Beauty Business Guidance
PACKING FOR MOBILE NAIL SERVICES (house call tips and tricks!)
If you are a mobile nail tech trying to figure out proper ways to pack your bag for a mobile nail service, this blog is for you. This includes a checklist of nail products to pack for mobile nail services, tips and tricks, and a YouTube video to help give you inspiration on how to organize your house call bag!
BEST GIFTS FOR NAIL LOVERS AND NAIL TECHS (2021 GIFT GUIDE)
If you have a nail obsessed person in your life or even a fully licensed nail tech, it might be pretty hard to buy for them because you either don't know anything about nails OR it seems like they have everything! So as a nail tech, I wanted to write this to hopefully help guide you to start brainstorming some good out of the box gifts for the nail lover in your life!
BEST NAIL DRILL BITS FOR GEL REMOVAL AND CUTICLE PREP
This blog goes over the top 3 gel removal drill bits based on your level of nail experience! Whether you are a seasoned nail tech or a DIYer, this blog post goes through the pros and cons of three different gel removal bits for you to analyze and tailor exactly to your needs! After we go over nail drill bits for removal, I go over the top two cuticle removing drill bits to give you or your clients the perfect and most seamless gel manicure!
BEST NAIL PRODUCT ORGANIZATION CONTAINERS
Organizing nail products is SUCH a task and sometimes you just don't know where to start so you are just left overwhelmed and a little messy. I finally gave myself a day to reorganize some of the most chaotic areas in my nail life and I wanted to share some of my personal favorite containers etc. to hopefully light that fire under ya to make your work space feel like heaven again.
THE TOP 5 GEL MISTAKES YOU MIGHT BE MAKING
Gel manicures are tough. And I think a lot of people are finding this to be true especially after their at home DIY manicures during all of these shut downs. SO, I (a nail tech) wrote this quick blog on some of the top 5 mistakes you might be making that could be causing your gel manicures to not live their life to the fullest! Tap through to read!
With so many gel manicure fanatics and DIYers filling my inbox with questions asking about the best of this or that and supplies I would recommend, I decided to finally put together an easy and affordable supplies list for you! I've been constantly been packing and unpacking my salon supplies that I've really honed in on what I NEED vs what I can live with out so I used this info and translated it to a quick and easy shopping list for DIYers of absolute necessities when building their at home nail kits!
THE ONLY 3 NAIL ART BRUSHES YOU REALLY NEED
THE THREE NAIL ART BRUSHES YOU NEED. I mean, I may be biased. But truly I wanted to give you the full breakdown of what my 3 piece nail art brush kit can do for you and talk about how much we over think art when we don't need to! I want these brushes to just free your mind of all the complicated art rules we have in our head and let your imagination run wild. Click through to get the full story behind each brush.
HOW TO MARKET YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS
If there is anything I've learned from being shut down from Covid, I have learned that all of my past marketing and branding decisions I've made (some unknowingly), set me up for massive success when it finally came down to starting an online press-on business. I am seeing so many people struggling with making sales in this new situation so I wanted to write this blog and some of my tips to help guide you into a marketing mindset to gracefully market ourselves in our new normal.
HOW I AM PACKAGING MY PRESS-ONS
As a lot of us nail techs and nail artists have been shut down due to the virus changing our business models permanently, it is time to get creative with new streams of income. Press on nails! The only issue is that a lot of us techs have never done this before so we don't even know where to start. So I wrote these blog posts about sizing, packaging, etc. to help give some guidance to get your products launched!
HOW TO SIZE YOUR PRESS ON TIPS (for your press on business)
All of us nail techs are switching from real human hands, to press on nails right now and it's seriously such an unknown that a lot of us had zero experience in. So here is a blog post on one of the most popular questions I've received from all of you. "How are you tackling the sizing of nails in your press-on packs?" I outlined a couple options and the pros and cons of each to help you weigh out what YOU want to do.
FINALLY! I have put together a massive list of gels and supplies that I have in my salon drawers. Pretend this blog is you literally going through all of my gel and asking why I use each thing. Whether you are a beginning nail tech or a seasoned one, I feel like it's always fun to see what other nail artist's use! So come on in!