Sample Resume for Hairstylist

Provide beauty services, such as shampooing, cutting, coloring, and styling hair, and massaging and treating scalp. May also apply makeup, dress wigs, perform hair removal, and provide nail and skin care services.

Sample of reported job titles: Cosmetologist, Hairstylist, Hair Stylist, Hairdresser, Barber Stylist, Hair Dresser, Manager Stylist, Nail Technician

* Keep work stations clean and sanitize tools such as scissors and combs.
* Cut, trim and shape hair or hairpieces, based on customers' instructions, hair type and facial features, using clippers, scissors, trimmers and razors.
* Analyze patrons' hair and other physical features to determine and recommend beauty treatment or suggest hair styles.
* Schedule client appointments.
* Bleach, dye, or tint hair, using applicator or brush.
* Update and maintain customer information records, such as beauty services provided.
* Shampoo, rinse, condition and dry hair and scalp or hairpieces with water, liquid soap, or other solutions.
* Operate cash registers to receive payments from patrons.
* Demonstrate and sell hair care products and cosmetics.
* Develop new styles and techniques.

* Confer with stage or motion picture officials and performers in order to determine desired effects.
* Duplicate work precisely in order to replicate characters' appearances on a daily basis.
* Establish budgets, and work within budgetary limits.
* Apply makeup to enhance, and/or alter the appearance of people appearing in productions such as movies.
* Alter or maintain makeup during productions as necessary to compensate for lighting changes or to achieve continuity of effect.
* Select desired makeup shades from stock, or mix oil, grease, and coloring in order to achieve specific color effects.
* Cleanse and tone the skin in order to prepare it for makeup application.
* Assess performers' skin-type in order to ensure that make-up will not cause break-outs or skin irritations.
* Analyze a script, noting events that affect each character's appearance, so that plans can be made for each scene.
* Requisition or acquire needed materials for special effects, including wigs, beards, and special cosmetics.

Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Equipment Selection — Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.

Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Management of Financial Resources — Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.

Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

SAMPLE RESUME FOR COSMOTOLOGIST

HAIRSTYLIST - HAIRDRESSER - HAIRCUTTER - MAKEUP ARTIST

SAMPLE RESUME FOR HAIRSTYLIST

Hairstylist / Hairdresser Skills
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