WHEN YOU THINK IT CAN'T GET ANY WORSE...

I asked my colleagues to share their experiences from the beginning of their careers...

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The story is accurate from A to Z.

Nicole's story goes like this...

It all started on May 23, 2016 with training in a salon. There were three of us on the course and we had one model. First there was a lecture, then we worked on a silicone doll, on which we glued artificial eyelashes and glued classic -coma 😂...

The way we insulated and glued the classics, if we let go of the tweezers, everything would stick together... and so there was really no use in it...

When the model's turn came, each one was 20 minutes + the instructor and her touch-ups and the course was over. 🙆‍♀️ The second day of the course, I started doing my sister's eyelashes, which lasted from 11 am to 8 pm...of course we had breaks when we ate and drank 😅 after her, all my friends were on their turn, who each lay for 4 hours, then it was reduced to 3 hours...and then I was on 3 hours for a long period and I was going crazy. I literally begged people to come and do my eyelashes just so I could practice...

I worked at home in my room for 50 kn just to cover the materials, and I was still in the red hahah. But it doesn't matter, everything was just so I could learn how to do eyelashes. At the beginning, I worked without a lamp!!! Because I don't even remember if we had one on the course 🤔 And when I realized that I couldn't see anymore, I bought a regular big lamp in Lesnina 😂 Now I have a real lamp!!!

11th of November 2017. First time at Martina Kallos for volume... When Martina started showing me how to do highlights, I thought it was a joke. Voices in my head (who invented this, they're not normal, do I need this in my life, so how can I do it, especially on my eyes, there's no way I'll ever learn this, aha, that's why people walk around with brooms, it's not strange 🤦‍♀️). And I started doing highlights and it was going so well... but on the model... every other strand of my hair fell out. I was on strike for 6 months and I couldn't really get that volume, I would practice it here and there but I didn't have the will. And my friend suddenly opened a salon and asked me to work at her place. I was terribly scared, I was already doing classic hair great at the time, but what am I going to do with volume... and I started practicing and doing highlights and preparing them for customers because that's the only way I can do it for someone... with the help of ready-made highlights... and that saved me. Every hole in the job was working with the strands. I stuck medical tape on empty eyelash boxes, so that the sticky side was up, and then I glued the strands onto it because it was easier for me to grab them than if they were scattered all over the box...

Today I love volume, although I'm still perfecting it and it's not exactly what I'd like, but out of nothing, this is the best .

I've invested a lot in this job and I'll continue to do so because I love doing it, and I never expected to get this far...

This year I was in a competition for the first time and won first place in the classics and as the best work for it. When I was in the 1st month. at the competition workshop with Martina and when she evaluated my work with nines and tens, I still didn't believe it was that good 😂 And I thought to myself, when I come to the competition, I'll just get hit, nothing will come of it. I took everything to the competition (chair, lamp, pillow...😆). Before starting work, we had to prepare the model, clean the eyes...etc. Sticking the pads on and drawing a map and here's the problem... I never draw a map and I work best without it, I always balance it out towards the end... and I don't know how to work with it because it somehow limits me🙆‍♀️... that was a problem at the competition, because I stuck the pads on and drew three times, and my (new) felt-tip pen was too thick. In the end, the girl next to me lent me one and it was my last chance to draw because I had one more pack of lash lift pads left. I managed in the end.... Why am I working without it? Because at first I thought it was just for beginners and that one day, when I go to the competition, we won't be allowed to mark it there 😂 and there it is... When you send a model to the judges, be sure to give them eye pads, and don't send them without, because I did that, of course, and luckily we reacted in time before her turn came, and the poor thing was the last one in line at 6pm 🙆‍♀️ The competition is a phenomenal experience. If you register, then be sure to attend Martina's workshop, because there's already a sense of competition there, and she will also evaluate you, and you will know what you need to improve in your work.

That's it from me. Good luck to everyone in the competition and sign up, you won't regret it 😀