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Today’s the day! We’re going live at 8:30 (ish) to let a student finish Mr. Corey’s hair.

Ms. Hodges, Ms. Maggie, and Mr. Corey participated in last Saturday’s event at Finnegan’s wake to raise money for childhood cancer, which St. Baldrick’s website says is incredibly underfunded with only 4% of government funding dedicated to its research. St. Baldrick’s Foundation works to fill that gap and Mr. Corey has done his part by wearing a ridiculous haircut all weekend!

Also, here’s a shameless plug—Aisling Institute has donated a full scholarship to the St. Baldrick’s foundation! You can reach out to the Winston Salem team to find out how to bid! (Do you know someone who’s always wanted to go to beauty school or esthetics school? Do you want to gift the scholarship to another charity—perhaps the Children’s Home—so they could send a high school graduate? The possibilities are endless. We are dreaming of the amazing outcomes that could happen!

Tune in after our clock in—Mr. Corey has to be in Mocksville by 10 a.m. for a tour so this has to be this morning! Drop a ✂️ below if you volunteer for the 8:30 completion!

#stbaldricks #stbaldrickswsnc #wsnc

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All I can do is pray for you…

Did you know nail techs aren’t licensed to wax in North Carolina?

Besides, there’s a difference between a brow wax and a brow shaping.

At Aisling, a student esthetician is going to spend time talking with you & making recommendations based on your facial shape, eye shape, and coloring. They’ll find out what your preferences and brow goals.

We take care to make sure our wax is never so hot that it burns you. And we NEVER reuse applicator sticks, no matter how many sticks it takes. This ensures a sanitary service for all. If you have your brows done somewhere else and the esthetician is reusing the same stick—Run!

Finally, after a wax appointment, an esthetician should send you off with a plan for where you are now and how you’ll get to the goals you discussed in the consultation. You should leave each appointment with the next one rebooked according to your student and the instructor’s recommendation. If not, you’re more likely try to take care of any strays at home, which can really set back your brow goals.

It’s another reason to choose Aisling Institute!

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We know you have choices for hair or skin care education in the Triad. When we started building Aisling, we also knew that students looking for cosmetology or esthetics education in the Triad deserved better than the current and traditional options that existed before we opened.

We also know that our students have lives outside of school and they’re here to learn their trade and the skills that will make them real money in the real world and that they need to do it as seamlessly and as efficiently as possible. It’s why we focus on real-world skills that will translate to real money in their amazing new careers.

We know they don’t want to spend a fortune on their education. We know they want a community to lean on while they hone those skills.

Many of the faculty and staff worked together at other schools before we got to Aisling. So we knew what we didn’t want to be. We’re so excited to be able to offer it to you. We know our students would rather be an Aisling graduate than compete with one.

We’d love to hear, what are your favorite 💡lightbulb moments since choosing Aisling?

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Sep 20

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Have you heard about our Performance-Based Tuition?

You can earn your tuition dollar for dollar while you’re in school by taking care of clients in the student clinic!

This is one of the ways that we teach you real skills that will make you real money in the real world. We know that the doing the very best balayage or the very best haircut or the very best derma plane means nothing if you don’t have a client to do it on. So we promise to teach you things like those skills but also what we call “soft skills” like rebooking clients, retailing skills, and social media marketing beyond just taking pretty pictures!

Call admissions today and let us show you how Aisling provides a broad and robust understanding of the cosmetic arts world that a traditional beauty school simply can’t provide.

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Sep 19

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The only thing that happens when someone hates on you is it boosts your algorithm.

Listen, when you’re approaching your best self and you’re working on your greatest version, people with small minds, and people in their comfort zones…yeah—they’re gonna be upset!

Just keep working hard, keep growing, and know you’re headed for an amazing career!

Students—Keep shining! We can’t wait to see you do big things!

Be an Aisling graduate—don’t compete with one!

