Programs
Choose From Our Two Beauty School Programs
Two crafts, two Kansas licenses, both taught in Hays and Salina by the same family since 1981. Pick the door that is yours.
Award-Winning Cosmetology School In Kansas
- 1,500 hours
- 12 months
- Tue–Fri, full-time
- Hays + Salina
Progressive Nail Technician Course
- 350 hours
- 3 months
- Full-time
- Hays + Salina
What you’ll learn
- Sanitation Best Practices
- Male and Female Haircuts
- Hair Design & the Latest Trends
- Hair Coloring
- Hair Styling
- Thermal Techniques
- Chemical Relaxing and Perms
- Skin Care
- Facials
- Makeup
- Nail Care
- Manicuring
- Artificial Nails
- Communication Skills
- Business Understanding
We teach Wella’s Cut Craft cutting curriculum, and we’re a Dermalogica Partner School, the professional skin kit is yours to keep.
Your year
- Hour 0 $100 and a signed registration contract holds your seat. Four starts a year, both campuses.
- 1–300 Foundations. Sanitation, theory, mannequin work, drills, until your hands know the moves without you.
- ~700 The student salon floor opens to you. Real clients, Saturdays 9–4, one a month minimum after basics.
- 1,000 Final stretch: finish the school curriculum and pass our internal written tests.
- 1,420 Schedule your state practical exam, you take it once you graduate.
- 1,500 Graduate, then sit for your Kansas state boards.
Where it takes you
- Salon Stylist
- Self-employed Hairstylist
- Barber
- Brand Ambassador
- Salon Owner/Manager
- Barbershop Owner/Manager
- Beauty Influencer
- Bridal or Event Specialist
- Hair and Makeup Artist
- Color Specialist
- Educator
“They do so much more than just preparing you for your state board exams.”
Bailey J. · Hays campus
Next start: November 2026 · Hays and Salina
What you’ll learn
- Acrylic Nails
- Natural Nail Care & Beauty
- Spa Manicures
- Spa Pedicures
- Nail Art
- Communication Skills
- Business Understanding
- Learning How to Maximize Potential
Eight subjects, three months, and you leave having learned every one of them. Pivot Point texts and a full professional nail kit are included. The Nail Technology program does not qualify for financial aid.
Your three months
- Hour 0 $100 and a signed registration contract holds your seat. Same start dates, same campuses, same instructors.
- Week 1 Sanitation and the natural nail, what a good technician is actually judged on.
- Mid-course Acrylic and gel sculpting on live models, then spa manicures, pedicures and art.
- Hour 350 Graduate, then sit for your state board exam.
Where it takes you
- Salon Nail Technician
- Self-employed Nail Artist
- Spa Nail Specialist
- Nail Salon Owner/Manager
- Nail Educator
“Welcome to the family.”
Lexie R. · graduate
Next start: November 2026 · Hays and Salina
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Our goal is to produce the most hire-able, financially responsible graduates in the country! We hope that is your goal too!