How big is your beauty room

[keeleyp]

Hi - I went to see a room to rent tonight in a Leisure Centre, the room was directly off the main gym area, which I wasnt sure about? and it was about 6ft by 6ft.
It would just about fit my couch in and a small trolly/table/stool.
They wanted £250 a month for this room and wondered if this was about right for the money?
Also do you think a leisure Centre is a good place to rent a room, or should I be looking at hair salons.

So Confused!

 

[WaxGirl]

Here are a few points for your consideration.

(I think in current environment keep things small and simple and work yourself up slowly)

I think you should check around locally to see what prices are like. It seems like quite a lot for a room.

Have you priced everything out and worked out your costs?

Work out what you need to be making each day/week to make a profit.

Is there much competititon nearby?

Is there a sink in the room or will you have access to one?

Have you got a waiting area?

What about an area in the room to do spray tanning?

Leisure centre is good in that you will have good footfall but consider what the opening times are like .. will these affect you at all?

Are there any restrictions/rules imposed by the leisure centre that will affect you?

What kind of customer base use the leisure centre? ie who are your target market?

I hope these pointers help. Clare

 

[olabecee]

Loveleelady, can you tell me how you find out the prices of rooms in your local area? The reason is I just found a room and I just want to know if I'm not paying too much. I feel like doing a search to check local prices but don't know where to start.
Sorry KeeleyP to hijack the thread.

 

[makeupartistzoe]

If you love doing massages then this would probs be good, I imagine gym going people would love massages over other treatments to soothe their sore muscles!

I was paying £400 per month for a tiny room that I could only fit a chunky barbers chair in for over a yr and it suited me to the ground with the makeup treatments I did in a Winchester city centre in a hair salon. Don't really love massages but dead cheap to do, all you need is a massage medium!

I think you should love what you do so think about what your fave treatments are and you will be naturally better at them and get more enjoyment out your job day to day...this might lead you to the right base for you and if you don't get a good feeling initially then that should help you too. To me that sounds like a cheap deal so must be really small...

 

[angelina221]

Well i think £250 a month is dirt cheap!
If you're working 6 days a week then it's roughly £10 a day. You'd make that in one treatment.
I think it does depend on what area you are in but whatever area you're from, a tenner a day is a bargain.

 

[Ruthlm]

Ihave a treatment room thats about 7ft by 5 ft, a small tanning room thats about 5ft square, and my nail bar out on the shop floor, I am there 2 days a week, thur and sat and pay £50 per week, aronf £200 a month, for 2 days, so I also think that is cheap, does this include telephone calls being taken for you? and all bills?? if the size of room suits you than I would say it's a good deal, but it depends on what treatments you want to do, and maybe if you were wantong to learn new skills and be able to offer them hth x

 

[keeleyp]

Thank you, I think I will give it a trial run, just not sure wether I should go for 1 day or be brave and higher it out 5 days a week?

There wouldn't be room for spray tanning thought which is a real shame, so thinking should I keep looking for a bigger room?

 

[Ruthlm]

or maybe speak to the owners of the gym and see if there is a small are that you could use for tanning, shame because i am sure spray tanning would be a popular treatment in a gym, no harm in asking??

 

[BABSann]

Whereas it is dirt cheap you need to imagine yourself working in this broom cupboard all day.Do you think your clients would like it?

I personally think I would feel quite claustaphobic being cooped up in a room this size,both working and receiving a treatment.

 

[David Popham]

I agree, 7X5ft seems tight, so what IS the ideal size ?

 

[Jen889]

Here are a few points for your consideration.

(I think in current environment keep things small and simple and work yourself up slowly)

I think you should check around locally to see what prices are like. It seems like quite a lot for a room.

Have you priced everything out and worked out your costs?

Work out what you need to be making each day/week to make a profit.

Is there much competititon nearby?

Is there a sink in the room or will you have access to one?

Have you got a waiting area?

What about an area in the room to do spray tanning?

Leisure centre is good in that you will have good footfall but consider what the opening times are like .. will these affect you at all?

Are there any restrictions/rules imposed by the leisure centre that will affect you?

What kind of customer base use the leisure centre? ie who are your target market?

I hope these pointers help. Clare

This is great advice.

I just moved from a gym space into a huge room in a very popular high street area. In the gym my room was about 8ft by 15ft and I paid around £207 a month so dirt cheap. You just really have to be careful about noise if your room is not sound proof enough the gym noise can easily ruin things like massages, facials etc

My new room is 13ft by 24ft, so it's huge and I pay around £512 a month. It's in a very popular/wealthy area with good foot traffic, I was lucky! It's also in an office type building that you can see from the street, exactly what I wanted as its quiet