I'm ok with it! I still have a waiting list after all these years.. I don't mess around. I run my business, it doesn't run me.
On 5/24/10, Becky <[email protected]> wrote: > If she's so desperate for nice looking hands she needs to leave your > work alone. If she picks, CHARGE her. Some of these clients only > listen when you talk $$ - by now, personally, I would have told her I > couldn't keep doing her nails if she wasn't going to give them a > chance. And if they don't let me see what's happening, I can't fix it. > She's saying, "it's not you, it's me" because it IS - she is > embarrassed and she should be! Keep your teeth, clippers, nippers and > other nails off of my work!! > > Sorry, I'm the Nail Nazi. > > On 5/24/10, Roxanne <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a client... the one that didn't want to use primer two weeks ago. >> (we used primer). >> >> She came to me last year with a bad set of acrylic nails. Her nails were >> a chop shop mess. After she got them off and waited a month we tried the >> gel on her and it just doesn't stay put, I'm just having repeated >> service breakdown and it's all different but mostly cracking at the free >> edge and sides (to the best of my knowledge since she picks the thing >> off and I never get to see what, where or how it broke) >> >> She is really difficult to sculpt on. She has no free edge and she has >> really deep sides, or no sides... where you have to cut your form in the >> center just to get a reasonable width from side to side... does that >> make sense? The nail edge is really rounded back and the sides have no >> sidewalls (or just a little) back to the cuticle at the back of her >> nail.... >> >> Anyway, she tried the gel last year and she had such a mess from before >> that she just stopped everything and let them heal up. She came back two >> weeks ago and her nail beds looked great, pink and healthy all attached >> and a little bit, teeny tiny free edge...(but they still have a funky >> shape and no sidewalls) so we did the gel sculpted just to give her a >> better looking nail with a small free edge. She came back after a week >> and I 4 had broken off. I think most were at the edges... like I said >> she just picked off the rest that was attached to her nail (did I say >> she's also a picker with some rough cuticles?) We fixed what she had >> and now a week later she said there are 4 or 5 off. >> >> She said she wants to try acrylic again because she has had better luck >> with that. She feels it's stronger for her. Which is fine.... I'll do >> whatever she wants. >> >> 1. she has medical problems. Don't know if this is effecting the gel or >> if it will the acrylic. >> 2. She said full well tips have worked good for her. (I'm not fond of >> tips... seems like one more element in the mix to break down or glue >> cause a reaction.) >> 3. She desperately wants to clean her nails and hands up so they look >> halfway decent. once I sculpt it with a little bit of side making the >> nail wider and not so pointed... they look normal and rather nice. But >> I'm wondering if my sculpted tip is breaking at the sides because my >> structure is off? >> >> argh... I love this lady... she's so patient and says, "it's not you... >> it's me... this always happens." But that's not good for me. She's >> really a challenge & I'd like to get something to work on her. any >> thoughts would be SO helpful. >> Roxanne >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NailTech" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > -- Sent from my mobile device -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NailTech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en.
