepticism about achievability. We don’t endorse what we don’t understand. The industry is in self-defining mode and most of us lack the degrees in chemistry, biology, natural sciences or any other course of study that might support our inclination to trust what marketers tell us is “safe” and what is not.
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By Kelli Peterson
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When we think about “sustainable packaging,” we think about recycled paper and plastics, but there is a lot more to sustainability than that. In running across a company called Distant Village Packaging, which specializes in sustainable packaging, that fact was brought home in a powerful way. . . in pictures.
I learned of A Distant Village when it introduced what it calls “the world’s most environmentally-friendly labels.” Called Pure Labels, these are adhesive-backed inkjet or laser printer labels made of wild grass paper. They are not only produced with 100% recyclable materials (including no HDPE or other plastics) but are manufactured according to what the company calls “the strictest adherence to socially responsible business practices.”
That’s what impressed me most about the company. Lots of companies claim to produce “green” products, but A Distant Village is looking at the entire lifecycle and social, as well as environmental, impact of the packaging design and production.
Its website states:
Job creation, fair wages, fair trade, pre-payment to support artisan workshops, and steady, guaranteed demand chains are some of the ways we contribute toward fair and conscientious global economic participation. By engaging industries in remove villages, families thrive, children have futures, and local economies flourish.
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By Heidi Tolliver-Nigro
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