Happy New Year!

Each new year brings us an opportunity to create fresh. A time to implement new ideas and move past things that don’t work. New Year’s Day for us in The Ocala area of Florida was rainy and getting colder by the minute. It was a day to be inside for sure. I got out of bed before the rest of my crew and put on some coffee. I started going through my FaceBook feed and clicked on a couple of webinars that interested me. One was only a few minutes away so I took the opportunity to listen in. It was motivational and inspired me to keep looking further into things I can do to improve my mind/body/spirit and business. I found some amazing emails in my inbox. I found some amazing motivators in one of my facial groups. I took out my calendar and started plotting goals and creating my todo list. By the time my household started stirring I had the webinar under my belt, committed to reading a trade book with one of my facial groups (and ordered the next trade book for the next reading project) and had my whole week plotted out. After reading the first 2 chapters of the trade book, I looked at my numbers from 2017 and which services were more popular, which ones I want to drop, which ones I wanted to promote more and which ones I honestly enjoy more… and started plotting my marketing for the direction I want to go. I am dual licensed for skin care and nail services. I love learning new modalities and how to use my skin care knowledge for my hand and foot care. I love both nails and skin for different reasons and mostly for the diversity they and the industry offer me in my career. Watch out 2018, here I come!

Continuing Ed

Continuing education is important to me. Either learning something new or as a refresher. We are blessed that there are some really great skincare companies and trade journals that offer courses online. I was able to do 3 online courses today. 2 for skin and 1 for nails. The 2 for Skin I passed the tests and the 1 for nails the website is messed up and I’ll have to try the test again tomorrow. Le sigh. But what was cool about one of the skin courses and the nail course was that they were about the same thing (dry winter skin and eczema) and reminded me how my skin care license renewed my love for nail, hand and foot care AND will make me a better nail tech and give me new treatment ideas. The other skin care course was skin, nutrition and hormones. Even though I passed I think I’ll revisit the course next week and add to my notes. At the end of the day all 3 were great and I was able to learn and better understand some things I’ve previously learned. ❤️

Sneaking up to Christmas

Christmas is fast approaching and it caught me off guard! I have amazing clients. They are a part of my extended family and I love each person. I wish I had more time to devote to writing today but we have some Christmas catching up to do before we head off for our vacation to spend time with our family. Here’s to a wonderful Christmas and holiday season. I hope Santa treats you all very good and God bless you and your families!

Happy Halloween!

Today will be a fun day of creating ghoulish beauty.  Nails and makeup will be the bulk of my busy day today as everyone prepares for their Halloween events.  I have pulled out the blackest blacks and the deepest bloody reds, dirty browns and ghoulish greens.  For me there will be a pint sized dinosaur that will rawr his tricks for treats. I loves seeing all the creativity that goes into the costumes and I really appreciate those that come to me and let me be part of that creative energy!  

This ghoulish beauty wanted 3D Nail Art, creepy spiders, dripping blood and eyeballs.  This was a first for me and I am pretty proud of the results.  Hope you all have a happy and safe Halloween!