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Judge Gigi-Honorary Geek
I have been asked to post this as a seperate thread. It was my reply in sassy's thread about standards. If you've read it before .. ignor. If you haven't then you may pick up some ideas. x
If I were starting out today in the nail business, and wanting to attract the people who have high standards and appreciate quality, here is what I would do. I would have a card or literature printed that said this:
What I would not do is ‘flog a dead horse’ and spend hours explaining to clients, that may or may not care, about products, chemicals, lack of education of other nail techs, lack of standards of other nail techs … bla bla bla.
What I would not do is spend my time constantly worrying about the lack of standards in others; the lack of skill of others; the NSS down the road; the ‘kitchen mafia’ or ‘ironing board brigade’ who ‘play’ around doing nails they are satisfied with because they know no better; the ladies who DIY with products from Ebay or the local pharmacy.
Forget it and put your energy into attracting the clients YOU want.
Apart from a very few persons who might, it is YOU who should blow your own trumpet and then the hardest part ….
None of us can expect peoples respect .. it must be earned by our example.
You’d better to be able to deliver and over-deliver on your promises.
As to education standards … it is simply impossible to MAKE people’s skills or education standard … why? … because, unfortunately what gets in the way are the people.
People are not machines. We see with different eyes and one person’s perfect nail is not another’s. One person’s idea of what is adequate hygiene is not another’s. One person’s teaching skills are better than another’s etc. It is possible to write the standards or what we want to see as the standards, but it is impossible to implement it.
In my many years experience in dealing with colleges I found that they will take whoever they can get to teach nails for one simple reason. They have a demand for nail classes and they want the money filling them will generate. The nail tech down the road will do (good or bad and with or without a teaching certificate) … and by the way, a teaching certificate does not make one a great teacher!!! Great teachers are BORN not made. It is the luck of the draw what ever college you attend.
Greed is also one of the reasons we face the challenges we face today as nail technicians. So many nail distributors will sell their products to anyone at all, trained or untrained … and to me that is one of the main reasons we are seeing what we are seeing; greed, pure and simple.
Products would not be readily available if the people who distribute them were behaving with integrity and not grabbing at every opportunity to sell products to all and sundry.
If I were starting out today in the nail business, and wanting to attract the people who have high standards and appreciate quality, here is what I would do. I would have a card or literature printed that said this:
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What I would not do is ‘flog a dead horse’ and spend hours explaining to clients, that may or may not care, about products, chemicals, lack of education of other nail techs, lack of standards of other nail techs … bla bla bla.
What I would not do is spend my time constantly worrying about the lack of standards in others; the lack of skill of others; the NSS down the road; the ‘kitchen mafia’ or ‘ironing board brigade’ who ‘play’ around doing nails they are satisfied with because they know no better; the ladies who DIY with products from Ebay or the local pharmacy.
Forget it and put your energy into attracting the clients YOU want.
Apart from a very few persons who might, it is YOU who should blow your own trumpet and then the hardest part ….
None of us can expect peoples respect .. it must be earned by our example.
You’d better to be able to deliver and over-deliver on your promises.
As to education standards … it is simply impossible to MAKE people’s skills or education standard … why? … because, unfortunately what gets in the way are the people.
People are not machines. We see with different eyes and one person’s perfect nail is not another’s. One person’s idea of what is adequate hygiene is not another’s. One person’s teaching skills are better than another’s etc. It is possible to write the standards or what we want to see as the standards, but it is impossible to implement it.
In my many years experience in dealing with colleges I found that they will take whoever they can get to teach nails for one simple reason. They have a demand for nail classes and they want the money filling them will generate. The nail tech down the road will do (good or bad and with or without a teaching certificate) … and by the way, a teaching certificate does not make one a great teacher!!! Great teachers are BORN not made. It is the luck of the draw what ever college you attend.
Greed is also one of the reasons we face the challenges we face today as nail technicians. So many nail distributors will sell their products to anyone at all, trained or untrained … and to me that is one of the main reasons we are seeing what we are seeing; greed, pure and simple.
Products would not be readily available if the people who distribute them were behaving with integrity and not grabbing at every opportunity to sell products to all and sundry.
