NAILS’ Blueprint of a First Year blogger Alica Best will be teaching a class at the Premiere Orlando trade show for new nail techs who could use some help transitioning from nail school to the real world. The class, titled “Graduation, Now What?” will cover how to build a strong clientele, continuing your education, booth rent versus commission versus salon ownership, branding yourself from the start, and ways to market yourself as a new nail tech.

There are two sessions: June 3 at 5 p.m. and June 4 at 3 p.m. Alica has also generously offered to give attendees who tell her they heard about her class from this blog some one-on-one time. To claim your one-on-one time, e-mail Alica at staff [at] alicabest.com before the show to set up a time and say you heard about it on NAILS’ From the Editors blog.

(By the way, if you’ll be at this show, you should also attend the Nailtech Network Orlando Social, where you can meet the staff of NAILS Magazine.)

—Sree