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I am no a hairdresser so please bare with me! I am a nail tech but I work with hairdressers. I am buying solar oil minis to give to my customers and want to team up with my business partner (hairdresser) to give our clients a christmas goody bag. We don't currently retail hair products as we...

I have had the Gelish 6g lamp since it was released and really want the 18g BUT I only work 1 day a week now as have had 2 babies since opening my little salon! I'm tempted to buy the 18g before my normal Christmas rush, is it worth me struggling to juggle money to buy it??? I keep changing my...

I've been researching kits and cases and thought it would be fun if people shared a photo of their Make up kit and what it's stored in. all the other Geeks have lots of photo threads so let's start a new MUA one (I'd share mine but I don't have one yet as I won't be a qualified MUA until the...

I am about to complete a make up course and am looking at lighting in our salon. Our treatment room is quite dark with no natural lighting which ha been fine as it's mainly used for massage but now I may have to do make up and waxing in there. would this lamp be any good do you think? Or do...

We have one client who always has Loreal gelee light ash toner but it's been discontinued!!! Help?? Can anyone suggest something similar? She likes her hair to be a really ash blonde ( more ash than our hairdresser would choose to do on another client!) Our hairdresser uses wella so would...

I need some fast advice! What do you use Thor hot water? We are installing 1 backwash unit and are looking at under sink hot water units but getting confused! Lol what have you got in your salon?? We will only have 2 stylists working at any one time xXx

Hiya, I'm booked in to have my hair done and fancy something a bit different! It's naturally strawberry blonde but with lots of highlights so is currently long and blonde, it's straight and fine. I'm thinking of sticking with very blonde but with a slice of dark brown under the layers on one...

I have searched this in several orders and cannot find anything, have any of you trained with this lady, Kim? I have been struggling to find an eyelash extension course local to me and this lady will teach me lash tinting and extensions on a 1-1 basis in a day with additional case studies as...

Hiya, I have searched for 2 evenings on here and have googled but am getting confused and not really finding what I want. I want to train in Lash extentions, so far I have worked out that Flirties is a good brand and I would also like to learn tinting as I assume some clients will need a tint...

I am about to move into a new rented room which has a sink, I've not had this luxury before. Do any of you get clients to wash their hands at any stage of nail prep? At the moment I use CND cuticle away and have a spray bottle to wash it off so I suppose I can ask the client to wash their hands...

I am really sorry if this has already been answered, I have tried looking but cannot find the specific answer. I have just finished my full time job and next week I start renting a room in a hair/beauty salon mon tues and sat doing nails and will work in a pharmacy wed thurs fri. I went...

I have just handed in my notice @ my full time job and will have a job 3 days a week and rent a room 3 days for nails. The room has a window but is small. I am looking at the desk top dust collectors and the fumigator, are they worth it? I can't afford a decent set up do need something cheap for...

Hi, I am thinking of training with Sienna x as I was at the Creative Academy today and saw they do training there, is this kit all I would need?? I don't want to shell out then find I dont have everything as it's alot of money for me and ill ned to make it back fast. Sienna X - Kits it is...

Hi, I'm not sure whether to post this here or in the nail forum! I do nails in my spare time from home, I would like to change from a full time to a part time job so that I can do more nails and so am thinking of doing a few courses so I can offer more treatments to encourage regular...

I know these aren't technically perfect bt I thought I'd share this bride's nails, she gets married tomorrow and has a frog theme! I'm really pleased with them and am intrigued to get the opinion of my fellow Geeks, I am fairly new to nails, am I heading in the right direction?! My clients...

I am doing the cnd natural nails course on 4th may as I want to upgrade from my essential nails training, iv paid my deposit and was told I would receive something in the post. All iv had is an email confirming my payment, is it normal to receive info on where I have to go and what exactly I...

Please help! I have my Gelish colours displayed on nail pops, I had a stand of 32 like this one (mine wasn't direct from hong kong but probably made there!) 32 x NAIL ART DISPLAY STAND PRACTICE TOOL #275 | eBay UK I needed more space so ordered a second from the same seller, but although...

I know these aren't quite stilettos but they were my first attempt at anything like that, maybe they are more almond than stiletto? please point me in the right direction (gently!) I was pleased with them ad they lasted well (i did shorten them slightly after 3 days becase i work in a...

Hi, Are any of you in central Manchester??? I will be up there next weekend for my birthday and would absolutely love to have sculpted stilettos done as I don't have time to have a go on myself before then and don't know anyone good down here. I know it's short notice, I should have thought of...

Hi, I have a bride with a silver and emerald theme, i am going to practice 3d flowers in white and try to add a touch of green to the base of the petals, ill do that with acrylic paint but would like to run some metalic silver through the nails, embedded in the nail and not tacky glitter.....any...