New to the Forum Need Help To Get My Timings Down Please.

[poshpinks]

Hi everyone i'm new just joined 2day. I am hoping u guys will b able to help me :green: I have been doing nails on and off for 3 yrs yet I still feel like a student , I trained with essential nails a home learning course but feel like I got very little in the way of training lol, I work in a salon have done 4 about 3 months and I managed 2 get my timing down by half an hour so I can do a fullset in 2hours and normally rebalence in 1hour and a half yet every1 around me can do it in half the time and I seem 2 be doing the same as them? Also I can do really great smile lines at home on friend and even myself but when it comes to clients they are not 2 good , i had a 3 week rebalence in friday and it all went **** up It took me three hours and they were not to great. I am thinking of doing a converstion course to get better training do u think this will help?

dannie.

 

[shellpink]

Hi welcome to the site! you will get loads of help and info here! Yes! I would say definately do another course if you can! Essential nails is a home course and not the same as training with a good educated tutor!! Its just a basic start, Lets face it....... you can never have too much training!! Good luck!!

 

[poshpinks]

hi thanks for the advice I am thinking of either doing a creative course or a entity one which would you recommend? dannie.

 

[maguire]

Hi and welcome to the site, I agree with shellpink, you need to get more training by going on a course then the tutors gan guide you as you are doing the nails, the online courses can't give you that, you are basically left to your own devices, as far as timings 2 hours is ok lots of techs do 2 hours for a full set, and again the more you do the timings will come down. hope to have helped a little

 

[maguire]

hi thanks for the advice I am thinking of either doing a creative course or a entity one which would you recommend? dannie.

there are a few posts on here if you do a search about which courses to take, in the end it depends on you and the location where you can take a course if there is anywhere nearby you

 

[adelekeegan1]

hi thanks for the advice I am thinking of either doing a creative course or a entity one which would you recommend? dannie.

I don't know anything about Entity but can thoroughly recommend Creative

 

[Deena]

Hi, I definitely think you'd benefit enormously from another course of training. There's no substitute for an experienced educator being in the same room with you. I only know about ezflow and creative and I'd recommend both. You wouldn't go far wrong with either, but it depends on who/what's available within reasonable distance or whatever your circumstances might dictate. Research carefully and then make a decision.

Personally, I think it's all credit to you that you're working in a salon after a home learning course. If you can do that, just think what you could do with more training? Good luck.

 

[poshpinks]

Thanks everyone, i know there is both a creative and entity conversion course in my area , the lady that teaches the entity course was teaching creative and has been highly recommended but I dont know if employers are looking for creative trained people or they just see how good you are at nails?

 

[blossom]

Are you having problems with the nails that you do? Are there lifting/breaking problems and that is what takes the time?

If not, then I think, tbh (just my opinion) that 2 hrs for a new set and 1.5 for rebalance is actually OK, certainly along the lines of what a lot of nail techs are doing. I think the key thing here is that you say you have been doing nails "on and off" for 3 years . . . you need to be doing them more "on" than "off" and you will find you speed up anyway over time.

Education is a wonderful thing and I'm no way saying don't . . . but even after another training course you may well find your timings are not very different and that it's experience that will speed you up. But if another training course helps you knock lifting, cracking/breaking on the head, then that would make a big difference to your times anyway.