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As a percentage, how many or your clients wear nail art as a regular part of their nail service?

  • less than 5%

    Votes: 36 57.1%
  • 20% plus

    Votes: 9 14.3%
  • 30% plus

    Votes: 9 14.3%
  • 10% plus

    Votes: 3 4.8%
  • 50% plus

    Votes: 6 9.5%

  • Total voters
    63
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geeg said:
Hi Fi,
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I am impressed that you can calculate your figures so well Fi.

It is one of my hangovers from running an office in a previous life LOL.

I use a book keeping package to enter all my sales, purchases etc. I can workout how profitable I am compared to last year etc. I know how much money I take in from Nail Art and also how much it has cost me so I could work out if I had recouped my costs.

It also comes from having a dad who is an ex Tax Inspector LOL
 
naturalnails said:
It also comes from having a dad who is an ex Tax Inspector LOL

Boooooo.....hissssssssssssssssss :D

Do you know, I still haven't got my hands on that accounts programme yet...I never know really how high to go with the bids Fi! At the moment, I'm just using one of those manuals which are really simple to fill out, but they just don't give me the % factors I'm looking for!
 
What accounts package have you got Fiona?
 
nail_star2003 said:
What accounts package have you got Fiona?

Kerrie,

it is called QuickBooks.


oops sorry Sam this seems to have gone off topic a bit LOL
 
This topic has had a lot of viewers and a lot of pollers. Thank you. Interesting results don´t you think?

It seems to me that those of you who have made a reply are the ones doing exceptionally well with their nail art service ... well done.

Let's hear more.
 
I *love* nail art. I am always wearing some type of design on my nails and toes. I am one of only 2 nail technicians in my town that do free hand nail art so most of my clients come to me for the art.

I would say 80% of my clients regularly get nail art (at an extra $10) and probably 98% of my clients have at least tried some type of nail art from me.

My outlay is very little... no training other than hints and tips from various boards, I get my ideas from fabric, photos, nature, etc. I use folk art paints from a craft store and tiny brushes also from a craft store.
 
Hi,

As soon as I get a new battery in the 'digi' camera I will try to post some photos of my dragonflies. ;)
 
I love nail art. I often wear it and it can influence clients to get some done for themselves. I'd say approximately half of my clients get nail art done on a semi-regular basis. I charge between $5 and $10 per nail. On Saturday, a client who has never had nail art before, spent $70 on nail art. The theme was based on her fave rugby league team, The Roosters. By the time I charged her for her infill, she ended up paying $108, so I decorated her toe nails to match, for free. Fortunately, her team won on the weekend. :D
 
Well, I did the airbrush nail art demo on Sun & Mon at the Pro Beauty show here in Dublin. Must say I was extremely pleased with the interest generated and we ended up getting quite a few bookings for the Airbrush Training Courses I'm doing for NBSI (Nail & Beauty Systems International).

I was surprised at how many people had never even heard of airbrushed nail art, let alone seen it before, and the look on their faces when they saw the finished result was great! I was only doing single nail demos over the two days but could have made a fortune from the number of people begging me to do their full sets for them! Over here, when the kids leave school they have huge parties called 'Debs' - dresses and tuxedos are hired and from what I can gather it's a bit like a High School Prom - certainly a big event for them. On the Monday Show it was mainly students and the ones I came across were going wild for the nail art and want it done for their 'Debs' next month - so hopefully it looks like airbrushed nail art will become fairly popular here in Ireland.

Managed to meet the Master Geek himself (caught him having a quick smoke! ;) ) but only had about 5 minutes to throw a sandwich down my throat, so it was just a quick "hello, and nice to meet you". Did manage to replenish my depleted supplies of Solar Butter tho' so I'm quite happy. :D
 
I have found nail art to be really unpopular. Anyone who has read my posts will know that I always research things in great depth. I surveyed a huge amount of people locally (Helford area of Cornwall) as to their thoughts on nail art, showing them pictures and explaining how much it would cost.

The only thing anyone was interested in was having a gem or two, maybe a little hand painted "hippy" type flower on their big toe for the surfy types. Hardly any of my clients even want enamel on their fingers!! (They love it on toes).

