What gives us our passion for nails?

[geeg]

Well, What gives us our passion for nails?

Do you in fact feel a passion for nails or is it just a job, a means to an end?

 

[Barbiekc84]

Before every set of nails I have a different feeling. Some days i'm as excited as I was when I first started and other days i'm only in it for the money! :o Think it all depends on other factors going on around me - tiredness being a major one!

All in all I can say I love doing nails, i've never regretted doing the course and I always have a sense of pride when someone asks about my nails or a set that i've done.

I think that i'm lucky that i've chosen to do a job (albeit part-time) that I have immense satisfaction in, the ability to further knowledge wise and one that I can say i'm not too bad at!

Kelly x

 

[hannajadem]

I am in love with and obsessed with all things nails, I drive the hubby and many friends crazy twittering on about them all the time. That's why I spend every spare minute I get on here, researching and getting lots of inspiration, and talking to other people who speak 'nail language'. As I don't work in a salon, I get a bit isolated and don't get to share my passion with others who also have the passion.
To me, nails is the dream job, the one you dream about as a kid ('Mummy I want to be a princess, singer, actress..nail technician!')
If I could afford it, I'd give up working and do nails for free, I love it that much.

 

[Tracey Roberts]

Well I started training in Sept 2007, puely because I was bored with life at the time and having i midlife crisis( enough of that now lol ), so I thought to my self I'll go to college and learn something new, I was fed up of my brain going stagnant so to speek :lol: needed to have fresh information and focus.
as I've always been a creative artsy type person,I was an ornment and thimble painter for some well known companys and also fettler for 20 odd years, as well as crafts in general, I found a course that did nail art, that caught my attention, so enrolled on the NVQ2 nail services course ( I know geegs not a great fan lol, but I didn't know about company training at that time ).
This course has changed my life, I love every aspect of it, all that new info I was learning,anatomys, diseases, health & safety, all of it, and I also do my own research away from college, and will continue to learn after college has finished.
Now I'm totally addicted to nails, and grateful that I have a partner who supports me in all this, He even has a play :lol:, bless him.
I just love nails and there are loads of geeks on this site who gave me inspiration including geeg with her beautiful natural looking nails, I just cant wait till I get my certificate and insurance and away I will go, YAY:hug:

 

[Lease]

I am very passionate about the nail industry,
i eat sleep and breath the industry, I also drive my hubby and friends mental talking about my latest designs e.t.c
The Nail industry is a tough one to crack and my journey has been bumpy! I have worked in some awful places, where the staff get treated badly or the manager hasn't paid anyone or there is no products and we have had to bring in our own stuff for the day. All changed when i went to work in London, my treatment times were spot on, each set i did was just getting better and better every time. I worked myself up the ladder and after being a nail bar manager in the west end for quiet sometime i lost my passion for the industry and felt that i had lost my flare and was put down by staff members so i lost my confidence and hung up my brush and took an office job!
Thank goodness i was made redundant as my passion has come back and i have thrown myself back into it and seem to be doing really well working from home!
Sorry about my life story - but i am truely passionate about my chosen career as a nail technician.

 

[PeepPaws]

I came into the world of nails when I was trying to leave the decorating business I had started with my step-father.
I had 'played' with nail art. I had never had enhancements before. I was walking into the un-known.
I found this web-site as I was trying to find out about courses, as we all know, it's a mine-field out there.
I had contact with Gigi right from the early days to help with who I should contact.
I took her advise and have never looked back. I am as passionate about nails now as I was when I first qualified.
Its taken me on a long and hard journey to where I am today. I have a fab client base and it's growing still. I am hoping to get a waxing course in with Kim Lawless in May this year and then I am back to doing more nail courses.
I, like has been stated before, get lonely in my work and love the fact that I can get on here and ask for help, or just read through others post, and see that certain things that happen are normal.
I get excited about new products and rave to my cleints about everything and anything nails!!!
I LOVE MY JOB!!!!!

 

[RAQUEL]

im still mega passionate about it all, although i teach as well now, i just cannot step out of the salon- its my salvation LOL.. from everything down to the clients to yukky bikini waxes and nekkid men havin spray tans ( my additional services!)

sometimes, just sometimes.. i have to pull my finger out and think.. cmon.. expand ya mind- when i look at my book on a friday and see 6 million rebalances off the trot.. i think someone come in and have something MAAAADDDDD please!! sometimes i feel in a rut churning out salon nails but hey.. thats what pays the bills..

