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I love to come because it is like "Cheers" where everybody knows your
name!
I feel welcome and a valued customer.
I have no desire to go anywhere else for any of my hair/tanning needs!
Terri Brandon (School Client / Tanning Salon Client)
Top 5 Reasons I Like
Coming to MetrOasis®
5. Prices can't be
beat. George Washington shades his eyes from the light when I open my
wallet.
4. You can go to lunch with your favorite hairdresser and she even does
your hair while you're eating.
3. Had a bad day?
Just go over to the cafe and read the menu, it's the only menu I've
ever read that makes me wish I had written it.
2. They have a man student and he's not even gay.
1. I like to set the example for scores of Anchorage women in my age
range.
It doesn't cost a lot to lose the waist length, parted down the middle,
gray frizzy look.
Gwen Truax (School
Client)
Why do I love MetrOasis®?
The answer is Sigel and Sue, of course, but why I love them is a whole
other essay... or book.
I do have many more
answers to this question though. For instance, I love MetrOasis®
for the integrity, quality,
and fun I find there.
Sigel and Sue take the business of hair care seriously:
they have spent years learning the chemistry and care of hair, and the
products and techniques that make it beautiful.
There's no question in my mind that they are the most knowledgeable
hair care folks in town.
I trust them, and that
is worth a lot to me.
They love their work,
and understand the science and art that it is.
They appreciate their
customers and want to make sure that their students,
the next generation of hair professionals, understand how important
product knowledge,
hair knowledge, and professional customer service is.
While I, as a late
afternoon client, do not have a lot of experience with the training
aspect of MetrOasis®,
I can only hope that the students learn a tenth of what Sigel and Sue
have to teach them,
and believe that with them as teachers, the students can't go wrong!
MetrOasis® is almost a state of mind, a way of being, as much as a
hair salon/school.
The best way that I can explain that, besides about gushing about my
trust of their superior knowledge and service,
is to describe my personal favorite thing about MetrOasis®
(besides Sigel and Sue!): it's arty, fun, purely natural originality.
At a time when our culture seems to have been reduced to a sadly
uniform state of Wallmart, Mc Donald's,
clothing and cars festooned with the names of giant conglomerates, and
an endless, ever spreading,
unthinking embrace of whatever our neighbors are doing, no matter how
boring or even destructive,
MetrOasis® just shines with the originality and free-thinking of
which humans are actually capable.
Sigel and Sue have built MetrOasis® from the ground up relying on
their own good sense, hard study,
and artistry to build a completely unique business - a way of being!
They have designed and built the physical structure of the salon with
their own ideas and hard work,
and the salon is everywhere infused with Sue's gorgeous and delightful
artwork. Yes, art - that is the answer: MetrOasis®
is a work of art. It truly is an oasis, and I thank Sigel, Sue, and of
course Aly for it.
Absolutely nothing can
ever come close to replacing it, and Anchorage is so lucky to have them.
Maureen de Zeeuw
(Salon Client)
I've been
coming to MetrOasis® for years and
it seems just as I think things couldn't get any better,
the atmosphere more hip,
the service more satisfactory,
things always seem to surprise me and do get better!
Beyond my belief.
Thank you for your hard work and great service.
Tess Weaver (School Client)
I love MetrOasis®!
Sue and Sigel home school their daughter with great success!
The same success shows in their students.
The quality and service and student knowledge is always the same!
Excellent every time.
Thank you for your dedication to producing not only beautiful people on
the outside but their inside as well.
Cheri Harris (School
Client)
I love MetrOasis® because it's
fun!
Sue, Sigel, and Aly are friendly and welcoming.
The students have been nothing but great.
Good people, good food, good service and products- who could possibly
go anywhere else!
I love you guys!
Bobbie Gossweiler (School Client)
I started coming to
Sue and Sigel's location several years ago.
My daughter Bethany is really the one who got me started coming here,
mostly to tan.
Honestly, I came to your salon because you are very reasonably priced
and your salon is about a half mile from my home. BUT, the reason I've
continued to patronize your business has nothing to do with cost or
locale. It has everything
to do with the owners of the salon.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate Sue's gentle nature, easy going
attitude, ever present smile and friendly disposition. I would not want
to show up at a location where I did not feel welcome and appreciated.
Even though Sigel not as cute as Sue, he's also a very nice, Christian man
and I am happy to give my business to these great folks. That's why I
continue to tan at their location. It's all about the people there.
Cindy Centofanti (Tanning Salon Client)
We love the
atmosphere, the FACIALS!!! , the haircuts,
and the great way Sue and Sigel treat others AND each other.
And Dylan loves the Cajun food. One of my favorite places.
Thanks guys.
Diana Sanders (School Client, Cafe Customer, Tanning Salon Client)
A - Z
Amazing prices.
Beautiful artwork.
Calm atmosphere (usually).
Daughter Aly.
Eating next door.
Fun operators.
Great management.
Haircuts: hip.
Ideals and standards.
Just plain relaxing.
"Klean".
Luxurious product.
Manicures: ummm.
Natural colors.
Olfactory stimulation.
