Birthday Cake Ideas for Cosmetologists

Around the outside of the cake, add cutouts of scissors, brushes and combs.

Birthday cakes are a staple of birthday parties. Birthday cakes can be as simple as a sheet cake with a layer of frosting or as elaborate as a cake designed into a specified elegant shape. For a cosmetologist, a beauty school or hair salon birthday, a special birthday cake reflects the profession of hair care. The cake design can focus on any part of the business from a hair dryer to the clients who come in every week to have their hair styled.

Building

For celebrating the birthday of a hair care business, create a cake that reflects the location of the business. On a sheet cake, recreate the image of the business storefront with a roof, sides, windows and door in frosting, fondant and candy. The cake can also recreate the actual building itself with layers of cake cut into the shape of the hair salon.

Hair

Cosmetology is all about hair -- cutting, trimming, coloring and styling. Create a hairstyle out of the cake. On a sheet cake, draw a face surrounded by hair, Sculpt the cake vertically. Create hair and rollers with fondant and frosting. Form a bouffant hair style around the head with fondant and whipped topping.

Implements

Cosmetologists use any number of implements and supplies in cutting and styling hair. They use combs, pins, shears, sponges, aprons and wipes. Create a birthday cake for cosmetologists that focuses on the implements used in a hair salon. A birthday cake can use these tools and supplies in various ways. Decorate a sheet cake with fondant cutouts of things used in a beauty shop. Use plastic miniatures as a border around the birthday greeting on the cake. Use candy cutouts of combs, pins and scissors to help make the lettering of the cake.

Clients & Salon Chair

The salon chair is a fixture of every cosmetologist beauty shop. The cosmetologist and client chat while the client has her hair done. For a birthday cake, recreate the salon chair from cake layers. Cut out a central section to create the seating portion of the chair. Cover the chair with brown frosting with a ring of silver icing around the bottom for the footrest. Take a photograph of the cosmetologist’s clients. Create a protective cover for the picture and set it on the cake seat. Set the cake on a table cloth on which the staff and clients write their names with permanent markers or fabric paint.

Hair Dryer

The hair dryer is a must have for the professional cosmetologist. Not only does a cosmetologist need a personal hair dryer, but the beauty shop also needs the larger professional hard hat hair dryers under which clients sit to finish their styles. On a sheet cake create an image of the hard hat hair dryer with a client waving. Text reads, “Happy Birthday to My Favorite Cosmetologist!” Using a round cake, make or bake a hole in the center. Cut a hand hair dryer shape out of cardboard and add weights. Anchor one end into the cake hole. To the upper side of the hair dryer rising from the center of the cake, tie the strings of a balloon bouquet with happy birthday wishes on the balloons.