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Congratulations on your diploma! You now have a skill that you can take with you wherever you go to generate income.
A fastlane career in the beauty industry is probably not going to come from the typical (scripted) path of being a stylist in a salon, or even from working for yourself, as it's not scalable. Your time will always be tied to your money as long as you're giving haircuts or applying makeup.
However, you do have this going for you, that you have a nice flexible source of income that you can use to fund your journey towards the fastlane. Also, I'm guessing that you also probably enjoy what you do and find it to be an avenue for artistic expression and creativity, so your personal satisfaction with your work may be high. This is wonderful, as it will help you to be in an abundant, creative state of mind versus a scarcity mindset or a stressed, "I-hate-my-job" state of mind.
Here are some tips to help you to identify a path towards the fastlane...
All the best!
A fastlane career in the beauty industry is probably not going to come from the typical (scripted) path of being a stylist in a salon, or even from working for yourself, as it's not scalable. Your time will always be tied to your money as long as you're giving haircuts or applying makeup.
However, you do have this going for you, that you have a nice flexible source of income that you can use to fund your journey towards the fastlane. Also, I'm guessing that you also probably enjoy what you do and find it to be an avenue for artistic expression and creativity, so your personal satisfaction with your work may be high. This is wonderful, as it will help you to be in an abundant, creative state of mind versus a scarcity mindset or a stressed, "I-hate-my-job" state of mind.
Here are some tips to help you to identify a path towards the fastlane...
- Take a look at the highest-earning professionals in your industry. Who is at the top and what do they make? Who are the stars? Who IS doing something scalable? Is the people who own the salons? Is it the manufacturers of luxury brands such as Kerastase or Aveda? Is it the instructors of the niche courses, such as microblading? Is it TV celebrities like Louis Licari? Take a look at the stars who are speakers at your industry conferences. Who are those people and what do they do? Can you be one of them?
- Take a look at the NEEDS in your industry. What are some of the common problems you run into on a day-to-day basis? Could you meet one of those needs and make the lives easier for every aesthetician, stylist, and makeup artist on the planet? Maybe it's an invention. Maybe it's an existing product that you upgrade and make better. Maybe it's a repeatable system for people to branch out on their own, attract clients, work from home, and raise their prices. Maybe it's a whole new innovation in the way that the beauty industry achieves an outcome to help people feel more beautiful. For instance, think about the person who came up with thinning scissors, or the person who came up with straighteners for the first time.
- Take a look at any gaps where consumer products are not available on a wide scale, where you could supply that need. For instance, let's take something as simple as a round brush. I find it infuriating that I cannot for the life of me find a good round brush. It shouldn't be that hard. But the way that the metal of the round brush joins to the plastic of the handle, there's almost always some kind of seam that wants to grab little hairs and "eat" them so that they don't let go when you want to release that section of hair. Also, the barrel of most round brushes is simply not long enough for use in thick hair, so it takes forever to dry your hair since you're only getting these tiny little sections at a time. Then the opposite end from the handle has sometimes popped off for me, leading the inner core of bristles to get off center, meaning that the bristles are sticking out way too far on one side of the brush, and barely poking out on the other side. There is SOOOOO MUCH ROOM for improvement just in round brushes alone! I've shaken my head more than once, thinking, "Ugh, the people who design these things have obviously never actually USED one!" You can probably think of other products you've used where you've run into the same thought. THERE'S your fastlane.
All the best!