Trying to stretch out of my confort zone!

This week was a difficult oe for me at beauty school.  Yes, I want to be there and even a bad day/week/month at beauty school is better than 40 hours at a dead end job.

I can roll a perm on my maniquin eadily and not be stressed out.  I have "rolled" many perms with larger rods, making it easier and timed myself adn I can do it pretty easily.  Until I tried it on a human. 

I got my first "human" perm this week and she had me cut her hair before the perm.  Not a good idea.  I ended up cutting off 2" and with her fine gray hair, it made it difficult to roll.  I'd get the papers on the ahir, get the roller in place, and start to roll.  Pop!  the hair would just pop out of the roller.  Ugh!  It took me several hours to roll her after cutting her and then I had to do a roller set.  That was easy in the grand scheme of things.  After 4 hours of cutiing, rolling and perming, then setting it in rollers and combing her out, I was finally done. 

The enxt day they gave me another perm first thing.  I about panicked!  UGH!  I couldn't believe it.  I learned not to cut until after the perm, and nocked my time down to 2 hours.  Finally!  Then came the clipper cuts!

Now, men's clipper cuts are the exact opposite mindset and technically, too.  You go the opposite way the hair grows.  Most guys want most of their harir cut off.  Then the around the ears part freaks me out.  I pray I don't cut them.  I had two of those this week too.  I am trying to keep my positive outlook up and it's really hard.

I went to school thinking I'd get really good at cuts and color and the rest would take care of itself.  Well, I have to pay attention to the things I don't like and do them anyway.  I'm not like a docotr who only does the heart and doesn't have to worry about ears, nose and throat.  I have to be a general practitioner and know a little bit about everything. 

Getting out of my comfort zone is harder than I thought.