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SEARCHFrom hands-on segments to tips on business building, The Nail Platform kicked off to a good start in California.
I wasn’t kidding about having over a week of blog posts about California! Don’t worry though; this is the next to the last one. Meanwhile I am sharing good news, guess what? I’ve been busy making time to shoot videos, so keep an eye on my YouTube channel as there will be a new one each week for at least the next eight weeks.
After a great time with family Saturday night, the very first session of The Nail Platform was on the agenda for Sunday. Since we covered what it is in a previous blog, let’s jump right into the session and chat about the day.
The class touched on a little bit of everything nails from natural nails to enhancements, salon style to extreme, and bling to business building.
The nail skill portions were covered by Gina Silvestro, Lucien Henderson, and me. The business segment was presented by Naja Rickette and David DiLorenzo.
There were hands-on segments throughout the day with all of the presenters available for one on one discussion or help. Nailgasm’s Ayla was in attendance to film the nail skill segments and video segments are now starting to appear on The Nail Platform YouTube.
Huge thanks to the companies that reached out and offered to send in door prizes to support the event, your initiative was appreciated!
Sigourney Nuñez was in attendance from NAILS Magazine for the day. She had great questions, took lots of notes, and even found time to post live feed from the event on Twitter and Instagram. It was a joy to have her there and it was so cool to see the posts. She is also the photographer for the amazing group shot.
Thanks again to all of the attendees that traveled in from near and far, you are greatly appreciated and all of us teaching really enjoyed working with you. Make sure to keep an eye on TheNailPlatform.org and its Facebook page to see what sessions will be available and where for 2015!
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!
