swanseanat88
Member
Hi there
I've been a beautician for 11 years. I've worked in a few salons and worked on a cruise liner.
I absolutely love doing beauty therapy and being mobile is definitely easy as I have 2 children.
BUT
I've been doing mobile for 6 years now. And as my kids are getting older I'm finding it harder juggling my own business and the kids. I have two boys 5 and 3 and they are busy busy kids.
I feel like I manage to juggle the kids , work , housework and the rest as women have to do.
So that's me.
So I have a lovely list of regular clients but I do take on new ones to.
So Friday I had new clients with a large booking. 2 women mother and daughter.
Includes eyelash extensions, full leg wax, pedicures , gel polish , facials , eyebrow wax and tints
So I was there from 9-5 in the house cause I had so much to do.
I went in the kitchen to do waxing as I needed a counter to put the wax pot on. But the lighting in the kitchen wasn't the best so I took an hour doing a full leg wax I triple check the legs and I couldn't see nothing. Neither did the client.
I did fuller lashes using the cluster lashes that I always use. I'm so confident with my eyelashes I would swear on my life how good I am doing them. I have so many clients who love my lashes and swear by coming to me. I do my own lashes and I get two weeks out of them. Which technically they are weekend lashes.
Sooo anyway....
I was happy with the service i provided and so were they.
I had a message yesterday off the daughter with a long essay I'm thinking oh great
It said that both hers and her mums lashes completely come off. Like literally not one lash left on !!!! I'm like what the heck how can that be. There were perfect when I left. So I was annoyed about that.
Then I missed a patch of blonde hairs on the top of the thighs.
Sooo I said I can return on Tuesday and re do the lashes and do any patched I may have missed but I would do it in a much lighter room as the kitchen was to dim for me and I would need some sort of table to use for my wax pot.
They didn't want the lashes they wanted something else the same price. I said ok I can do back massage or facial. So they agreed one will have the facial one will have the back massage.
So all booked for Tuesday. Again I was feeling pretty down cause this has happened
Now today ( Sunday )
I had a text of the mother ..
Basically saying that the daughters gel polish has totally come off two fingers and they no longer want me to recompensate my treatments and she wants a refund on the leg wax and the 2 lashes and the gel polish.
She wasn't rude about it she was nice about it. But basically said if I don't refund she will take it further.
On my page on Facebook I have 63 5 star reviews and I wasn't going to risk that.
I understand it's annoying if lashes have come out but I can't get my head around why they both totally come out the next day!
And why that gel polish come off again. Can't get my head around that.
The waxing patch was my fault I should have moved to a different room but there was no other rooms to use. Just the kitchen which was big enough to hold the couch bed.
Thing is when she text me saying this this Morning. I just come back from taking my boy to football and I was making a Sunday dinner.
She text me saying that so I go upstairs to concentrate and I have my kids arguing then the youngest boy is attached to my hip and being naughty. it's like stress after stress.
I needed Up refunding back what she requested.
But now I'm feeling mega low and unhappy. I've had a cry and feel so unconfident about my buinesss
I have never ever ever needed to refund a client ever !!!! In my whole 11 years of doing beauty.
I have loads of regulars which I should be happy about about.
But I can't help shake the feeling that I'm rubbish and I should choose a different career or just not work and be a full time mother
You know like being mobile I must have about 5-6 different bags / suitcases for each treatment.
It's tiring packing up the car. Then unpacking it going to clients houses. Then pack it back up in car. Then unpacking it for the kids to come in the car for school.
On that Friday I must have token 10 mins to bring everything in to my car. And set it all up.
I don't want to work in a salon as my husband works different hours every week so it's not something I can do
But I do work in a spa doing massages time to time and I love it in there. It's lush that I can just walk in do my treatments and then leave without carry everything with me. But then it is less money. So it's pros and cons really
I don't knkw I'm just feeling mega low cause of it. When your a mobile beautician and your own boss work never seems to switch off I get people texting or messaging me all the time and usually late at night and that. I feel like my work follows me everywhere I go.
But when the kids are in school and my head is clear I then have time for my work and as I said I absolutely love doing what i do. But just find it hard juggling everything around. Plus these clients have really upset me and I hope they don't bad mouth me. Cause I take pride in my work and that's why I'm so annoyed cause this never Happens to my regulars.
So I'm thinking do I just stick to regulars and don't take any big new clients on ?
