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SOUTH
CAROLINA DOES SALON INSPECTIONS
South Carolina
has a pretty with it board. Visit them at their web site,
www.llr.state.sc.us. Here
some of their statistics from 1998 - 1999.
2,297 new licenses
30,053 total persons licensed
5,918 inspections performed
62 complaint cases
62 investigations
1,159 applicants passed the exams
1,075 applicants failed the exams Also the SC
board is changing its license procedures. Going to a 2 year license
and of
course as has been the case, every year one must attend a day long
continuing education
course which is good for 6 units. You must obtain 12 units during
your 2 year license time
in order to be eligible to renew your license. Ollie could not
get into a class in time and
thus her original yearly license expired before she could apply for the
new 2 year license
so.... the renewal fee for her is $ 130.00. I thought that to be
somewhat high. DID YA SEE DR.
JEANNIE DOWNIE ON "THE VIEW" She
presented an overview of dangerous beauty treatments and displayed a
boatload
of ugly photographs. Esp good were the photos of cut cuticles and
the photos of
feet from hell (from unsanitary pedicure appliances). Shiver. NAILS
TO YOU - - DISCOUNTERS CONTINUE TO OPEN MORE SHOPS When
we first moved to our little town of Indian Trail, just outside of
Charlotte, there were
two hair salons (maybe in small towns we can call them hair shops)
that had a nail tech.
Now we have one, two, three, four discount nail shops. And now a
fifth discount shop just
opened. I know cause they have been phoning Ollie to come work
there during the peak
times when they are crowded and can't handle everyone. Ain't it
grand how ya can just
open a discount shop and the customers will come? And their being
Viet and Ollie being
Viet, Ollie can just go there when her own CLIENTS are not filling up
Ollie's time at her
own biz. Ollie is still does not have a full book to keep her 100%
busy in her own salon. So I went to visit these
newcomers the other day and spent two hours chatting with them.
Nice shop in a brand new small strip shopping center. Six nail
tables, a pedicure throne,
and two tanning booths. Typical prices, manicure 12, fill 15,
pedicure 20, Full 25, ect. Well anyway, spending
that amount of time with them, I would rate the husbands nail skills
as poor.... and I would rate the wife's nail skills as fair to good.
Kmart understands America,,,,, heard what is coming back?
Attention shoppers, the Blue Light Special is back.
We also have a Viet hair stylist who has opened a hair/nail/tanning spa
(why is everyone
using the spa word - is there no integrity left) in a brand new strip
shopping center on
the main highway. There are two Viet hair stylist there. Her
biz is definitely starting out
slowwwww. I guess Kmart shoppers don't know that the Viets were
also born to do hair.
Ha ha ....ya know I'm just saying that people are funny.
AND ... just a little ways down the highway from that place, an Amer
lady has opened up a
hair stylist / nails salon in a much older, run down looking strip
shopping center.
I went by to see her and see if see wanted to chat the other day, but
she was busy with
a client. I'll try dropping by next week.
Went by yesterday and went inside. The salon
is very nicely done on the inside.
The lady there is someone I have run into before. Been in the biz
for 20 years.
Many years ago, owned a salon location that Ollie later bought.
She does hair and
nails and booth rents to other hair stylists, but not to other nail
techs.
WHAT IS YOUR DREAM SALON
I was thinking save
that subject for next month. Is
that photo at the top of the page a photo of Ollie? Noooooo.
SHE GETS A NEW CAR I
drive a 96 Plymouth minivan and she has a 98 Kia 4x4 Sportage.
Well she has always disliked
the Kia cause after all, it isn't a BMW, right. And it is a
underpowered, noisy, rough riding little
pig, but I was ok with it cause it is air bagged even under the dash and
solid framed and should
protect ya very well in a crash. It also looked good. Of
course the ladies she works with quickly convinced Ollie that any man
that had his wife drive a Kia should be at best scorned, bitched at,
made to sleep alone and eventually divorced. Well I finally
became aware that the Kia reliability sucks, and was getting
worse as time went by.... and at a mere 40,000 miles the entire
transmission and the catalytic converter has to be replaced.
Thankfully under the 60,000 drive train warranty. It had to go.
Trading it in at the dealers was the worse, cause they know it's junk
and didn't want to give ya much for it. But we finally traded it
in for a 2001 Toyota Corolla.
It bugs her some to buy a Corolla when her girlfriends in the discount
trade buy new Pathfinders
and Toyota Four Runners and new minivans with TVs on the ceiling .... but
hey, I tell her I never
promised her that we would be rich.
Just that I would love her. Love for sale. La la la Lala.
Love for sale. BACK
PAIN, CHEST PAIN, DIFFICULTLY BREATHING She
has complained for years of pain and difficult breathing. Every
year there has been
check up. TB testing, chest x-rays, visits to breathing specialists,
even a checkup at my
cardio list for heart problems. Nothing. Every year, checkups
disclose nothing. Perhaps
you have a similar situation. Well, she went to a doctor last
month who took a different
tack. Felt that her seated position may contribute to inflammation
where the rib bones meet
the breast bone. Gave her a prescription for anti-inflammation.
She started getting relief
within 24 hours. Has been very very much better since on this
prescription.
I noticed that some people posting have said that
they are depressed. So this doctor is
sharp, he noticed things about Ollie that she didn't even bring
up. Oh, I know about it.
She has compulsive behavior, like scrubbing the bathtub 5 mornings a
week at 6 am,,,
lots of stuff like that. So this doctor gives her a trial package
of PAXIL. Ollie doesn't
know what it is,,, just medicine.
So after 3 days of the pill, the bickering woman I know and sometimes
love, is gone.
There is some girlish seductress who looks like my wife... who is
calling out - -
Honeeeey.....why don't you shut down that computer .....
and,, Come To Bed?
Didn't last, she hates pills. She stopped taking them and my wife
is back. Point is. If your doctor can't
seem to help you.... keep looking around..
keep checking out other doctors. Average doctor doesn't know half
of what we assume they know.
THOSE LITTLE THINGS THAT SAY YOU CARE We
like to give little, inexpensive gifts to our best clients.
What's a best client? Huh, you
know who there are. Anyway, from time to time, drop in the
'dollar' store on the way home
from a hard day at work. Where every item cost one dollar.
Here is what we found recently.
Pumice stone, one dollar, comes in nice plastic drawstring pouch.
Three in one name buffing/file, ya know the kind for quick touch up,
buff and shine, one dollar. I carry one around.
Oh yes, I do my own manicures, I wouldn't dream of Ollie doing me ....
besides it keeps her ticked off that I don't want her to do it. Also
found for one dollar ... packages of instant decal nail art.
What does that cost at the supply store, huh?
GOOD NEWS / BAD NEWS / PRICES GOING UP
The good news is
that people have responded to the introductory special of
$100 base price for a custom designed web site. Some sites are
already
completed and ready for delivery. Three sites should be live by
next Thursday. Bad
news is that I have already been contacted by some web biz'es and
they
have seen my work and saw the intro price and said "we typically
sell that high
a quality of design for a base of $400 to $500. How long do you
plan to offer
this intro price?" I guess they don't care for 'web discount
prices' any more than
we care for 'nail discount prices', ha. Effective
immediately, our base price for web design is raised to $200.
Once my schedule for the next 2 or 3 weeks is full, the base price will
be
raised to $300.... and so on. I
urge those of you that are sitting by the sidelines,
thinking that maybe some day you will go onto the web... to take action
now.
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