Students working across hair, nail and skin care stations at a beauty school in South Gate, California

Nuestros Programas

Beauty School Programs in South Gate, CA

Every licence the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology issues in the beauty trades, plus the training and student services around them — all taught in Spanish.

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Maiquela’s Cosmetology Academy offers ten beauty school programs in South Gate, California: cosmetology (1,000 hours), manicurist (400 hours), esthetician (600 hours), barbering (1,000 hours), makeup artistry, hair styling, state board exam prep, Spanish-language classes, student salon services, and enrolment guidance. Every one is taught in Spanish.

California sets training hours by scope of licence. A licence that permits more requires more hours, and those figures are identical at every approved school in the state — 400 for manicurist, 600 for esthetician and hairstylist, 1,000 for cosmetology and barbering.

What differs between schools is everything else: the language of instruction, how much live-model clinic time you get, how honest the cost conversation is, and whether the schedule survives contact with your real week. Those are the questions worth asking us and worth asking everyone else.

Licencias del Estado

State licence programs

Four programs leading directly to a California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology licence, each ending in written examination preparation.

1,000 hours

Cosmetology Program in South Gate, CA

The full 1,000-hour licence track — hair, skin and nails in one program.

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400 hours

Manicurist Program in South Gate, CA

The 400-hour nail licence — the fastest legal route onto a salon floor.

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600 hours

Esthetician Program in South Gate, CA

The 600-hour skin licence — facials, waxing, and clinical skin analysis.

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1,000 hours

Barbering Program in South Gate, CA

The 1,000-hour barber licence — clippers, fades, shears and straight-razor shaving.

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Which program fits you?

The honest way to choose is not by which licence sounds broadest — it is by the work you want to do daily and how soon you need to be earning. Start with whichever of these sounds most like you.

You need to be earning soon. A year of full-time school is not realistic right now, and you want the shortest legal route to a state licence and a salon chair. At 400 hours this is the fastest and least expensive licence California issues.
Start with the manicurist program
You want to work with hair. Cutting and colour are what interest you, and you would rather not be blocked from adding facials or nails later. The extra 400 hours over a hairstylist licence keep every one of those doors open.
Start with the cosmetology program
Clippers interest you more than colour. You want fades, beard work and straight-razor shaves — and the razor is the one service a cosmetology licence does not permit. Same 1,000 hours as cosmetology, entirely different daily work.
Start with the barbering program
Skin is what fascinates you. You would rather build long treatment relationships in a quiet room than turn over a busy floor, and med-spas and brow and lash studios are where you picture yourself working. That is the 600-hour skin licence.
Start with the esthetician & skin care program

The four California state licence programs compared by required hours, scope of practice, exclusions, realistic timeline and cost drivers.
Program	Hours	What it covers	What it does not permit	Realistic timeline	Best for
Cosmetology Program	1,000 hours	The widest scope — hair cutting, colour and chemical services, plus skin and nail care.	Straight-razor shaving. That is reserved to the barber licence in California.	Around 8–9 months at roughly 30 hours a week.	Working behind a chair with the option to add skin and nails later.
Manicurist Program	400 hours	Hands and feet only — manicures, pedicures, acrylic and gel enhancements, nail art.	No hair services of any kind. No facials, waxing or skin treatment.	Around 3–4 months at roughly 30 hours a week.	Getting licensed and earning as fast as California allows.
Esthetician & Skin Care Program	600 hours	Skin only — facials, exfoliation, extraction, waxing, brows, lashes and makeup.	No hair, no nails. Nothing that penetrates living tissue — injectables, laser and medical-depth peels belong to a medical licence.	Around 5 months at roughly 30 hours a week.	Med-spas, facial studios, and brow and lash bars.
Barbering Program	1,000 hours	Clipper work and fades, shear cutting, beard design, and straight-razor shaving.	No nail services and no facial or skin treatments.	Around 8–9 months at roughly 30 hours a week.	Barbershop work and the most predictable repeat-client cycle in the trade.

Timelines assume roughly 30 hours a week of attendance. Hours are fixed by the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology; calendar time is not. Attending part-time around a job or childcare roughly doubles every figure above.

What a table cannot tell you is whether you would rather spend two hours on one perfect set of nails or turn over six haircuts, or whether you can stand for eight hours a day for the next twenty years. Those questions decide more careers than hours or scope do — so if you are genuinely torn, call (323) 587-1750 and talk it through before you enrol in anything.

Formación y Servicios

Training, exam prep and student services

Skill-building for licensed professionals, preparation for the state written exam, Spanish-language class information, and the student salon open to the public.

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