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SEARCHThere are so many opportunities for us to put love and compassion out into our communities through the career that we love.
One of the most gratifying things I do, aside from teaching, is volunteer work. Anything from Look Good Feel Better sessions with cancer patients and survivors to spa days with kids at a group home. There are so many opportunities for us to put love and compassion out into our communities through the career that we love.
You can volunteer to help at a women’s shelter — even a basic manicure to clean up shape and cuticle work is a blessing. There’s donating out-of-season polishes to nursing homes to make room for more colors and keep clients’ polish choice from becoming a 15-minute ordeal. You can even pass out mini oils and a nail file to teen groups, while delivering some basic education on nail care and how to find a safe salon.
CND provided polish and other extras for the girls I visited.
American Crew provided shampoo and conditioner for the boys.
This week I had the privilege of working with some kids to show them how to take care of their own nails, from filing them for shape to applying polish with a little less mess than usual. I was so proud to have CND send in polishes and a few extras for the girls, while American Crew hooked the boys up with shampoo and conditioner. They all loved the idea of having something for their very own that was salon quality. The boys liked learning about preventing hangnails with Solar Oil, and the girls loved reducing the time it took to clean up their nails after polishing.
Thank you to Orchard Place for letting fellow nail professional Jen Conrath and I spend the day with your kids sharing our love for nail care! Thank you to CND and American Crew for making the kids feel special!
Do you do some volunteer work that is industry related? I would love to hear about it and possibly have you write a guest blog! Please email me 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!
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!
