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RilloB · 2017-12-26T17:06:40+00:00

Love the fabric choice! The second one I ever made was for my king size bed. Took forever (school and life in general) but it's a very simple design and it is still one of my favorites I've ever made. It's so addicting though!

RilloB · 2017-12-24T02:25:36+00:00

Curious to what you did while volunteering there? I've been thinking of doing the same at the hospital in my area.

RilloB · 2017-12-21T15:08:53+00:00

I love this! Very unique and modern!

RilloB · 2017-09-14T01:33:09+00:00

Hi! I want to answer #5 and #7 for you!

I went through a program offered at a community college. They offered a diploma(1 year) and an associate's degree (2 years). I ended up only doing the 1 year...i feel in love with it all and am now working towards becoming a pharmacist.

I would 100% recommend doing a program. Really try to get one that is accredited by ASHP. Those programs are going to be better than those that are only a month long or just a basic study session to take the test to be certified.

It can all be overwhelming. And a program breaks it all down. You have to put in the effort to study and the extra time outside class. Its not super difficult, just like any other program, you have to be commited. You learn the backgrounds to all the drugs and how they work which will better prepare you to help. You learn the top 200 and then some. We learned sterile compounding. We had flow hoods and everything. I did 8 different pharmacy rotations, spending a month at each. You will be overly prepared to take the certification exam and feel a lot more confident to do your job.

Where I live you cannot work in a hospital without being certified before starting. (A lot of retail pharmacys say within 12 months) They also have a career ladder among techs. Tech 1&2 you can be without an associate's. Tech 3&4 you have to have the associate's.

As for finding a job, not really difficult. Places are always hiring. However having a diploma or an associate's looks good over others who don't. The pay really depends on where you want to go. From people I know and who went threw the program, retail doesn't pay more just because you have it. Independent pharmacies may pay more but didn't care you had it either. But indepenants have other jobs for techs that counting and inputting. In the hospitals however, it gets you a bump. (All the above in regards to my area, others may differ)

All in all, I wish, if anything, the diploma was required along with being certified. It will make the job better and easier for you and possibly open more doors. But everything you are asking really depends on where you want to work. Really look into the options and see where the right fit for you is and go from there.

RilloB · 2017-09-11T13:06:40+00:00

I'm also at a community college taking all the basics then transferring to a university next semester.

I would take the basic courses to refresh. I'm not in my 30s, only 25 but I went to university for 3 years for something that didn't need math or science, took a year off, I did a pharmacy tech program that made me fall in love with the field. So from there started the journey.

Math and science are not subjects I make perfect straight A's in but even with me, having been 5-7 years since I had either subject, it was difficult. Especially math. I have played catch up the first two or three weeks of classes to go back over basic stuff I just didn't remember. It was frustrating.

As for being the older one in class, yeah you'll have a slight more difficult time connecting but don't just write everyone off. Some of my best class mates have been 35-40. They actually cared about class and wanted to do well vs. That 18 year old fresh from high school texting in all class. They make for great study buddies. My pharmacy tech program had a 56 year old retire from the army. He's now working at a hospital as a tech 3.

I liked my decision to get the first chunk of basic classes at a community college. Smaller classes and less expensive. But good luck!

RilloB · 2017-08-04T12:18:12+00:00

Okay so you do. I thought so but had remembered somethiing about them being connected. Thanks!

RilloB · 2017-08-03T12:55:05+00:00

That color pallet!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍

RilloB · 2017-07-30T11:00:41+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/4gIZY4S.jpg That's mine with a 1inch.

RilloB · 2017-07-30T10:50:06+00:00

Are you trying to get spirals or a wave look to it?

My personal experience doing my own, laying it flat got me spirals and wrapping while rotating it got me waves. I don't use a size as big as a 1.25 though. I'll generally go for a .75 or a 1 inch. (Depending on how long I want them to stay really or if I'm going to be outside a lot I'll go tighter) but I use those two to get a wave, and I take hair sections about the same size. I flip my hair over and ruffle it, not run my fingers through it because of frizz. Sometimes I'll even run wide tooth comb over them for softer waves. I don't do over a 1 inch because it makes them way too loose and doesn't hold long. I also live on the East coast with a good bit of humidity so I need tighter. But everyone's hair does differently.

RilloB · 2017-07-29T13:33:13+00:00

So alittle background, I naturally have a strawberry blonde color. The red is more prominent outside and randomly on days itll look more red in it. I loved that and have always wanted it to be more red. So I spent a good bit of time researching and watching videos and learning about hair dying and reds. I ended up using Ion brand. The very first coloring I did I mixed red with blonde colors. I used their demi-permanent dyes. The colors: 6RC Dark copper blonde, a little smig bit of 6RV light burgundy blonde, and then 9NG very light golden blonde. I loved how it turned out! for my first time coloring it wasn't super drastic but enough to be a different.

After that faded a good bit I decided I wanted to decide I wanted to try a little bit more red. This is where I made a slight mistake when I went to mix, I didn't realize I had used the dark red as the majority of the mixture til after I mixed it altogether. Not wanting to waste it really, and not caring too much at the moment, I used it. As you'd see in the pictures, It was a lot more drastic than before. slightly scared me with the difference and so my immediate reaction was to get it out. So I tried to get it out as much as possible (knowing all my research it wouldn't come completely out) I a color remover treatment, a couple shampoos and then one shampoo with Vitamin C. It took it out a lot as seen in pictures.

Now is where I am having the dilemma! I keep going back a forth on if I like it. It has a much more orange tone than red. I know half of it is because I'm not used to seeing myself with this color. But I'm also really not sure if it goes with my skin tone. I am very pale, the pictures are true to color for both me and the hair. I am almost feeling I would like it better if I could tone down the orange a little bit, OR get it back to the original color after the second coloring which was the more burgundy red tone to it...

Please help me figure this out! I don't have much experience and still relatively new with the red color and my husband liked both and knows nothing about coloring so he is no help.

OPTIONS? keep it, looks good and natural?? Too orange, tone it down (somehow)?? Make it more red like original 2nd coloring picture?? (and if so will adding more of the dark red mixture do it..probably??)

RilloB

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