redsadie
Well-Known Member
Hello everyone
For those of you who don't know, I'm currently 4 weeks into my 2nd yr NVQ L2 Hairdressing course at college.
I would like to start doing people's hair in my home (I have a chair in my treatment room - already do waxing, spray tanning and nails) but don't really know where to start with hair pricing.
With my tanning and waxing, I trained then went straight in with a set price which is the average for my area. I taught myself intimate waxing and priced myself above the one salon in this area which has this service, and with nails I practised on my sister, then again went straight in with what I knew I was worth (about the same as my area). No-one (except close family & friends) knew I was newly trained.
I have taken a look at other salons' websites and their pricing structures and I also have the college pricing structure too.
I was thinking of pricing myself somewhere in between the college salon and others I have seen locally as I don't want to be 'cheap' but also need to factor in my products and the fact I am not fully trained yet, but don't want a battle on my hands trying to retain clients when my prices go up (and they will) when I do qualify.
My tutor has told me she thinks I am confident (I am and always have been in anything I do) and competant, which means a lot to me, others in my group come up to me to ask me things if the tutor is busy and I will show/tell if I know what I'm on about, but obviously I still need a lot of underpinning knowledge and the ability to perform 'technical' cutting.
How did you price yourself while training (if you did)? And how did you raise your prices when you eventually qualified? I am also taking a barbering couse too and would like to put this in.
I currently cut my husbands hair and that of my two children, 9 yr old girl - shoulder length wavy hair, and my 16 yr old 'young man' who has lower neck length wavy hair and I am going to trim a hairdressers hair on Monday when I infill her nails (she must trust me :lol
Any thoughts appreciated, and I know I still have a long way to go. I am intending on taking my NVQ3 and Level 3 in barbering next year to continue my professional development and I would also love to go on an extension course as they don't teach this in college.
I am so committed to this and will do what it takes to make myself successful as I know (and it's going to sound big headed ) I am good even at the moment but always strive to be better.
Love you guys :hug:
Sarah. xx
For those of you who don't know, I'm currently 4 weeks into my 2nd yr NVQ L2 Hairdressing course at college.
I would like to start doing people's hair in my home (I have a chair in my treatment room - already do waxing, spray tanning and nails) but don't really know where to start with hair pricing.
With my tanning and waxing, I trained then went straight in with a set price which is the average for my area. I taught myself intimate waxing and priced myself above the one salon in this area which has this service, and with nails I practised on my sister, then again went straight in with what I knew I was worth (about the same as my area). No-one (except close family & friends) knew I was newly trained.
I have taken a look at other salons' websites and their pricing structures and I also have the college pricing structure too.
I was thinking of pricing myself somewhere in between the college salon and others I have seen locally as I don't want to be 'cheap' but also need to factor in my products and the fact I am not fully trained yet, but don't want a battle on my hands trying to retain clients when my prices go up (and they will) when I do qualify.
My tutor has told me she thinks I am confident (I am and always have been in anything I do) and competant, which means a lot to me, others in my group come up to me to ask me things if the tutor is busy and I will show/tell if I know what I'm on about, but obviously I still need a lot of underpinning knowledge and the ability to perform 'technical' cutting.
How did you price yourself while training (if you did)? And how did you raise your prices when you eventually qualified? I am also taking a barbering couse too and would like to put this in.
I currently cut my husbands hair and that of my two children, 9 yr old girl - shoulder length wavy hair, and my 16 yr old 'young man' who has lower neck length wavy hair and I am going to trim a hairdressers hair on Monday when I infill her nails (she must trust me :lol
Any thoughts appreciated, and I know I still have a long way to go. I am intending on taking my NVQ3 and Level 3 in barbering next year to continue my professional development and I would also love to go on an extension course as they don't teach this in college.
I am so committed to this and will do what it takes to make myself successful as I know (and it's going to sound big headed ) I am good even at the moment but always strive to be better.
Love you guys :hug:
Sarah. xx