QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

How large is the Beauty Industry?
Dollar-wise, its annual volume is well in excess of one billion dollars.

Of what is it comprised?
Basically, it is built around professional beauty services rendered in more than 150,000 salons located in cities, towns, and villages of every state in the Union. These are staffed by upward of 500,000 operators (who also are referred to as cosmetologists, hairdressers or beauticians).

Salon services are preformed with the aid and use of a wide range of equipment, accessories, and supplies make by hundreds of manufacturers who, for the most part, concentrate their activities on the beauty field.

The products of these firms are distributed to the salons by upwards of 1,500 beauty supply dealers (also known as jobbers).

Who are the customer of the Beauty Industry?
Millions of women of all ages - starting at 16 or younger, and continuing through all brackets to extreme old age. Women never lose their desire to appear attractive at all times.

Is it as essential industry?
Yes, in the same sense that for women, beauty services not only provide improved and more youthful appearance but, simultaneously, are uplifting to both spirit and morale.

Prolonged and/or renewed youthful appearance achieved at the beauty salon make it possible for busy women to obtain and hold positions in the business world.

Medical authorities agree that such services can improve mental outlook and physical well being.

Is the industry limited to women?
Until the last several years this has been predominantly a woman's business, with the ration running about 90% women and 10% men.

Recent trends, however, reflect a considerable upswing in the number of male operators, with many schools showing a present ration of about 70% women and 30% men.

What is its growth potential?
Increasingly good, for two sound reasons:

Both of these factors have contributed to numerical expansion of beauty salons and operators in the past, and obviously will continue to do so.

What are the industry's employment possibilities?
In most areas of the country beauty operators are in demand. This is apparent from both the telephone calls made by salons owners to beauty school placement bureaus and from classified advertisements appearing in newspapers.

Beauty-operator demand has continued at an increased rate and the never-enlarging popularity of beauty salon services insures a bright future.

What is the beauty operator's compensation?
Well on a par with, or better than, many skilled or semi-skilled professions and trades. The actual rate depends upon prevailing pay levels in given areas. Each individual's opportunity for advancement is limited only by his or her ability to properly apply acquired knowledge, and couple it with experience.

By whom are the students taught?
Students are taught by qualified instructors, specially trained in the are of beauty culture training, and properly licensed for that specific task where so required by state cosmetology laws.

Are graduates limited to the role of operator?
Definitely NOT! They have many opportunities for advancement within and outside the salon.

Aside from the opportunity to become a salon managers or owners, they can specialize in particular branches of cosmetology with subsequently-better compensation inducements. 

In addition to individuals with basic beauty culture training may obtain positions such as demonstrators, salesmen or saleswomen, etc., for both manufacturers and dealers.

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