Master the foil.
A free class for cosmetology students. Two hours on a Sunday morning, inside a working Austin salon, taught by the educators who run our floor.
Free, and it stays free. Snacks, drinks and door prizes are on us. We keep the group small, so spaces are limited.
Erica teaches this one.
Every Sunday Funday is taught by an educator who uses the technique on real clients the rest of the week.
Erica
Color Educator, Team Lead
Our lead color educator, and the colorist the rest of the team asks first. Baldwin Beauty School, and at Maximum FX since 2005. Redheads and natural looking results.
Four topics. One morning.
Foils, start to finish, on a demo you can stand right over. Why a foil bleeds and how to stop it, how to get every foil to the root, and where each one goes and why.
How to avoid bleeders
Why lightener creeps out of a foil, and the folding, sealing and saturation habits that keep it where you put it.
How to get your foils to the root
Foils that sit tight to the scalp so the lift starts where the hair does, with no gap and no band on day one.
Placement, where it goes and why
Where each foil goes around the part, the hairline and the crown, and the reason behind every one of them.
Foiling techniques
The techniques behind the highlights clients ask for by name, and when to reach for each one.
Other Sundays cover Men's Barbering, Hair Extensions and Precision Bob Masterclass. Get on the list once and you hear about all of them.
You will leave knowing
- Folding and sealing a foil so the lightener stays put
- Getting every foil to the root, with no gap and no band
- Where each foil goes, and the reason behind it
- The foiling techniques behind the highlights clients ask for
- A live demo, close enough to see every fold
Doors open at ten. Out by twelve.
Two hours, and you are never more than a few feet from the work.
Doors, coffee and snacks
Come in, grab a seat at the styling table, meet whoever is already there.
The class
One technique, taught slowly, with a live demo you are close enough to see properly.
Ask us anything
Time with the educators for the questions school does not get to, including the awkward ones about starting out.
Tour and door prizes
Walk the floor, see the color bar and the back of house, leave with something.
Come spend a Sunday on our floor.
Sunday Funday is our open class for students who are still in school. You get one technique taught properly, start to finish, by educators who use it on real clients every week. You get to stand over the demo instead of watching it on a screen.
The other half is the room itself. A salon on a Sunday morning before it opens, and the things you only pick up by standing in one. What a real floor looks like. How a team actually talks to each other. What the first year behind the chair is like from people who remember it.
You just show up. Snacks, drinks and door prizes are on us.
Students who came to the last one
“It was very informative and a friendly environment. I felt like I could jump in and ask questions.”
“There was so much detailed information I will be using.”
“The lessons were in depth and easy to understand.”
Everything else, answered.
- Who it is for
- Students currently enrolled in a cosmetology or barbering program anywhere in the Austin area. Bring a classmate.
- What it costs
- Nothing. The class is free, and so are the snacks, the drinks and the door prizes.
- What to bring
- Yourself and something to take notes on. That is it. We have everything else.
- Parking
- Free, in the garage at 1414 S. Lamar. Come to the South Lamar location, not Circle C.
- How many spots
- We keep the group small on purpose so everyone can see the demo. Spaces are limited.
- Questions
- Text us at (512) 714 2303. We answer faster than email and we do not mind the small questions.
No pressure. But the door is open.
Plenty of students come to one class, learn a technique and we never see them again, and that is a completely fine outcome. Some come back. A few end up working here. If you are graduating soon and you want to know what it is like to build a career in this room, say so on the day and we will make time for it.
