How good are you, really, do you know?

[geeg]

Apart from the 2 girls who left my salon recently taking a client base each!!
Teach them everything you know and they go off and do that - one did it whilst I was heavily pregnant and the other one waited until I had literally just had the baby!!
Not a very nice feeling I can tell you!!

I have managed to get back in there and build the salon up again quite quickly and get lovely new staff.
Whilst I was very stressed that these girls had done this, I am very happy now and can hold my head high knowing I have built my business in an honest way and not tried to steal it from some-one else!!

Gina xx

Unfortunately you can't hold staff back forever BUT there is a way to do things and it seems in the UK that technicians of any kind feel they can walk off with the clientèle you provided for them in your salon. This is so dishonest and the saddest (maybe the word deplorable) thing is that most don't even think they are doing anything wrong!!

I have found in business that everyone who did that or tried to do it in my salon .. only took a bare handful of clients ... nothing that mattered or couldn't be built up again very quickly. NONE of them went on to be a serious threat to my business.

The good staff that left honestly all have salons to this day that they have built up on their own merits (not mine). What goes round comes round!!

 

[stoney]

One of the reasons I asked this question is because a client and friend of mine works for Protocol as an independant assesor. She keeps telling me to go and do my assesors course, apparently they are screaming out for good assesors.

but...I trained privately with NSI five years ago, learned everything I know NOW from this website and attending the event, and am now about to embark on a whole new education with Creative. I was thinking of doing my assessors course along side.

So...she reckons I'm good enough to assess other peoples nails right but different colleges/schools have different (often lower) standards.

How does your conscious allow you to pass someone, knowing its not good enough, to the level of education you have personally. (Does that make sense LOL)

 

[Cathie!]

How does your conscious allow you to pass someone, knowing its not good enough, to the level of education you have personally. (Does that make sense LOL)

One of my clients used to teach nails at college, she was also an assessor and what you have said above is the very reason she stopped teaching at college as she 'had' to pass people she felt shouldn't pass.

 

[RedAdmiral]

I was very nervous everyday of my masters, I listened to as much as I could take in, read my manual, did exactly what the ambassadors asked for and still at the final judging was a bundle of nervs, when they called my name out and said I came 3rd in my class of 11 I couldnt believe it I am so darned self critical that like alot of you when I do good nails and they come back with no problems I ask them where they went between apps!
Last year I really got to a place that I thought I'd be happy at doing worry-free nails, happy clients but.................... there is always something! I got a new brush and got air bubbles and I nearly cried I thought I'd taken 2 steps back, yesterday whilst shopping I told my educator Michelle and she asked me what the temp was like in salon 'er cold?' so she said 'try moxie it will prob set better for you airbubble free, dont beat your self up your nails are fine' as simple as that? not that I'm just rubbish?

This is a great thread as sometimes I get so caught up, I think I am good but will never stop learning and improving and tweaking and worrying and ...........

 

[Eni]

I can sculpt a mean nail, but thats cos thats how we were taught in school, none of this tip and go stuff. HOWEVER, that being said:

I know I have issues with pink and whites, part of it is cos I hate the P/W I have seen around (porn star nails). I was programmed that nail enhancements are to look...gasp..natural. I have finally figured out that not all P/W have to look porn star LOL. Yet, still to me P/W doesn't look natural. So its my own head doing me in with that. I took the EZF class I took just to get me *over* myself. Sadly, I don't think it helped cos my trainer was totally into porn star nails (LOL)....which was weird cos you don't really see them here where I am, except on her mates! (Wellington is very conservative, provincial almost as far as the 30+ crowd, and of course the younguns are wild wild wild - I love working on them, cos they dig art). ANYWAY

That being said, what I have been doing lately is working with custom blends for nailbed/tip cos I have heaps of mates who are nailbiters so they are my guinea pigs and I gotta say when I do manage to sculpt a natural looking french nail on one of them, there is no better feeling.

There is always room for improvement, always will be as far as I see it. There are days when I should just put down the damn brush and walk away cos its gonna be pants. But I don't, cos I am a)stubborn and b) Sicilian. Dangerous combination that somehow has taught me a whole hell of a lot about myself as well. You gotta do some crap tastic things to learn from your mistakes.

I will always worry if its good enough (Virgo thing) and we all will always keep learning and growing.....and improving.

(sorry so long....)

N.

 

[fiona wallace]

I am looking to go on and take my Masters in L&P this year with CND. I'm bricking it as to whether I am good enough, I will take the initial course towards my Masters and learn from there. Learning is the key. IMO.

Completing your Masters will make you good enough! It's not about judging your nail skills, it's about improving them until they are absolutely amazing!!!!

Stop bricking it!:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Bev Rose]

Completing your Masters will make you good enough! It's not about judging your nail skills, it's about improving them until they are absolutely amazing!!!!

Stop bricking it!:lol::lol::lol:

(Saluting) Ok Fee!

I hear ya! I'll be ringing S2 very soon!

xxxxx

 

[1999judy]

I think we ALWAYS find our own faults with our work. And tbh I don't think it's a bad thing. We need to see the faults (however miniscule) to rectify them.
Quite a few times a friend has done my nails and then berated themselves over "the one that was cr*p!!!!....totally BAD!!"
I like to console that person and say..."hey it was crap but you can try again".....then go home and hope to God I can even try to copy the cr*p one:lol:

 

[deanosnana]

We are our own worst critics right, but sometimes I'll do a set and think, wow they are pretty good, but then I'll take a pictute and they look...well not how I thought and often others can see things that I just cant see, until it pointed out that is! Does that make me a bad technician if I'm not noticing faults in my own work!

How do we know how good or bad we are?

I know continuous education helps, but I've seen some (what I think?)pretty bad nails done by some very advanced (education wise) Nail technicians. I'm only just now starting to believe fully in continous education because I like and trust my educator and the Company I'm training with.

How many of you can feel confident saying 'Yes, I'm a good technician' and why?

Excellent thread!

I feel I can always do a better job. My confidence in my work is not the greatest. I think the nails I do are crap, (everyone else raves about them) then I see someone with nails that REALLY are crap and I think to myself, "OMG...you PAID for those". I would never let someone out of the salon looking that bad!

I am a perfectionist and I guess I'll never be 100% satisfied with my work. But that's a GOOD thing...it'll keep me on top of my game and ALWAYS striving to do better!

 

[mely-bely]

Every time I start a set of new nails I am nervous. I get halfway through and think "those look awful". Then I buff and polish and as they leave I think "Damn, those look good! | DID THAT! And I feel good again! Its been 10 years, keep wondering when that feeling will go away! LOL

 

[VHunter]

I think we ALWAYS find our own faults with our work. And tbh I don't think it's a bad thing. We need to see the faults (however miniscule) to rectify them.
Quite a few times a friend has done my nails and then berated themselves over "the one that was cr*p!!!!....totally BAD!!"
I like to console that person and say..."hey it was crap but you can try again".....then go home and hope to God I can even try to copy the cr*p one:lol:

Can I hazard a guess who that 'friend' is?
:lol:

If it's who I think it is, I hope my nails turn out half as good as that person's crap ones too:!:
ROFL:lol: