Hi ladies. I normally use cnd sculpting gel but wanted to dry something abit cheaper as clients really don't want to pay £30 a set of nails so my friend who's also cnd trained told me she uses IBD hard gel and finds it just as good and she says she can change more like £20-25 and she is always megga busy. So this week I got some IBD gel from eBay just to try out. I did a clients nails and told her I was trying a different gel and that it would be £20 for her nails. Wile putting the gel on I found the IBD gel easy to use and it was so shiny after I was so impressed with it untill my client rang me 2 days later telling me all her nails had lifted the next day and came off 2 days later. I now have to spend 2 hours putting them back on with the cnd gel. Now I don't know what to do as I've bought this big tube of IBD gel and I've annoyed one of my clients. Very much feeling this week like giving nails up completely as its constantly paying out so much in product I'm hardly making anything. This year alone I've paid thousands in products and training and once I've working out how many hours I've worked divided into my profits I've been making just £4.63 per hour and I'd get more working in a supermarket
Hi there,
So a couple of things. Firstly never ever buy products off eBay to use on clients. You don't know if it is the real deal or a copy. You also don't know how long the seller has had it for etc.
Always buy your products from the correct supplier, that way you have the knowledge that it is the real safe product, you will know what to expect performance wise and if you run into problems you have support.
Secondly you should be earning more profit per hour.
How did you come up with your service price? Did you breakdown the costs?
I'm self employed mobile and before I set my prices I decided what I wanted to earn per hour. I then added to my hourly rate (profit)all my costs from petrol and insurance down to the tiniest bit of cotton wool, factoring in tax and NIC and a small amount per treatment to go towards extra training so I can add services.
It was time consuming BUT ensures that I am always making a profit.
I can understand you feeling down about this but use it as a learning experience.
Throw away that ibd eBay gel and perhaps persevere with the stock you have.
Research into other professional brands that will give you more profit margin in the meantime and when you run out of your current stock change over.
Perhaps use this opportunity to re look at your business plan and prices and perhaps a price increase is due?
Ibd is a great brand with many geeks using with no problems so I am guessing that the problem is where you sourced it from.
Hope this helps