Hello, all!!

My name is Jenna, I attend the newest PM partner school. It's in frederick Maryland. 

I've had a confusing year as far as school goes and so despite my 600+ hours I am still in the core group(little to no hands on, mostly studies- I switched schools at 450hrs).

Recently we had the pleasure of meeting with Caron J. A Paul Mitchell product expert(among many other wonderful things), & she informed our class about diverted salon products sold in stores like CVS & walmart.

She told us horror stories about how some of the diverted products were tested & harmful substances such as fecal matter & parasites were found- not just that, but a bottle of diverted "baby don't cry" contained chemicals that could PERMANENTLY BLIND a child.

(And besides the harm that these products can physically do, diversion takes money from the pockets of cosmetologists everywhere. )

Our whole class was deeply disturbed by this information & we've been having discussion after discussion about what we as future professionals of the beauty industry can do to help bring this to a stop.

Our ideas so far are as follows:

*brochures
*mass bulletins & e-mails(hence this post)
*sit ins at unlicensed distributers
*advertizing/commercial(similar concept to the "truth" commercials )

Any suggestions on what else could be done, or thoughts on the issue would be greatly appreciated. And if anyone would like to donate to the cause, please contact the director of my school @:
info@pmthetemple.com

Thanks so much!