Nailsbykellie
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Hi everyone! I am self employed working in someone else's salon, the initial agreement was that she pays for everything polishes, lamp absolutely everything and I give her a percentage of my earnings. I wanted to do lots of nail art and she wasn't keen to start with so I started buying things myself and using them on my clients I have a huge amount of stamping plates and polishes now, rhinestones, sharpies for water colouring and glitters. I have been working there for 2 years now and the owner of the salon has just taken on a new girl (self employed again) and she has asked me to come in on for a day and she will pay me to train her in nail art - specifically stamping.
I watched hours of YouTube videos researched all of the products bought hundreds of stamps (I have a pretty big collection now!) and polishes trialled the products to see what works and what doesn't tried different techniques etc and it's so popular clients of the owner (who does mainly acrylic extensions) are paying extra to come to me and have gel polish just for my nail art skills which is fab!
I don't know if I'm just being over protective but I feel like I couldn't put a price on everything I have taught myself and I am there to make myself money not to make her or the salon money..... And if I give that knowledge away so freely I would be silly to do so even if she paid me, once I've trained someone else they know it and I can't change it I'm afraid it will make me unimportant and once I've reheated the knowledge I will be worthless as its my most popular thing....: what do you all think? And
I watched hours of YouTube videos researched all of the products bought hundreds of stamps (I have a pretty big collection now!) and polishes trialled the products to see what works and what doesn't tried different techniques etc and it's so popular clients of the owner (who does mainly acrylic extensions) are paying extra to come to me and have gel polish just for my nail art skills which is fab!
I don't know if I'm just being over protective but I feel like I couldn't put a price on everything I have taught myself and I am there to make myself money not to make her or the salon money..... And if I give that knowledge away so freely I would be silly to do so even if she paid me, once I've trained someone else they know it and I can't change it I'm afraid it will make me unimportant and once I've reheated the knowledge I will be worthless as its my most popular thing....: what do you all think? And