VICTORY IS MINE! SORT OF...

Coming back to my little rage about my massage class and teacher. After writing to the college admin, I was able to transfer into a better massage class with a more experienced teacher. My new teacher has a great teaching style! She's quite strict about the rules (short nails, uniform etc), but given that I follow the rules anyway, it's not going to be a problem for me.

Now that that's sorted I just have to start stressing about the practical exams coming up over the next few weeks. Next week will be my lash and brow tinting and brow shaping practical exam. We had the skills test for it last week and received feedback on how we could improve for the exam and I only failed one area which was putting a hand towel over the clients chest so as not to drop any tint on their clothing. We still haven't received our tint kits so if you wanted to practice at home, you had to go out and buy the things - I couldn't afford this of course. However I'm not particularly concerned about this exam but more the facials and body massage practical exams coming up in about 4-5 weeks time.

In both facials and body massage class we are learning a massage and will be required to perform it without our notes in the exam. I can sort of remember the moves for body massage, and can remember a few for the facial cleansing and massage, but not the order that the moves go in. If they aren't done in the correct order that would be an instant fail of the exam. The facial massage has about 26 moves and a cleansing routine, including some lymphatic drainage moves which are a bit complicated. The full body Swedish massage that we are learning has over 60 moves but a lot of them are the same kind of move just on a different part of the body. You can imagine remembering the order is going to be killer!

Not having a proper massage bed here at home has been making it pretty difficult to practice with ease, so I suggest that you buy one before starting this course. You can get them on eBay for around $100 brand new, and around the same price from some of those discount websites, just have a Google. I plan on getting one when I have the money, but will be borrowing one from a friend who used to practice massage when I get the chance to pick it up.