Please donโt fall for this! ๐ฐ
Updated: Nov 17
Okay before I start this post letโs make something clear, when ppl call these messy looking, chunky whatevers โRussiansโ I want to delete myself from social media, Iโm not even joking it drives me crazy ๐คฃ please learn the meaning of the word! Russian volume is a technique, a definition of how a certain lash fan look like, symmetrical - narrow opening - short base. Russians on the other side are actual ppl any not lash styles! Okay now that we cleared this up back to the post โ
Unfortunately I see this example waaaay to often and its finally time to say something. So what exactly is wrong with this apart from the obvious that itโs ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐ด?
ยฃ50 full set
1 day, 5 ppl = ยฃ250
1 week, 5 days = ยฃ1250
1 month, 20 days = ยฃ5000
๐๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ผ First thing first what I teach to my student is that we artists make our money from infills and not full sets, right ? If you would be doing 5 full sets a day, 5 days per week, 4 weeks per month you would be seeing 100 new client every month with no returning ones! That means you are doing something wrong if all you see is new faces and no returning ones.
You need to build a connection with your clients and give them the best lashes you can possibly do! If their lashes falling out too soon or you didnโt listen to what kind of set they want or the lashes are uncomfortable, why would they come back to you ? Especially when you are cheap ? They just gonna try another one.
Second thing is no matter where you are, if you are charging ยฃ50 for a full set you are either mediocre and you are okay with that or lazy to invest in yourself and business in order to charge more for your craft. And no, the โ ppl in my area donโt have money or wonโt pay more โ excuse is very outdated so stop hiding behind it! You can find your ideal clientele literally anywhere if you are hungry enough for success.
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Third thing is if you wanna try to go down this route you will burn out and have no business within a year I can guarantee you that! Lets say on average a set takes around 2 hours ( classic & natural volume, dramatic or mega volume takes 3+ hours ) So if you have 5 clients every day and you spend 2 hours with each plus minus the time you need to clean your work station and eat - drink - stretch between clients will add up to 11 hours a day lashing.
And you havenโt done your admin, stock count, social media, promo pictures yet. Eventually You will feel stuck in this circle and you be so drained that will lead to halfassing your work, loosing clients, being unmotivated and unhappy.
๐๐ฎ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ข ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต. ๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ? ๐๐ง ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ฐ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ?