It’s pretty exciting that there seems to be an ongoing trend of nail techs moving toward using personal protection equipment.
The big thing right now is gloves and I know it hasn’t killed me personally to start using them in the salon after completing my A.N.T. (Advanced Nail Tech) training. My clients have not been bothered by it either and it does give a more professional and medical feel to the service. If you haven’t gotten into gloves yet, the current Face-to-Face with Doug Schoon episode covers how to choose the best gloves! I know you need a subscription to watch it; however, I can also imagine you have spent $5 on much less useful things. Right?
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It looks like NTNA runner up, Lauren Wireman is planning to lead the way in professionals donning safety glasses by offering Nail Spex. Nail Spex are clever, hand-designed safety glasses that lend an air of trend and fun to the wearer, making it seem less like a safety precaution and more like a fashionable accessory! They are comfortable to wear, fun to pick out, and the profits go to the start-up and accreditation of Wildflowers Nail Academy. Contributing to the future of the industry while protecting one of your most valuable tools (your eyes) sounds like a pretty smart business move to me. For more information on Nail Spex, click here.
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.