Hi, I’m hoping some of you can advise please. I have a chronic illness that causes chronic fatigue weakness and pain. I’m looking to find treatments that I can do on clients preferably sitting down that are not tiering, strenuous or exhausting. Can anyone give suggestions
Many thanks
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I'm not sure beauty or nails is the career for you with your condition. A full set of nail extensions including consultation, application, payment, rebooking and escorting clients out can be 2 hours work, continuous, no let up, solid work, my arms and back are usually killing me by the time I finish. Do that 3/4/5 time a day and your body is hurting, a lot, despite the fact that you are sat down. Manicures and gel polish are quicker services, but you are still working solidly for 45 minutes at a time and to make any kind of decent money you need to be doing several a day unless you can price yourself in the higher price bracket based on your client base demographic. Consider you charge £25 for a set of Gel Polish on Natural nails, approx £7 of that will be for products (I've upped that a bit to cover PPE atm) so you're making £18, then you need to pay Tax/IN of 20%, that leaves you £14.40 per client, if you can manage 4 a day thats £68.40 a day, if you can manage 5 days a week thats £345 a week. You need to deduct your rent, less assume £20 a day that's £100 per week so you've earned £245 a week.....IF and it's a big IF, your condition allows you to work solidly for 5 days a week. Many of my friend who suffer with your condition just couldn't make that kind of commitment or physical exhertion consistently without it impacting on their health and their life outside of work.
Facials and beauty are also pretty labour intensive even though you can do them sat down, it's quite hard work and constant for an hour or so.
Maybe eyelashes? pretty intense, you have to concentrate hard and lean over a clients face for a while but all done in a contained space so not a lot of moving around.
Eyebrows might work, again intense but not a lot of moving around.
Not sure just eyelashes and brows will allow you enough profit
Spray tanning is labour intensive, set up and take down can be hard work unless you can site a tent and leave it up. Good profit in tanning I believe
I don't want to rain on your parade but I wouldn't want you to spend all your energy and effort getting trained then find you just can't cope, that would be heart breaking.