Oh well time to paint....

Anyone who know's me know's i'm petrified of Spiders!  I'm about to paint the room i'm going to transform into my salon at home but unfortunately i forgot to ask my husband to get the paint rollers out of the shed! THE SHED is full of man eating spiders out to get me and the rollers are in a box that is probably full of them lurking and waiting! The fake widow spider is breeding for fun in Manchester apparently and i bet you i have a nest of them in our shed the biggest haul of breeding fake widows there is i can tell you! This brush was the only one at a arms length i could grab and run, doh i think painting is going to be very slow! 

Oh dear.....

I came inside shaking (ok i exaggerate a little) and mad a coffee and put it on the side ready for me to write this post and then went into the kitchen to make another!! I'm going mad!

Anyone for coffee?

There will be no sleeping on the job for me! ha ha

Acrylic Nails

One of my new skills will be mastering the art of Acrylic Nails and Nail Art.  Any of you that have their nails done by a professional will i'm sure at one  time or another thought to themselves..'ah i can do this'.  Well i was one of them!  Fours years ago i paid for a two day course to learn acrylic nails..well i say two days but it was about four hours each day that was really rushed as the girl i'm sure had to pick her baby up from the child minders!! Why the hell i didn't complain afterwards is beyond me but i didn't and then she had the cheek to email me to ask if i wanted to go back and learn more! 'NO I DID NOT'!!  I have practiced and learnt lots since then and have spent hundreds of pounds on courses to perfect my skills but nothing beats the real thing and working on real people but it's definitely scary and nerve wracking (well it was for me) and a confidence thing but i'm getting there. Now that i've been made redundant i'm doing one more course to learn how to sculpt which in my opinion is the best way to do nail extensions but this is only my opinion and it's also good to give people the option as some people love tips and some love sculpted nails.

Nail Art - now there is a thing...i love how creative you can be with lots of different medium embedded into clear acrylic, coloured acrylic, making shapes, painting, the list is endless and art is endless when it comes to nail art.  This said i have lots of learning and training to do and you still never ever know enough!

The hardest thing in the world for a beginner like me is doing my own nails!! OMG, shaky left hand trying to do my right and the worst acrylic technique in the world and to top it off when i had taken two hours to do them i remembered i hadn't taken the shine off and used primer!! They'll last all of two blumming days if i'm lucky now!  

Here's the result anyway! 

Well time flies....

Blimey it's November already and the last time i wrote anything on my blog it was May!!  It's been a roller coaster of a Summer for me and my family and yes i did get made redundant as i said in my previous post and left my job for the final time last Tuesday. As i said in May i'm retraining and have retrained in other area's to start self employment so i thought from now and the future i would do a kind of journey of my new life!!

After working in Social Housing for 9 years it's going to be quite different but i'm so looking forward to being my own boss!  I have made a pact with myself though that as i'm working from home i will always get up as i did before at 6.30am as though i'm going to work and never ever sit in my PJ's!!  Well that would be a little bit crazy in front of clients wouldn't it?

My new skills include:

Manicure 
Pedicure
Hair
Acrylic Nails
UV Gel
Makeup Artist (qualifying in December) 
Teeth Whitening 

So can't wait to get started, excited and nervous!

What advice can you give me for starting out?