Debra Collins:  

When I graduated from ACHS I went straight to State Beauty College in Campbellsville, Ky. I got my licenses as a Cosmetologist June 1978 and 3 months later my husband and I got married Aug 6th, 1978. We lacked 4 weeks being engaged a year at the time we got married. I went to work in a Hair Salon in Greensburg and worked until Jan- 1979 where I took over managment of Adair Beauty Salon in Columbia there. I went back to Cosmetology school March 1981 to be a Cosmetologist Instructor and graduated from that Nov, 1981 3 months after I gave birth to my first born child- Charles who is now 27 years old. I was the youngest Cosmetologist instructor to pass the state board exam on the first attempt. I worked there for several years and then got out and did several others odds and ends jobs where I was burnt out on the the industry at that time. I got back in the Cosmetology field not long after my 2nd child Kimiko was born- she is 20 years old and engaged and with 2 1/2 years more college before getting married- both will be double majors and she will be a five years college major due to the majors she chose. I went back to the salon and just worked for others until managment opened up again in 1993. I brough my own salon in 1997 and in 1998 I traveled back and forth to Carole Lynden Academny and got my doctorate in Cosmetologist which is a P.H.D. It was a series and courses of 4 different phrases and training that was completed in weekends clusters of classes an time to come back home and practice and accomplish that phrase before going to the next training. I learned how to cut curl into the hair and how to use...Expand for more