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But for real there are some HUGE differences:
1. We teach real skills to make real money in the real world. When you’re touring schools in the Triad, ask about whether they’re on the “old” state board rules or the “new” curriculum. The old one mandates a certain number of performance completions in order to graduate. Other schools will tell you that it’s to make sure you get practice (maybe you do—but it will be in irrelevant services like roller sets and pedicures—that you will probably never need in the real world!)
2. State Board Pass Rates. We do mock state board practice weekly and boast a near perfect pass rate!
3. We don’t hire just anyone. Yeah—state board is ridiculous—they say how many teachers a school has to have. Other schools hire just anyone so they can pack classes. We cancel classes when we can’t deliver the level of education we’re famous for.
4. Payment options. You could take out a loan to cover an enormous tuition bill at the other school, that money has to be paid back.According to savingforcollege.com, it will take you 15 years to pay it back! You won’t have debt when you graduate from Aisling!
5. Aisling doesn’t make money on your student services. Other schools will charge you tuition and then turn around and charge customers in the student clinic for services that you provide. We see that as charging you twice and using your sweat to make money. At Aisling, we have a unique “Performance-Based Tuition” where you can earn your tuition in the student clinic doing the services you love! It’s a win-win!
6. Beautiful environment. Most area beauty schools are in run-down shopping centers or old buildings that haven’t been updated in many years. We’re proud of our environment at the Factory in Kernersville. We love the notion that we’re a school for the future housed in a building full of memories of the past—the very history that formed that community that we call home!

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Sep 15

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We hire interns!

If you have an active cosmetology license or esthetician license, we can get you licensed in as little as 30-45 days with the promise of a job! And once you work for us, we offer a generous salary and benefits package! Health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, PTO, paid vacation, short-term and long-term disability, and a 100% company-matched IRA!

But we’re not for the faint of heart! Our students are demanding—because we promise them the best education and they deserve it! We work hard to be able to brag about our near-perfect success rate at State Board and we’ve created some of the area’s finest estheticians and cosmetologists.

It’s because of our teachers that our students burst into the work force with real skills that help them make real money in the real world. These instructors make a difference in people’s lives! They impart wisdom that will affect future generations of cosmetic arts professionals. They teach powerful life lessons as well as core beauty subjects. They teach social skills, time management, conflict resolution, how to cope with stressors and how to focus on a task. If you’re a beauty professional and you were lucky, you had a teacher who is indelible in your mind; that person showed you how much they cared about you and their own career and they inspired you to be better, push harder, go further. Now it’s your turn to be that teacher for someone else!

Teaching at Aisling is more than just earning a paycheck. It’s making a difference in the life of stylists and estheticians and shaping them into the professionals they’ll become with lessons that will last a lifetime! Send your resume to Ms. Maggie—we’d love to talk to you about how you can share your love of cosmetic arts and enjoy a secure job at the same time!

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Did you know we offer individual lash extensions? And it’s included in our tuition? North Carolina state board says we have to teach lashes, but they allow for just strip lashes. And that’s what a lot of schools do.

Not Aisling.

We know you can’t make a real living making real money in the real world with the minimal skill set they demand. So we do the most: we teach brown lamination, lash lifts, individual lash extensions, and an outside session in spray tanning. So we’ll offer dermaplaning and microneedling. We give you a complete curriculum in social media marketing and in the cosmetology department we spend minimal time on small ticket skills like perms and pedicures to make sure you can balayage and dimensional color and be a six figure stylist years ahead of grads from other schools. All without expecting our students to use federal financial. AND we offer an apprenticeship program that lets you finish school and start working months before students at other schools. There’s no good reason to pick anyone else.

Be an Aisling graduate. Don’t compete with one.

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The temperatures are cooling off and that’s reason enough to dance! 💃

Are you enrolled in cosmetology school or esthetics school somewhere else and love it? This is jus such a fun vibe we had to have a few of our cosmetology students take it to the courtyard!🌳

We love having this courtyard on our campus! It’s the perfect place to hang out during breaks or to have lunch or just chill before or after class with a cookie and an iced latte from our on-campus coffee shop! ☕️

There are so many reasons to pick Aisling Institute—the flexible schedules, the teaching staff, weekly mock state board exams, the care from administration, the carefully curated curriculum, the widespread use of technology throughout the programs—but maybe just as importantly, the courtyard, the fountain, and the sense of community!

Follow us for more happy dances, more shots of our spectacular campus, and all the stories that keep showing why you want to be an Aisling graduate instead of competing with one!

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Sep 12

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Good morning students!

As you know, Friday was the monthly online learning day while your instructors and staff gathered for their mandatory monthly meeting! You are eligible to earn 10 hours for Friday if all of the following conditions are met:

✅You used your online time tracker accurately and it reflects the entire 10+ hours
✅You completed your instructor’s assignment
✅You attend all of your scheduled hours today
✅Your project must be completed and turned in in person today (not digitally)

We know it’s a lot of rules—we defer to our promise to get you ready for your State Board examination (where there are lots of rules) and employment (where you’ll have a boss—or bosses (customers) in the event that you choose self-employment after graduation.

