Violets/Ruperts
Active Member
I feel like having a rant to get some annoyances out of my system.
Over the past year or so I have been teaching myself how to do acrylics, and before anyone jumps on this, I have not been charging or practicing on paying clients.
I finally felt confident enough with my techniques recently, so booked myself onto a one day course so I could get my certificate and thus get insurance, yadda yadda yadda...
So...
I turn up for my course 15 minutes early (punctuality is very important). I wait outside until they open the doors (9.45). Then wait indoors for another 15 minutes for the class to start. At 10 we go into the classroom and are kept waiting for 30 minutes! for the teacher.
The first thing she tells us: don't man handle the training hands - you break them you buy me a new one. Ok, fair enough, equipment is costly.
She rambles about processes for a while then shows us how to prep a nail and apply tips correctly. I ask about using forms, she tries to give an example of how they fit, can't do it, so proceeds to tell me they are only for extremely experienced technicians and I shouldn't bother trying. Lunch break.
After the lunch break we come back to the classroom and get on with practising buffing down our tips. No sign of the teacher for an hour. She finally comes in to start showing us how to apply acrylic.
Note: half the girls in the class still don't know if they have filed correctly.
Again we are told that if we ruin her brushes we buy her new ones. Fair enough, but at this point I am beginning to wonder if she is aware she is teaching a beginners acrylics course, let alone running a teaching business...
She demonstrates liquid and powder application, no explanations to what size bead or how to get it or even what consistency! I ask her what size brush she is using - no idea. I ask why the acrylic needs to be even across the free edge - no idea. She tells us we need to have a curve across the top of the nail yet cannot explain what it's called or why it's there.
This is all getting a little frustrating at this point, but the cherry of my day was getting told off for "using too much liquid". I wanted to turn around and say 'what is wrong with you??????!!! You are teaching a class in acrylics yet know nothing about the process except how to do it. You are pushing a brand on us yet won't even let us use the products???'
Now you may ask why did I pick this awful one day course, firstly for the sake of certification but secondly, the thing that amazes me most!, it was advertised and is endorsed by The Guild!
What an absolutely shocking day. Every other course I have attended has been through a government college with ITEC, so I know exactly what standard of education I will be getting. Then from that, thinking that my insurance company, The Guild, is a reputable business, and would have the same standards is a reasonable deduction.
At the end of it all, I just feel sorry for the other girls on the course and the poor, unsuspecting members of the general public who might now be being tortured by incompetent technicians.
Ugh. End of rant. Take from this what you will.
Over the past year or so I have been teaching myself how to do acrylics, and before anyone jumps on this, I have not been charging or practicing on paying clients.
I finally felt confident enough with my techniques recently, so booked myself onto a one day course so I could get my certificate and thus get insurance, yadda yadda yadda...
So...
I turn up for my course 15 minutes early (punctuality is very important). I wait outside until they open the doors (9.45). Then wait indoors for another 15 minutes for the class to start. At 10 we go into the classroom and are kept waiting for 30 minutes! for the teacher.
The first thing she tells us: don't man handle the training hands - you break them you buy me a new one. Ok, fair enough, equipment is costly.
She rambles about processes for a while then shows us how to prep a nail and apply tips correctly. I ask about using forms, she tries to give an example of how they fit, can't do it, so proceeds to tell me they are only for extremely experienced technicians and I shouldn't bother trying. Lunch break.
After the lunch break we come back to the classroom and get on with practising buffing down our tips. No sign of the teacher for an hour. She finally comes in to start showing us how to apply acrylic.
Note: half the girls in the class still don't know if they have filed correctly.
Again we are told that if we ruin her brushes we buy her new ones. Fair enough, but at this point I am beginning to wonder if she is aware she is teaching a beginners acrylics course, let alone running a teaching business...
She demonstrates liquid and powder application, no explanations to what size bead or how to get it or even what consistency! I ask her what size brush she is using - no idea. I ask why the acrylic needs to be even across the free edge - no idea. She tells us we need to have a curve across the top of the nail yet cannot explain what it's called or why it's there.
This is all getting a little frustrating at this point, but the cherry of my day was getting told off for "using too much liquid". I wanted to turn around and say 'what is wrong with you??????!!! You are teaching a class in acrylics yet know nothing about the process except how to do it. You are pushing a brand on us yet won't even let us use the products???'
Now you may ask why did I pick this awful one day course, firstly for the sake of certification but secondly, the thing that amazes me most!, it was advertised and is endorsed by The Guild!
What an absolutely shocking day. Every other course I have attended has been through a government college with ITEC, so I know exactly what standard of education I will be getting. Then from that, thinking that my insurance company, The Guild, is a reputable business, and would have the same standards is a reasonable deduction.
At the end of it all, I just feel sorry for the other girls on the course and the poor, unsuspecting members of the general public who might now be being tortured by incompetent technicians.
Ugh. End of rant. Take from this what you will.