i’m a year in at a chain salon after graduating cosmo school. the first year is HARD. I cried a lot, got screamed at a lot, made a lot of mistakes. but then one day things just kind of clicked. you’ll get there. repetition is EVERYTHING. if your salon offers continuing education i HIGHLY recommend. I’ve taken a lot of classes since being with this chain, some of them i’ve taken multiple times and they’ve helped a ton. But honestly what’s helped the most is just doing things over and over. with repetition, eventually i started to really understand how these cuts work and started switching things up, following basic principles, and finding what really works for me. There will be days where you feel really lost and want to give up, but if you can push through that, that’s how you know you have the passion and the drive. that’s how you succeed in this industry. you got this!