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Illinois Cosmetology CE Package – 7 Hours
Illinois Cosmetology CE Package – 7 Hours

Included Courses:
- Advanced Topics and Treatments in Hair Care (1 hrs)
- Beard Designing (1 hrs)
- Chemical Texturizing Services in the Salon (1 hrs)
- Guide to Balayage (1 hrs)
- Preventing Hair Loss (2 hrs)
- Repairing Damaged Hair (1 hrs)
Illinois Manicurist CE Package – 5 Hours
Illinois Manicurist CE Package – 5 Hours

Included Courses:
- Manicuring in the 21st Century (4 hrs)
- The Conditions that Affect Aging Nails and Skin (1 hrs)
Illinois Esthetician CE Package – 5 Hours
Illinois Esthetician CE Package – 5 Hours

Included Courses:
- Facial Extractions (1 hrs)
- Intro to Oncology Esthetics by a Survivor (1 hrs)
- Mechanical Exfoliation/Microdermabrasion (1 hrs)
- Todays Anti-Aging Skin Care Treatments (2 hrs)
Illinois Cosmetology Cosmetology Courses
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Adding Possibilities
Adding Possibilities

Advanced Color Correction Techniques
Advanced Color Correction Techniques

Advanced Skin Barrier Knowledge
Advanced Skin Barrier Knowledge

Gain advanced knowledge about the skin barrier and its health to better serve your clients while improving your ability to diagnose common skin conditions cosmetologists see in the treatment room every day. The skin barrier is an essential component of the skin and is key in helping clients achieve their skin goals, whether it’s overcoming texture concerns, inflammatory skin conditions or signs of aging. Unfortunately, this important factor of skin health is often overlooked, preventing skin therapists from correcting troublesome skin conditions, often masking the symptoms instead.
The purpose of this course is to familiarize cosmetologists with advanced knowledge of the skin barrier in order to prevent and treat skin conditions resulting in a compromised skin barrier while gaining a deeper understanding of the skin’s physiology, functions, and structure.
Advanced Topics and Treatments in Hair Care
Advanced Topics and Treatments in Hair Care

Anatomy and Conditions of the Skin, Hair and Nails
Anatomy and Conditions of the Skin, Hair and Nails

Be In High Demand and Earn Your Worth
Be In High Demand and Earn Your Worth

Beard Designing
Beard Designing

To assist Master Barber Stylists and Master Cosmetologists in creating the most popular beard styles, this course provides comprehensive instructions of current beard designing techniques. Having the skills and proficiency in creating beard designs provides professional stylists with an extra edge for increasing their male clientele, retail sales, and more services that will improve in the satisfaction, appearance, and self-confidence of their male clientele.
Building Client Relationships: Communication Skills for Salon Professionals
Building Client Relationships: Communication Skills for Salon Professionals

Chemical Texturizing Services in the Salon
Chemical Texturizing Services in the Salon

Chemistry in Cosmetics
Chemistry in Cosmetics

As a Beauty Expert it is vital to understand thepotential effects and efficaciousness of each chemical compound in order todesign the optimal skincare and hair care routine for each individual client.
Color Correction Techniques
Color Correction Techniques

Cosmetology Hazards and Occupational Chemical Exposure in Salons
Cosmetology Hazards and Occupational Chemical Exposure in Salons

Cosmetology and Autoimmune Disorders
Cosmetology and Autoimmune Disorders

This course will help salon owners and cosmetologist recognize autoimmune disorders and how they affect the hair and nails.
Creative Lesson Planning
Creative Lesson Planning

Current Cutting Techniques
Current Cutting Techniques

Curriculum Development – Part I
Curriculum Development – Part I

Curriculum Development – Part II
Curriculum Development – Part II

Dealing With Difficult People and Situations in the Salon
Dealing With Difficult People and Situations in the Salon

Disorders and Diseases of the Scalp
Disorders and Diseases of the Scalp

Educating the Millennials
Educating the Millennials

Environmental Pollution and Urban Skin
Environmental Pollution and Urban Skin

Ergonomics Applied to Salon Professionals
Ergonomics Applied to Salon Professionals

Eyebrow Balancing
Eyebrow Balancing

Eyelash Mania
Eyelash Mania

Facial Extractions
Facial Extractions

Going Green in the Modern Nail Salon
Going Green in the Modern Nail Salon

The biggest concerns for the nail professional are personal safety and the safety of guests. Nail technicians work with various chemicals in the salon setting, and overexposure is a real threat.
Creating a safer salon environment is all about recognizing harmful ingredients and looking for ways to drive change in an industry that is product dependent.
Guide to Balayage
Guide to Balayage

Balayage hair color services are in high demand worldwide! Explore this versatile coloring technique and expand your skill by learning the basics of balayage color. In this course, you will learn to implement this exciting hair color technique in your salon to achieve a multitude of looks on a variety of different hair textures. As you learn you will gain confidence when formulating and applying color with this artful color approach.
HIV/AIDS Update
HIV/AIDS Update

Hair Coloring at a Glance
Hair Coloring at a Glance

Hair Colour Bonanza
Hair Colour Bonanza

Hair Loss: Including Traction Alopecia Cause and Cure
Hair Loss: Including Traction Alopecia Cause and Cure

Understanding the different hair loss conditions, causes and preventions will allow beauty professionals to give clients an exclusive experience while creating customized treatment plans, gaining knowledge of hair loss and expanding one’s client services and income potential.
How to Build a Better Haircut
How to Build a Better Haircut

