So much to learn

[Ruby Belle]

Help! I'm really new to nails, I've done gel courses in manicure, bottled gel, extension and sculpture, which I am confident in doing. I am booked in for doing a nail art course to obtain a cert, however I feel fairly confident in nail art that I do atm. I would like to develop my skills in all things nail. I know there's lots of options out there but what should I train for next? Are standard polish manicures still a thing today or should I focus on acrylics? I'm at a loss as what to do? College or training company? Any advise welcome. Thanks

 

[Kuredute]

I started my training with regular manicure and pedicure, then trained in gel polish application and lastly did gel extension course, afterwards I took e-file course.
I work at the salon - 90% of clients want mani+gelpolish, 5% regular mani and 5% extensions. Pedicure is a different story - waries on season - in summertime about 40% of services I provide are pedicures in winter it's down to about 10%. Acrylics ain't really popular where I live and work.
What to choose further is really up to you - what do you want to do, how do you want to advertise your self? You can be all natural nail tech, just extensions nail tech or broad spectrum nail tech. However you position your self, you will get clients, who are after the services you provide. As for me, knowing how to do regular mani, as well as, extensions really give me a lot of conidence.
As of nail art - you can do nail art course if you want and feel like it, I haven't done any of thouse, however, I come from artist family and maybe art is in my genes . Right now I don't have that much money, so I just train by my self at home. Yes, doing nail art course you will get the first steps at it much quicker then training at home by your self, however, after nail art course you still have to practice at home to be good at it. YouTube is full of wonderful nail art tutorials to learn from and in my opinion it's not a crucial thing to have done a course in nail art.
My clients already know - if they want some grand ovet the top nail art they have to send me picture or describe idea before head, so I could prepare if necessary.

P.S. I always have really liked one stroke flowers on nails, one educator told me: "You will never get the hang of it if you won't take course!". Guess what - now I do one stroke without ever taking course - just took me some time and patience, but I learned it my self.

 

[Ruby Belle]

I started my training with regular manicure and pedicure, then trained in gel polish application and lastly did gel extension course, afterwards I took e-file course.
I work at the salon - 90% of clients want mani+gelpolish, 5% regular mani and 5% extensions. Pedicure is a different story - waries on season - in summertime about 40% of services I provide are pedicures in winter it's down to about 10%. Acrylics ain't really popular where I live and work.
What to choose further is really up to you - what do you want to do, how do you want to advertise your self? You can be all natural nail tech, just extensions nail tech or broad spectrum nail tech. However you position your self, you will get clients, who are after the services you provide. As for me, knowing how to do regular mani, as well as, extensions really give me a lot of conidence.
As of nail art - you can do nail art course if you want and feel like it, I haven't done any of thouse, however, I come from artist family and maybe art is in my genes . Right now I don't have that much money, so I just train by my self at home. Yes, doing nail art course you will get the first steps at it much quicker then training at home by your self, however, after nail art course you still have to practice at home to be good at it. YouTube is full of wonderful nail art tutorials to learn from and in my opinion it's not a crucial thing to have done a course in nail art.
My clients already know - if they want some grand ovet the top nail art they have to send me picture or describe idea before head, so I could prepare if necessary.

P.S. I always have really liked one stroke flowers on nails, one educator told me: "You will never get the hang of it if you won't take course!". Guess what - now I do one stroke without ever taking course - just took me some time and patience, but I learned it my self.

 

[Ruby Belle]

Thanks for your advice really helpful So much info out there, thanks for sharing x