Beauty School Is Broken: The School Director Exposing the Truth

Sh!t I told my Hairdresser · May 31, 2026 · 49m

Is beauty school preparing students for real careers—or setting them up to fail?In this episode of Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser, Jason Townsend and Paula Dahlberg sit down with cosmetology school director Heather Laws, a 20+ year industry veteran who transformed a struggling beauty school from 12 students to over 200 and is now helping shape legislation that could change cosmetology education forever. Heather pulls back the curtain on what many schools are getting wrong: students graduating with little client experience, weak color education, poor business training, and unrealistic expectations…