Blog 14: Independent Component 1

1. Literal

• I, Ana Barrera, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
• Mentor- Adriana Solis (909)643- 3791
• I completed 30 extra hours. During my time I mostly observed my mentor but I also did things like cut hair and design nails.I designed the nails before I decided to just focus my project on hair styling.

2. INTERPRETIVE

•  The days I go to my mentor ship, I usually do 4-7 hours. On some Saturdays I arrive when they open, so I get to do the whole 8 hours. This demonstrates the 30 hours because I decide to go in on extra days and stay longer hours with my mentor. Some days I assist her on dying hair and when doing a complicated job, it can take up to 1 1/2 to 2 hours at most. Before I just focused on hair styling, I have had to design some nails, and when doing the ones which require acrylic I took a long time because my mentor has to explain how to apply it properly.  Here are some pictures:

 

3. APPLIED

• The way this component helped me understand the foundation of my topic was showing me first had how to do certain jobs on people. It also showed me how to act towards clients and, although I'm not sure if this has to do with the foundation, how to build a steady flow of customers and how to run a salon. For example, my mentor once had a very picky client come in. She wanted a very specific type of hair color. She wanted it to start dark at the top and get lighter as it reached the tips. This client was new so my mentor listened to everything she wanted. Throughout the process, the lady was very talkative. My mentor was very courteous while the lady was talking, but I also noticed she didn't exactly get involved in the lady's issues and personal life. The lady actually told my mentor she would go back to in order for her to retouch the hair.

Blog 13: Rough Draft of 30 minute presentation

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0YI-cY7nd1GNmtyNzlrSE1Zakk/edit

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. How can a stylist best satisfy their clientele?
2. How would time be a factor in satisfying a client?
3. Does a stylist need to know their clientele well?
4. What have you found that satisfies a client?
5. In what ways does a client show if they like or dislike one's work?
6. What can a stylist do if the client isn't satisfied with the job?
7. In your opinion, what makes a client happier, the quality of the work or the amount of time put in it?Why?
8. What methods do you use to keep your customers coming back?
9. Explain why it' important to have  good relationship with a customer?
10. If you were the client, what would make you want to go back to a certain salon?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 hours Check

1.   Where are you doing your mentorship?

•  I am doing my mentorship hours at my mentor's salon in Rialto. It's a little far but I like the way she works.

2.   Who is your contact?

• My contact is Adriana Solis.

3.   How many total hours have you done?   

• I have recently done 13 hours but I have 25 hours total.

4.   Summarize the 10 hours of service you did.

• I have mostly been observing my mentor and her workers cut and dye the hair of their clients. I have also gotten lessons on how to cut men's hair and how to use the razor, but I didn't actually handle it. I also cut my first "client's" hair. I was my sister who wanted the hair cut, but my mentor let me do it. Of course, she supervised and corrected me at times but I was able to cut her hair on my own.

Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component? 

For my independent component, I am currently observing my mentor. She lets me practice with some of her tools, but she doesn't actually let me use them on clients for some obvious reasons.

(2) What is a recent piece of research (article, interview, or audio-visual) that have you reviewed you would say was significant in helping you understand where to go next in your senior project?  The piece of research should be something you reviewed in November.  Please explain what you learned and where are you going next because of this piece of research.

A recent piece of research that I have reviewed that is helping me understand where to go next is a part in a book called Beauty: The New Basics. Through this book I have learned what hair is and what it's made of. I have also learned different ways one can take care of it. Where this piece of research is taking me is figuring out how the hair picks up color. It is also making me want to learn how the hair takes form and stays the way it is shaped when styling it.

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  For example, a photo of something you working on for your independent component or your notes from the video you watched. 

I currently don't have pictures from my independent component but I will make sure I take some next time I go. I do have a few notes from my piece of research I spoke about on question #3. These are the same notes from my previous posts:

• Hair is made up of keratin, the same thing that makes up nails and teeth.
• Everyone is born with all the hair follicles we will ever have.
• The average number of hairs on a person's head are 140,000 for blonds, 100,000 for brunettes, and 90,000 for red heads.
• A person loses 75- 100 hairs per day
• A hair shaft has three layers which are the cuticle, the cortex, and the medulla.
• The only living part of the hair is the root.
• Each hair strand is made up of 97% protein and 3% moisture.

This is also a picture from the book, but I found a copy of it online:

Senior Project Research

I have been doing some research on what exactly hair is and what a person can do to take care of it. I found some of this information on a book titled  Beauty: The New Basics by Rona Berg. I believe that an important part of being a hairstylist and doing the job correctly is understanding what exactly hair is. While trying to find research I came to the conclusion that if a cosmetologist doesn't know the basics of hair, then how do they expect to do the job right. The research that I did had some really interesting facts that I did not know before. Some of the ones that I found more interesting are:

• Hair is made up of keratin, the same thing that makes up nails and teeth.
• Everyone is born with all the hair follicles we will ever have.
• The average number of hairs on a person's head are 140,000 for blonds, 100,000 for brunettes, and 90,000 for red heads.
• A person loses 75- 100 hairs per day (This one sounds a little frightening)
• A hair shaft has three layers which are the cuticle, the cortex, and the medulla.
• The only living part of the hair is the root.
• Each hair strand is made up of 97% protein and 3% moisture.
• Shampooing with champagne brings out blond highlights, conditioning with beer adds shine, and rinsing with seltzer gets rid of product build up. (This one was the most surprising fact of all, I was shocked when I first read it)

I also learned a new word, sebum. Sebum is the natural oil that forms on our scalp and hair. I had always thought that hair was just dead skin cells, but this research really helped me understand the basics of the thing that's growing on our heads. Who knew hair could actually be this complicated?

Blog 5b: Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your topic?

My topic is Cosmetology: Hair Styling.

2. What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem? (Expert citation must be MLA format.)

When a client walks into a salon, they don't know what type of hair style they want because they don't know what goes with their face shape and face length/width. This causes them to stay in the salon for a longer period of time.
Expert Quote: "In choosing the right hairstyles for your face shape, it's important to know your face shape in the first place.....consult your professional barber or stylist who can create a style that enhances your best features and balance your shape." -David Alexander
Citation: Alexander, Dave. "How to Choose the Right Hairstyle for Your Face Shape." About.com Men's Hair. About.com, 2012. Web. 18 Sept. 2012.

3. What is your hypothesis? (Must be in If-Then form.)

If a stylist follows the customer service procedures of Diana's Beauty Salon, then a client will give the salon a high rating.

4. Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment.  Include the tools you plan on using.

Tools:

• Survey
• Graphs/Charts

The way I was thinking of performing the experiment was surveying clients at my mentor's salon. Some of the questions I would have would be "Have you ever given feed back to a stylist?" and "What type of feed back have you given them: positive, negative or both?". Based off of their second answer, I would ask them other questions that relate to the positive or negative answer. I would have different graphs or charts to compare the answers to each other and see if the stylist has or has not improved their techniques and listened to the client.

5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:
Behavioral/Social Science