| Academy of Hair Design If you have the flair for styling, if you are creative in thinking of ways how you can change another person's look by modifying his or her hairstyle and if you are interested with the latest trends in the beauty industry, then you should definitely have a career as a hair stylist. However, even if you already have the flair for hair styling, you still need to have formal education in order to get a head start at being a professional hair stylist. In Canada, there are a lot of colleges, technical schools and vocational schools which offer programs which are related to esthetics: hair styling, makeup, cosmetology and barbering. One of these institutions which offer beauty-related courses is the Academy of Hair Design, which is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. The owner of the school is Gary Foster and the academy was founded in 1985. The main program that they offer for those who would like to have a career in the hair industry is the Cosmetology/Hairstyling course. Basically, this course in hairstyling covers a 1600-hour training, which lasts for about 44 weeks.
Here is quick list of some of the practical classes that you need to get in order to finish the program: properties of hair and scalp, draping and shampooing, thermal styling, men and women's haircutting, finger waving, color and lightening, chemical hair relaxing and salon management. It is interesting to note that for the last 120 hours of the course, students will get work experience in a local salon so that they can have an overview of how it is to be in the 'real world' after finishing the program. As a final step, students will be required to take a certification exam with the Cosmetology Association in New Brunswick.
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