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SEARCHAs 2012 comes to a close, I hope that there were enough good things about your year to outweigh the bad. Now seems to me like the perfect time to say thank you for the great
As 2012 comes to a close, I hope that there were enough good things about your year to outweigh the bad. Now seems to me like the perfect time to say thank you for the great things, move on from the bad things, and dream of future things.
Thank you NAILS Magazine and your amazing readers for allowing me to post to this blog and network with amazing nail professionals around the world. A special thank you for the honor of doing several 2012 covers!
Thank you to all the nail professionals who took the time to attend my classes, watch my videos, or hang out here or on Facebook this year.
Thank you to those who work hard to bring nail tech networking online where I can always afford to attend.
Thank you to everyone who wrote a guest blog, tolerated an interview, gave advice, and provided encouragement.
Thank you to Sweet Squared for welcoming me to the UK, and to all those that traveled from near and far to “play” nails with me while there, I love visiting across the pond!
Thank you to my clients who put up with a limited schedule for their appointments and let me do crazy things to their nails for the sake of education.
Thank you CND for allowing me to be part of the family and do something I truly love.
Thank you to the amazing nail professionals in the Caribbean that inspired me and gave me an appreciation for how hard they work!
Thank you to the distributors who let me teach classes, attend sales meetings, and work shows with you.
Thank you LaVaque for my super cool tool set J
Thank you to my family for letting me chase my dreams for yet another year.
Have a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2013!!
— Holly
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!
