Any nail extension Training

[Kreo]

I know youz all all problem sick of the same questions :zzz:however am really stuck here!

I really would love to find good value nail training. The reason for this that I dont want to do it as a business and make money it is purely for myself!The thing is that I love getting my eyelashes, hair extensions nails and spray tan done, and I have so for years however I am starting full time at uni this year and I am just not going to be able to afford to pay people to do it!:cry:
So instead of giving everything up...which I would absolutely hate...I have decided to learn to do it myself to save some money.

So is there anyone out there that could reccommed training that I could go on (or even better they could come to me) ?

I am situated in Fife Scotland...but I am willing to travel within reason..or if its a really good price and offer training on more than one I would travel far!
Thanks again!!

 

[naturalnails]

Unfortunately when we cannot afford things, we have to make sacrifices. The world is full of people who look at doing the cheapest training they can because they only want to do their own nails and then they decide that to try and recoup some of the training costs, they will just do a couple of friends then friends of friends etc. etc.

This is what is ruining our industry and diluting the professionalism that so many of us are striving for.

If you cannot afford a professional job then buy a consumer kit and do your own.

In some ways you are insulting those people who do this as their main career, by thinking that you can do a cheap as chips course and do as good a job as they have been doing for you.

Sorry if this sounds harsh but life has to be full of compromises and sacrifices to get the things we value in life.

 

[Kreo]

Unfortunately when we cannot afford things, we have to make sacrifices. The world is full of people who look at doing the cheapest training they can because they only want to do their own nails and then they decide that to try and recoup some of the training costs, they will just do a couple of friends then friends of friends etc. etc.

This is what is ruining our industry and diluting the professionalism that so many of us are striving for.

If you cannot afford a professional job then buy a consumer kit and do your own.

In some ways you are insulting those people who do this as their main career, by thinking that you can do a cheap as chips course and do as good a job as they have been doing for you.

Sorry if this sounds harsh but life has to be full of compromises and sacrifices to get the things we value in life.

Hi yes it does sound harsh considering I have no intention whatsoever is doing anybody elses nails. I am going to Uni to study something completely different that will take up all my time and I will have no time to 'dilute your business'. I was merely asking advice on how to do my own nails just as I would ask how to put my hair up a certain way or do my make up!
I really dont need someone telling me that I have to view what I value in life and make comprises. This is exactly what I have done and is why I am in the position of having to look for alternatives.

Saying I am insulting people who do this as their main career is also unreasonable. If i had any intention of doing it as a career I would do what all the best nail techs have done and go to the best training classes/schools available but as I said before I dont want to do anything like having career so why would I?

I understand what your saying that some people do this however I think putting everyone that category in again extremely unreasonable

 

[nails2nails]

This post does not make sense!
On one hand your saying you will have no money when starting uni, but you have post's asking to learn nail enhancements and spray tanning, which are going to cost a lot of money.
You say it's the same as hair and make-up...how? Can you get bacterial infections etc from doing them
Also you say " I have no intention whatsoever is doing anybody elses nails" Yet in another post you say it's for just you and your family?

So I have to agree with Naturalnails

 

[Kreo]

If u read it correctly I said as If i was asking for make up and hair, I have no intention of putting my hair up in a certain way or learnig about make up but using them as an example.
Also aboutt he family thing I had a private message saying practice on family members as practicing on your own hands can be very difficult and thats what I mean about family.

 

[tigi]

By the time you have paid for the courses you could have spent that money on having the treatments done professionally.....

Like everything in life, beauty takes lots and lots of practise and therefore kit and products.I dont it would be cost effective or practical for you to consider this option.

 

[marion]

As a nail professional, i also have to agree with naturalnails.

What are you studying at uni, what profession do you eventually wish to enter? How would you feel if, after your years of training, i tried to do your job on the cheap!!

 

[persianista]

If it were possible to do your own nails/hair/tan in the way that you are used to having, do you not think that everybody would do that?
Hairdressers/ nail techs/ tan people would not be required if it was really that easy.
Your nail tech makes it look easy because she is a skilled prof. I can guarantee that if you had a go you would end up with thick toenails on the end of your fingers.
To ask for advice on doing home jobs on a forum for salon professionals is really quite poor.
My advice? Save the money you're thinking of spending on courses, and spend it at your local salon, at least you will be supporting local shops.

