Topic outline
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Introduction to Hair Dressing
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In this Introduction to Hair Dressing taster course you will complete the following.
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Introduction
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Welcome to this short Introduction to Hairdressing course. This will help to prepare you for when you start you start learning Hairdressing with Gower College Swansea!
Have a look at the four bits of interactive learning below, these will teach you the basics of working in a salon. -
Video
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Have a look at this YouTube video.
This video is of Andrew Carruthers who is the education director for Sambia and is taken from an editorial in Montreal covering some great tips, including an educational process called “conscious competence”.
Conscious competence first introduced by Martin Broadwell in the 60s where they found that every human being through a learning process had these four steps that they went through and it all started with this which is called unconscious incompetence.
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Summary
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When you start to learn you need to go through four stages of learning.
These are:- Unconscious incompetence: We don’t know what we don’t know!
- Conscious incompetence: We are aware of the things we can’t do or don’t know
- Conscious competence: You start to learning something new and start to use that new skills; but you have to concentrate really hard in that new skills and think about each step as you perform it.
- Unconscious Competence: You can now perform the skills without having to think about it; it just becomes part of you!
When you start to learn new things as a hair dresser you have to allow yourself to go through these stage of learning to learn the new skills you will be taught. Conscious competence is where lots of people stop because they stop practising! Don’t be that person! Keep practicing until you become unconsciously competent; until it feels so natural it becomes a part of who you are! -
Learning
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The following videos will demonstrate some of the first techniques you will earning on your hairdressing course:
One Length Above ShouldersLayered Bob with TexturisingShort Graduation CutConsultation Techniques for Hair ServicesBarbering - Gents facial shave We hope you’ve enjoyed looking through these videos and interactive resources. They will help prepare you for your course with Gower College Swansea, we can’t wait to meet you!
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Extended Reading
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This website holds a huge amount of information about your course and some really useful videos: Hairdressing Training from Jisc
The Hairdressing Council: The Hair Dressing Council
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