What is a safe and practical way of learning to cut hair without going to beauty school?

I want to be one of those girls who cuts peoples hair.... well.... but i don't know what to practice on and I'm too young to go to ';beauty school';. Any suggestions?What is a safe and practical way of learning to cut hair without going to beauty school?
some schools allow you to go work at a hair salon and watch and help around. you learn alot. even asking for a part time job at a local hair salon (maybe not a huge one, but a tiny small business salon is nice.) you'd just clean up and help around (you dont cut hair or do anything like that), and most lady's or men will be willing to let you watch and learn, and maybe even teach you a few things, but you have to go to beauty school if you want to do peoples hair. they might ask you to wash peoples hair now and then. its really good experience to watch them cut, dye, ect peoples hair and see how its done. also... you can buy those big doll heads in toy stores, there not that much money.(they make them for girls to braid and such, but you can cut the hair, wont be the same as real hair though..) they would be good to practice on if you really needed to.but for now though, my advice is watch and learn until you get the opportunity for beauty school. and i wouldn't try cutting someones hair, or your own until you have somewhat of an idea what to do.





i love how that person said the same thing as i did.....What is a safe and practical way of learning to cut hair without going to beauty school?
Well, if you want to be become a professional and work at any decent salon you are going to have to go to some type of beauty school to get your cosmotology license. If you don't, you probably won't get any clients. Sorry.





I know in my area we have something called the Career Center, where high school students can go and take cosmotology classes and get their cosmotology licenses during the school day. I know we aren't the only city that has one, so you should look into it and see if there is one in your area. However, if you want to work at a salon that is a little higher on the ladder than like BoRics, then you should really go to a professional cosmotology school on top of that.





The more training you have, the more clients you have, the better the salon you get the work at. Plain and simple.
Try 2 get part time work at a hairdressers if your luck they might give you some pointers.Other than that i think you need 2 wait till your old enough. Or use 1 of those doll heads thats what my daughter does she wants 2 be a hairdressers %26amp; she has a dolls head that she cuts all the time. You can get them at a toy shop. I need 2 get my daughter another 1 but she has done a really good job. So thats 1 way of learning until your older.
to work in a salon, you do need to go to beauty school, to get a lisence.





and all i can suggest is practicing on yourself, but the outcome might not be too great, haha.


i cut my own hair [i'm 16,]


have been since i was 14. i've never done anything bad looking to it either, but.


i doubt you want to practice on anyone yet.
The best way I can imagine is to have a lot of friends and family that are willing to let you practice on their hair. The only way to be good at this is practice, hands on. Although if you want to make it a profession, I would recomend getting certified via a training program/school.
lol, i'd wait until beauty school


my friend tried cutting her cousins hair


and it went horribly!


but almost 3 years later she went to beauty school


and i think shes pretty good now (:
I would cut my girls friends until I got it just right. You have to have prectice to learn. Find a hair dresser that will give you tips!
Practice on your siblings.





Preferably at night...while they're asleep.
you could practice and learn some techniques at expertvillage.com.....
practice on all your friends and family.
Mirror and scissors?