Are you familiar with Beauty Changes Lives? Please feel free to click and check it out. It’s an organization dealing in scholarships within the beauty industry.
Relevant to current nail professionals is the scholarship currently up for grabs via BCL and CND. The winners will receive up to $1,000 toward tuition, open stock product, and/or travel (where applicable) for advanced nail education through an authorized CND distributor. There are 15 of these scholarships available to licensed nail professionals in the United States. Applications are being accepted until September 15, 2018 via beautychangeslives.org/cnd-advanced.
Ad Loading...
I had several scholarship winners in class over the past year and it was wonderful that they had the opportunity to use the scholarship towards the classes as well as travel expenses to get to them. This is a wonderful chance for those already working in the industry or coming back from a hiatus to polish up on some skills and raise their prices!
If you know of any other industry scholarships, I would love to share them. Please email me the details at holly@nailsmag.com.
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.