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Hair extension.


They call it the Harvard of Hair, and there just wasn't enough room to teach everybody who wanted to learn styling there, so they've had to grow it out by adding classroom space to accommodate more staff and students.

It's the North American North American

named after North America.


North American blastomycosis
see North American blastomycosis.

North American cattle tick
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 Vidal Sassoon Vidal Sassoon (born January 17, 1928) is a hairdresser.

Sassoon was born to Jewish parents in London. His father was from Thessaloniki in northern Greece with Iraqi origins, and his mother, whose family was originally from Kiev, was born in London.
 Academy in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , and the $510,000 expansion, scheduled for completion this month, will add 2,600 square feet, bringing its Santa Monica Boulevard location to 14,600 square feet.

Students learn from seasoned Sassoon stylists, in classes where they cut hair on live models, and tuition for the 44-week cosmetology cos·me·tol·o·gy  
n.
The study or art of cosmetics and their use.



[French cosmétologie : cosmétique, cosmetic; see cosmetic + -logie, -logy.
 course is $18,000.

The academy claims several graduates from unlikely backgrounds. One is Gudlaugur Hannesson, a former Icelandic fisherman who is now a stylist at a top Reykjavik salon. Another is Mark Dotson, former U.S. Army military policeman policeman /po·lice·man/ (pah-les´min) a glass rod with a piece of rubber tubing on one end, used as a stirring rod and transfer tool in chemical analysis.

po·lice·man
n.
 and sheriffs deputy in Augusta, Ga. Dotson had always wanted to be a hair stylist, but didn't make the switch until he discovered the L.A. academy.

"The energy and the excitement that I could feel in the air and see as soon as I walked in, I knew this is going to be my springboard," he said.
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Title Annotation:The LABJ's L.A. Stories; North American Vidal Sassoon Academy
Comment:Hair extension.(The LABJ's L.A. Stories)(North American Vidal Sassoon Academy)
Author:Silkin, Steve
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
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Date:Mar 8, 2004
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