Employed, but "not" educated🤦

My Lash technician life started quite by accident.

After a long maternity leave, I decided to requalify, which will allow me to work "for myself".

Since I don't even know what I want, my sister is trying to convince me to become a makeup artist.

I'm enrolling in the training "with registration in the work book" BUT they offer a PROMO PACKAGE of services. For a certain price, they will include my eyelashes and nails in the training.

Come on! When it's the ball... I'm not sure if I want to be a makeup artist anyway, I might be insecure about this too.

At the very beginning of the education – I know nothing about eyelashes. I've never had eyelash extensions, I don't know what they look like, I don't know what the treatment is like, I don't know anything.

Education. At the very beginning, in five minutes, we go through the theory of classic and monovolume eyelashes through the script. Glue, it can lead to allergies, thickness, 2d, 3d, a bunch of D's and let's start with the classics on the doll.

Doll. I call her Đurđa and start poking around. The educator looks around a bit, walks a bit, and I silently explain to my Đurđa how lucky she is that she doesn't have eyes. Đurđa survives his first training session with me and we start making fans and gluing them to cotton wool. They show me two techniques, neither of which works for me. Just when I was thinking about throwing away the tweezers and going home, the educator points out that I'm holding the tweezers wrong and finally, I get a fan! Great. Đurđa survives and that!

You're working on the model tomorrow!
I ask her if she is sure about that???
I'm sure I google "What's the worst thing a bad lash technician can do to you during an application".

The model comes in the morning, they explain to me how to apply the tape and I succeed the first time. Great. I'm getting eyelashes done and I miss Đurđa. Girl, imagine, she blinks and breathes. 🙄
All of this makes things difficult for me and I wonder what the hell I needed it for. The educator occasionally looks at me and after an hour and a half concludes – Great! You did it very neatly!
I look at my model with half my eyelashes in confusion and they explain to me where to pick up my diploma. Aaaaah good. 🤷🏽‍♀️ It's a beautiful diploma. Very Instagrammable. I'll post it right away.

Immediately after the graduation announcement, I inform my friends that it is their sacred duty to let me practice on them. One of them got away. She moved away. BUT!!! She knows the "Girl from Kallos". She went to her for eyelashes. She does great work. Ooooh.

We come to the first independent installation. I'm trying to set up a tape. It doesn't work. It's not working now, but it was going great. Then once. I google what it is, watch tutorials, hear about "The Girl from Kallos".

I struggle with glue, with tweezers, tape, humidity, nerves.

Aaaaa "The Girl from Kallos"... The Girl from Kallos is already getting on my nerves even though I haven't met her, but I'm still looking for her on IG and stalking her profile.

OK. The woman is not normal, the woman is not from this planet. Not that my eyelashes don't look similar, my educators' eyelashes don't look even remotely similar.

Shortly after that, my friend sent me a link to the Kallos support group.

I'm joining the group. Since I'm on the road and have a long drive ahead of me, I'm reading it FROM START TO START.

First. They all do unrealistically beautiful eyelashes. Second, they mention some terms I've never heard of. And I'm educated!!

I read the group a bit, google a bit what those terms mean to them, look at the pictures a bit. I'm deleting those pictures of my diplomas from Instagram. Angrily, I think about XY other things I could have spent the money on, which, now quite obviously, I wasted on a bad education. Very bad education. I learned a lot more in a couple of hours of scrolling through the group than in education.

Oh yes. If you've ever wondered how the minivan model went, it didn't, it didn't exist. Đurđa was enough.

LASH LIFT
As I write this, I'm waiting for the delivery guy with my first lash lift set. Mom wants a lash lift. Well, her daughter has that diploma too!

I did a lash lift on the model according to the instructor's instructions. I look at the eyelashes and ask, "S silicone?" Nooooo, put an M on her.

Cream one second, third and diploma.

I hope the silicone M fits my mom as well. I have no idea which curler SHE needs, I can definitely do a lash lift on my model. It doesn't matter, she's my mom, she won't be angry for long. 🤷🏽‍♀️

In the meantime, solely thanks to my persistence and stubbornness and the Kallos group, I have mastered the classics. I started my career in the group with the question "How and with what can I remove the palette from my own hair??"

In the meantime, I've asked and read so many things and mentioned Kallos so many times that my family asked me if Kallos was a sect??😂

As a result, I decided to repeat both the classic and the minivan in Kallos as soon as my obligations allow. I want to be part of the cult too. 🤷🏽‍♀️😂

And a lash lift? We'll see how mom goes.


Therefore. At the end of the PROMO PACKAGE education, I knew almost nothing. Avoid such educations in a broad arc, ask carefully about educations and educators.

Also avoid girls who have passed such education. Ask my mom tomorrow! 😂

Nina M.