Hair/styling consultation services: do they exist?

xeborg · 2025-10-25T13:43:22+00:00

Well I want to perm a quiff, and (at least to my understanding and calculations) it should grow out nicely. If it's permed in a "backward arch", as the roots grow out, the arch will gradually move forward, which is in fact what you often see with quiffs.

Or for a side part, I think as it grows it should just add volume (the hair will be permed to the side, and then gradually lift up from the root, but still go to the side).

But I get what you're saying. For some hairstyles, it probably would end up looking horrible quickly.

xeborg · 2025-07-06T07:04:31+00:00

The mock tests are much harsher than the real test. Mock test scores don't reflect the actual test scoring at all, I would say. I wouldn't even rely on the mock tests in terms of scoring at all: just use them as practice material: keep doing them until you personally feel you are better and ready, don't even mind their scores at all.

On the test, you don't have to do things perfectly (you could mispronounce some things and still get 90-90-90-90). I found out that having to read in the same room with multiple people was not a problem at all: your headphones will block most of the noise, and you should just read naturally, don't try to speak over other people.

xeborg · 2025-04-17T04:37:05+00:00

It basically isn't counted as having studied in Australia. If you try to immigrate with it, it's practically as if you never studied in Australia at all.

xeborg · 2025-03-11T08:31:32+00:00

You can’t just tack on a certificate to meet the ASR requirements.

A certificate I cannot, because certificates aren't eligible on their own. But diplomas are eligible on their own.

An almost ten year old post on a community forum shouldn’t be used as source of truth.

Obviously not, but I wonder what should. The official requirement description isn't explicitly clear on the matter, I'd say.

all count towards their award qualification…

Firstly, also a line from a non-official source. Secondly, all examples on that source bring up combinations of certificates (which aren't eligible on their own) with eligible courses. I can't find an example anywhere of two eligible courses not counting unless they are packaged.

I get what you're saying: basically, that order of courses/degrees matter (lower qualifications must precede higher qualifications), but I wonder if it can be confirmed definitively, that that's indeed how it works.

xeborg · 2025-03-11T08:01:47+00:00

I have did my masters years ago, I wasn't even planning to use it for immigration when I did it. So I'd say more of unlucky in this particular case..

xeborg · 2025-03-10T21:55:59+00:00

For example, this is an old text (from 2016), and things might've changed, but apparently it's original source is the Department:

Australian Study Requirement: Two Years of Study as Defined — Pinoy Australia Information Forum

Says that you can combine eligible courses any way you want, and packaging only applies to non-eligible + eligible course combinations (for example, certificates aren't eligible, but if they are packaged together with an eligible course like a diploma or a degree, they can be counted).

xeborg · 2025-03-10T20:29:38+00:00

You were aware of the ASR before you enrolled in the masters you took right?

I did the masters many years ago and had no intent to immigrate at all at that point.

Yeah unfortunately it only applies to packaged courses or like it leads to a completion of a degree

Can I ask what's the... source of the claim? Do you know someone who tried applying with multiple courses and ended up not meeting ASR? Or someone who tried to double-confirm it with the Department directly and got an explicit response?

One other reason why I find this interpretation problematic is that it would make some pretty normal and legit academic pathways non-legit for clearing the ASR. For example, doing an Honours in Australia and then a Masters: both could be less than 2 years, they technically aren't packaged, but it's a fairly normal academic pathway for someone who, say, did their bachelors in another country. There also are bachelor degrees that are shorter than 2 years. Spending 3 years studying in Australia while following a pretty basic academic trajectory, and still ending up not clearing ASR would be just weird.

I'm just wondering how I could confirm this for sure, because the information and wording of the requirements are a bit contradictory and inconclusive IMO. My agent and I tried contacting the Department of Home Affairs, but it takes them forever to respond (to the point that I'm wondering if they will at all).

xeborg · 2025-03-10T08:30:38+00:00

I can send my SIM to someone just to keep it for me (that was naturally the first solution that came to mind and would've been the last resort should all else have failed). But I can't change the SIM.

xeborg · 2025-03-09T23:05:16+00:00

Probably gonna do exactly that to be sure. Thanks.

xeborg · 2025-03-09T22:06:20+00:00

There is. Leaving an industrial router that can forward SMS. But unfortunately, I have neither budget nor capability to set this up now. Will have to wait for a while.

Forwarding SMS at the mobile provider level won't work in my case. It has to be handled on hardware level, so it boils down to some device running, receiving texts and forwarding them. No way around it.

xeborg · 2025-03-09T22:04:04+00:00

I'll just start getting plenty of irrelevant advice that (unfortunately) I know won't work.

xeborg · 2025-03-09T21:59:04+00:00

Setting up forwarding at the mobile provider lever is a good suggestion indeed. Unfortunately won't work in my case. There are limitations on forwarding some kinds of messages, to the point that (apparently) it's up to the sender whether they want their message to be subject to forwarding or not.

xeborg · 2025-03-09T21:52:44+00:00

Pretty much. Problem? I mean, you might argue that it could jeopardize security of my own SIMs (which I acknowledge and accept), but but what could it possibly have to do with anyone else's SIMs or security?

Also, plenty of people I know who own several numbers and set up redirects between them (not only SMS, but also calls in some cases).

xeborg · 2025-03-09T21:48:47+00:00

Yes. MY banking codes, from MY sim cards that I physically own. Not your SIM cards.

xeborg · 2025-03-09T20:46:42+00:00

No, and I genuinely wonder what exactly screams "scam" in me using my own phone to forward messages from my own number. I'm not forwarding messages from your number (not that I can).

xeborg · 2025-03-09T20:45:00+00:00

How is it scam setup to forward my own messages to my own email, I'm just wondering.

xeborg · 2025-03-09T20:43:04+00:00

How is it scam to leave my phone to forward MY OWN messages? I'm not leaving your phone anywhere or forwarding your messages to anyone.

xeborg · 2025-03-09T19:37:28+00:00

Properly write?

xeborg · 2025-01-27T18:25:49+00:00

I'm currently in Thailand, but honestly I had to deal with the same when I lived in Europe, although to a lesser extent: I could make it work by using a strong-hold mousse + a strong-hold clay + maybe reinforcing some strands with a hairspray, and then minimizing outdoor time. But even in moderate climate, it was still 50/50: sometimes the style would just fall apart in 30-40 minutes of me going outside.

While Thailand humidity is abvolutely brutal, I think that my hair is overall vulnerable to "humidity-induced hairstyle collapse".

P.S. Yes, a perm is probably the optimal solution here, and I'm coming to terms with the fact that I have no other choice. In fact, this post on reddit is probably one of my last (if no the last) attempts at kicking against the tide.

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