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Learning how to become a barber comes down to four things: training hours at a licensed school, a written exam, a practical exam, and a state license application. No degree is required. Illinois and Indiana both require 1,500 hours, which is at the higher end nationally, where programs run from roughly 900 to 1,800 hou ... Read Full Article

Search esthetician jobs Chicago and the postings that come back are not one job with one description. There are four or five different jobs sharing a license. A treatment room in a physician-supervised med spa in Oak Lawn, a hotel spa on Michigan Avenue, a franchise brow studio in a Burbank strip center, and a chair yo ... Read Full Article

About 14,500 skincare specialist positions open each year, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics attributes most of them to replacing people who leave the field rather than to new roles being created. That is good news for a new graduate: the jobs are there and they turn over steadily. Your license qualifies you for them. ... Read Full Article

Esthetician license renewal works differently in every state, and the differences are larger than most licensees expect. Illinois runs a two-year cycle with 10 continuing education hours. Indiana requires no continuing education at all. Wisconsin dropped its requirement in 2017. What all three share is a fixed statewid ... Read Full Article

Beauty school is the umbrella term for licensed beauty education, covering specialized programs like cosmetology, esthetics, barber, and nail technology. Each program combines classroom instruction with hands-on training and leads to a state licensing exam. A cosmetology school in particular trains across hair, skin, a ... Read Full Article

For high school graduates weighing their next step, trade school vs college is one of the biggest financial and time decisions they will make. Cosmetology school costs a fraction of a 4-year college degree and takes about a quarter of the time, while still leading to a licensed, in-demand career. Here is a side-by-side ... Read Full Article