Beauty skills learnt fast
From friends treating themselves to a manicure to the relatives needing a waxing appointment, for the clients turning up at Hampton Senior High School, it may as well be an established beauty salon.
Through the school’s beauty studies course, Years 11 and 12 students have been picking up skills from painting nails to waxing eyebrows then trying their techniques out on family and friends who visit the school’s specialised salon.
The school is one of many public schools that could earn $10,000 and other prizes as part of the Department of Education’s Our School’s a Star, where schools are encouraged to show off what makes them stand out.
The school’s vocational education and training co-ordinator Carol Woodacre said the clients who used Lov Beauty, which takes its name from the school motto Labor Omnia Vincit, were often surprised to find how quickly the students learnt their salon-worthy skills, which ranged from theory and hygeine to acrylic nails.
“I think people are pretty amazed that they’re doing this in such a professional manner,” she said. “The kids are bringing in their mums and grans.”
Ms Woodacre, who runs the course with Claire Donohoe, said in its two years the school had seen students leave to open their own salons or start careers in beauty
therapy.
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