shabee

Hi,
Looking for advice!
I quite fancy going mobile as a nail tech, doing acrylic nails, manicures etc.
Do you think there wold be much need for this service.
I know there is a lot of shops with foreign girls doing it, but I have heard they use the worst and cheapest products.
I will have to look into products over here as it is Creative i used bck home.
Any info would be great
Ta
Shabee
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TiddlyPom

I'm not a nail tech. However, what you're talking about it starting up your own business, which I do know about. Get online and google for 'mobile nail tech, Ormeau' and see what you get.
Check out the yellow pages/pink pages too. You need to find out whether this service is offered where you are, and whether you can offer it better, cheaper, or differently than the shops are doing.

Work out what it would cost to run the business. You need transport, materials, petrol, overheads (storage, rent), telephone, business cards, advertising, ABN... Register your business name, etc. You need to work out your price point and then work out whether it's feasible to do and why people would ask you instead of going to a shop.

Have a look here on the web for small business advice and contact your local chamber of commerce too for ideas.... local council usually has small biz advice or someone you can talk to regarding networking meetings etc.

http://www.business.gov.au/Business+Entry+Point/

Research, research and more research. Find your competitors, contact them and ask for a price list ... And if no-one is doing it, maybe you found a gap in the market or maybe it's because there's no perceived need for it...
If there isn't, create one.

Good luck with your research.

lainey70

I would like to take mine nail technician with me, but its not possible been going to her for about 10 years, she did go to Perth for a holiday and checked out the nail situation and was completely different to how she works here in the UK .
Wish you all the best, hope you get up and running for when I come over

tonyman

My wife is a nail tech - she is planning to open a nail shop soon after we move to Oz. We hear that the nail business is very different is Oz.....does anyone know the difference?

shabee

Thanks so much for all that, its a great help, I think there is 1 nail tech in Ormeau so there may not be much competition. I will look at that link properly and see what its all about.
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SNH

I have never had my nails done and never will (I like them as I do them!!).

However I do know it is big business in Australia.

I also know that far too many nail technicians use questionable products. So many people I know have had their nails done only to have to go straight back and have everything redone or fixed.

Australia is crying out for decent people to do this work.

TiddlyPom

Really?

shabee

Lets hope you are right!

I does make a big difference using a good product.
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irishfamily

I only ever had my nails done once in a nail bar here in perth got acrylic nail (french manicure) got then takin off after 3 weeks could`nt handle them and omg my own nail were in so bad condition when i got them removed it took them about 8 week getting back to normal. Also the hygenie in the nail bars here is really bad that would be a thing to take a closer look at. I watched a woman getting a pedicure and they used the same clippers as they did on the previous client with out cleaning the clippers

Carbery

Most hairdressers have a nail / beauty section there are also countless nail shops in shopping centres - suggesting to me that most people who want this service are happy to travel to their local shopping centre, thus making it more of an 'experience'. Also are there many mobile hairdressers on the GC? this might suggest that there is no call for your service. Australians retail habits differ quite a bit to that in UK namely they use their local centre rather than travel, are quite loyal to their current stores and often shop most days for what they require that day. Of course I have no evidence to support my theory but I feel that your problem may be establishing a market, advertising, and retaining clients. Try and contact the poster 'Brido' his wife opened a nail shop a while ago.

shabee

Some people just dont like the nails on and they get them taken of after one set, the next has them on for years and years.
The reason your nails were so bad is because they use electric drills. The drills are my pet hate, there really is no need for them. Any decent nail tech will not use one.
As for the hygenie, well that happens in the UK, I could tell you some stories about what I have seen in Beauty salons over the past 20 years.
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Ok thanks for that, I ill contact Brido and see what she thinks.
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tonyman

What is the average cost for a nail set and/or fill in Oz....?

TiddlyPom

No idea but I do know it's cheaper to grow your own.

tonyman

I agree...it is cheaper to grow your own. Thanks anyhow.

TiddlyPom

It's like lettuce and bananas.

Sorry Tony, just joking but seriously have no clue.