Cosmetology Career GuideQuick Guide to Career Opportunities in Cosmetology Field

Cosmetology is a training of creating beauty or elegance. Cosmetologists, also called cosmeticians, they work with skin, hair and nails to help emphasize and generate this what they call attractiveness.

Cosmeticians specialize in skin, hair or nails specifically. However, you can work with all three mediums.

And also, any cosmetology license has the potential of landing you a job as a product representative, general consultant or cosmetology instructor.

Skin• Makeup Artist. Makeup artists can work at salons, spas or department

stores doing makeovers. They can also transition into film and theater to do costuming makeup.

• Esthetician. An esthetician, also known as a non-medical skin care specialist, is someone who works with skin and everything related to it. It may require special training, but the doors are open for esthetician jobs in laser hair removal, electrolysis, facials, massage and rejuvenating treatments.

• Skin Care Specialist/Hair Removal Specialist. A skin care specialist performs facials, massages and other rejuvenating treatments only.

• Hair Stylist. Becoming a hair stylist is usually the main goal for most cosmetology students. Being a hair stylist means more than just knowing how to shampoo and cut hair, though. Hair stylists need to be well trained in curling, relaxing, coloring, cutting, shaping, cleaning, repairing and styling hair for both men and women.

• Barber. Barbering is the only area of cosmetology that focuses exclusively on men. A barber needs to know much more than just how to cut men's hair. He needs to know how to remove, trim and shape facial hair.

Hair

• Manicurist. If you want to work with nails, you need to go to a cosmetology school to become a manicurist. A manicurist is the least versatile career in cosmetology, but this service is still in demand. Manicurists must know how to clean, shape and finish real nails. They must also know how to prepare, apply, clean, shape and finish fake nails.

Nails