I was a window dresser before this, and i made props and displays all over the country.. i just love seeing something start at nothing and become something fabulous!!!

 

[cro-mari]

It started like 'I have to do something with my life, coz I'm sick and tired of working in this horrible casino' (don't ask :green, and nail school was across the street... but when I entered in this whole new world of nail thingies, I fell in love with it! And loving it ever since!

Secondly, I always need 'new projects', new things to learn, and this industry surely gives something new all the time. And one thing lead to another. First nails, then pedicures, and then waxing. And adoring all three It took a lot of work, lots of ups and downs, but never giving up.

So for me it did start as just a job, but now I live and love every minute of it.

 

[Pink Pink Pink]

I can remember being about 10 and painting my nails all different colours and most of the time my fingers looked like crazy paving.
When I was about 13, I started using a lipstick brush and enamel to create patterns - my best friend discovered a striper brush in AVON book (lol) and bought it for me for xmas one year.
It just evolved - I think I have always loved it, it's just been inbuilt into my psyche somehow!
When I decided to make a career from it - the more research I did and the more knowledge I get, my passion keeps on growing - I doubt it will ever stop.

Great thread geeg, brought back some fun memories

(when my parents thought I was some kinda dope head and was trying to get high from polish fumes cos I painted my nails so often. Saying "there's no way anybody would do it that much just cos they wanted to!") HA ha ha xxxx

 

[Steepdene]

Well for me, I'd say it's become my passion recently. I'm not yet trained, but have loved having my nails enhanced in the past. It's always been in the back of my mind that "one day" I would like to try it for myself. My own nails are a bit of a nightmare, soft, weak and never get past the end of my finger! However, since discovering Solaroil again, they're improving. I love the way it feels when the nails all look perfect and are a uniform length and shape and I love nail art. I want everyone to have nails like that.

The opportunity's now arisen for me to take some training as my contract at work has been terminated and I've finally got time to do it! I'm desperate to get started, but common sense tells me to wait until after I've had some surgery in March. I'm already driving my other half mad looking at nail sites and buying books to read until I get my training.

For me, this site has rekindled an interest I had before and is now in danger of taking over my life! :lol:

 

[Gelly]

I had never been interested in nails.
In fact, I had already began my foundation course before having my first ever set of nails done!

I had wanted to be a beauty therapist ever since I was a child. But from the age of 16 my life didn't stay still enough for me to go to college.

Then a couple of years ago - when my youngest was way too young for me to go to college - I was looking for a way to begin satisfying some of my personal goals.......

I discovered this site and the fact that I could train to be a nail tech in a relatively short space of time...... thought it was a step in the right direction - but not what I wanted to do.

Little did I know how challenging, satisfying and exciting I would find it. Nails have changed my life!

I have since trained in various aspects of beauty, but have recently decided to remove them from my services, to concentrate solely on nails.... Because I love them!!!

Nails are my passion.... my 3rd baby!
I don't think I could ever tire of being a nail tech.... there is always something new to learn, something new to try, new ways to challenge myself, new ways to express myself. It's exciting!

I have a lovely husband, two gorgeous sons and nails...... I think I am one of the luckiest people alive! :green:

 

[adelekeegan1]

Like many people I started having enhancements and thought 'I can do that' famous last words

I did some research and chose my training provider and then discovered this site. I love my job and because I work on my own get plenty of variety. I initially intended to just do L&P enhancements but soon expanded my menu and now offer gels and a range of manis and pedis as well.

I am never going to set the nail world alight but my passion hasn't waned and I pride myself on staying abreast of all things new and offering a personal tailormade service.

 

[min11]

I don't work yet but for me its that I had always, right from my mid teens, always done everything I could to make sure my nails looked great. I experimented with what now might be classed as party nails, kits with tips that you blended in, added more adhesive to the filing dust and smoothed again and again until they were flush. My first set of enhancements in a salon were such a revelation and I remember asking why they couldn't put the white smile back, why did I have to have that growing down and down and being told that just couldn't be done. In my mind I knew it could be but now how and from that day on, I was 26, I wanted to learn. Sadly it would be years before I could train. In the mean time, as I was hardly ever 100% happy with what was done and I always refiled the sidewalls and free edge and actually quite often thinned the enhancements down, I guess thats where my passion came from. Just the knowledge I knew things could be done better and the need to know exactly how.


I take one step forward and two back trying to get out there but wether its doing my own nails with Brisa, L&P or just now a fascination with perfectly manicured natural nails and an obsessive use of Solar Oil, I think I must spend hours every day thinking about working, the logistics, and a pie in the sky dream to have more than one salon. Who knows though what the future can bring!

