To Wax or Not to Wax....
Hi everyone!
I am starting to really consider dropping body waxing (save for underarms b/c I love that service) from my service menu. I am still fairly new starting up- and I'd really like my primary focus to be facial waxing/ facials/ body treatments/ and lash & eyebrow tinting.
I don't enjoy body waxing... I know a lot of people say that's their "bread and butter" but I haven't had anyone book any of those services yet... wondering if that's a sign! I also have a VERY small esthetics studio inside a chiro's office, with carpeted floors, and even though I put down hard plastic floor covers in some areas, it's still a risk... and could get messy on there. I don't really like all that sticky wax! haha
Has anyone had success with NOT offering the body waxing services and focusing primarily on care of the skin and eyebrow esthetics??
Looking forward to your input!!
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Permalink Reply by Madeleine Bongiorno on
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Great question Gina! I am about to start my practice and actually feel the exact same way. I've been doing body waxing for friends and fam, but I truly don't enjoy it a whole lot. Love facial and underarm waxing. I have been wondering how odd it would be to only offer those!
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Permalink Reply by Gina Williamson on
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I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that way!! (how funny you want to keep underarm waxing too! LOL)
I guess we could price those other services SO HIGH that if someone was willing to pay them, we'd be willing to do them... but most likely they'd go elsewhere! ;-) LOL
I do keep reading on here that "specializing" is the way to go... I haven't hit upon a particular specialization yet... but I DO know it's NOT body waxing....!!
Actually for me it might be eyebrow and eyelash tinting. I love those services- and I know I'm very good at the eyebrow tinting.
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So funny, Gina! I too thought that if my prices were on the high side I might end up doing hardly any body waxing LOL!!
Which tinting products do you use? I do mostly lash tinting for friends. Do you find that at the time of removal some brief stinging often occurs for your client? I tend to apply tint right to the lash line because my blonde friends want the color to the "roots" and are happy to endure the sting. Yet I wonder if there is a way to avoid that. Is there a vegetable dye that doesn't sting, or is there a removal technique that ensures no product gets in the eye? (Sorry to go off waxing topic. Perhaps I should pose the question separately.)
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I use Intensive- I love it!! be sure to get the protector pads, they're awesome.
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Permalink Reply by Kandis Hasamear on
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You guys are funny!!! I hate all that sticky wax too. hahaha I just don't do it. However, I've known how to for 26 years, so I keep it around. Now I have so many new clients, I have them asking me about wax and I'm surely not going to let them go into someone elses salon and have it done. Funny I'm reading this now, I have to cowboy up and do a waxing appointment tomorrow. I've had a spa for over 2o years and experience has taught me this...you have to do something alot to be good at it, so I"m sure if I really want to get proficient with wax and not get it all over the place, I'll start doing it more. Practice, practice, practice. These are my intentions. Now, we'll see if I follow through.
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I just had to post this. I was thinking about it all day after what happened. I got new wax and had to get the old wax out. Oh joy, I have no patience for this. So I successfully get rid of the old sticky stuff and get the new stuff heated up....it's perfect..not sticky and brand new. Then I move into my facial room and spill it all over the sides of my wax machine. I'm sure I wouldn't have thought it was so funny if I hadn't read this last night. The wax went so well, btw, that I'm actually looking forward to doing it again. I charged her $25 for brows, chin and lip. Any comments???? I haven't done it in awhile, so that was what I came up with;. I have no idea what people are charging these days.
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LOL!! I just happened to be on line when this came through so I had to get on here and reply!!!
that is soooo funny!!!!! $@&% wax!!!!!! LOL!!! (GiGi makes a GREAT product to clean up wax off the pot, btw) what new wax are you using?
That's not bad. I charge $15 for a brow clean-up, $22 for a shaping, $12 for lip, and $15 for chin, and I give 10% for any 2 or more waxing combos. She got off pretty easy, but that's OK- she'll be back! :-) isn't that funny that you enjoyed it? now, actually- I LIKE facial waxing... it's the body stuff that drives me insane.....
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Laughing my wax off. I only did it because she is a fairly new client who has purchased facial packages from me and I don't want her going downstairs to the hair salon and getting any ideas. I've done the facial thing for a long time, 26 years, but when that wax gets too sticky, I feel like I'm going to, pardon the expression,, come unglued.. Does the wax get awful because of leaving it on all the time. I keep telling the nail tech this but she leaves it on and says it takes too long to heat up. Even though It heated up for me inside an hour.
Yes, I am ready to kick it up a notch on the waxing scene. I have ALOT of new clients and at least a third of them have asked me to wax them and I wouldn't. I have to change that.
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LOL!!! laughing my wax off... LOVE that!! :-D
get an appliance timer that you can set separately for each day of the week. mine pops on one hour b/4 I get there and off about an hour after I leave. it doesn't come on the days I'm not there.
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Permalink Reply by Theresa on
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Hi Gina if this helps matters any I have never offered body waxing only eyebrow cleanup and facial waxing. I have never offered full body waxing because like you I do not enjoy it. By not offering a full waxing service this has not prevented my clients or referrals from coming to see me. My focus is more on corrective facial treatments and my clients come back because they see results.
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Hi Theresa! That is exactly how I'd like to run my business.... once again- I had made up a bunch of menu cards with my services and prices on them and have been handing them out..... so how do I unravel THAT?!?! LOL
Ohhh.... the mistakes you make when first starting out.... LIVE & LEARN!!! :-P
I do want to offer underarm waxing, though- b/c I really do LOVE that service!!
Should I just go collect the cards that are sitting out places and just forfeit that cost and start over?? or just forget menu cards all together?!
It is kind of crazy. I am in the midst of revamping my whole business essentially- and I am SUPER new. I've not gotten off to a roaring start, and I am starting to really realize why. So I am changing my skincare line to one I really believe in- and by doing that I am feeling a lot more excitement and passion, which I didn't really feel before. and wanting to redo my menu to remove some items and change some items.
Bleh!!
I'm not really a disorganized person... I think that this is just a whole new world to me, and trying to find the best fit is hard.
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Oh Gina - how I completely understand what you are going through. I have redone my menu and reinvented my approach so many times in the last several months that it's been hard not to feel discouraged. Additionally, the last few places I almost leased did not end up happening for a wide array of reasons. In a way I am grateful because I would have been using a different line than I plan to now, and I would have had an entirely different menu. But still it has been a serious challenge of patience, etc.
I think you could collect the menus you have out there, or just leave them and if someone wanted a waxing service you could choose at that moment whether or not you wanted to do it... and/or explain that you are now specializing in corrective, results-oriented treatments for the skin.
Know that you are not alone. I look forward to one day looking back and laughing at the whole learning process! :)
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