"practical" test

notice the title, let me just assure you before i tell you the story of my horrible 'practical' exam experience, that these tests are no where near- not even remotely close- to being practical.



i will try not to drag on forever i'll just cover the main points

-first procedure we had to show the examiner how to do was the manicure - idk about you but LOTION is kindof an important part of the manicure- its a general item that does so much for the skin that people tend to apply it daily so of course you'd want that to be part of the manicure. WELL, as i began the procedure- guess what? i was missing lotion in my kit- guess what i found out? taya had it in hers....



-still in the first procedure- at the end of my pretending to massage without lotion step, i began to paint the nails. (blonde moment approaching) after i had them all painted i looked around the room and realized i was the only one painting... awesome... so i felt pretty lame for a moment but i was still upbeat haha so then when i finished the examiner asked me, "can i see your hand?" now just think about this moment, me+blonde hair+ nervousness= me answering back, "sure" and handing her my own hand, rather than the hand that the test was being graded on. and then halfway through handing her my hand in that split second i realized "wow, that was dumb" and she said "no, uh," and rather than having her actually have to explain it to me i luckily...not really luckily at this point but still luckily, i managed to catch her drift and i handed her the actual hand she wanted.



-next procedure- how to put on a nail tip. DIDN'T even know i was supposed to do this procedure, so that kinda stunned me but i had all the equipment so in the 2 MIN allowed to put all your stuff away and get all the other stuff out and clean and disinfect it all i managed to miss grabbing the glue. if you've ever had your nails done, you know just how important that glue is. so BASICALLY that section i didnt do too hott on because i couldn't perform the procedure. awesome.



-the other procedures i thought i did alright on, till we recieved our test scores.



a smidge of ventage for a second- can i just say its freakin lame because the company that tests us don't regulate all the rules with the state completely and they didn't give all the information to our teacher so theres no way we could have known all that we were supposed to- because even if you know how to do all the procedures properly and you do it cleanly (im making that a word if its not one) - if you dont dispose of the proper crap into its proper trash bags you get docked points - if you dont break every orange stick before throwing it away- you fail OH and one more detail thats just AWESOME, when you do fail because your first time its just about guaranteed that you will, they dont tell you what you missed points on... so basically ya gotta ask around town till ya figure it out on your own. how do i feel about this all? pretty dang angry.