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Break the glass ceiling: how to attract premium beauty clients & grow your business
Beauty business mentor & award-winning entrepreneur, Stevey Powell, shares advice for if you’re experiencing the ‘glass ceiling’ effect… We start our beauty businesses with a passion for what we do and over time, build a loyal client base and keep our calendars booked. But for some of us, there comes…
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Mother’s Day: how to tailor nail treatments to mums-to-be, new & mature mums
Mother’s Day offers a chance to boost your treatment offerings to satisfy a range of clients. Let us show you how… Mums-to-be The aches and strains of a pregnancy warrant some well-deserved TLC, so turn your focus to expectant mothers. “Mothers-to-be have a lot to prepare for and depending on…
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5 steps to become a zero waste to landfill nail salon
Green Salon Collective (GSC) was founded in 2020 by environmental experts, campaigners and beauty professionals, with an aim to help member salons in the UK and Ireland to responsibly dispose of their waste. Here, GSC shares how to tackle your salon waste and become zero to landfill, to reduce your overall…
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Head educator for Faby, Alessandra Marchesi, encourages you to assess your current working practice for any bad habits – and serves up top tips for maintaining high standards of practice Even as experienced and highly qualified professionals, bad habits can creep up in terms of health, safety and hygiene. You…
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Help kick a client’s nail biting habit by kicking off your service with a consultation perfectly tailored to their nail needs. Rachel Gribble, Salon System expert shares, her tips… As with all nail services, the most important part is the client consultation. You need to establish how badly bitten the client’s nails are and…
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Metta Francis, winner of Scratch Stars Mobile Nailist of the Year 2015 & 2017, reveals her top tips for fellow techs working on-the-move… It’s so important to be organised as a mobile nail technician, as there is not the luxury of being able to pop to the nail cupboard to…
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The rise of the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage rates on April 1 2018 will impact hair, beauty and barber businesses up and down the country. The NHF, a salon trade association that supports the industry, is urging employers to check staff are being paid at the…
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Facebook Live videos are a great way to communicate with your clients, build up excitement and yield an instant reaction. Fee Wallace, lead educator for Sweet Squared and nail vlogger, explains how to get the best out of the social media tool… Making live videos to promote your business can…
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In the perfect world, ‘the customer is always right’, but sometimes you can be faced with a situation you don’t know how to handle. We asked the experts about the most common tricky client types to look out for and how to manage concerns… The late client Anna Germaine, director…
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