The Program

Now, the Blanche Macdonald Centre carries forward its high educational and professional standards with the NEW professional Hair program, PRO HAIR.

Moving well beyond the traditional paradigm of hair school training, the college provides you with an unparalleled approach to Hair education. With a thorough and complete immersion into all aspects of Hair, this progressive curriculum will allow you the flexibility and fluidity to work in a diversity of work environments and industries, from salon, editorial, runway, television production studios to film sets.

This is the first Hair program in Canada to integrate the essential skills and application relating to Hair for television and feature films.

Whatever your path, the Blanche Macdonald PRO HAIR program will ensure that you will acquire all the necessary skills and confidence that will propel you to success.

Throughout your training, practical skills are honed and sharpened with countless hours spent working on outside clients. This is not a program that can be condensed into a few short months. In order to ensure your successful outcome as a top Hair professional, you need to have the hundreds of hours of practice and practical application. Only by cutting, colouring, and creating on a continual basis can you develop the skills, the discerning aesthetic, the competence and the confidence that you need to compete and excel.

As you become fully proficient in the processes and principles of Hair, the emphasis shifts from your role as a student to a Hair professional. Fundamental career skills in resumé building, networking, job search techniques are reviewed. In addition, you are provided with expert advice in navigating the complex world of unions (i.e. IATSE and ACFC) with its vast array of standards, requirements and industry etiquette.

Furthering your career development, you acquire much needed business skills as a salon manager or entrepreneur. From essential accounting practices, retail and merchandising strategies, inventory control, and the ability to market yourself and your business, ultimately, you will be prepared to succeed in a competitive environment.

Leading the Hair industry in its role as an educator, the Blanche Macdonald Centre is the first college to introduce Art & Technology into a Hair curriculum. Within a state of the art MAC computer lab, students are given instruction in using Photoshop, compiling and composing their photos in a digital format and creating an e-portfolio. This is the only Hair program that will give you what you need to compete in today's wired world.