We also know you’re out here doing you’re best. Because you are the best in our eyes. 🤗

Be an Aisling graduate—don’t compete with one!

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If you’ve met Ms. Lisa, you love her as much as we do! There’s no way not to! To 👏tal👏Superhero.

Got a question about your hours? Go see Ms. Lisa. Need to make payment arrangements for your bill? Ms. Lisa’s your girl. State Board is on campus? Uh oh. Call Ms. Lisa. Locked out of one of our computer programs? Ms. Lisa can probably help. Good gracious—even when we need more toilet paper or attention to the quirky things that happen from doing business in an old business like the random bird in the hall—Ms. Lisa will save us!

While Aisling is fortunate enough to have a management team that works well together, Ms. Lisa is an important piece of that squad! (Not only does she do all of these things, but she’s earned nicknames among her teammates like “the Defender,” because she sticks up for EVERYBODY and is known as our in-house Southern Belle, who her teammates know they can count on to handle the stickiest situations with all the grace and charm that you’d expect from a true debutante!)

Did you know Ms. Lisa is so good at her job the NC State Board examiner suggested that she holds a class to teach other schools how to keep their records? (P.S. She won’t be doing that!!!)

Aisling Institute wouldn’t be the best school in the Triad without Ms. Lisa’s contributions. She’s literally everything. We love her so much. We’re so glad she’s ours. 🤗🥰Comment below if Ms. Lisa has helped you with something during your time here!

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You 👏Are👏Our👏Cool 👏People👏

As a beauty school, we’ve noticed this a lot lately. A lot of our friends and students (the real cool people) don’t show up in our feed unless we go search them!

The algorithm ONLY shows us what they think we like. But they don’t know us.

This is why commenting on our posts and sharing them helps so much. We want to see you.

Thank you for being our cool people. We are so grateful for you and can’t wait to see the big things you’re going to do in your amazing new careers. There’s nothing we love more than helping students fall in love with the beauty industry and we feel so blessed to be able to do it in this way! ❤️‍🔥

Hit follow if you’re not already following to stick around for all the fun and innovation that is Aisling!! 😎😎😎

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We ask students on the first day of class to raise their hand if they really want to be in cosmetology school. Invariably, lots say they do. We call them out; no one wants to be here—everyone is enrolled because they want to do hair or skin for money. And to do that,ya need a license. And to get a license, 1500 hours in school is what the North Carolina State Board of Cosmetic Arts says ya gotta do to get that license.

So yeah…there’s lots of fun in beauty school, but it’s lots of work too. And it’s definitely no fun on a rainy fall day after a long weekend. But graduation is coming up in just a few weeks. And then licensure. And then the amazing career of your dreams. We commend you for showing up and doing what needs to be done for 1500 hours! We know it’s not easy—you’re doing great!

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At Aisling, we know you’ve worked hard for the cosmetology or esthetics hours you’ve earned (even if it was years ago!) We also know that if you’ve made the decision to be an Aisling graduate, you expect to transfer in as much as you can toward your program’s completion. That’s why we make our transfer policies as flexible as possible to help you reach your goals faster.

If you have existing hours from another school that may be eligible for North Carolina cosmetic arts hours, we can help determine your next step and provide a transfer-of-credit evaluation that’s simple and straightforward.
⚡Save time: By transferring hours earned at another school, you can complete your program faster. ⚡Save money: A lot of school limit how many credits you can transfer because they’re held hostage by Board of Education and Accreditation policies. At Aisling, we’ll accept up to 99% of your required program! Why should you pay a second time for credits you’ve already earned just because the other institution has an obligation to charge you?!

Our dedicated admissions specialists are here to help you find ways to fund your education and make your dreams affordable, including providing a free transfer-of-hours evaluation. To get more information, fill out our form on our website or call today!

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Your teachers are scheduled for certification in microneedling! This means it will be added to the curriculum by the beginning of the year!

What’s that? You’ll already be graduated? No worries! At Aisling Institute, alumni are eligible to return for advanced classes FOR FREE for the rest of their careers!

Always check the email that the school has on file …as demand presents, we offer classes like spray tanning, Brazilian waxing, and soon dermaplaning and microneedling!

Also, be sure and ask your teachers today about the upcoming field trip to Alabama for the beauty convention! Wahooooooo!

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