Perms: yes!
Qualified students.
Ready, able and willing.
Sue and Sigel.
Totally friendly.
United staff.
Very helpful.
Work ethics.
Xcellent service.
Y doesn't everyone come?
(It would be a Zoo.)
Rosemarie Spencer (School Client)
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State
of Alaska Requirements
for Licensure in the
Hairdressing Field
The
MetrOasis® Advanced Training Center follows the
State of Alaska's minimum requirements for completion of the
Hairdressing and Instructor Programs. The State's three
requirements are as follows:
1.
Students must be in attendance at a State approved Hairdressing School
for a minimum of 1650 hours for the Hairdressing Program, and a minimum
of 600 hours for the Instructor Program.
2. Students must fulfill the practical operations and
hour requirements established by the Board of Barbers and Hairdressers
for the course chosen, either Hairdresser or Instructor.
3. Students must successfully complete the State
Board Examination with a minimum grade of 75% in each facet of the
examination, relative to the course taken. Upon successful
completion of the examination and payment of all fees required by the
State of Alaska, the State of Alaska will issue the appropriate license
for the course taken.
This section will explain a bit about what
we teach.
Color Techniques
Color
has
become one of the most
important
services in the modern
salon. It's amazing that most schools don't
even
teach their students to formulate color.
I guess it takes too long in
those
"factory" type schools.
We use Allgretti and Italy color lines.
Why
do we
use Italian colors?
Because
they have the smallest
pigments,
which means they require less ammonia.
They
are
also the most vibrant, the
shiniest,
and the richest colors.
Isn't
that
what color is about anyway?
Sure
they
cost a little bit more.
It's
just
what you do when you're
striving to
be the best!
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Color
Certification
These are a few of the many
different color techniques
we teach at the MetrOasis® Advanced Training Center. Each student
receives
their color certification in our basic Hairdressing course. This means
you won't have to get this advanced training after you graduate. I find
it truly sad when I see graduates show up at the state board exam and
copy
our student's foil highlight techniques and try and fake their test. It
is obvious from the bewildered look on their face that they have never
actually done a foil highlight. Some look as if they have never even
seen
one!
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Multi-Color
Foil Highlights
We do foil highlight at
MetrOasis®.
Some schools teach out of the book how to do foil highlights, or they
may
do one in front of the class 1 or 2 times during theory hour.
MetrOasis®
students learn how to formulate their own colors, and do numerous foil
highlights on their own, during their training. This is training for a
job in a salon isn't it? Some salons do multi-color highlights and call
them "minking", or "marbleizing", or "dimensional highlights". What
ever?
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High-Lift
Color
We teach our students how to
do
successful high-lift
color services, how to analyze their client's hair, and which colors
will
work with which type of hair type. We also teach our students how to
avoid
the "hot zone", and how to tell when a color manufacturer's color chart
is wrong.
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Deposit-Only
Color
We teach our students how to
achieve deposit only
status using regular colors, and how to adjust each color for the
porosity
of their client's hair. We also teach how to avoid "brown out".
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Color
Glazes
We teach our students how to
create color conditioners
and color glazes using their regular color. This skill is very
important
if you wish to pursue a career doing platform work.
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Semi-Permanent
Color
We use several types of
semi permanent hair color,
and we also teach our students how to make their regular color line
semi-permanent.
We also teach our students when to use semi permanent color for a more
permanent effect on bleached hair.
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Demi-Permanent
Color
We offer semi and demi
permanent
color to our
clients with gray hair, and we teach our students how to formulate
demi-permanent
colors for their clients whose hair color fades quickly.
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Multi-Porosity
Color
We
teach our students how to make
their own chemical
additives for both perms and colors. We also teach our students how to
adjust their color techniques for multi-porosity hair, and when to use
their custom mixed additives.
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Skip-Wave
/ Foil Highlight
We teach our students how to
do a
perm and a foil
highlight during the same service. This techniques isn't even well
known
to stylists that have been doing hair for several years.
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Foil
Highlight / Free-Form
Haircut
We teach our students how to
do a
haircut during
a foil highlight. This is a great time saver, and also a great way to
get
the interesting texture cuts you see in all the hair magazines.
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Still wondering why we're best beauty
school in Alaska?
Our curriculum, our training,
and our
passion
make the
MetrOasis® Advanced Training
Center
the
best school in Alaska.
Perm Techniques
Would
it
be fun to go to a restaurant
and be offered
a choice of
roast beef on white bread or a roast beef
on
a hoagie?
That's
a
lot like going into a lot of
salons.
They offer you a "basic" wrap on regular
perm
rods,
or a "spiral wrap" on regular rods.
Even
many
"designer" salons only offer 1
other
choice of a spiral perm on "hoop" rods.
Do you really want to
work
every day in
a salon
and offer a
"regular" or a "spiral" as
your
only
options
to your clients?
You're clients won't!
How do perms work anyway?
Inside your hair are
protein
structures
called alpha helix coils which are made up of two strings of amino
acids.
There are 23 different amino acids in each half of a coil.