Intro to Oncology Esthetics by a Survivor
Intro to Oncology Esthetics by a Survivor

empower each student with the knowledge to perform informal skin cancer checks within the treatment room.
Latest Update on Chemical Peels
Latest Update on Chemical Peels

Make-up Classics
Make-up Classics

Make-up and Your Client
Make-up and Your Client

Manicuring in the 21st Century
Manicuring in the 21st Century

Mastering Wigs and Hairpiece Services
Mastering Wigs and Hairpiece Services

Mechanical Exfoliation/Microdermabrasion
Mechanical Exfoliation/Microdermabrasion

Multimasking
Multimasking

Nutrition for the Skin
Nutrition for the Skin

Personal Wellness
Personal Wellness

This course focuses on personal wellness by exploring mental health and addresses information regarding the stigmas attached to mental health. Additionally, this course covers information about substance abuse and mental health and crisis management are also presented. The course explores how people with mental health disorders can create a healing environment..
Personalizing the Color Experience
Personalizing the Color Experience

Preventing Hair Loss
Preventing Hair Loss

Repairing Damaged Hair
Repairing Damaged Hair

The beauty industry is a realm in the professional arena, complete with stylists living their passion. Heightened by consideration and compassion for people and helping stylists express their love for doing hair through haircare services. For professional stylist, repairing damaged hair is not just a job; repairing damaged hair is a responsibility to others, a task filled with genuine concern while exemplifying the highest skill and ability to assist in clients’ hair care wishes and needs.
Reporting Your Income to the IRS
Reporting Your Income to the IRS

Sanitation, Sterilization and Infection Control
Sanitation, Sterilization and Infection Control

Selecting Skincare Equipment and Tools
Selecting Skincare Equipment and Tools

Sensitivity in the Workplace
Sensitivity in the Workplace

Shaping, Styling and Maintaining Wigs and Hairpieces
Shaping, Styling and Maintaining Wigs and Hairpieces

Skin Cancer Guide for Salon Professionals
Skin Cancer Guide for Salon Professionals

Skin Care Essentials
Skin Care Essentials

Understand the skin and its functions and become familiarwith analyzing skin types.
Stress and Your Client
Stress and Your Client

The Anatomy of the Head and Facial Structure
The Anatomy of the Head and Facial Structure

This course provides essential knowledge of the anatomy within the head and face, and how it relates to salon services. This course teaches students to recognize the facial and cranial skeletal structures, the muscular structures therein, and the nerves that serve primary functions of concern. Students will learn important information about the location of anatomical structures, how they connect to another, and the functions they serve.
After learning more about anatomy, students will take a closer look at the specific anatomy of facial and cranial structures. Students will then learn about how anatomy plays a part in the services they provide to clients, how the services they provide affects anatomy, and how to use their knowledge to better navigate services.
By the end of the course, students will have a broader understanding of the anatomy of the head and face, as well as how the underlying structures function and work together. This anatomical knowledge will provide the basis for more informed decisions regarding client services, and appropriate treatments.
The Basics of Color: History, Hair Structure and the Color Component
The Basics of Color: History, Hair Structure and the Color Component

The Business of Nails: Shaping and Re-inventing the Beauty Industry
The Business of Nails: Shaping and Re-inventing the Beauty Industry

Learn how the nail sector has revolutionized the beauty business by setting new trends through creativity and innovation. This course will cover nail technology from its roots to the modern, billion dollar industry it has become within the beauty industry. Also, this course will explain the nail industry’s influence on fashion and pop culture, describe innovations that changed the industry as we knew it and discuss how it has redefined the beauty industry.
The Chemical Makeup and Anatomy of Human Hair, Updated
The Chemical Makeup and Anatomy of Human Hair, Updated

This course will explore the complexity of the seemingly simple human hair. There will be an in-depth study of the functions, structure, anatomy, growth, and classifications of hair.
The Chemical Makeup and Anatomy of the Human Nail
The Chemical Makeup and Anatomy of the Human Nail

The Chemical Makeup and Anatomy of the Skin
The Chemical Makeup and Anatomy of the Skin

The Conditions that Affect Aging Nails and Skin
The Conditions that Affect Aging Nails and Skin

The Five Star Colorist
The Five Star Colorist

The Independent Contractor: Could This Be the Business Plan for You
The Independent Contractor: Could This Be the Business Plan for You

The Power of Social Media and Salon Marketing
The Power of Social Media and Salon Marketing

The Professional Colorist: It's More than Magic
The Professional Colorist: It's More than Magic

The Revival of Permanent Waving
The Revival of Permanent Waving

The Skin Care Professional's Guide to Exfoliation
The Skin Care Professional's Guide to Exfoliation

To Dip or Not to Dip
To Dip or Not to Dip

Todays Anti-Aging Skin Care Treatments
Todays Anti-Aging Skin Care Treatments

Topics In Cosmetology Instruction – Part II
Topics In Cosmetology Instruction – Part II

Topics in Cosmetology Instruction – Part I
Topics in Cosmetology Instruction – Part I

Train The Trainer
Train The Trainer

Understanding Inflammatory Skin Disorders
Understanding Inflammatory Skin Disorders

Understanding and the Treatment of Acne
Understanding and the Treatment of Acne

Virtual Learning Instruction Guide
Virtual Learning Instruction Guide

Winning Trainer Ways – Part I
Winning Trainer Ways – Part I

Winning Trainer Ways – Part II
Winning Trainer Ways – Part II

Winning Trainer Ways – Part III
Winning Trainer Ways – Part III

You… A Salon Owner
You… A Salon Owner
