How to Use cosmetology in a Sentence

cosmetology

noun
  • Dazhai, a cosmetology student at the time, would make hair bows for her clients.
    Sydney N. Walton, CNN, 3 Apr. 2021
  • So many braiders don’t have the desire — or the money — to go to cosmetology school.
    Mariah Smith, Allure, 13 Feb. 2018
  • So nurses serve on the nursing board, hairdressers on the cosmetology board, and so forth.
    Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • One of her former cosmetology students asked for advice on how to start his own salon.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Lowell inmates say the cosmetology program is a refuge from prison life.
    refinery29.com, 2 June 2018
  • Linehan grew up in the Bay Area and right out of high school entered cosmetology school.
    Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • This fall, Aveda announced plans to move its cosmetology school there.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 25 Nov. 2024
  • From there, his father worked a hotel manager job to get through cosmetology school and open the salon.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • Angie went to cosmetology school with Kathy’s next-door neighbor.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Now, she’s excited by cosmetology and intends to support herself one day as a hair stylist.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The 35-year-old had finished her first day of cosmetology school that afternoon.
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • After getting on her feet, Hubbell hopes to go to cosmetology school in Rice Lake.
    Hallie Claflin, Journal Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The cosmetology schools spend 1,600 hours teaching us how to destroy our hair.
    Alexa Díaz, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • Today her daughter Catherine works side by side with her at the salon and teaches cosmetology.
    Tamara E. Holmes, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Lounge about in a roomy suite or call for an in-room spa treatment, which uses expert French cosmetology with ancient techniques.
    Vogue, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Brooks-Williams had gone to cosmetology school and made money doing hair in her apartment in Southeast.
    Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • The 24-year-old waitress and cosmetology student was found beaten, raped and strangled.
    Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • There's the cosmetology license, the rent (either for the location or for your chair within a salon), and the supplies.
    Kaitlyn McNa, Allure, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Aside from cosmetology, Traelynn loved to dance, and had been involved with cheerleading through the school since 7th grade.
    Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Ovid, predictably, wrote an Art of Love, a send-up of the whole genre, and at least started a didactic poem on cosmetology.
    Gregory Hays, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
  • The skills taught at cosmetology school are the foundation of many great careers in beauty, whether as a hairstylist, aesthetician, or nail tech.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Stone got his cosmetology license and has been working in salons since the early 1970s.
    idahostatesman, 6 May 2017
  • After high school, LeCroy went cosmetology school and opened the doors on her salon in 2017.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Before opening Endless Grind, Beyene did ten years in cosmetology and still owns a beauty shop.
    Colin Wrenn, Denver Post, 13 May 2026
  • Many massage therapists came to the field as a second career; competitors left jobs in banking, cosmetology, and opera.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Hernández misses his girlfriend, who just finished cosmetology school.
    Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2020
  • DeeDee Patterson, an instructor in the cosmetology program, can count on one hand the number of men she’s taught in the past eight years.
    Kelly Field, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Allensworth writes about Fatou Diouf, a Nashville-area braider who ran into the cosmetology board.
    Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Fresh out of cosmetology school, Jennifer Guy was glad to start work as a hairdresser in late February.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2020
  • The newest Ducey appointee to the cosmetology board, Brandi Wells, agreed.
    Richard Ruelas, azcentral, 5 Apr. 2018

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