Module 1- Taking Care of Your Hair

I have been learning cosmetology for about four years now. Growing up with a family of hair stylists, I began to like it more and more. When I was a little girl, I used to dress up my dolls and give them the best hair style. As I got older, I wanted to play with real people rather than dolls. So, I had a little brother that let me do anything to him. I used to play with his long hair and dress him up. Although, I found out that if you dress up a guy in girls’ clothing when they’re young, then they will grow up to be homosexual. Therefore, I stopped playing with him and started playing with my dolls again. Eventually, I grew out of my child phase and began to experience with real hair and real people.

I like giving advice to people about caring for their hair because I like seeing people happy. I want people to have as much knowledge as I have, or even more, about hair care because it is a very important characteristic in a person. Knowing facts about taking care of your hair can be helpful in life. It can make a person feel and look great. I mean who wouldn’t want to have healthy, beautiful looking hair?

The reason I chose to advocate this topic was because I see people with bad hair and in need of some good advice. There are so many myths that people tell that just don’t make sense to me. For example, one myth that is very common is, “If you want your hair to stay clean and healthy, wash it every day.” This is not true because washing your hair every day will dry it out and will lose all the shine. It is very important to keep some oil in your hair because the hair needs the shine to keep it from drying and braking. Another myth that is told is, “Wash your with a shampoo that has conditioner mixed with it.” It is best to use a shampoo and a conditioner separately because putting conditioner on the scalp will cause it to get too oily. When shampooing, you need to scrub your scalp very well in order to get it clean. If there is conditioner in your shampoo, then your scalp will not get as clean as it should be.

Was there ever a time when you thought, why did my hair stop growing? Well, hair will stop growing if there are slit ends. Split ends are when the ends of the hair slip into two or three strands that damages the hair. In fact, the more you cut your hair, the faster it will grow. Split ends will eventually split all the way to the root and then that hair strand will fall out. It is impossible for the hair to grow with a split end. Therefore, it is best to cut it constantly.

This activity was interesting and fun because all the information came from my knowledge. I decided to use a PowerPoint presentation for this activity because I wanted to list some different issues that we deal with every day. In each slide, I talked about a different issue. I want people to look at my PowerPoint presentation and learn something at the end of it. I hope everyone enjoys reading it and I hope to have answered some questions that you had in mind.

Activity 2

I decided to design the song Heaven by Brian Adams. This song has been one of my favorite songs for a long time. There is so much meaning to it. It is a song about two people who love each other very much.

There are many ways to express this song in font texts. The only way I could have designed this song was if I was listening to the song as I was typing. I think I listened to this song about fifty times until I finished this activity. There was just so many different ways I could have decorated the words.

I downloaded many fonts for this activity. I tried to find fonts that would fit in the categories of love and passion. I tried to find some flowers and hearts. The font that I used for the title “Heaven” was a flower type font that really shows peacefulness. Also, I increased the font size because I wanted the main focus to be on the title. The words “Oh” and “Only” are bolded and bigger than the words around them because these words needed be emphasized.

This song talks mostly about love between two people. I found a font that had a heart for each letter. I used the “All Heart” font for the words “you” and “me” because there was a lot of love in that sentence. Also, I made those words big because they are the main subjects in this song. In addition, these two words were followed by three important words that describe “lovebirds.” I underlined the words “young,” “wild” and “free” because these words explain the meaning of love.

I found a font that was really interesting and it fit right in with one part of this song. “But that’s over now” was the part that opened my eye. I decided to use the “caveman” font because it really sticks out and I liked it. I made this font the biggest size because I think that this sentence is the climax of the song. It was the turning point of the song because it just gets better after that point.

An interesting and fun font that I decided to use for the last part was the “chiller” font. I thought that this font was fun and it makes you look at the words. The sentence “It isn’t too hard to see,” was an eye opener because it was so obvious that the love between two people was beautiful. Brian Adams ends his song by taking us to the world of love and happiness, which is known as Heaven.

Visual Advocacy Proposal

Cosmetology is my passion. I am a licensed cosmetologist and I love everything that has to do with beauty. I know almost everything there is to know about the beauty industry. The one thing that interests me the most is the health of hair. It is very important to keep your hair healthy. Many people don't know how to take care of their hair. Some people think that if they wash their hair every day, their hair will stay clean and healthy. However, what they don't know is that washing your hair daily causes the hair to lose shine. Your hair needs shine to protect the cuticle of the hair strands. Also, people tend to damage their hair by applying chemicals and excessive heat to it. This causes breakage to the hair, which makes the hair very unhealthy.

In this project, I will be talking about the different ways to keep your hair looking healthy. I will state some myths that people believe about keeping their healthy, and I will argue these myths with real facts. It really irritates me when someone thinks that they are taking care of their hair when they are actually destroying it.

I plan to show some different ways that people damage their hair and I will give some advice on how they can avoid destroying their hair. I will use Powerpoint for this project and use each slide to argue a different myth. Additionally, I would like to find some photos to show exactly what i mean. My goal is to prove that it is easy to take care of your hair.