Go mobile or Rent nail bar in very popular hair salon

[Dimples xx]

Hey Geeks,

At the mo I'm working as a nail tech in a beauty salon,I've been there the last 2 years..

Only downside is my boss just wants me sticking to nail extensions,manis and pedis,where I'd love to offer nail art,minx etc as I've done courses in these..

I was thinking of becoming mobile but last week I was giving the option of renting a nail bar in a very popular hair salon near to where I live,also rent is very reasonable and I'd be my own boss,

Any advice or tips on the subject would be greatly appreciated,pros,cons etc..

Cheers :lol:

 

[nixnewcastle]

can you not just do your other treatments mobile if clients want them and work from the hair salon?

 

[Dimples xx]

Yes s'pose I could never thought about that,thanks

 

[nixnewcastle]

No probs. I was mobile for a year and i found it very very difficult to build up a decent clientelle. I then took a beauty room on last year within a hairdressers and I've found im doing much much better (when i say much much better i mean im taking 4 and 5 times what i was taking being mobile)

I would take on the offer within the hair salon and also do mobile work. Best of both worlds and that way your not missing any opportunities

 

[Redchick]

Def rent the nail bar.

I used to be mobile then took on a beauty room in a busy salon. I made so much more and stopped advertising!

Mobiles tough, you can't fit as many treatments in and you have to advertise a lot more.

Besides, if it doesn't work out with renting you could just take your new clients and go mobile.

 

[Dimples xx]

Thanks redchick,I've decided to take the risk and rent the nail bar..also do you offer anything else apart from nails?

 

[Redchick]

Urm... I've got a confession, I don't actually do nails. So hope ur ok wiv me putting in my 2 pennies worth.

I purely do semi-permanent eyelash extensions, been doing it just over 2 years now. Started off doing it in my spare time whilst working in an office. Then rented a room in a salon, built that up, gave that clientelle to my sister. Rented another room and opened my own salon last October, yeah!

I know I wouldn't have achieved this so quickly if I'd stayed mobile. There's only so many clients you can do in a day, and you can't do as many when you're mobile.

Thinking back to the first room I rented I got a good deal. First month rent free, then 30% after that. I was so busy after the first month that I decided I'd rather rent the room and not do a percentage.

Speak to the salon. Say you're worried about taking on the desk, is there anyway you could do a percentage just for the first month. That way you're only paying when you're earning, and it's less scary starting up. Haggle, haggle, haggle, it's a recession :wink2:

I did lashes half price when I started in the second salon. Some sort of discount will get u ur customers, and I'm sure you'll keep them.

Good luck, you're doing the right thing x

Hey, pls let me know how it goes, or if I can be of any help.