Johnny Depp wears nail polish

Yep, I can not believe it either.  No cause Johnny Depp but because a man is wearing nail polish.  But this remind me that men where the first ones to paint their nails.  In 3000 bc on the Egyptian and Romans culture military commanders stain their nails and lips in matching colors before important battles.  Yes for battle no for cosmetic or beautifying purposes.  So why is so weird for us that men use nail polish in this times since it was their idea from the beginning.

Nail polish is very related to men.  Is made some of the same components from car paint (and they love cars), the creator of the first nail polish was Charles Revson (Owner of Revlon brand), the creator of French manicures was Jeff Pink (I love Pink), come one again, why is so weird for us seen a men wearing nail polish. 



There you have it.  It look cool, it looks manly and messy just like must of men.

From: http://www.refinery29.com/johnny-depp-accessories

Wednesday Clients

I usually do not do nails on wednesdays afternoons because I go to church.  But yesterday was the exception.  This days the money flow is slower but the bills keep coming.

I did Rosa Maravilla Nails.  She removed her old material and got a new full set with forms.  Inside silver and purple glitter with little flowers and iridescent glitter.  She loved it!!!

Then it was Mirna who first well did not like the yellow and hot-pink I was doing.  The true was that those are summer color.  We laught about it and then she picked a beauty lilac from Essie named Nice is Nice and i did this peacock feathers design.  Beautifull and elegant.

Texting your clients

In a-blink-of-an-eye i realized is Monday, no money came-in in the weekend, I need to do something.  Ding!!! Let me use my old technique: texting my clients.  What I did is just say hi to the ones I have not hear from them for a while and to the ones recently got their nails done, then I started reminding the ones that need a fill-in this week.  It only took me 10 minutes to text all of them because I have a group set-up of my clients on my cellphone.  The result: 2 fill-ins tomorrow and 2 fill-ins on Saturday.

Back in Puerto Rico I used the texting and it gives you very good results.  Most of them call back for an appointment and thank me because they tend to forget.  They like: "Oh please do not stop doing that you don't know what a great help is that" or "I was thinking about you but i didn't have your phone number."

Text messaging not only works for reminders is great for those slow days.  In my old job Wednesdays used to be the slowest day ever.  To the point that sometimes we were there 8:30am to 5:30pm to make NOTHING.  So I decided to text my clients and offer the things like:  "Only today wednesdays free 10 finger desing"  or  "Today only fill-ins $3.00 off."  Right away up to 3 appointment.  After several week texting my clients with different offers every wednesday my coworker saw the results and started to do the same.  After 2 months for this type of marketing wednesdays turned on a busy day and we did not even have to send offers any more.

Lesson:  Use your resources, specially if there is no extra costs.