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To have your say on our letters page, email the Ed at
melissa@aitireland.com. Each month the Star Letter will win a top prize provided by Associated Irish Therapists, so get writing now!
Star Letter
I am writing in response to your Expert Panel article in June’s issue asking whether it’s possible to become a competent nail technician in one-day. I qualified as a nail tech four years ago, after leaving my job in a bank. I had no experience of beauty except going to get my nails done every few weeks. I looked into training and was amazed that schools would offer me a one or two day course and then I would be able to go straight into working for myself – I thought, this is brilliant!
So I did a two-day course and surprise, surprise, the nails I was producing were rubbish. There was no way I could have mastered the techniques I needed in just a couple of days. I felt I had been ripped off as I had been led to believe that I would come out of the course as a professional. I now know that this was very naïve of me, and subsequently I enrolled on an evening course which ran over 13 weeks and really helped me to perfect my skills and gain a proper understanding of nail technology. This helped me rebuild my confidence, and now I run a successful mobile business in my area.
Everyone must choose the course and timescale for training that is right for them, but I agree with your panellists that you need more than one or two days to learn the trade.
Cathy Hardy, Naas As this month’s star letter, Cathy wins a year’s free membership to AIT.
Teacher training? Dear Irish Beauty,
I would like to know how I can go about becoming a beauty trainer or get a job working in a local college. I have worked in a salon for nearly 10 years and think I have a lot to offer to students, I just know don’t know how to go about it.
Anonymous
ED: I would recommend you study for a professional teaching qualification, such
as the ITEC and / or FETEC Teacher Training course – take a look at our Classified advertising pages at the back of the magazine to see some of the colleges offering these qualifications.
Also get in touch with local colleges and speak to the lecturers working in the beauty departments; many will be happy to give you some advice as well as perhaps consider you for a work placement etc. Good luck and let us know how you get on.
Where’s Widdy? Dear Irish Beauty magazine,
I have noticed in some issues of IB you run a piece called Where’s Widdy and that he visits colleges. How can we get him to come to ours so we can be featured in the magazine?
Suzanne, by email
Ed: Martin Widdicombe – or Widdy as he’s affectionately known – is AIT’s Business Development Manager, and he travels around colleges to advise students on the correct therapy insurance whilst they’re training and also once they’re qualified, plus he usually has some great AIT membership deals exclusive to students. If you would like Widdy to visit your college, ask your Department Head or beauty lecturer to contact him at
martin@aitireland.com
Back issues – help! Dear IB,
I have lost my March issue of the magazine - I think my BF must have put it out with the recycling! How can I get a copy?
Sarah Bell, by email
Ed: The best way to get to read the March, or any, issue again is online as it’s free of charge and you can download and print any of the pages that are interesting to you. Just visit the Irish Beauty website at
www.irishbeauty.ie, click on the logo and follow the instructions and you can download digital copies of every issue from December 2010 onwards.
Bearnice Copple, beauty therapist from Sligo. “I get it free with my AIT membership so I save €42 a year!”
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