aclJohn's Hair & Beauty Finds

Communication is essential on all training courses and getting to grips with technical terms and their meanings can be a major hurdle.

Make-Up USA's website provides a useful resource for 'hair and beauty' learners; in the skincare FAQ's, Vocabulary & Product Ingredients section learners can look up new words and check to find a definition for them.

They can also click, when on the website, on the words to the left of the screen and they will find images of the kinds of products included ...

Michelle Phan has currently 85 Video clips on her YouTube channel that include...

• DIY Beauty - 12 videos - Easy, Do It Yourself home made projects for your everyday beauty needs!
• On The Go Reviews - 6 videos - Live filming where Michelle reviews and recommends beauty products on the spot and
• Makeup Tutorials - 32 videos - easy step by step guides on how to achieve certain looks...

Ideal resources for discussion and/or for learners to view before making their own video clips, along similar li...

A new batch of hairdressing resources are now freely available online. These are high quality videos that demonstrate popular hairdressing techniques, such as...

• cutting,
• straightening, and
• also cover areas such as client consultation and health and safety.

If your organization delivers hairdressing training, and have a virtual learning environment, links to these resources can be easily es...

This site was designed by Heikki Paulaharju, a Senior Designer at JABA Multimedia Design in Australia

VS Sassoon is a nice example of eLearning as a commercial solution for hairdressers/learners who want to know how they can improve their skills.

• Click on the “Hair styling wizard” icon, underneath the VS Sassoon logo or the text in the menu.
• A wizard opens which users can work through, selecting appropriate elements
• When complete a video is provided with instructions and proposed tools...

Daily Makeover is a virtual makeover site combined with information on...

• hairstyles,
• makeup,
• fashion etc.

via...

• articles,
• blogs and
• other sources.

Similar to Taaz, that I've written about before, Daily Makeover has an online virtual makeover tool. It is called Makeover Studio < http://www.dailymakeover.com/makeover/virtualMakeover>.

• Click on “start your makeover”,
• upload photos and
• apply a variety of effects using makeup materials from different beauty brands.

The choice of......