You do alot of acrylics though don't you Cinderella71? Can I just ask you how your infill prices compare to a new set? And do you charge different prices for 2/3/4 week infills?
I'm just doing hard gels at the moment but I find 3 week infills alot more work than 2 week ones!
Hi
I also mainly work with hard gel btw. I have a set price for infill between 3-5 weeks, anything after 5 weeks is priced as a new set. I haven't experienced anyone coming back for an infill after only 2 weeks, that must be like heaven lol! But I do know other nail techs who have set the limit at 4 weeks, so anything beyond 4 weeks = new set price, as well as different prices depending on time passed, but tbh I haven't seen this too often around my area. I do wish my hard gel clients would come back for infill every 2 weeks though, I can imagine that would be so much less work.
However, a few of my gel polish clients often go only 2 weeks between new polish though, but even then, most of them go 3 weeks with their gel polish. I also charge extra for removal (the equivalent to around 5 pounds like ciderella charges), no one's made any comments about it, especially as it's considered a rather low amount where I live, almost negligible to them, but adds up for me throughout the months. Sure they could go out and buy acetone and do it themselves if they really wanted to and were stingy little ladies. But they are not really the types to sit down on a saturday evening, clumsily wrapping their fingers in acetone and scraping and picking at their gel polish for an hour in a desperate attempt to get it off, when they can just pay a little extra and I'll do it for them at next appt.
They can think of it this way: The first time they come, it's like an intro offer (the price of gel polish without removal). And from now on, they pay the "real price".
I worded it as such anyway.