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I had the privilege of doing Jen Planck's nails before her inspiring presentation.
The Best Lil Nail Show Texas was so much fun! The weekend started on Friday with the U.S. Nailympia competitions kicking off. Did you catch the Facebook Live broadcast of the gel-polish competition on the NAILS Magazine page? The recording is still available if you want to watch and get the feel for competing!
Here’s my competition model.
Saturday was a day of setup and some classes were also available on site. Nailympia competitions continued right on the show floor. Saturday evening the Associated Nail Professionals hosted a Meet and Mingle with keynote speaker Jen Planck. You can see different clips of Jen’s speech on the NAILS Facebook page, the CND Facebook page, and the FingerNailFixer Facebook page.
My competition results at Nailympia!
Sunday, the tradeshow portion of the show was underway in addition to the final categories of the competition. To see some of the fun and goings on at the show, search #BNST on your favorite social media platform. From starting the day with breakfast provided to the vendors to chatting with enthusiastic nail professionals and even visiting with fellow educators during tear down it was a wonderful experience. The winners of Nailympia were announced to finish out the show — in case you’re wondering I managed to win my category division!
Learning to use my e-file in Kupa's Monday class.
Monday was the final day and incorporated a variety of classes. I personally opted to take the Kupa e-file class and attempted to learn what to do with my cute Manipro Passport. That’s a whole other blog with lots of laughs!
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!
Every Tuesday for the next four weeks, Holly will be doing an alcohol ink tutorial.
National Nail Tech Day is May 30, and to celebrate YOU, Virox and I would like to offer up the opportunity to win a canister of disinfecting wipes.
Join me Wednesday evening 5/27/20 for a Live chat on Facebook with Dr Spalding to get some idea of what it takes to be that level of clean and safe.
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.
Holly orders Wildflowers Nails in a Box and tries it out Live.
Holly demonstrates how to do a vertical ombre on nails with the help of Winnie Huang.
Holly shares two videos to help you practice your liquid and powder technique.
Holly and Shelena Robinson show how to make a runway rose fit for everyday.
Holly helps you practice your hard gel technique.
Holly will be doing two Instagram Lives next week on PPE.
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.
Holly has a jam-packed week of live talks and demos on social media!
