Cosmetology Lessons From Failed Celebrity Businesses

There is a Ke$ha song that starts, “I wake up in the morning feelin’ like P. Diddy.”  It’s pretty clear we all idolize celebrities, even celebrities. We want to look like them, be successful like them and who doesn’t want their money. Listen, Nick Arrojo didn’t start out as a Master of Beauty.  Tabitha Coffey didn’t start her career on TV.  There is, in cosmetology, a starting point for everyone.  What can you learn about cosmetology from failed celebrity businesses?

Follow your passion! What do you want your beauty career to be?  Whatever it is, you have to try pursuing goals that are an extension of what speaks to you.  Natalie Portman, a famous vegan, started a shoe line focused on animal free shoes.  She professes to live her life completely animal free.  All the clothes she wears have no animal byproducts.  If you find yourself drawn to coloring hair, color hair! Stick with your natural aptitudes for what you’re good at.
You have to listen to critics sometimes.  J Lo and Brittany Spears started
restaurants that opened with lots of celebrity buzz.  The food, according to critics just didn’t measure up.  When you’re in cosmetology, you have to listen to what your teachers, mentors and colleagues say.  Maybe tweaking a technique for layering can be just what you need, even if it hurts your feelings to have someone say it.

Everybody falters sometimes.  No matter what your cosmetology career goals, some days you need to get up and keep going.  Even celebrities have bad days, and they have an entourage of professionals to help them succeed.  Then again, if you attend Empire Beauty School, so do you.  So go ahead and reach out to the people you know.  You’ll get there, it just might not be overnight, Cosmetology Girl!