On my Creative course in Plymouth (Devon) there were techs from East Cornwall where apparently nail art is incredibly popular. This sparked a long discussion about the cultural differences in different areas of our strange county. I charge almost double what they charge, but they get income from nail art.

Most of my clients are range rover driving, Boden wearing, Aga owning, green welly wearing, yachty types. They want clean, natural looking nails that don't make fashion statements.

I do wear some nail art myself though as it is a talking point - walking advertising. Only ever very subtle on maybe just one finger. Personally I like it, but I think it is because I am in the business.
 
I think that yes, it must to a great extent depend on your area and the type of people who live in that area as to what they want to wear on their nails :? so KNOW your area and KNOW your clients :rolleyes: !!! Ella describes her clients and you know instantly they are NOT going to wear intricate designs and images on their nails - they sound similar to our LS17 ladies!! Forever French is subtle, feminine and what they consider to be 'classy'!! On the other hand I know that there are women who LOVE (and many of them are on this board), the funky glitter, hand painted, airbrushed witches on broomsticks and pumpkins on nails etc!! When you LOVE it, you WEAR it and then it is easier to SELL it!!

You all know me pretty well and I can safely say that I would NEVER wear some of the things I have listed above 'nail art' wise - and that's just my personal preference :? but I do enjoy looking at it and am continually amazed at what you teks have to do to accomplish and achieve some of these looks - it's remarkable!! :thumbsup: I also love that Layla's nails looked better than the transferes seen in the CD ad - that's truly artistic ;) The most I would wear would be the ruby-slipper look OR a diamond at the lunula on maybe one nail - just me me I guess. :flower:

Ok after this massive digression, the point is, if you know your area you tend to do what the clients want (well at least if you want to make some dosh :shock: ) and yes, minds can be changed but so far it seems this poll has proved that it is the minority who wear nail art and not the majority 8) I have enjoyed reading this poll and like geeg - I look forward to more opinions!
 
Sawasdee ka

i know i speak on this link b4 but i look now and want speak some thing i now know that nail art very very big in asian people and many Thai japan and taiwan lady love too much but we have nail art on ladys england australia isreal sweden finland many .

from look internet asia for nail art 3 d art is future nail art for lady who like and lady who not like have many nail can make her so some ting for every body .

we make many nail art for lady have real nail not enhancement long and short .

Mui from Thailand
 
Hiya,
Thought i give my opinion on this post :)
As a tech that loves to do nail art, I can see what Geeg says about people dont always wont it.
I hate some of the nail art products, Transfers look cheap and tacky.
I love to see one nail done in a really eyecatching design.
I have got the bug for doing 3d nail art and i feel that this could take off big time. I do nail art because i love it :) I did art at school and just love to try new things.
 
nail_star2003 said:
Sorry to be slightly controversial but although the money is great in this business the main reason I do this job is because I love it and not about the amount of money I can make.

I worked as a part-qualified accountant for 3 years which I made a helluva lot more money doing that than what I'm doing now. The reason I become a nail technician is because I loved the creativity of nail artistry both enhancements and nail art. As, Geeg said on a different post - there's a lot more to being a nail technician than being able to put a nice set of nails on.

I'm sure you love what you do as much as the rest of us but the emphasis shouldn't really be on the money. Sorry!

I'm right with you there Jan... I also do this job because I enjoy the creative side of it and meeting all kinds of people.
On the nail art side... I have not long moved from the south up to the east midlands, I won't say where for fear of upsetting peeps but lets just say.. 20 mins from the A1. I used to do a lot of nail art down south but up here I've been told people don't want it. I don't necessarily agree with that but even getting them to try it has been a struggle.
As much as I love doing nail art whether it be freehand or airbrushing or whatever, I'll admit I haven't made an awful lot of money out of it because people won't pay vast amounts for it.
Just my opinion
 
You all probably know what a big fan of nail art I am now!!!! :lol: Any way I love doing nail art, I do find that most of my clients aged 20-30 ish have regular nail art after their fills the most popular are the french spark nails like on my avatar pic and the bucks fizz nail art I would love to do more flower nails etc!!! I managed to get a few of my more mature clients to try nail art on their little fingers and even the big toes and they were really impressed and went away feeling proud to show off their art work even though it was subtle it was just that little extra special touch to their treatment!! :)
I find that by having an album of pics of my clients nail art next to them they just pick it up and browse and see things they like, also I always wear something on my nails I cant go without nail art now my nails feel too bare without it!! Its addictive and my clients agree!! ;)
 
