How to Make Money in the Beauty Industry by Danielle Markley, Co-Owner of Hays Academy of Hair Design I always aspired to one day be a hairdresser. As a young child I remember daydreaming about the fun and excitement that a career in the beauty industry would provide me. As I got older and closer…

Wella Educator Taylor Norrid visits Hays Academy of Hair Design Taylor Norrid is an incredibly inspirational and uplifting educator for Wella, as well as a partner at Panther City Salon in Ft. Worth, Texas. While visiting our two campuses in Hays, Kansas and Salina, Kansas she expressed how Wella is evolving to better suit the…

  Tips to Achieving Gainful Employment at Hays Academy of Hair Design Attaining a job that will provide you with fulfillment as well as allow you to experience financial stability may be the exact reason you entered cosmetology. Perhaps you want to be able to make people feel incredible inside and out. Whatever your reason…

Wella Trend Vision by Kirstin Holliday Competition, by definition, is the act or process of trying to get or win something (such as a prize or a higher level of success) that someone else is also trying to get or win. At Hays Academy we encourage students to enter many competitions while they are in…

    Helper or Enabler? by Danielle Markley, Co-Owner of Hays Academy of Hair Design We are all called to be helpers in this world. It doesn’t take much to look into our own families, neighborhoods, cities, states, countries and world to find people in need. But where is the line drawn that goes from…

5 Ways to Enhance your Online Portfolio Hays Academy of Hair Design students are able to build and maintain an online portfolio that showcases their work and credentials in a public format. This incredibly valuable tool is provided free of charge to all of our students while equipping them with the means to market themselves…

  Successful Careers Begin with Job Shadowing Hays Academy of Hair Design students seeking jobs in the Central and Western Kansas areas will often times find themselves with a list of their top ten salons in hand and may have been contacted by a few of them. This is a phenomenal situation to be in,…

Vidal Sassoon- “The man that changed the world with a pair of scissors.” by Ashley Paulson- Salina Campus Director of Education Sassoon ‘the man’ has laid out a structurally sound foundation for efficient and precise haircutting today. In the 1960s, Vidal realized that hairdressers of their time were forcing their clients to be bound to…

6AM: Wake up, shower; yes you do have to do your hair and makeup, yes you should always look 100% 8:30AM: Order color, training for 2 hours with my associate to help build her career 11:00AM: Start my clients for the day… 11:45, 12:30, 1:15 and so on, taking a different guest every 45 minutes….

“If you fail to plan, plan to fail!” We have all heard this phrase before, and many of us have probably experienced it in one way, shape or form. This doesn’t have to be the case with your career in cosmetology! Often times, students find themselves in a position to discover more about the salon(s)…