Life as a Hairstylist’s Apprentice: Chemical Relaxers

BeautySmack has been following Marina, and her life as the real beauty school apprentice. We’re updating you for a taste of what is going on in this hairstylist – to – be’s life. During the Pennsylvania winter Marina has been squeezing in time for snowboarding, studying, and rocking some hair. Since the graduation of perms she’s moved onto chemical relaxers aka hair straighteners. It’s literally a chemical solution that “relaxes” or loosens curly hair.

Aaahhh…Chemical relaxers! And that’s a relaxing aaaahhhhh!! This is more my style! I’m not going to lie I’m still slightly intimidated by the perm, but it was time for Miss Tanya to move onto relaxers. It’s actually not at all like it’s tranquil name, relaxer. The tricky part to master is that you need to be super fast with a relaxer because the chemical starts processing as soon as it hits the hair!!! EEEEEP! So, literally, I need to finish the enitire head from root to ends in 10 mins, and then I let it process. I’ve been doing the chemical relaxers for about two weeks so I’ve come a long way. My application time has gone down from the 45 minutes I started at. I got an A+ in class today when I actually did the entire chemical process. To practice without the chemicals I used conditioner and various gels, and then I was graduated to actually use the chemicals. As you can see in the above picture the final product came out amazing!! The hair doesn’t feel nearly as dry and damaged as I thought it might. This is especially unique because I had just permed her hair a few weeks ago. What do you think?

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