When nail tech Catherine Porche started work as a ziplining instructor at a company near Austin, Texas, she planned to pay her way through nail school, but she loved the job so much that she couldn’t give it up after getting her nail license.
That sounds like it was a great retreat, Jill. I know that our retreat really helped our salon recharge and regroup for this year. We got a head start on planning fun events for the salon
Almost all educators in this industry can teach. Only a few, though, have both the combination of technical skills and personal charisma to motivate and inspire.
We asked nail school instructors: How do you approach teaching a class of students with diverse backgrounds (the older senior student, the very young/teen student, the student with a troubled background)?
When you take a class from a dynamic teacher, she (or he) can transform not only the way you work, but the way you think. Here we get to know some of our industry’s teachers a little better and get a glimpse of what makes them tick -and teach.
Anyone can teach you to manicure textbook-perfect nails – it takes a pro like Joanne Linck, head instructor at Cosmetique School of Nail Technology in Burnaby, British Columbia, to give a new tech the confidence to manage even the most hard-to-handle hands.