 

[lalune]

What a bunch of nasty people you lot are

Kreo as a nail technician I get asked that daily and refer then on to courses
It's an expensive way to learn for yourself but in time you will save time money and effort


There is nothing wrong in what you ask and if it makes technicians react badly then never get your nails done by them. A nail technician should be secure in her his job to not be threatened by people doing it themselves


In today's market and recession it's a valid question moreso as you are a student

In today's age of technology also it's expanded go to YouTube to see the many many self help videos

It's not a hard job or studying but to do it properly like your wanting to I salute you


Technicians it's a fact more people are wanting to do themselves offer instead courses that are affordable and reap monetary rewards from that but never judge your public or potential customers BE PROFESSIONAL you only in your job because of people

 

[Pinkprincess73]

Lol lol ladies don't feed the trolls both from fife I see :wink: same person ??

 

[brittone05]

I wanted to add that i actually began my training after wanting to be able to do my own nails. I never in a million years envisioned me using my training to be a proper nail tech and offer services to clients. I just got fed up of paying a mediochre tech lots of money for nails every 10-14 days as I liked to have them changed a lot - the term forever french wasn't in her training manual apparently!

that being said - after beginning my training, I realised that it isn't something you can just learn and then do on yourself. You find yourslf eating, breathing and sleeping with nails on your mind and it quickly becomes a passion. I was always passionate about my own nails and have worn enhancements since I can remember - only difference now is that it isn't a passion I want to keep to myself any more, I share that passion with clients and anyone who will listen lol xxx

 

[pocketdragon]

And why does it say your a nail professional already???

 

[Princess Layla]

I'm glad not all people think this way as we'd all be out of work! I think you may have slightly underestimated how difficult it can be to do nail extensions

 

[spjelgus]

I don't see anything wrong with her question either! I too began thinking about becoming a nail tech only to do my own nails! I have a BSc in Biology and going to become a veterinarian - Never did I think I would become a nail technician!

I looked at all options and in the end decided to go into it in full, thinking that I could pay it up in some time and then after that I could have it as a kind of hobby. I don't see what's wrong with that? Even if she just wants to do her own nails and her friends, she is talking about ACTUAL training! The same training that makes nail techs that want to make a career in nails, so what is the problem? Maybe the same will happen to her as it did all of us and she will be hooked and actually want this as a second career, like me

You go girl

 

[Crystal colleen]

What a bunch of nasty people you lot are

Kreo as a nail technician I get asked that daily and refer then on to courses
It's an expensive way to learn for yourself but in time you will save time money and effort


There is nothing wrong in what you ask and if it makes technicians react badly then never get your nails done by them. A nail technician should be secure in her his job to not be threatened by people doing it themselves


In today's market and recession it's a valid question moreso as you are a student

In today's age of technology also it's expanded go to YouTube to see the many many self help videos

It's not a hard job or studying but to do it properly like your wanting to I salute you


Technicians it's a fact more people are wanting to do themselves offer instead

courses that are affordable and reap monetary rewards from that but never judge your public or potential customers BE PROFESSIONAL you only in your job because of people

What do you mean it's not a hard job are you serious don't make me laugh it is hard it certainly isn't easy

 

[brittone05]

It isn't easy and it isn't always something that pans out and ends up being a career - I am sure many trainee nail techs give up before they even begin!

i think the basic fact that people are missing is that this member has joined and asked for advice about how to train PROPERLY - not youtube with a Tesco kit, not eBay goods from China but a certified course with a reputable company. Yes, not everyone will agree that lower priced courses are great but some people don't have the cash to go traight to the likes of CND etc ( I didn't and trained with Essential nails because i couldn't afford anything else )

no, it isn't ideal when we get DIY'ers coming onto the forum but I would rather someone did a proper training course to do their own nails than come to me with irreparable damage to their nails because the woman on youtube said it was okay to use a 100 grit file to take the shine off your nail plates

 

[Crystal colleen]

Defo the same person without a shadow of a doubt she only joined today and has only posted one post and it was this one and both live in fife coincidence........no I don't think so.how sad and you know what the op has said that she does nails beauty and hair whats that all about.

PATHETIC.....grow up

 

[brittone05]

what does it matter Colleemn hun? She felt intimidated by the responses she got and reposted some support for herself - not pathetic at all just someone who perhaps felt way out of their depth and felt slightly attacked?

 

[Noodle]

Since this thread dates back almost 2 years, and the fact that there may a troll here, I am now closing the thread.