There is one
Methionine and one Cysteine molecule on each of these halves,
that are
connected
to each other by way of a disulfide bond.
This means that for every set
of two polypeptide chains,
of 23 amino acids each, there are only two
disulfide
bonds available to create the pattern of curl within your hair.
The
ability
of these bonds to break and then reconnect are affected by reducing
agents.
Reducing agents are anything that can reduce the chemical structure of
your hair.
These agents can be sunlight, cheap over the counter
products,
home color, harsh treatment,
over stretching, etc..
Ever wonder why
your
perms turn out sometimes and not sometimes?
It could be the
products
you're
using!
The perm solution breaks down the disulfide bond between the
methionine
and cysteine amino acids
and allows the microfibrils to shift into the
pattern that you've created by wrapping the hair with perm rods.
As the
bonds break, the hair relaxes into the new pattern.
Perm solution
contains
ammonia and thioglycholic acid.
The ammonia helps to open the cuticle
which
allows the perm solution to penetrate.
The thio breaks down the protein
structure and allows the shift to occur.
(Originally the acid used to
accomplish
this action was the digestive acid from a goat's stomach.)
Up to 40% of
the bonds break down and reconnect in the new pattern.
After enough of
the bonds have been broken down, a test curl is taken to check the
progress
of the thio.
Then the hair is blotted.
This first blotting is very
important,
even though this step is missed by most hairdressers.
During the
perming
process the hair swells greatly, but slowly.
When the hair is
rinsed,
the
hair swells again, but this time it swells so quickly that sometimes it
splits.
This causes a lot of damage.
This damage is called osmotic
pressure
damage.
If you blot the hair before you rinse, you reduce the diameter
of the hair.
Then when you rinse, the hair swells again, but only to
the
degree it was previously swollen by the thio.
This primary blotting
also
removes the ammonia while other perming chemicals are still in
suspension.
If you just rinse the hair without this first blotting, the ammonia is
removed almost immediately,
but the other perming chemicals are often
times
left in the hair leaving a terrible smell every time the hair gets wet.
For very stubborn hair,
or hair that seems to absorb perm odors, a hot,
wrung out wet towel can be used to blot.
After blotting, the hair
should
be rinsed with very low pressure, very warm water.
The hair is in a
delicate
state at this point, and full pressure must be avoided.
The hair should
be rinsed for a full 5 minutes.
This is the most common problem with
perms,
that is, the blotting, rinsing, and blotting,
portion of the perm
service.
About 65% of perm
failures is due to poor blotting and rinsing.
After
rinsing,
the hair should be carefully blotted again.
If concave rods are used,
the
head should be rotated in several directions to allow the perm rods to
drain properly.
If Efalock or Bender rods are used this is not
necessary
because there are no holes in the rods to allow water to collect inside
the rods.
After blotting the hair, the newly permed hair should
be
exposed to gentle cool air, like a hood dryer.
This step is called cold
condensing.
Do not use heat.
This step allows the bonds to be in a
closer
proximity, and more bonds will reconnect.
After a minimum of 10
minutes
of cold condensing, the neutralizer should be applied.
Neutralizer is
usually
about 4% hydrogen peroxide.
Be careful not to spray the neutralizer
with
too much force as it may bounce off the rods without penetrating well,
and you will get little bleached out spots on your clothes.
Finally,
after
five minutes, the rods can be gently removed.
The new curls should be
gently
freed from the perm rods without any pulling.
The hair can be rinsed
before
removing the rods, or after.
If the wrap is
complicated,
I like to
rinse
after taking out the rods because I get to look for rods missed by the
neutralizer.
The new curl pattern is
being held in place by the
hydrogen
bonds in the hair, until the disulfide bonds completely reharden, which
takes about 48 hours.
This is why you should not wash
(or wet) your hair
for
48 hours.
Many people don't
follow this advice, and they return and
complain
that their curl is weak.
Yes it is.
When you get your hair wet,
the
hydrogen
bonds are broken down, and you weaken your perm at it's most critical
state.
After 48 hours, you should recondition your hair with a reconstructor.
Your hair is very easy to damage during this 48 hour period.
Some
clients
stretch their hair, use curling irons, clips, scrunchies, rubber bands,
etc.
Some clients will even argue with you and demand that your iron
their
hair.
They will of course insist that you guarantee their perm, even
though
they refuse to follow your directions.
A simple rule I follow is that
if
you follow my directions, I will guarantee my work.
If you insist on
following
your directions, then you can guarantee the work.
And that, is the
short
version, of why perms curl your hair.
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Perm
Wraps
These
are a few of the many
different advanced
perming techniques we teach at the MetrOasis® Advanced Training
Center.
Each student receives their perm certification in our basic
Hairdressing
course. This means you won't have to get this advanced training after
you
graduate.
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Contour
We
will teach you how to do very
curly perms for
older clients that want as much curl as possible and don't want their
perm
to look like it's two months when they leave the salon.
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Condensed
We will teach you how to
perm hair
for clients
that have enough natural body, and are only looking for end curl. Your
client will be able to perm their, get it cut three times, and the perm
is gone.
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