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Alexandra Schulz (right), 22, a 2nd year cosmetology major from Jeffersonville, Indiana curls Kaia Cobb’s (left) hair in the SMC Cosmetology salon in the SMC Main Campus Business Building on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Cobb, 34, from Houston, Texas, holds a 2007 BBA in Economics from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She enrolled in the Esthetician Program at SMC to pursue her "teenage dream of being a makeup artist in Los Angeles." (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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SMC Cosmetology Department chair Debbie Perret, from Monrovia, CA, in her office in the cosmetology salons in the SMC Main Campus Business Building on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Perret is in her 8th year of teaching at SMC. (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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Kaia Cobb, 34, from Houston, Texas, applies makeup to Skye Johnson, 18, a Brooklyn, NY born, and Raleigh, NC raised, student in the SMC Esthetician Program at the SMC Cosmetology Salons in the Business Building on SMC’s Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. In addition to the Esthetician Program, Johnson is also taking his Nursing prerequisites at SMC with the goal of becoming a Medical Aesthetician. Medical Aestheticians provide skin care in medical settings and can assist with injectables like Botox. Cobb holds a 2007 BBA in Economics from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She enrolled in the Esthetician Program at SMC to pursue her "teenage dream of being a makeup artist in Los Angeles." (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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Kaia Cobb, 34, from Houston, Texas, selects one of her brushes to apply makeup to Skye Johnson, 18, a Brooklyn, NY born, and Raleigh, NC raised, student in the SMC Esthetician Program at the SMC Cosmetology Salons in the Business Building on SMC’s Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Of her vast collection of makeup supplies, Cobb says, "I have to know who my client is before I take all my products out." (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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Students in the SMC Cosmetology program cut, color, curl, and perform other skills on the hair of classmates and outside clients in the SMC Cosmetology salon in the Business Building on SMC’s Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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SMC Cosmetology faculty member Felipe Felix demonstrating hair styling techniques in the SMC Cosmetology salon in the Business Building on Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Felix has taught in the SMC Cosmetology department since 1989. (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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SMC Cosmetology faculty member Felipe Felix discussing the changing social values toward makeup for men in the SMC Cosmetology salon in the Business Buliding on the SMC Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Felix has taught at SMC since 1989. (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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SMC Cosmetology students practice hair styling in the SMC Cosmetology salon in the Business Building on the SMC Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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Kaia Cobb, 34, from Houston, Texas, applies glue to a false eyelash at the SMC Cosmetology Salons in the Business Building on SMC’s Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Cobb holds a 2007 BBA in Economics from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She enrolled in the Esthetician Program at SMC to pursue her "teenage dream of being a makeup artist in Los Angeles." (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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Kaia Cobb, 34, from Houston, Texas, applies a false eyelash to Skye Johnson, 18, a Brooklyn, NY born, and Raleigh, NC raised, student in the SMC Esthetician Program at the SMC Cosmetology Salons in the Business Building on SMC’s Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. In addition to the Esthetician Program, Johnson is also taking his Nursing prerequisites at SMC with the goal of becoming a Medical Aesthetician. Medical Aestheticians provide skin care in medical settings and can assist with injectables like Botox. Cobb holds a 2007 BBA in Economics from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She enrolled in the Esthetician Program at SMC to pursue her "teenage dream of being a makeup artist in Los Angeles." (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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Kaia Cobb, 34, from Houston, Texas, applies makeup to Skye Johnson, 18, a Brooklyn, NY born, and Raleigh, NC raised, student in the SMC Esthetician Program at the SMC Cosmetology Salons in the Business Building on SMC’s Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. In addition to the Esthetician Program, Johnson is also taking his Nursing prerequisites at SMC with the goal of becoming a Medical Aesthetician. Medical Aestheticians provide skin care in medical settings and can assist with injectables like Botox. Cobb holds a 2007 BBA in Economics from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She enrolled in the Esthetician Program at SMC to pursue her "teenage dream of being a makeup artist in Los Angeles." (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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SMC Esthetician Program student Kaia Cobb, 34, from Houston, Texas, applies powder to a brush in the SMC Cosmetology Salons in the Business Building on SMC’s Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Of her vast collection of makeup supplies, Cobb says, "I have to know who my client is before I take all my products out." (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)
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Skye Johnson, 18, a Brooklyn, NY born, and Raleigh, NC raised, student in the SMC Esthetician Program in his finished makeup by classmate Kaia Cobb at the SMC Cosmetology Salons in the Business Building on SMC’s Main Campus on Thursday, April 18, 2019. In addition to the Esthetician Program, Johnson is also taking his Nursing prerequisites at SMC with the goal of becoming a Medical Aesthetician. Medical Aestheticians provide skin care in medical settings and can assist with injectables like Botox. (Glenn Zucman/The Corsair)