Hi everyone! I just joined!
Wondering how people got into doing what they're doing with beauty, nails, hair, etc...?
When I was 19 I did my boyfriends mums eyebrows and my nans chin hair. Then most of the family and painting toes. Never for money or a business just in the moment. I did quite a lot of beauty stuff on myself and they said once ‘I don’t know why you don’t do this as a job.’
I didn’t think much of it until years later, I wanted to go to college. I desperately wanted to do beauty but the tutor said I didn’t have the maths for it. I ended up doing business (and finance and accounts!!!) I was a mature student at 21 so had to pay so they never said actually I could have done whatever I wanted.
I did the business and got a job in recruitment. I met someone that had a tanning business on the side early on. I’d forgotten about it and her but eventually did a tanning course after I saw an advert. She was first to email me and had the right arse for ‘copying’ her.
I worked 7am-11pm recruiting and tanned my temps after I finished and on weekends. Nuts! Took more courses and got a part time job so I could do more beauty, then as I got busy dropped more hours until I went full time self employed in 2015.
I just finished level 3 a&p and body massage and am very happy.
Can’t help but think it would have been easier if the tutor didn’t brush me off and I’d pushed more to do the beauty level 3 when I was younger (she was even the tutor where I trained for all my short courses!), but Id never have the real experience I do now and would probably be in a salon, with no other job experience, no idea about business or accounting, recruiting or marketing.
Everything works out in the end!