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Work full time as self-employed in Hair and Beauty - are you set for failing ???

Writer's picture: Lidiya DimitrovaLidiya Dimitrova

Updated: Jan 15



Let's start with the usual paths to become Hair and Beauty professionals. All starts with a passion, doesn't it? Passion to make people relaxed, passion for that little something you can give and make others happy, then you think that you need to take it further in your future career, and you choose to go college Hair and Beauty college or start training and gathering certificates from private providers. No one actually told you that this industry is not regulated properly, and it has been cash in hand/hobby for years, but because of that issue I will come back a little later. 


What is happening to you, if you choose to go ahead with a private provider like myself? You are more likely to choose a nice flashy salon and think about people working and running. It will be totally professional and will be happy to help you achieve your full potential. But sadly, as in my case, more likely they will think about you will happily as another silly person with lots of passion and no idea what this industry really is and will happily charge you a lot of money for a day, if you are lucky, "training" with a certificate meaning nothing at the end. 


Finally, you will add this to your CV and will start looking for a job in a salon, thinking why no one asked you to go for an interview, if you are already qualified for the job???? Soon you will get the idea that this is not enough to get insurance and start legal practice in the industry. In the end, you will spend more money on the same training, but with a better certificate for insurance purposes, so you will pay twice for the same thing and will either rent a chair in a salon to start engaging with customers and finally start earning some money college will decide to go to a "proper education" college a collegeage. Either way, at some point, you will start having the feeling you need more in-depth education, and you will start looking for it. Let's not forget what we left in the beginning - those regulations, remember? It is a mindful field to find out who is regulated, who can give you that missing peace and what you should take as an extra step to make your passion a real career, one of those which brings real money and real full-time profitable income. I spent years learning and digging into this field and I can clearly tell you - it is a sh...ty situation. Even those who know exactly what "accredited course" means will still try to buffle about it. I was shocked, when finally I realized the truth and said to myself that I would make a difference. Read and will find out what I created.


So let's go ahead with a "proper" education at a college. What you will learn there is your Anatomy and Physiology, your Health and Safety, your skills in the fields - all of this is super important, and you will be very lucky to have it set and trained in depth like me, but please don't forget many are not as lucky, so improvement is a must there too. But what does this really give you? Is that what you really asked for??? As I can tell you, what the reality is. You have just spent years in training to become an employee in a salon ! Congratulations - you have been chosen to do one thing and one thing only, and that is to serve someone else's interests, but not your own. Because what you will usually get is long hours, very hard work (I personally had 5 massages per day), late nights and weekends, promises of benefits, if you sell a lot, but that doesn't mean you will get it and constant work and progress, but on minimum payment. You are never going to get a real career, as in another industry would expect. Wait ... the worst is still to come, when you decide to have a personal life and family, especially kids ... How you dare to have kids ! Then, all of the sudden, you are no longer "good enough" for the job and someone younger and with no commitments and, of course, lots of that passion replaces you (if you wonder at this point - no, this is not quite what's happened to me, but close, and I have seen the pattern and that exactly what I had been told, when was interviewing are on therapists not to offer positions to).


 So, what is your next step ? Of course, you will set up your own business in the Hair and Beauty industry. You already spend so much of your time and money learning, to practice, to improve, to make everyone happy and to become better and better with the same passion and the same idea of making this successful career. 


So now you are on another journey - setting up your own salon, if you are lucky to have family members lending you money, or becoming a mobile therapist. How well do you think you are done at this stage, when you are all by yourself in times, when word of mouth is not what it was, when social media at the most overwhelming place to be, you spend hundreds and hundreds of paid advertisements with no or little results. Lockdowns, life crisis, recession ... constant messages, constant cancelations, change of plans, sicknesses and all that never ending paperwork piling up. It is nearly impossible to pick up with changes and admin unpaid time. 


Where, in all those years of training taxes you in any of the taxes, teaches you how to create fair pricing for your services and gives you support for growing ? Have you ever had training in sales in college or on those courses you keep paying for ? How to keep up with social media, if you are just on your own, how to do all of those things which you don't forget unpaid time ? If you keep trying to keep going, you go to Marketing experts to teach you how to target ideal clients, then others offer you to make you a website for free, and you desperately get all the positives back, but let me remind you - nothing in this life is free, nothing, and you must know all of that by now, no.? A website floating around on the net is nothing. Pay Ads with no proper measures set up and targets, reading the date is nothing, come on, don't be so silly, don't be that person again. I thought you already learned all your lessons from the past with certificates you can't have a job or insurance with.


Well, things changed, and I am here to keep doing just that. 3 years in the making - the software with all the latest automations and digital tools to grow and expand is already available. As soon as the first Lockdown hit, I was like, "Aw boy, beauty as mobile or home based need my help". I already had a number of years' experience and I knew exactly what I needed to develop. Just started searching for partners to make the full business plan with. I cannot be prouder that I am finally on my mission to help those of you who are ambitious and want their career to be successful. And this suits them around their family, kids and their own circumstances. I am happy to share not only my professional experience in beauty, but also my top matching school skills, my Computer Science and my Teaching Assessor too. I will share my software with you, and will help you make the most of of your skills and your training. I will master your skills and guide you through automation in order to make balance in your life and to again bring back that initial passion for the industry. I will demand changes in education and regulations. This is just the beginning, and I am so excited to follow my business plan and to make the most of of my education and experiences and to help you achieve the same for you too. And before asking me directly, how is this so cheap, I will answer to you easily - I already paid for it, because I need it for my own mobile business and since I am taking some time out to recover some health issues, I can only do this prices to 5 of you for 3 months and from that point you understand that I need to add more web developers to take over my job and I keep concentrait just on your 1:1 sessions, then I need to pay them for their work and prices will go up, but the digital tool, I create will be always the most valuable for you and I can tell you why. It is all in one, so you might think that you do have an online payment, but this does not promote you and bring customers to you, it just gives you options for payment. You might think you got a website, but constant optimization is needed your, sharing and reading on your analytic performance and adjust. You might think it's cheap to run here and are ads are enough, it is mindful and I do all of that for my own website. You just join to it have all the tools and optimizations for free with one price to pay, no hidden % and extra fees. It is really that simple. Paying small amounts, % and fees in the long run is very expensive, especially if you are on your own and do this full-time - that's how doing figures do not add up. But joining my team, you will never be alone again and help with the support and the engagement is real and, is 1:1, nothing on paper, nothing to download. It is really a no-brainer.


Come and join me as a Mobile Beauty Biz Team member and use my system with no extra fees for 3 months, get a confidence or mastering class, let me build or optimize your website or just let me set up all automations and client's apps from scratch. I set up a digital marketing agency too, with lots of open employment, as well. All is laid up and ready to work together - quick and effective. I have got lots to offer - check out what might suit you best or just send an inquiry and I will assess your current needs and tell you what might work best step by step. You are no longer alone. The all-in-one digital tool is ready for you. Let's get together and make you successful - no matter if you were set to fail. If I can make my partner listen to all the hair and beauty industry needs, believe in my ideas and develop all my crazy digital demands, partner needs which had a 1 dollar profit last year, that's how you know I will do this work for you too.


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