Hi Robin! I think there will always be "nailtech wanna be" clients who buy stuff to use themselves at home that they have no rightly business doing... :) However, the expense of the product and a light and trying to do a setup at home will deter a great bit of that I think. Some clients just aren't gonna pay in a salon and that is all there is to it. These are NOT our bread and butter clients... What I have learned is Shellac has given clients a reason to return to the salon. Most don't get manicures because the polish doesn't last long enough to make it worth it. Now they can come in, get a mani that lasts, and is just enough of a pain in the butt to get off that they come back more regularly. It has VASTLY expanded my business, and I guess that is the name of the game... In my opinion.... :) Michelle Cordes, Owner/Licensed Nail Technician The Nail Spa in Silverdale, Washington "The spa for your hands and feet since 1997" www.myspace.com/thenailspa
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: Nailtech-googlegroups.com <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, July 4, 2010 10:37:02 AM Subject: NailTech:: old ladies and shellac Hi everyone, I have been lurking here for quite some time and have been enjoying all your posts and information. I have been watching closely to the conversations about these new gels, Shellac, Gelish, ECO and I see in NAILS Magazine i.b.d. is due with their own very soon. Never one to jump without doing my homework, I have been waiting to see how all this shakes out. The reason I decided to post today is last night. I went to a fireworks party where we had an super view of some great fireworks. Anyway, there was many people there we had not met before, including these 2 sisters, well over 70 (one very vocal about being the younger sister!) The older of the sisters was sitting at the table with my husband, our neighbor and several others. She noticed my nails (traditional gel rock-star blinged) and tells me she used to have fake nails but just took them off and both she and her sister got this new polish "stuff". Now mind you this is pretty small town here and I have not seen or heard anyone doing gel polish yet, but these 2 women sure did. I asked her if it was called Shellac and oh yes she says, yes that was what her girl said it was. So we talked a little about it and moved on to other things. A little later she grabs my hand and asks me if I do my own nails. Oh yes I said I sure do. Now this next comment is the base reason for me coming out of the woodwork today. "Tell me, do you think I can do this Shellac thing myself or do I need to keep going to the girl to do them?" Of course I gave her 6 reasons to Sunday Church as to why she had to continue to patronize her "girl" and could not or should not be doing them herself. I am pretty sure she will heed my words and continue with her girl. But, the conversation bothered me all night. If this 75+ year old woman even had a tweak in the brain about doing this on herself, then oh boy how are we as professionals going to deal with that? I have already seen (at whoa high prices) Shellac on ebay and Amazon. So while this new service has already and probably will continue to bring in new clients while CND is doing all this consumer promoting, what do you all think is going to happen long term. I read some comments by Lorraine about the ECO being in pots while the others are polish bottles, I belive I will be leaning in that direction when I make my decision as to which line to take in. Meanwhile I am going to pay this woman's "girl" a visit and have myself a Shellac done - yes that means removing my bling and I will cry, but I have to get a test run for myself as part of my homework! Looking forward to hearing every ones input on this, Robin -- 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. -- 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.