I guess in short its always been the quest for the best nails I can attain.

 

[An*Gel]

I am and always will be passionate about nails. I honestly think you have to be to be a nail technician. I actually get lost in nails. I could be worried sick about something or sick or just upset in general and once I sit in front of that client... I totally forget my worries.. it has to be the best job (imo) in the world.

From the time I was about 6 and stuck blue tack on my nails, shaped and painted them I should have known that that was the job for me:green:

 

[TwinkleTips69]

Well, I am a real arty girl. My parents are always ranting on at me to go to uni and study design/illustration. (which I will do, one day). I am passionate about being creative....and about being damn good at what I do. I have phases where I get frustrated, and phases where I am super proud of what I do. I want to be an educator one day....I would LOVE to teach.

My story....I was a total tomboy till i started secondary school, then I fell in love with clothes and make up. Always painted my nails with tiny fancy designs....and when I was 16/17 my best friends mum spotted a junior's job advertised in the one and only beauty salon that was around here back in 2001. I got it, and it went from there. I have done many other bits and bobs in between (an outdoor instructor!!!)....I always come back to nails with my tail between my legs...and my clients breathe a sigh of releif that I'm back!! hehe

I'm now a total nail geek. I trained as a beauty therapist....but am ALWAYS seen as a nail tech, no matter how much I train in beauty!!

I am quite knowledgeble now I like to think. I know Doug Schoons book inside out and love to give my clients a bit of science babble now and again!! Hehe

I have only ever had my nails done by someone else once....them famous popits that I mentioned on a thread some time ago. I don't trust anyone else! lol

 

[TwinkleTips69]

Just realised I totally didn't answer the question!! To busy blabbing!

Yes I am passionate about what I do.....for definate. Because I ALWAYS want to be better. And NEVER let my standard slip.

If I have problems/a lot on my mind I unfortunatley find it hard to not let it show...when I'm doing nails my mind runs overtime. Someone mentioned that they are the total opposite and forget all their worries when doing nails......I WISH!! Tell me how!!

I am a creative spirit, and a talented artist.....acrylic nails is just my media of choice!!

 

[Missy G]

Ive always loved painting my nails and making them look petty, I have an artistict side to me ,and one day it hit me, unfortunatly I wished it had hit me earlier..heh I want to be a nail tech!!..and so I did.

In the future I would love to learn skin and hair too, but so kick myself , I didnt do it all earlier, instead I was working in retail. :grr:I wasted 15 years of throwing my artistic flair into retail, when I should of been studding nails/hair /skin, whish I woken up earlier and realised my love for the beauty industry before.. but hey as they say ..your never too old to learn.xxxxxxxxxxxx

I love making things look pretty, and satisfing people, so I think being a nail tech fits that to a a tea.

 

[ADP]

I'm still training, but I've always loved nails...they are so feminine.

i would like to think that when I'm qualified, people will look at me as a person that can give them the 'feel good factor' much like a hairdresser too...

 

[fifitrix]

I have a passion for nails, I used to be a nailbiter when I was younger and always wanted to have lovely nails. I did manage to grow them but they weren't as lovely as I wanted, so I started having enhancements done and always wanted to be able to do them myself.

I never done anything about it until the opportunity came up for me, and I have never looked back. I love being able to enhance clients' nails, especially the ones who say,"Oh you couldn't do anything with my nails." It gives such a buzz to see their face when I'm done.

I think my passion is being passed down to my daughter now, she is constantly saying to me, mum, did you see her nails? Oh, and the fight to see who gets to read Scratch first when it arrives!!! :lol::lol:

 

[Chameleon]

I have no passion for L&P nails whatsoever

I resign myself to the fact that i am a passionate natural nail therapist....i just love working with textures,creams,serums,lotions,oil based,water based,whatever...if it has a desired effect and i see a transformation in a clients hands and skin....i just go all gooey:lol:

I talk,eat,breath,and walk for the beauty industry...why only today i was doing a manicure and the client next to me was talking about her routine for nails...or very little as the case maybe....we had a full blown conversation on the subject of cuticle oil,different nail types,and what she needed from her routine as a busy mum.....i could see in her eyes that all the time i was "waffling on" as i like to call it,she was genuinely interested,and cared what i could advise her on....something like that makes all the difference for me...

Am i ambitious....naturally....but i will always be a hands on therapist with a wealth of knowledge....and hungry to learn MORE:green:

Coming on here perks me up no end as well:hug: