Morning Geeks,
Well, I just wanted to share with you something thats been playing on my mind for the last week and a half, and I really need your opinions and want to know what you would have done in my position.
I'll start from the beginning.
So the Friday before last, I was at work when I received a phone call from a certain Grammy Award winning artist's PA saying that this high profile celeb was in London and desperately needed her nails doing...and she needed her gel nails removed and new sculpted nails reapplied, she needed me to be there at 6:30pm and was going to perform that night at 7:30pm.
This made me really nervous/anxious/excited so I said to the PA, let me see what I can do and I'll contact her back. I knew that I would never in a million years be able to do all that within the time frame as I don't use a, e-file etc, so I contacted her back giving 2 options.
1) doing her infills so they look presentable for the evening.
2) removing her current gel nails and applying Shellac and nail art.
During the emails back and forth with the PA, I phoned my BF and told him what had happened and he was so annoyed with me for not just saying YES, I can do it and turning up with my kit, but all I kept thinking is that I didn't want to let the client down as I knew that I really couldn't have done what she wanted in the time available. He was saying that I should never ever say no or doubt myself in a situation like that as I could've probably done it.
However they went with someone else and a few days later I found the pictures of her nails online and well it just looked like she had one colour all with a diamante on each nail.
I'm really beating myself up over this missed opportunity and keep thinking how great this experience would've been for me as I'm a good nail tech, just sometimes I allow my nerves to get the better of me.
What would you have done in this situation?
Well, I just wanted to share with you something thats been playing on my mind for the last week and a half, and I really need your opinions and want to know what you would have done in my position.
I'll start from the beginning.
So the Friday before last, I was at work when I received a phone call from a certain Grammy Award winning artist's PA saying that this high profile celeb was in London and desperately needed her nails doing...and she needed her gel nails removed and new sculpted nails reapplied, she needed me to be there at 6:30pm and was going to perform that night at 7:30pm.
This made me really nervous/anxious/excited so I said to the PA, let me see what I can do and I'll contact her back. I knew that I would never in a million years be able to do all that within the time frame as I don't use a, e-file etc, so I contacted her back giving 2 options.
1) doing her infills so they look presentable for the evening.
2) removing her current gel nails and applying Shellac and nail art.
During the emails back and forth with the PA, I phoned my BF and told him what had happened and he was so annoyed with me for not just saying YES, I can do it and turning up with my kit, but all I kept thinking is that I didn't want to let the client down as I knew that I really couldn't have done what she wanted in the time available. He was saying that I should never ever say no or doubt myself in a situation like that as I could've probably done it.
However they went with someone else and a few days later I found the pictures of her nails online and well it just looked like she had one colour all with a diamante on each nail.
I'm really beating myself up over this missed opportunity and keep thinking how great this experience would've been for me as I'm a good nail tech, just sometimes I allow my nerves to get the better of me.
What would you have done in this situation?
