Taliah Waajid Workshops

Our professional workshops are exclusively for stylist/barbers and beauty school students who want to improve their skills and status as total professionals. With the rising interest in natural hair care, it makes great sense to add natural hair care to the services you offer. If you have already added this service, come and find out from the top natural hair and healthy hair instructors the latest hair techniques and marketing skills to keep you competitive.
(Professional  stylist/barbers only. Cosmetologist students must provide ID or a business card)

Instructor
Taliah Waajid

Protective Styling

Classroom: Empire East | Saturday 12:30pm-2:00pm

Stop losing your hair and learn everything you need to know about properly wearing protective styles! In this workshop World renown natural hair care Specialist, Master Cosmetologist and healthy hair product manufacturer of Taliah Waajid products, will share with you important basic information and techniques for avoiding permanent hair loss and damage while wearing protective styles. Protective styles can be damaging are your client’s hair from unnecessary damage that is usually caused by incorrect application of Protective Styles.

Instructor
Te'Mia Lofton

Natural Hair Styling Techniques

Classroom: Empire West | Saturday & Sunday 2:30pm – 4:00pm

Are you a Stylist that would like to be professionally trained on Natural Hair Techniques?
Do you need to know how to transition your clients from chemicals to natural?
Do you need to know the basics of natural hair care and styling?

You will learn natural hair styling techniques, how to properly style natural hair without damaging it, how to properly section and part hair for styles. I will also educate on styling for transitional maintenance.

Instructor
Chris Noble

The Silk Blowout

Classroom: Central Park East  | Saturday 4:30pm – 6:00pm

Do you have clients who suffer from dry, frizzy, damaged, or curly hair? Is your client natural and want to go from silky straight to curly every week? Learn the difference between Dominican blowouts, Keratin smoothing treatments and how to flat iron hair each week without damage. Learn to deliver damage and chemical free results for your client’s hair as well as how to create a fabulous blowout look without extra heat damage.

Clients often want whatever they see and expect you to deliver damage and chemical free results. This class will teach you how to create the fabulous blowout look without extra heat damage, pointless roller setting or several flat iron passes. You will be able to give your clients beautiful, natural hair with lots of movement. As a bonus, students will also learn how to rebuild damaged hair while providing the blowout without additional steps or using deep conditioners under the dryer.

Instructor
Destiny Cox

Secrets of a Colorist: Natural Textured Hair

Classroom Central Park East | Saturday & Sunday 10:30am-12:00pm

DCI joins you on the journey to successfully color natural hair. Stop covering it up and learn to attack the secret fear of color treating natural hair. Learn to transform your clients with age defying hair color. Learn the secrets to giving your clients gorgeous hair color with dimension. Learn the secrets to beautiful reds, coppers, blondes and the ultimate going black formula that does not fade. Say good bye to embarrassing yellow and green hair and hello to conquering gray hair with no mistakes.

This class will take a close look at global trends for 2016 and prepare beauty professionals for an outbreak of creativity and imagination. These techniques are for relaxed, natural, transitional clients alike.

Instructor
Tarsha Woods

Quick Wigs

Classroom Central Park East | Sunday 2:30pm-4:00pm

This advanced course will demonstrate custom wig making in one hour or less! Enhance your skills and increase productivity as Tarsha Woods shows you how to make wigs at an all new level. Learn methods that will allow you to produce more wigs in less time, offer wholesale to distributors, even open your own wig store!
Fast and easy, your clients will have “no more bad hair days” with Quick Wigs.

Instructor
Tarsha Woods

Quick Wig Making, Styling, Coloring and Cleansing

Classroom: Central Park East | Sunday 4:30pm – 6:00pm

The current wig trend has expanded the creative and lucrative field of cosmetology. Wig specialist, Tarsha Woods, will teach you every phase of wigology. Ex. Wig making, fitting shaping, coloring, styling, cleansing and conditioning. Create your own wig salon with the application of this theory and increase your income!

