“I created the Service Pricing Toolkit because so many beauty professionals were receiving terrible advice about pricing from fellow professionals who had never been taught the necessary math to calculate appropriate, sustainable prices,” says creator, cosmetologist and beauty industry advocate Tina Alberino.
After selling her insurance business, A Perfect 10 Nail & Beauty Bar owner Canada Lytle returned to her beauty roots and opened an upbeat bar-like salon focused on gel manicures. Since founding the salon in 2011, she has opened one A Perfect 10 each year — and she has no plans to slow down any time soon.
Whether you’re looking for a new challenge or just yearning to make a career change within the beauty field, cosmetology and nail schools offer an interesting alternative to the day-to-day of salon life. Take our quiz to see if you’re up for the challenge.
“By videotaping your trainings and passing the video on to new staff members, you can just do the training once," says business consultant Tammy Dennis.
Annual Tax Mess Organizer For Nail Techs, Manicurists & Salon Owners is a book designed for self-employed individuals who have difficulty keeping track of their expenses during the business year.
Holly Schippers AKA FingerNailFixer was the keynote speaker at the 2016 NW Nail Tech Retreat . Watch her speech as she explains there is no excuse sufficient enough to devalue your time and offers a reasonable explanation to raise your service prices.
OPI’s new online Profit Calculator is designed to illustrate how nail technicians and salon owners can maximize their business and grow their clientele by providing OPI services — and it’s free to anyone with an OPI Pro account.
NAILS recently partnered with the Beauty Changes Lives Foundation on a FundRazr campaign that raised donations for the BCL | Tippi Hedren | NAILS NTNA Scholarship Fund.