This is where it all begins! As you embark on a career in permanent cosmetics, the knowledge
base that you obtain will be either your greatest asset or your biggest disadvantage in the success
that you achieve as a certified permanent cosmetics specialist (SPCS). This beginner's curriculum
was designed with you in mind. Its greatest emphasis is in teaching you quality, skilled procedures
and the background knowledge to know when you are doing something as well as how. In the
beginner's class you will be taught:
Discuss non-medication options to make your clients comfortable
Charting - One of the most time-consuming, tedious and
repetitive of chores, unfortunately it is probably your most
valuable asset in permanent cosmetics, besides for a good application
technique! The medical industry loves a good chart! So with
coming from the medical background, designing a charting system
was right up our alley! We designed our own unique charting
system which is based on the medical charting by exception.
It is quick, easy and will cover you legally if the unfortunate
should happen.
Consultation - How do you conduct a consult with a potential
client? What are the most frequently asked questions and answers?
What to the clients want to know? What do I tell them and what
don't I have to tell them? How do I finish a consultation and
successfully obtain an informed client? This class takes all
those worries away. You will do live, supervised consultations
one-on-one, and learn all our time tested tricks of the trade!
Consent Form - What do I have a client sign? What are
the legal considerations of a consent form? What does it bind
me to or from? What do I want a client to be informed of before
a permanent cosmetic application? What do I tell them to do
when they get home? This class covers all those questions as
well as discussing the other forms necessary to be reassured
that you have an informed client. These are the patch test,
pre and post procedure client forms.
What exactly am I going to need? How do I set up the area I
am going to do permanent cosmetics? This segment discusses everything
from the main equipment, to the smallest afterthought of equipment.
Supplies you need now to start and those you can wait until
a later date to obtain.
Now that you have a great background and knowledge base in permanent
cosmetics, it is time to put all you learned to use. Our classes
provide live models that you will be doing permanent cosmetic
applications of eyeliner, eyebrows, lipliner/full lip color
on, in an one-on-one supervised situation. We are beside you
during each procedure from start to finish, and celebrate with
you when suddenly you exclaim, "I've got it!" Many students
also want to have permanent cosmetics applied to themselves
(This is not a requirement for class-only an additional option).
Most of your clients will want to see the permanent cosmetics
in person, and what better advertising do you have than your
own face!
You now know how to do permanent cosmetics. How do you promote
it? How do people find out about you? What kind of advertising
work and what doesn't? What should your business cards and brochures
say? Where can you work, or should you work? Naming you business,
finding a logo, and the advertising jungle are all discussed
in this very informative class. Find out where we made our mistakes
and triumphs!
It is your responsibility before the start of the class to become
aware of the city and state requirements, that may be necessary
in some states, in order for you to do business as a permanent
cosmetic technician. But this class focuses on the global emphasis
that permanent cosmetics has had in regards to insurance and
laws in the United States and also Internationally. What is
the history behind permanent cosmetics and what direction are
laws going to at city and state levels? This class also focuses
on the different malpractice and insurance options that are
available to you once you have become a certified permanent
cosmetics specialist (CPCS).
Properly trained and equipped with a proper background in permanent
cosmetics, you will not be doing many corrections - but there
are some correction techniques that will be helpful in your
"perfecting sessions" and with previous permanent cosmetic clients.
This is a basic class on corrections with emphasis on ways to
change colors and to correct mild imperfections. The advanced
class has a very in-depth, thorough corrections class, which
covers all forms of corrections.
Where do you obtain all you supplies for permanent cosmetics?
There are many different companies that produce equipment and
supplies used in the permanent cosmetics industry. A number
of permanent cosmetic schools have put together their own supply
companies. After being taken monetarily advantage of during
the early days of our practice, we decided to go to the source
of supplies. This class discusses all the supply companies that
we do business with, at the same prices that we obtain them.
We make you expert "hunters" in the supply "fields" so you can
make informed decisions on what to trial, purchase and to avoid.
As you have been investigating into permanent cosmetics, you
have encountered a number of different names. You have received
solicitations from specialists with credentials that are miles
long, "experts of the experts", and an assortment of different
self-promotion, of which this one is included. Just who is everyone
and where did they get their start in permanent cosmetics history?
This class discusses the path that the permanent cosmetics industry
has taken and the different roads it has traveled along with
the people who have promoted it, supplies it, trained it and
are just plain good specialists in it.