Help. And tips adcjve anything will help me. X
I've been a beautician for 11 years. I've worked in a few salons and worked on a cruise liner.
I absolutely love doing beauty therapy and being mobile is definitely easy as I have 2 children.
BUT
I've been doing mobile for 6 years now. And as my kids are getting older I'm finding it harder juggling my own business and the kids. I have two boys 5 and 3 and they are busy busy kids.
I feel like I manage to juggle the kids , work , housework and the rest as women have to do.
So that's me.
So I have a lovely list of regular clients but I do take on new ones to.
So Friday I had new clients with a large booking. 2 women mother and daughter.
Includes eyelash extensions, full leg wax, pedicures , gel polish , facials , eyebrow wax and tints
So I was there from 9-5 in the house cause I had so much to do.
I went in the kitchen to do waxing as I needed a counter to put the wax pot on. But the lighting in the kitchen wasn't the best so I took an hour doing a full leg wax I triple check the legs and I couldn't see nothing. Neither did the client.
I did fuller lashes using the cluster lashes that I always use. I'm so confident with my eyelashes I would swear on my life how good I am doing them. I have so many clients who love my lashes and swear by coming to me. I do my own lashes and I get two weeks out of them. Which technically they are weekend lashes.
Sooo anyway....
I was happy with the service i provided and so were they.
I had a message yesterday off the daughter with a long essay I'm thinking oh great
It said that both hers and her mums lashes completely come off. Like literally not one lash left on !!!! I'm like what the heck how can that be. There were perfect when I left. So I was annoyed about that.
Then I missed a patch of blonde hairs on the top of the thighs.
Sooo I said I can return on Tuesday and re do the lashes and do any patched I may have missed but I would do it in a much lighter room as the kitchen was to dim for me and I would need some sort of table to use for my wax pot.
They didn't want the lashes they wanted something else the same price. I said ok I can do back massage or facial. So they agreed one will have the facial one will have the back massage.
So all booked for Tuesday. Again I was feeling pretty down cause this has happened
Now today ( Sunday )
I had a text of the mother ..
Basically saying that the daughters gel polish has totally come off two fingers and they no longer want me to recompensate my treatments and she wants a refund on the leg wax and the 2 lashes and the gel polish.
She wasn't rude about it she was nice about it. But basically said if I don't refund she will take it further.
On my page on Facebook I have 63 5 star reviews and I wasn't going to risk that.
I understand it's annoying if lashes have come out but I can't get my head around why they both totally come out the next day!
And why that gel polish come off again. Can't get my head around that.
The waxing patch was my fault I should have moved to a different room but there was no other rooms to use. Just the kitchen which was big enough to hold the couch bed.
Thing is when she text me saying this this Morning. I just come back from taking my boy to football and I was making a Sunday dinner.
She text me saying that so I go upstairs to concentrate and I have my kids arguing then the youngest boy is attached to my hip and being naughty. it's like stress after stress.
I needed Up refunding back what she requested.
But now I'm feeling mega low and unhappy. I've had a cry and feel so unconfident about my buinesss
I have never ever ever needed to refund a client ever !!!! In my whole 11 years of doing beauty.
I have loads of regulars which I should be happy about about.
But I can't help shake the feeling that I'm rubbish and I should choose a different career or just not work and be a full time mother
You know like being mobile I must have about 5-6 different bags / suitcases for each treatment.
It's tiring packing up the car. Then unpacking it going to clients houses. Then pack it back up in car. Then unpacking it for the kids to come in the car for school.
On that Friday I must have token 10 mins to bring everything in to my car. And set it all up.
I don't want to work in a salon as my husband works different hours every week so it's not something I can do
But I do work in a spa doing massages time to time and I love it in there. It's lush that I can just walk in do my treatments and then leave without carry everything with me. But then it is less money. So it's pros and cons really
I don't knkw I'm just feeling mega low cause of it. When your a mobile beautician and your own boss work never seems to switch off I get people texting or messaging me all the time and usually late at night and that. I feel like my work follows me everywhere I go.
But when the kids are in school and my head is clear I then have time for my work and as I said I absolutely love doing what i do. But just find it hard juggling everything around. Plus these clients have really upset me and I hope they don't bad mouth me. Cause I take pride in my work and that's why I'm so annoyed cause this never Happens to my regulars.
So I'm thinking do I just stick to regulars and don't take any big new clients on ?
Help. And tips adcjve anything will help me. X