Does summer seem to be slipping away through your fingers? I feel like a chicken running around with its head cut off a lot of the time lately and have been trying to just stay afloat in the busy times. The salon is hopping with summer nails and toes, with classes going well, and the family busy too. Are you keeping a decent balance of everything? That is one of my challenges and I don’t think there is a magic answer, just the persistence to keep trying.
In all the crazy business of summer, a group of nail professionals has really impressed me with their dedication to furthering education and advancing salon careers. This past weekend, there were fourteen professionals that traveled to Des Moines, Iowa for a three-day Grand Master weekend. It is hard to give up three days to take classes, then add travel time, and expense to the equation and it equals admirable dedication. Here is my shout out and congrats to the six from Iowa, two from Minnesota, two from Maryland, two from Illinois, one from Texas, and one from the Bahamas!! Congrats, ladies!
Here I am sharing a very comprehensive and well-rounded almost back to work package of information for you from Virox (Rejuvenate) that is the complete set of materials to help you feel confident that everything is in place and ready to go, even if you are already back at work!
If your salon has re-opened, you may have found some challenges with wearing a face shield while working. If not, here are some tips that could help save you some headaches when you do get back.
This video is a really awesome resource for figuring out a reasonable hourly rate for yourself in addition to seeing the average your area can bear in service prices in some ways.
Have you ever heard of the stages of grief? With everything going on, we are grieving our “normal”. That means you should give yourself permission to feel the way you feel.
Has all this PPE business got you down? Does it feel like it cramps your style? One way to help it cheer you up which will in turn cheer up your clients is to add some sparkle.
For those of you that like a little data with your info, here is some really interesting information from salon owner Michele Baker in Georgia. Being one of the first states to open left the salon owners to scramble to learn a lot of things on their own and many have been generous in sharing things they have figured out to help make operating in the COVID-19 world more systematic and understandable.
It has been quite a while since I made a video for the e-file chronicles so an update to that seemed in order. The latest installment is removing gel-polish from an enhancement.