newly qualified tech Dec 2002.salon owner is a nail tech the others are beauticians so i am the only other nail tech.finding it very difficult as she has 10 years experience and i have zero experience compared to her. I find it hard as im not advertised as a new tech, clients expect me to be as quick as her and as good. And im not!! :shock: .i want to do really good nails i hate going to work and my confidance is rapidly going. .also nippers they are damaging to the nail bed this is what i was constantly told at college .now i am being told to use them when doing maintence, :x .also i cant get the dam fill lines to disappear when infilling and they show through the new product .how are u suposed to get the line to go when it keeps lifting.i have tried to file into the acrylic that is not lifting to make it flick off .Does that make sense? i no the file needs to be flat on the product .Or does it? how long should an infill take?it take 2 hours at the moment and still ends up loking evil.i have read the bit on maintence on this site but am getting stressed :frust: :rofl: i am not getting much help at work.sorry about any spelling mistakes cant find a spell check

I also work from home, I only have a small client base and hope to start renting a space soon. I am a beauty therapist/Nail tec and once my son told his teacher I have clients in the bedroom :rofl: !!!!!!!! Amanda[/list]

Since this was buried on page 4 and we have had lots o new users that have registered in the past few weeks... I thought I would *bump* this post back up toward the top.

BTW: Who the hell (besides me) has selected "I deliver Milk"???

Toooodles

BTW: Who the hell (besides me) has selected "I deliver Milk"???

LoLoLoLoLoL!

Probably me! lol ;-)

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Sorry Babe - I did - couldn't help myself :rofl:

LMAO!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

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ops: sorry... I did too! Just can't resist the 'alternative' choices you give Sam!

Ali

Hi!
I have been working aa a nail tech full time for nearly 5 years now.
Before going self employed i worked in a local salon for 3 years,
i have been self employed since oct 2001 and i rent space in a salon and i havent looked back!
I would love to have my own salon but the way i look at it im still young and i have got years of nail techin ahead of me...plus i think i owe Mr Visa far too much money.......lol
What i like about being self employed is that i can come and go as i please, i control where my business and career are going..........i will say this tho i didnt work half as hard as i do now since being self employed......your business is only what you put in to it.......and of course i just love what i do!!

Jess

I am a new space renter. I rent a space in a Tanning Salon, they take 30% of anything that goes through the till and I buy all my own products.

But I have just realised that when I sell something like Solar Oil, they are making more profit than me! Because I have to cover for the cost of the product! Hmmmm! That doesn't right to me!

I work in a school as an educational assistant (glorified receptionist??), and it allows me to have a table (rent free), and the school provides any product I may need. It was an awesome opportunity for me, as I can build my clientele, and work for a wage as well.

Hi,

I worked in a salon for 4 years and have just started to work from home, Working in a salon was great, regular money, plenty of clients and lots of friends, but the money was not fantastic, the salon owner stopped putting money into the salon but expected the nail techs to do a full set in an hour, which I did but I did not think I was doing the best possible job.

At home I have six regular clients that followed me when the salon closed and I can give them my time and know that I do the best job I can and I dont have to rush them out of the door, I am also using great products (creative) I have just chosen the name for my salon and printed out price lists. Im very happy.

I work from home and have done for the last three years. Its a steady flow but that the way I like it. Soon will be teaching part time, so my time will be split between the two.


Dawn

i have only been doing nails for about 2 months now and have made my sapre room into a mini salon. I have 5 regular clients at the moment but i am considering renting a table also to build my clientele


sara x

I work my own business now. When I finished my training course, the stories from visiting techs made me run as far from a salon employee situation as quickly as my legs could carry me. Next, I rented space in a hairdressing salon but soon the salon owner was contacting my clients, arranging my appointments and....that's never a good situation to be in. To the girl who posted that her salon owners are taking 30% of all that goes in the till ~ negotiate a better deal or walk! I'll also NEVER work with a queen again. Too much drama and way too much champagne

So now I'm at home. I've converted the front room into a relaxing area for nails, makeup and waxing services. I choose and control my own stock, run my own incentive programme, regulate my own clientele (yep, I've had to turn away two women who were just....ugh...tooooo much effort) and create my own rewards.

The only thing I am currently reviewing is the security situation. While I live in a relatively safe city, a mobile tech was raped a few weeks back in an adjoining suburb and since then I've stopped doing call outs. I'm still debating inwardly whether to continue at home which is my place of residence, my sanctuary.

I booth rent and although it takes a little longer to build up clientelle, it's a nice system. The salon owner is a dear family friend and really looks after me and the stylists promote all my services.

I pay monthly rent for my "space" which works out nicely since I'm also an esthetician and I have my own treatment room and makeup station alongside the stylists with an additional area out in the salon for my nail services.