Having a extra versatile talent set and availability will make you extra enticing to salon and spa jobs. Those stylists who wish to focus solely on make up tend to work in beauty retail, corresponding to MAC, Sephora or Ulta …. But in the make up retail area, you will be break up between promoting merchandise round giving fast make overs to potential consumers. You do not have the time to luxuriously spend constructing the perfect smoky eye. In California, you should go through a cosmetology program with a minimal of 1600 hours of classroom and practical training, earlier than passing an exam to become a licensed cosmetologist. Many cosmetologists proceed to learn new techniques and continue their education and self-improvement all through their career.