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SEARCHHello and welcome! It is so wonderful to “see” you here. My name is Holly L. Schippers (pronounced skippers, think school). I have been a nail technician since the beginning of 1999. I became an Education
Hello and welcome! It is so wonderful to “see” you here. My name is Holly L. Schippers (pronounced skippers, think school). I have been a nail technician since the beginning of 1999. I became an Education Ambassador for CND in July 2004. I am married to an amazing man with a beautiful daughter and fun-loving son. My life is a constant attempt to balance family, education, nails, and a myriad of other activities.
My journey has been a long one and my goal has become to help others in the industry reach and surpass their goals and expectations. My beginning in the industry was a constant struggle and my dream is for others not to make my mistakes or to go without information that could make their careers easier. You may recognize my name from the Nail Notebook project that we just wrapped up mid-December 2010. I hope that your notebook is working for you. If you missed the project feel free to go back and delve into it at any time. Others may know me as the FingerNailFixer or “turtle girl” as my logo has always been a turtle polishing her nails to reflect my pace of doing nails as I’m “picky” (to say it nicely). My tagline is “Slow and steady for winning results.”
I would like to join you on your path to being the best nail professional you can be. Offering ideas, education, information, and suggestions that I hope you will find helpful. Feel free to ask questions at any time along the way. My wonderful fans on Facebook have started me off with a long list of things they would like to know or learn, so a huge thanks so much to them for a lot of what you will see in the beginning of this blog!
My hope is that you feel we are all part of a “nail family” regardless of what product we use, salon we work at, company we love, etc. The idea here is to provide mostly universal information that can help any nail professional. When an idea or technique is presented, always feel free to click on the Feedback link to comment and add ideas of your own, suggestions for solutions, or additional techniques.
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my first blog post, I appreciate you taking the time and hope to keep “seeing” you in the future!
— Holly
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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!