Hey there

I have to say that as a newie Nail technician I have been looking at airbrushing art but have never thought for a moment that i would wear it..the only thing I am interesting in the airbrushing is for the French manicure look, however when I explore the cost of the airbrushing as a whole I am put off as i say I am not interested in learning nail art, because I simply think it looks tacky, so I am thinking of another way to do the French manicure to perfection, sorry to the girls who got back to me with the airbrush equip for sale but the price is too much for the simple technique that I want to use it for.

Regards Bridget



geeg said:
The following is an article I wrote for Nails (UK) magazine last year. Some of the posts in theis section of the board reinforce what I wrote. It is meant to be cautionary in nature and not to burst your enthusiam. Just to make you think or 'look before you leap'! Also it is a general comment - I know there are exceptions to every rule.


For the sake of argument – and we want to hear your views – I would like to pose a question??

If you the nail technician added up all the money you’ve ever spent on Nail Art training classes, equipment and supplies (airbrushes, stencils, coloured acrylic powders, diamantes etc) and then added up all the money you have made back from performing nail art services on your clients; who would come out on top; you or the suppliers?

From the research I have done on this subject both in the UK and in Spain, (not the USA) I am only getting these answers:

1. Nail art is everywhere in the magazines etc. BUT not on your client’s fingernails!

2. Everyone loves to look at it but no one wants to wear it!

3. People are interested in it until they hear what it is going to cost them!

Wouldn’t you think that particularly here in Spain, the holidaymakers would be dying to go a bit wild and have their nails decorated? They ask for it all right, but when they find out that it costs extra to perform the service, they loose interest.

As a working nail technician for many years, I spent hundreds (probably thousands actually) on training and supplies. I am also an artist by trade so I was good at nail art, and I can honestly say that even with excellent marketing in the salon, I never re-cooped the money I had spent.

The truth is that Nail Art services are only performed on a very minute niche of the market It is unlikely that more than 1-2% of your clients will ever ask for or wear nail art as a regular part of their nail service.

The truth is that it is the technicians – yes you – who are the ones who get excited about nail art because it is an area in which you can be creative and do something different. You are the ones who are wearing it NOT your clients.

Unless you market your nail art to a niche market (various ethnic groups, children, teenagers etc,) and, dedicate yourself to becoming a specialist in this area of the nail business, or work in the industry teaching and selling nail art supplies, or are in demand from the fashion industry or the magazines for your services, you are never going to make a fortune or perhaps break even on the money you have already spent.

Creating art on nails is terrific fun and there are some fantastic artists in our industry who have found their niche, but be careful and don't get too carried away by buying too many bits and pieces or you will be out of pocket.
 
Most of my clients don't want nail art on their own nails. They think it's beautiful but I always get the "I like it but it's not for me" response. The ones that do wear it always go for a simple little white flower with a rhinestone in the middle, and normally just on one nail. What i do notice is that they like whatever i have on my nails. If the design is not too crazy, they'll usually ask for it but tone it down. For example this week my nails all have half-flowers with rhinestone centers and they're placed at the top corner of my nail. If i'd suggested this, no one would want it but i've had about 5 clients ask for this after seeing mine! (normally only on 1 or 2 nails though) Also the blue rhinestones are not my best seller but this week, after seeing mine, everybody wants blue stones! This just goes to show that wearing art on your own nails is a great way to market it.
 
The percentage of my clients having nail art is very small and I have still not recovered the costs of all my equipment or products after 8 months but I love it.

I wear nail art all the time and it gets me noticed. I did go for a short time with just natural looking extensions and nobody noticed them but as soon as I reverted to my nail art I started to get more bookings. Over the Christmas period I had quite a few nail art bookings just because they had noticed my nails so it definitely works for me :lol: Now sporting the valentine's look as I'm out to dinner tonight with a group of girlfriends so here's hoping :rolleyes:

Shaza
 
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