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Experience the soul of haircutting and discover the foundations for combining and creating cuts your guests will love. Our unique approach lets you improve your skills at your own pace, one haircut at a time. This 3-day class introduces a new level of artistic inspiration and explores the haircutting “hows and whys.” Come play with us and leave inspired by confidence and excited about your future!

Course Features:

• Principles of hair design
• Dynamics of shape design
• Mechanics of consistency  

Tuition Investment: $825

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In this 3-day, hands-on class, you’ll experience beautiful, fun, salon-friendly techniques as you build a strong foundation for a successful hair color business. Come play with us and discover the primary components for achieving consistently fabulous color and then adapting those foundations to keep your techniques forever fashion-forward.

Course Features:

• Expert foiling techniques to compliment any haircut
• Comprehension of placement and formulation to suit every salon guest
• Key elements to successfully blueprint and place dimensional color 

Tuition Investment: $825

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We all have heroes we want to emulate. In Contemporary Cut and Color Foundations, you’ll discover the language and discipline that the masters use every day to work miracles. Strengthen your salon work by learning the cutting theory, design principles, and skills that lead to consistency. This 3-day combination class also features color theory and techniques to enhance your cutting shapes with the ideal color, turning your cut and color into a relationship that creates an overall look of beauty. Join us for this 3-day class, and leave with the inspiration, confidence, and foundational skills to make you a more profitable professional in today’s modern salon.

Course Features:

• Principles of hair design
• Dynamics of shape design
• Expert foiling techniques to compliment any haircut
• Comprehension of placement and formulation to suit every salon guest
• Key elements to successfully blueprint and place dimensional color 

Tuition Investment: $825

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Have you ever wondered how to be truly creative and expand your perspective of haircutting? After the wealth of information in Contemporary Cutting Foundations comes an abundance of creativity. This innovative 3-day class expands the possibilities of your originality, creativity, and imagination as you learn the hair theory – not specific haircuts – to develop the skills for building a financially rewarding future.

Course Features:

• Combinations of geometric shapes and techniques
• Integration of tools and product selection
• Texturizing and personalized finishing and detailing
• Creative process of your own haircut collections 

Tuition Investment: $825

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Take your business to the next level by exploring the unlimited possibilities of dimensional color. Becoming an expert in color placement lets you create a harmonious partnership and limitless opportunities between cut and color. In this 3-day, hands-on workshop inspired by your own creativity, you’ll create a personalized color technique from conception to finished design and gain the tools to become a leader in today’s color climate. You’ll also develop quick, male-compatible techniques that entice male guests to enjoy color.

Course Features:

• Dimensional color, formulated and placed to achieve the finest results
• Great new ways to achieve organic color and adapt it to any guest
• Male-friendly techniques to expand your repertoire
• A hands-on experience of creative inspiration 

Tuition Investment: $825

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After learning the foundations of shape and color, you’re ready to step into the world of creativity and discover new cut and color ideas that combine shapes and designs into original salon-ready styles.

This 3-day class takes you to the next level of color exploration. Learn to enhance your cutting techniques with dimensional color placement, making the connections between cut and color more visual and easier to apply in the salon. Use your newfound cut and color techniques to become more creative, more alive, and a leader in your market.

Course Features:

• Creative cutting tools
• Shape and balance techniques
• Disconnection and finishing skills
• Dimensional color placement
• A new understanding of the male color market 

Tuition Investment: $825

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This in-depth course expands the foundational principles of technique, shape, and body position through evolutionary methods of cutting, freehand cutting, and razor cutting. Cement your new skills into your mind and body with 5 days of intensive, hands-on practice. Get on the right track and take your skills to a new level!

Course Features:

• Learn to visualize three-dimensionally
• Understand suitability related to bone structure
• Become efficient with the disciplines of hand and body positions
• Choose appropriate section angles for desired effects
• Understand the phases of a successful haircut
• Judge and understand distinctions in hair texture, density, and formation 

Tuition Investment: $1175

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Male grooming and barbering is an art ... and a moneymaker! Male clients can be your best and most loyal customers. Keep the art and business alive as you explore the unique knowledge and skills to fulfill men's grooming needs and keep them coming back for more.

Our 3-Day Men's Haircutting class is designed for all stylists, at all levels. Build amazing confidence and expand your skills as you uncover the crucial techniques, tools, and approaches to keep your male clientele looking their best. Learn grooming and barbering techniques that will meet their needs and build your business in this feature-rich, 3-day, in-depth haircutting course.

Course Features:

• Work with clipper-over-comb techniques
• Work with scissor-over-comb techniques
• Practice short layered variations
• Learn graduation
• Understand men's refining techniques
• Learn how to create the ultimate men's service experience
• Learn when to choose razor over scissors
• Conquer awkward hairlines and cowlicks
• Work with live models and mannequins

Tuition Investment: $825

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More intense than the basics, our 3-Day Makeup course takes you beyond the hows of makeup application and into the important whys.

Like our renowned cutting and color courses, our makeup course focuses on cause and effect. When you understand the reasons and theory behind the techniques, you'll have the skills you need to produce the look you want, every time. Increase your artistic skills and confidence as you learn to transform any face into a work of art. Increase your profit potential by strengthening your skills for making Take Home recommendations.

Discover the beautiful art of making beautiful faces!

Course Features:

• Wedding, vintage, and trend inspirations
• Neutral and dramatic eye techniques
• Brow techniques
• Creating the classic 1940s
• Lash Lab - Beyond reality
• Transforming the classic eye into a fabulous runway look
• Expanding your creative style
• Photo breakdown
• Demonstration and workshop

Tuition Investment: $650

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KETT Airbrush Level 1 is an interactive one-day workshop centered on developing your basic makeup skills and focused on the fundamentals of airbrushing. KETT Airbrush makeup classes are distinguished as the most comprehensive in the industry. You will work firsthand with professional airbrush equipment and experience a new level of creativity with an emphasis on makeup for photography, film, stage, and HD. A fusion of traditional makeup and modern airbrush techniques will deliver a precise, durable, and diverse application.

Attendees will produce various techniques based on their individual style and comfort level (basic makeup skills required). All airbrush makeup and equipment will be supplied in the workshop for hands-on application. Airbrush equipment and products will be available for purchase.

Course Features:

• Airbrush 101
• KETT equipment and product knowledge
• Improved makeup techniques
• New business opportunities
• Complexion color matching and correction
• Highlight and contour
• Airbrush application
• Airbrush maintenance

Tuition Investment: $395