Students will learn:
– Types of wig foundations
– Measuring head for proper size
– Human vs. synthetic hair wigs
– Preparation of wig on block
– Wig Salesmanship

Instructor
Tomeka James

Protective Lace Closure

Classroom Central Park East | Sunday 12:30pm-2:00pm

No more heat damage on the leave out! Total protection for the hair line. Learn how to apply your lace closure with out the use of adhesives/ tapes. See this magical method. It’s Lace Closures for Dummies!

Instructor
Tomeka James

Sewing Machine Meets Wig Making

Classroom: Central Park East | Saturday 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Let us show you the benefits of using a sewing machine. No more hand stitching. No more wasting hours creating a wig by hand. These wigs have longevity. Learn to properly take your client’s measurements for her/his custom wig.
Clients don’t need to be present while the unit is being made. Create this unit in your spare time. Make this unit in the salon opposed to buying a premade unit that must be shipped and may not fit.

Instructor
Maria Thompson

Elegant Flat twist Buns/Ponytails

Classroom: Empire East | Saturday 2:30pm – 4:00pm

Looking for a quick, simple, elegant style that can take you from day to evening, from work to play? You will be shown several ways to create soft elegant flat twists. Your clients will love that they only take 1hr to complete and 10mins to take out.

Instructor
Maria Thompson

Starting and Maintaining Locs

Classroom: Empire West | Sunday 10:30am – 12:00pm

This workshop will teach you just about everything you need to know about locs. Ex. How long it takes to loc hair, the best way to start locs, the best ingredients to use on locs; how often to wash locs; starting locs from relaxed hair do’s and don’t’s and so much more

Instructor
Antonette Jackson

Chemical-Free Natural Hair Care

Classroom: Lenox Ballroom | Saturday & Sunday 12:30pm – 2:00pm

There are so many people wearing their hair natural, and looking for alternative ways to style it. This class will discuss.
• Life after transitioning • The Different Types of Curl Patterns
• To lock or not to lock • Flat iron v. Hot comb
• Shampooing v. Co-Wash • Products for Coloring Hair
• Styles That Fit Your Texture

Instructor
Patricia Stephens

Crochet Braids

Classroom: Empire East | Sunday 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Patricia Stephens, top stylist from the Taliah Waajid styling team will teach you the basic and advance techniques for creating beautiful, long-lasting, damage-free styles using the Crochet Braid technique. Learn to cover damage and balding areas as well using this technique.

Don’t miss your chance to stay ahead of the curve in natural hair styling.

Instructor
Shawntel M Waajid

Damage-free Interlocking Techniques for Healthy Locs

Classroom: Empire West | Saturday 12:30pm – 2:00pm

This workshop will answer the many questions about the highly controversial Interlock Technique for locking hair. Learn from a Taliah Waajid lead instructor how to correctly and professionally interlock your clients locs from start to finish as a loc start or maintenance service. Learn the proper techniques for helping to eliminate breakage from improper locing and Interlocking techniques.

Instructor
Janel Sealy Smith

Preserve your Curls

Classroom: Central Park West | Sunday 4:30pm – 6:00pm

Learn how to do a silk press without damaging your hair !
Bonus: Rod curl your hair for a new curl pattern look.

Instructor
Janel Sealy Smith

Preserve your Curls

Classroom: Lenox Ballroom | Saturday 2:30pm – 4:00pm

Learn how to do a silk press without damaging your hair !
Bonus: Rod curl your hair for a new curl pattern look.

Instructor
Dr. Meena Singh

Prevention & Management of Hair Loss in African-American Men & Women

Classroom: Empire East | Saturday & Sunday 4:30pm – 6:00pm

Learn to identify, prevent and manage the most common types of hair loss in both African-American men and women. Understanding key differences in African-American hair compared to other ethnicities, including variations on the shape, density, cuticle thickness, and formation of knots. The goal of this class is to educate both consumers and professionals on recognition, prevention and management of both hair loss and breakage.

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